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 […]
On February 7th, CEES welcomed former Secretary of the Interior and Arizona governor Bruce Babbitt to discuss land use and the future of natural landscapes in the U.S. Mr. Babbitt has had a prolific political career, beginning in Arizona, where he served as the […]
Join us for an evening lecture with former Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt: Land use, prosperity, and the future of wild places. The event will be held Thursday, February 7th at 7pm in the Kulynych Auditorium at the Byrum Welcome Center. Bruce Babbitt […]
“Can we replicate the story of the Wright Brothers?” Wake Forest professor of Law Alan Palmiter posed this question as he opened a symposium on wind energy at Wake Forest University on November 15th. Over one hundred years ago, the Wright brothers chose […]
Affiliates of the Wake Forest Center for Energy, Environment, and Sustainability (CEES) gathered on the afternoon of November 8th to meet and talk about their work in sustainability. More than 30 faculty and several staff members met outside, on what turned out to be a […]
A Wake Forest Law professor is on a mission: to improve human rights and the environment around the world. John Knox, who has been involved in human rights and environmental issues for over two decades, is now helping shape the development of international human […]
