What do 300 suns, boat hull construction, Cool Energy engines, water splitting, GaAs nanowires and piedmont North Carolina have in common? They are pieces of a green energy puzzle that students and faculty of four Piedmont Triad universities are trying to assemble. Teams from Wake […]
“When you die, God will not ask you how old the earth is. He will ask you ‘what did you do with what I gave you?’” In celebration of World Food Day, the WFU Divinity School’s Food, Faith, and Religious Leadership Initiative and […]
To some, the concept of green roofs is a foreign one. To others, however, they represent a time-tested and efficacious feature of sustainable construction. Providing a wide range of benefits, from rainwater runoff mitigation to happier building tenants, this living architectural design element is […]
Finding a relationship between a farm in Yadkin County, two chemists at Wake Forest University, the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools’ Career Center, and renewable biofuels may initially seem challenging, but an interdisciplinary team of educators and scientists saw opportunity in collaboration. Ultimately, through the concerted […]
Eleven faculty members from across the disciplinary spectrum came together on May 15-16, 2013 for the 2nd annual Magnolias Curriculum Project. This year’s workshop was facilitated by alumni from last year’s inaugural project: Sarah Mason (mathematics) and Luke Johnston (religion). The aims of the […]
By Eric Stottlemyer, English Department A few years ago I happened upon an intriguing article written about an indigenous tribe nestled deep in the amazon forest. Some members of this tribe, as far as researchers can gather, have never had any substantial, meaningful contact with […]
By Steven Folmar, Professor, Anthropology In 2012, I was awarded $1400 from CEES for small-scale, community-focused development efforts in Nepal. The target population is the poorest and most marginalized group in Nepal, known as Dalits. They are spread throughout most of Nepal, in small, semi-autonomous […]
Researchers at Wake Forest have pieced together startling new evidence that shows rapid 21st century warming may spell doom for tree species in Peruvian cloud forests, with species losing up to 96 percent of their current populations. The team’s results appear in the Sept. […]
Joel Salatin, a self-described “Christian-libertarian-environmentalist-capitalist-lunatic-farmer” delivered an informative lecture as part of orientation for the incoming class of 2017. The presentation, which was open to all members of the Wake Forest community, was the denouement in the summer academic project on food access and […]
CEES Director and Professor of Biology Miles Silman recently spoke to WUNC about how global temperature increases are affecting tropical forests. Silman and his research group have been measuring forest response to climate shifts for the past 10 years as part of the Andes […]
