Some people think of the sciences and the humanities as mutually exclusive categories: Wake Forest English professor Meredith Farmer is not one of them. Farmer specializes in 19th-century American literature, a field that allows her to chase her interest in the overlap between science and […]
Scholarship and cross-cutting collaboration are the Wake Forest way. In support of these activities, the Center for Energy, Environment & Sustainability (CEES) has been awarding small grants to groups of faculty and student groups working on sustainability-related projects since 2010. We have funded pilot research […]
Yesterday, the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases at the same time the IPCC Sixth Assessment Working Group II Report on Climate Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability was released. CEES’s Stan Meiburg […]
On February 23-24, 2022, the Wake Forest University Intercultural Center and the Program for Leadership and Character will hold the Indigenous Environmental Justice Leadership series. The series consists of three events investigating the problems to which Indigenous environmental justice leadership responds, the forms this […]
The following is a guest post by Hunter Revord, a third year Wake Forest University Law student also enrolled in the M.A. Sustainability program, on behalf of his colleagues in the Wake Forest Journal of Business and Intellectual Property Law. As the world slowly learns […]
In 2019, Joy Harjo was appointed the 23rd United States Poet Laureate, the first Native American to hold the position and only the second person to serve three terms in the role. Harjo’s nine books of poetry include An American Sunrise, Conflict Resolution for […]
You interact with plastics every day, often without giving them a second thought. But one CEES affiliate, Wake Forest law professor Sarah Morath, thinks about them a lot. Morath studies the use of legislation and litigation to address plastic pollution. She initially became interested […]
There’s an exciting new opportunity on the horizon for Wake Forest students interested in sustainability: under the umbrella of the Sustainability graduate program, faculty member Norman Fraley is piloting an academic research trip to Iceland this May, and he is looking for interested students […]
On November 2nd, the Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability, in collaboration with the Wake Forest University Office of Sustainability, will host a panel discussion called “Taking the Temperature on Global Warming.” More details about the panel are available at the bottom of this […]
Last week, conservation biologist and PhD candidate Cassie Freund sat down with CEES board member Alan Palmiter, Wake Forest’s William T. Wilson, III, Presidential Chair for Business Law. The two talked about his new article about what is now, in his view, a monumental shift […]