Students are driving an increased focus on sustainability at Wake Forest University’s Charlotte campus “It’s a hot topic so they want to know what is sustainability and what is this going to mean for me and my future in the workplace,” said Dan Fogel, Associate […]
Michelle Klosterman, CEES Board Member and Assistant Professor of Science Education, and her students have partnered with a rural school in Yadkin County, North Carolina to help bring more science into the classroom. Read more in this article featured on Wake Forest’s home page. […]
CEES sponsored a recent viewing of the film The City Dark and a panel discussion on how light pollution may affect the Wake Forest community. The film explores the effects of light pollution on people, places and animals highlighting interviews with experts from various disciplines. […]
A standing-room-only crowd packed DeTamble Auditorium on March 20 to view the documentary film Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for our Time, about the life and legacy of conservationist Aldo Leopold. Curt Meine, Leopold’s biographer, was on site […]
Effective communication may be the key to improving the health of the coastal barrier islands, one of the most treasured ecosystems in the world. “Getting this kind of information to the public is difficult,” said Biology Babcock Professor and CEES Associate Director […]
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 has formed with core groups in Renewable Energy […]
The climate change debate has hit center stage with some recent opinion pieces in both the New York Review of Books and the Wall Street Journal. In this recent Ted Talks feature, James Hansen, a Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University, […]
Wake Forest University just adopted a new “building dashboard” that allows anyone on campus to track and monitor energy use. With the technology, anyone can look at a building’s energy consumption by monitoring its electricity, water, heating, and cooling systems. It is […]
The issue of climate change has hit center stage in some recent opinion pieces. Here’s a link to two of the stories that sparked our interest: New York Review of Books: Why the Global Warming Skeptics are Wrong – William D. […]
Dr. Stuart Hart believes that now is the time to capitalize on sustainability. “I think people increasingly feel in their gut that something fundamental is going on and we’re in the midst of one of those periods of time when everything changes,” said Dr. Hart […]
