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Triad Business Journal
WFU enlists Front Street Capital, Carter to help redevelop area near Allegacy Stadium, LJVM Coliseum
Wake Forest University has announced that it will redevelop the property it owns in the area east of its main campus, near the newly named Allegacy Stadium, Couch Ballpark and Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum, in a mixed-use project aimed at benefiting the local community and visitors. The University has enlisted a familiar local firm and an Atlanta group to overhaul an area near campus that holds huge potential for residential, retail and entertainment opportunities.
August 17, 2023
Greater Good: The Science of The Meaningful Life
How we talk with kids about prejudice matters
Co-author and psychology professor Lisa Kiang comments on holding brave, intentional, caring, children-led conversations. “Recent years have seen more and more researchers hard at work trying to figure out how we can best support communities in having courageous conversations.…Warmth and support are the backbone of any effective conversation about race.”
August 16, 2023
Quartz
Less than 1% of Americans in dirty-energy jobs have transitioned to green jobs
Transitioning the US to a low-carbon economy is a great undertaking, and jobs related to electric vehicles are driving the transition. “The oncoming manufacturing of the battery plants and EV plants, I think it’s going to be really, really important for green workers in the future,” said economics professor Mark Curtis. He is a co-author of the new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research showing the vast majority of workers in dirty jobs switch to another dirty job in the wake of a rapidly warming world.
The findings were covered in outlets nationwide including Bloomberg and MSN.
August 15, 2023
New America
How do Americans lose their homes?
Wake Forest University’s Law Clinic’s estimates that 4% of all property in North Carolina, valued at $2 billion, is held as heirs’ property. However, efforts to document and reform this problem largely remain elusive to study.
August 15, 2023
Diverse: Issues In Higher Education
Jacqueline Travisano has been named executive vice president and chief financial officer at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Travisano holds an MBA from Chatham University in Pittsburgh and a doctorate in higher education leadership from Nova Southeastern University.
August 14, 2023
Los Angeles Review of Books
On Howard J. Curzer’s “Virtue Ethics for the Real World”
In this book review, philosophy professor Christian Miller writes that “Howard Curzer is to be commended for putting together the virtue-ethical pieces in a way that is novel and more plausible than most of the options currently out there in philosophy. And that makes his book required reading for anyone interested in the subject.”
August 13, 2023
Chemistry World
Metal-organic framework encourages iron centre in ferrocene to oxidise
Physics professor Timo Thonhauser and colleagues devised a cobalt-based MOF to overcome ferrocene’s unreactive iron centre. The cobalt atoms form chains that can either be ferromagnetic or anti-ferromagnetic in nature.
August 11, 2023
Defense One
Time to change US policy toward Niger and its West African neighbors
“The coup in Niger last week should be a wake-up call for U.S. policymakers: the current approach to security in West Africa isn’t working. The United States is using too much force against too little threat in the region. Leaders must resist the temptation to escalate in the current crisis. Instead, they should draw down forces from Niger, limit missions to reconnaissance, and focus on peacemaking in conflict zones,” writes politics and international affairs professor Will Walldorf in this opinion piece.
August 9, 2023
Katie Couric Media
The complex legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
While her impact on women’s rights looms large, Ginsburg did not. At 5-foot-1, the Brooklyn native was known to be both soft-spoken and shy. But those who knew her personally saw a different side. “She had a very quick wit and she was funny,” said law professor Shannon Gilreath at Wake Forest, where Ginsburg was a frequent guest lecturer. “She was also a very feminine woman. I think people don’t think that feminists and femininity can coexist, but they did in her.”
August 9, 2023
Triad Business Journal
Wake Forest University Health Sciences buys Innovation Quarter building for $38 million
After leasing it for seven years, Wake Forest University Health Sciences has purchased an Innovation Quarter building for $38 million. A filing with the Forsyth County Register of Deeds shows that WFUHS purchased Building 60 in Innovation Quarter. Located at 409 Vine Street, the 0.76-acre building contains a 194,370-square-foot building.
August 9, 2023
WGHP-TV (High Point, NC)
Could North Carolina voters change the process for adopting constitutional amendments?
“A number of other states in the last several years have been trying to make their constitutions harder to change, generally with an eye to limiting access to voter-initiated amendments that are currently an option in 17 states,” John Dinan wrote in an emailed response to questions. “These efforts have occasionally been successful…and various states have raised the threshold of signatures needed to be collected to place voter-initiated amendments on the ballot.”
August 9, 2023
The Times Literary Supplement
The Epicurean search for happiness and serenity
“Living for Pleasure: An Epicurean Guide to Life” by philosophy professor Emily Austin is featured in this Times Literary Supplement book review. Austin’s contribution, which focuses on the ancient philosopher Epicurus and his school of Epicureanism, “cannot be praised too highly,” writes Morgan.
August 8, 2023