Oana Jurchescu Awarded Reid-Doyle Prize for Excellence in Teaching

Assistant Professor of Physics Oana Jurchescu was awarded the Reid-Doyle Prize for Excellence in Teaching, which recognizes faculty who are in the early part of their careers. This past year, Jurchescu published eight articles with her students, who describe her teaching style as “challenging and […]


Research in the news

Research is one of the most important ways to tackle the questions of sustainability.  Read below to find out about some of the amazing research that is going on at Wake Forest in the areas of energy, environment and sustainability:   Find out what […]


CEES awarded research grant funding

Researchers with the Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability (CEES) have won two grants to help fund research and projects in the next year. NASA awarded $46,260 to help fund groundbreaking research in the Andes region. Forests on tropical mountains are where much of […]


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 […]


Sustainability across the curriculum

Twelve faculty members from across the university came together on May 14-15 for a sustainability-across-the-curriculum workshop. The workshop was aimed at building a trans-disciplinary community of scholars committed to addressing issues of sustainability in their courses.  The workshop format borrowed from national […]


CEES Hosts Savanna Workshop

Savanna ecosystems are defined as having discontinuous tree cover with an almost continuous grass layer.  In Africa, these ecosystems cover 40% of the land surface (20% globally) and are home to the majority of the human population (approximately 20% of the global population).  […]


Two-Headed Trout is “Smoking Gun”

Wake Forest Professor Dennis Lemly has been fighting against selenium pollution for years.  CEES featured his work on our site last year. Now, the Environmental Protection Agency is considering possible changes to current selenium standards.  Lemly was featured in a recent interview with Northwest […]


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