The Big Reveal
In this Issue:
- Art buying trip reveal tomorrow
- Walk with Wente featuring Kevin Jung, Professor, Theological Ethics and Moral Philosophy
- Starter gun to be used at track and field event tomorrow
- Does your student want to register to vote in NC?
- The ‘Switch Cost’ of Multitasking and WFU in the News
Thursdays are always a busy day on my team, so I am going to launch straight into today’s news:
Art buying trip reveal tomorrow
Beginning in 1963, students under the direction of faculty advisors have traveled to New York City every four years to purchase contemporary art for the Mark H. Reece Collection of Student-Acquired Contemporary Art. This revered tradition has empowered three generations of students to amass a premier collection of contemporary art. As progressive and radical as it was in 1963, the students’ charge has remained consistent over six decades and 16 art-buying trips: to purchase artworks that reflect the times.
Your students can be the first to see what was purchased in the 2024 art buying trip by coming to the big reveal event tomorrow at 5 p.m. in Scales 102.
Walk with Wente featuring Kevin Jung, Professor, Theological Ethics and Moral Philosophy
At Wake Forest, we celebrate faculty who are both outstanding teachers and brilliant scholars. To celebrate our community of inquiry, President Wente invites faculty members to share their contributions and insights with the Wake Forest community by joining her on a “Walk with Wente.”
In the most recent episode, she walks and talks with Kevin Jung, Professor of Theological Ethics and Moral Philosophy, about how his work addresses big questions about finding reality, the meaning of life and how one should live their lives. They discuss how students must learn about moral interdependence and self-deception if they are going to help others and why Jung loves challenging questions from students.
Starter gun to be used at track and field event tomorrow
We shared this with students in their WFU Should Know weekly e-newsletter this afternoon, but I wanted to share it here too:
“The Wake Forest men’s and women’s track and field programs will host a meet tomorrow at Kentner Stadium. The competition is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. Friday morning. The last event is tentatively set to begin at 11 p.m. A starter gun may be heard throughout the day.”
So in the event your student sends you a panicky text tomorrow thinking they heard gunshots, you have this info to reassure them. (Will admit that I am sensitive to this because my ’27 had a shooting at their high school and to this day the sound of shots or even a car backfiring brings that trauma right back).
Does your student want to register to vote in NC?
The importance of being an engaged citizen is one of the things I hope all our students learn in college (if that was not already part of their values system). I tell students that I don’t want to tell them who to vote for, but I will always tell them to vote.
Some students want to vote in their home state (and will do that absentee ballot). For those who want to vote in the state of North Carolina, they can do that if they register here. There is an upcoming event to help them get started:
“Register to Vote, Thursday, April 25, 4-5:30 p.m., Magnolia and Dogwood Quad. Come for some free food and a chance to register for the upcoming election.”
The ‘Switch Cost’ of Multitasking and WFU in the News
I am a WFU news wonk, and I suspect some of you are, too. So I am always happy to see the newest WFU in the News. And as a weapons-grade multitasker, I was especially interested in this story about the ‘switch cost’ of multitasking:
“Studies in cognitive psychology suggest that true simultaneous multitasking is unlikely. Instead, our brains are switching between tasks. Psychology professor Anthony Sali’s research uses a combination of studies of human behavior, eye tracking, human functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electroencephalography (EEG), to look at how learning influences switching readiness, also known as cognitive flexibility.” Read more.