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A lesson about values

This February graduate students in the Applied Sustainability class visited TS Designs, a Certified Benefit Corporation making t-shirts in Burlington, North Carolina. The students spent the morning with company President, Eric Henry, who aims to create the “highest quality, most sustainable, printed apparel,” measuring […]


GMO’s: Fear, Facts, Farms, and Food

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 […]


What’s the problem?

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 […]


Nature, Environments, and Place in American Thought

By Lisa Blee, Assistant Professor of History In the spring of 2012 I had the opportunity to participate in the inaugural Magnolias Curriculum Project. The readings and discussions in the workshop quickly revealed the big questions of sustainability: How does personal behavior and choice […]


CEES Launches New Web Presence

CEES launched a new website this summer. It isn’t just simple and clean design with an intuitive user interface. It conveys our thought leadership, and represents our synergistic, multidisciplinary efforts. It provides those interested with a clearer sense of what we do. When you […]


Sharing perspectives across disciplines

Eleven faculty members from across the disciplinary spectrum came together on May 13-14, 2014 for the 3rd annual Magnolias Curriculum Project. This year’s workshop was co-facilitated by communications professor Ron Von Burg, an alumnus of last year’s cohort, and Dedee DeLongpré Johnston, the university’s […]


John Knox advocates for human rights and environmental law

John Knox, Wake Forest professor of International Law, advances the ideals of Pro Humanitate on a global scale.  An internationally recognized expert on human rights and environmental law, he is currently serving as the first United Nations Independent Expert on human rights obligations relating […]


WFU Campus / Community Bike Ride

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 […]


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