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The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead
Symphony orchestra levels up with concert inspired by ‘Legend of Zelda’
Music professor Aaron Hardwick studies gaming music and its rising popularity in the symphonic world. “People are looking for diversity in programming by major symphony orchestras,” he said. “When orchestras play music from games, it can bring the listener back to the experience of being immersed in the game.” Hardwick, who is director of Wake Forest’s University Symphony Orchestra, added that symphony directors and artistic programmers are working with game publishers to bring more video game music to the stage.
January 25, 2024
Mirage News
AZAD, a multimedia theatrical experience written by Syrian-Armenian-American theater and film artist Sona Tatoyan, a 2000 Wake Forest graduate, in collaboration with Jared Mezzocchi, will be performed on Thursday, Feb. 1 at 7:30 p.m. on the Tedford Stage in Scales Fine Arts Center. The performance is free and open to the public. AZAD is story-within-a-story-within-a-story blending Armenian and Arabic folklore with Karagöz shadow puppetry.
January 25, 2024
Salisbury Post
Catawba College panel urges citizens to get informed and involved in water protection process
“The short version of the Sackett decision of the court, in an opinion written by Justice Alito, decided that only wetlands with a continuous surface connection to a navigable water, making it difficult to tell where the water ends and the wetlands begin, are covered by the Clean Water Act,” said Stan Meiburg, executive director of Wake Forest’s Andrew Sabin Family Center for Environment and Sustainability.
January 25, 2024
WGHP-TV (High Point, NC)
Wake Forest University sophomore expands outreach
A Wake Forest sophomore has been honored for her efforts to increase student outreach on campus and in the community. Couriyah Stegall received the Community Impact Student Award by NC Campus Engagement. “You can kind of fall into that cycle where you’re doing these things and it’s just part of your daily schedule, and so you just kind of forget that you’re actually making an impact,” Stegall said.
January 24, 2024
East Asia Forum
Electoral uncertainty casts a shadow over Sri Lanka’s progress
“The parliamentary elections are unlikely to result in a single party majority. The presidential poll may see no candidate win a majority in the first round, making voters’ second and third preferences crucial to an election that will determine the island’s socio-economic fortunes for years to come,” writes politics and international affairs professor Neil DeVotta.
January 24, 2024
Fast Company
Capitalism must evolve to survive, and even Wall Street’s biggest players say the problem is clear
Young people overwhelmingly favor small businesses, noted Christina Elson, the executive director of Wake Forest University’s Center for the Study of Capitalism. Larger institutions must demonstrate that they offer those same opportunities to “be a force for change,” she said. “Free enterprise and freedom are shared constructs; we just need to figure out how to make those work well for everybody.”
January 22, 2024
Asheville Watchdog
Draft report says charity care has declined ‘extensively’ at Mission after HCA takeover
An 18-page draft report of a forthcoming study authored by Mark A. Hall, a professor of law and public health, found that “genuine charity care has diminished in systematic and extensive ways following the sale to HCA Healthcare, with unfortunate effects on access to health care in western North Carolina.”
January 22, 2024
Yes! Weekly
Wake Forest Announces MLK ‘Building the Dream’ Award Winners
Senior Rute Ayalew and Assistant Director of Advocacy and Social Justice Deb Marke have been named Wake Forest University’s 2024 Martin Luther King Jr. “Building the Dream” award winners. Building the Dream awards are traditionally presented to a professor or administrator and a student from Wake Forest and Winston-Salem State University who exemplify King’s qualities and promote diversity within the community.
January 19, 2024
Mongabay
Burning wood pellets for energy endangers local communities’ health
Journalism professor Justing Catanoso writes on a new peer-reviewed study that quantifies broadly for the first time the air pollution and public health impacts across the United States from both manufacturing wood pellets and burning them for energy. The study, said to be far more extensive than any research by the US Environmental Protection Agency, finds that U.S. biomass-burning facilities emit on average 2.8 times the amount of pollution of power plants that burn coal, oil or natural gas.
January 18, 2024
WUNC-FM (Chapel Hill, NC)
Localized data from Durham highlights connection between structural racism and poor health
For many, the idea that racism is linked to poor health outcomes is not new or surprising. But a recent study shows just how deeply connected the two issues are by using highly specific neighborhood-level data from Durham. Leoneda Inge talks with researchers and Dean of Wake Forest Medical School Dr. Ebony Boulware about how rates of diabetes, hypertension and chronic kidney disease among communities of color are closely tied to structural racism.
January 18, 2024
Hickory Daily Record
Chief scrutinizes how police investigate massage parlors
Law professor Alyse Bertenthal said that although she agrees with Thompson that the prosecution would likely be easier if you have a “confirmatory act,” the ease of prosecution should not be the only consideration in setting the new policy. “In this case, I think the change in policy is less about what makes for a better case than about what sort of conduct the department is willing to tolerate in the name of making a case,” she said.
January 18, 2024
Chief Executive Magazine
Exercising your leadership character
Many people don’t understand what character is and certainly don’t understand how to develop it or embed it in an organization—although everyone would agree it’s important. The Virtuosity app was designed as a system to support individual and organizational character development. Embedded within this system is a framework developed by The Oxford Character Project and The Program for Leadership and Character at Wake Forest University that describes seven strategies of character development.
January 18, 2024