HOLLAND, Michigan, Aug. 27 -- Hope College issued the following news: Hope College will enhance its emphasis on character development with a grant received through the Educating Character Initiative of Wake Forest University's Program for Leadership and Character. Hope will focus on the virtues of gratitude and generosity, using the grant to help scale up a foundational programmatic component of the Hope Forward initiative that the college has been piloting since the fall of 2021. Hope is one   more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Aug. 28 (TNSres) -- The Journal of Marketing, a part of the American Marketing Association, issued the following news release: Researchers from Wake Forest University and University of California-Riverside published a new Journal of Marketing (https://www.ama.org/journal-of-marketing/) article that examines the dynamic BMR retail context and investigates the sales incentives there. The study, forthcoming in the Journal of Marketing, is titled "Group or Individual Sales Incen  more

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, Aug. 27 (TNSres) -- The Indiana University McKinney School of Law issued the following news release: The 21st Biennial Conference of the Legal Writing Institute (LWI) took place July 17 through 20 and was hosted by IU McKinney School of Law. Around 450 legal writing professors from across the country gathered to engage with colleagues and exchange ideas about teaching, scholarship, discipline-building, inclusion, well-being, professional development, and more. IU McKinne  more

WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina, Aug. 28 -- Wake Forest University issued the following news: Wake Forest University celebrated a milestone in its commitment to supporting faculty, staff, and students with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and open house for the soon-to-open child care and early education facility at the University Corporate Center. The event, held August 28, marked the successful completion of construction of the new facility that will be operated by KinderCare Learning Companies for Em  more

LA JOLLA, California, Aug. 31 -- The University of California San Diego campus issued the following news: * * * Laura Haines, MD, trauma medical director at UC San Diego Health, reflects on her career in trauma surgery in observance of the 40th Anniversary of the San Diego County Trauma System * * * Content The UC San Diego Health Trauma Center is where the most critically injured patients receive specialized care for life-threatening injuries. Trauma surgeons are at the ready to treat inju  more

WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina, Aug. 28 -- Wake Forest University issued the following news: FEATURED NEWS In election race, prediction markets are challenging traditional polling By Seamus Webster | Fortune Before scientific polling was well established in the late 1930s and early 1940s, economics professor Koleman Strumpf told Fortune that betting markets were where newspapers got their election predictions. "Newspapers would report on this on the front page, pretty much for at least the la  more