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. Though the center was […]
Research is one of the most important ways to tackle the questions of sustainability. Read below to find out about some of the amazing research that is going on at Wake Forest in the areas of energy, environment and sustainability: Find out what […]
CEES Director Miles Silman was featured in the article “At Edge of Peruvian Andes, Tracking Impacts of Warming” by Elizabeth Kolbert. It was published in the Yale Environment 360 – a publication of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. The […]
Researchers with the Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability (CEES) have won two grants to help fund research and projects in the next year. NASA awarded $46,260 to help fund groundbreaking research in the Andes region. Forests on tropical mountains are where much of […]
Wake Forest professor Dennis Lemly has a newly published article on the effects of coal pollution on wildlife. Lemly and Skorupa – Coal Waste Impacts on Wildlife – August 9, 2012 Dennis Lemly is a Research Biologist with the Unites States Department of Agriculture […]
The WFU Campus/Community Bike Ride is intended to increase bicycle awareness on and off-campus, and to draw attention to the need for improved bicycle and pedestrian corridors between WFU and downtown Winston-Salem. Our trip is a 10-mile loop, beginning at the ZSR Library, with a […]
Twelve faculty members from across the university came together on May 14-15 for a sustainability-across-the-curriculum workshop. The workshop was aimed at building a trans-disciplinary community of scholars committed to addressing issues of sustainability in their courses. The workshop format borrowed from national […]
CEES Director Miles Silman was featured in WXII‘s piece on climate changes in South America. Reporter Cameron Kent’s story “The Lungs of the World” takes a closer look at the Andes Mountain region, cloud forests and the Amazon. Up to a third of the […]
Savanna ecosystems are defined as having discontinuous tree cover with an almost continuous grass layer. In Africa, these ecosystems cover 40% of the land surface (20% globally) and are home to the majority of the human population (approximately 20% of the global population). […]
Wake Forest Professor Dennis Lemly has been fighting against selenium pollution for years. CEES featured his work on our site last year. Now, the Environmental Protection Agency is considering possible changes to current selenium standards. Lemly was featured in a recent interview with Northwest […]
