Lions in the balance

Conflict between predators and people have existed as long as we have. Most large predators were eradicated from North America and Europe over the past few hundred years. And even as we have cemented ourselves securely atop the global food web we still sometimes find […]


Celebration of the inaugural Masters in Sustainability class

On May 7th, the inaugural class of Wake Forest Masters in Sustainability (MASus) graduate students and the program faculty celebrated their time together, and the tremendous amount of work it took to reach graduation, with an end-of-year reception. Two students were acknowledged as having particularly […]


Sustaining Dance

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, […]


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 […]


True Value Meals

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 […]


Book Review: “Hope on Earth: A Conversation”

By Richard Schneider, Hope on Earth: A Conversation, by Paul Ehrlich & Michael Charles Tobias, University of Chicago Press, 2014 Eavesdropping has a long and distinguished (or sordid) history not only in social life but in books, plays, and movies, too. Sometimes eavesdropping can […]


CEES studying biochar in the Amazon

CEES faculty members Miles Silman and Abdou Lachgar, and CEES fellow and MA in Sustainability graduate student Andrew Wilcox and are on a mission to change tropical agriculture in the Amazon.  By creating biochar, a type of fertilizer and soil conditioner made from charred agricultural […]


Ocean Acidification: The other climate change problem

By Katie Lotterhos, Assistant Professor of Biology Since the Industrial Revolution, gigatons of carbon dioxide have been released into the atmosphere, which has resulted in the well-known greenhouse effect and long-term increases in global temperature. A lesser-known effect of climate change is ocean acidification. […]


Bee lab explores pollinator decline

By Susan E. Fahrbach, Chair, Department of Biology The focus of the Bee Research Laboratory in the Department of Biology at Wake Forest University might surprise you. Our laboratory does not study pollination biology or the economic impact of honey bees on crop production. […]


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