WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina, Oct. 24 -- Wake Forest University posted the following news: * * * Charlotte, Raleigh both want a major league baseball franchise, but who's ready for the big leagues? * Wake Forest professor, economics expert and baseball enthusiast Todd McFall has been studying sports for two decades. He has been widely quoted in national, regional and local news on topics ranging from golf's economic rebound to NASCAR rebranding to the lopsidedness of baseball's World Series  more

RICHMOND, Virginia, Oct. 21 [Category: Medical] -- VCU Health, an academic medical center on the forefront of health care, providing patients with treatments and medical technology available, issued the following news release: * * * High cholesterol medication may provide some protection to the brain during cancer treatment, new VCU study finds * By Liz Torrey New research coming out of the VCU Health Pauley Heart Center shows that a medication commonly used to treat high cholesterol may p  more

WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina, Oct. 20 -- Wake Forest University posted the following news: * * * Marking 50 years of movement and motivation * For 50 years and counting, a program founded at Wake Forest University has helped thousands of people live longer, healthier lives. Among them is Tom Mullen, the dean of the college from 1968 to 1995, who along with his wife, Ruth, works out three times a week with the Healthy Exercise & Lifestyle Programs (opens in a new tab) (HELPS), run by the D  more

WEST LONG BRANCH, New Jersey, Oct. 21 (TNSjou) -- Monmouth University issued the following news: * * * Fitzgerald Co-Authors National Study on Action Civics and Adolescent Well-Being Jason Fitzgerald, Ph.D., associate professor of curriculum and instruction at Monmouth University, has co-authored a new peer-reviewed study examining how classroom-based civic engagement programs influence adolescent well-being. The article, "The I-ACTED Study (Investigating Action Civics Training Through an Exp  more

BUFFALO, New York, Oct. 20 -- The University at Buffalo (State University of New York) issued the following news release: * * * Allison Brashear elected to the National Academy of Medicine Allison Brashear, MD, vice president for health sciences and dean of the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine. Election to the academy, considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine,   more

WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina, Oct. 24 -- Wake Forest University posted the following news: * * * Wake Forest's Sabin Center to Present National Geographic CEO Jill Tiefenthaler * Jill Tiefenthaler, chief executive officer of the National Geographic Society, will deliver the keynote address for the Sabin Center for Environment and Sustainability's conference, " Sustainable, Just, & Abundantly Wild: Effective Action at Every Scale," on Nov. 13. Tiefenthaler's talk, "From Exploration to Acti  more

WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina, Oct. 20 -- Wake Forest University posted the following news: * * * We're putting weighted vests to the test. Here's what our research shows. * Nearly a decade ago, Kristen Beavers, who studies safe ways for older adults to lose weight, began asking whether weighted vests could help this population drop pounds without sacrificing vital bone mass and lean muscle. Now, in 2025, she routinely gets requests from national media, community groups and individuals inter  more