For a conservation event with potentially apocalyptic connotations, Thursday’s PRO+ECT (Pledging Responsibility for Oceans and Environmental Change Today) event in Brendle Recital Hall was frank, optimistic and self-aware: panelist and scientist Nancy Knowlton even pledged to keep audience members “not utterly depressed,” to noticeable […]
This November the MA in Sustainability program brought Katie Kross to campus to provide an insider’s guide to the sustainability job search. Kross, who is the managing director of the Center for Energy, Development, and the Global Economy at Duke University, provided a two-day […]
Dance is an increasingly popular art form for the investigation of cultural understandings of nature. Associate Professor of Dance, Christina Soriano, engaged her students in just such an investigation this semester. Soriano, who was a member of the 2014 Magnolias Curriculum Project cohort, […]
By Gloria Muday and Susan Fahrbach, Department of Biology Every day, we decide what to eat. These daily decisions have profound impact on both our own health and the health of our planet. The mantra “eat your vegetables” is spoken by parents at dinner […]
Every year the world comes together to discuss progress on combating climate change. The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change hosts the COP–the Conference of Parties–where the world’s 192 countries negotiate how to address climate change. This year’s COP is in Lima, Peru, where the […]
The secret to a great solution is a well-articulated problem. Unfortunately, we seem hardwired to jump into solution development mode prematurely; we imagine all the benefits that a particular outcome might bring and often don’t make time to question assumptions about root causes. Students […]
by Dr. Angela King, Associate Teaching Professor, Department of Chemistry My family and I live on a 22-acre farm in Stokes County. We are serious gardeners. I can’t remember the last time I bought a tomato at the store and I have saved my […]
Frank Hajek and his team are working to change the ways we think about and conduct conservation in the Amazon basin. Hajek, founder and director of Nature Services Peru, an environmental consulting firm, and SEPeru, a non-profit conservation organization, visited WFU in October, to […]
Dr. Rebecca Powell has been affiliated with CEES almost from its inception. She was one of the initial post-doctoral researchers working for the Center, and served as a Research Assistant Professor in Biology. She also held the title of Leopold Fellow in Biodiversity and […]
By Paul Bright, Director, Hanes Art Gallery On October 21st, the exhibition Spencer Finch: color / temperature, at the Hanes Gallery, culminated with a talk by the artist in the Kulynych Auditorium. Finch engages in a close observation of nature and natural systems, tying the […]
