In partnership with CEES and a host of other university affiliates, the Reynolda Gardens Meadow project launched this spring with a grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The idea for the project came out of a joint workshop with Reynolda Gardens and CEES […]
In March, CEES welcomed a host of panelist to discuss the intersection of economic interests, the environment, and the future of human community. The panel included Larry Rasmussen, Professor of Social Ethics Emeriti (Union Theological Seminary), Julia Agyeman, Professor of Urban Environmental Policy and Planning […]
Funding Opportunities, Fall 2015 The Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability (CEES) announces funding opportunities for research, scholarship, and working groups related to energy, environment and sustainability as broadly defined. The grants seek to provide new opportunities for research and scholarly activities at Wake Forest. […]
Fred Bahnson, Director of the WFU School of Divinity Food, Faith, and Religious Leadership Initiative, gave a TEDx Talk in Manhattan in February which reflects on his forthcoming book, Soil and Sacrament. In the talk, Bahnson shared his journeys from the garden that he helped start […]
On Friday, March 22, Wake Forest University’s Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability and the Yadkin Riverkeeper co-hosted a discussion on the wise use, sound management, and protection of the drinking water supply in the Yadkin watershed. The event coincided with the end of […]
Dr. Sarah Mason, mathematics professor and CEES faculty, was featured in the Office of Sustainability’s Faces of Sustainability last week for her emphasis on sustainability and resource efficiency in the classroom. Her personal passion for sustainability fused with her expertise in math, culminating in a first-year seminar […]
Dr. Paul Bogard, English Professor and CEES Fellow, was featured on NPR’s All Things Considered last week to comment on the effect of light pollution around the world. Bogard has written extensively on the negative impacts of the increasingly bright lights on buildings, storefronts, street corners, and […]
Wake Forest Law Professor John Knox, the United Nations Independent Expert on human rights and the environment, addressed a gathering of environmental ministers and high level officials in Nairobi and urged them to consider the connections between environmental harm and human rights. “Human rights and […]
A group of Wake Forest students, including graduate students in the School of Divinity and undergraduates from the Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC), joined 40,000 others at the National Mall in Washington D.C. for a rally intending to move President Barack Obama forward […]
Assistant Professor of Physics Oana Jurchescu was awarded the Reid-Doyle Prize for Excellence in Teaching, which recognizes faculty who are in the early part of their careers. This past year, Jurchescu published eight articles with her students, who describe her teaching style as “challenging and […]
