In an effort to train the environmental leaders of tomorrow, one innovative course at WFU focuses on how sustainability is woven into ongoing projects. Students enrolled in the course, “Green Technologies: Science and Entrepreneurship” collaborate with businesses and organizations to promote sustainable practices. During […]
It is a warm spring night on Lighthouse Reef Atoll, an isolated collection of islands about 40 miles off the coast of Belize. The 15 students of the Ecology and Conservation of Coral Reefs class and their instructors sit around a bonfire on a […]
Timo Thonhauser, assistant professor of physics, CEES faculty affiliate, and recent recipient of both the National Science Foundation’s Career Award and the Wake Forest Award for Excellence in Research, was drawn to science for many of the same reasons as others in the field […]
Another drone is set to take to the skies from the campus of Wake Forest University. Unlike its predecessors, however, this one is not destined for the rainforests of Peru but for the rugged and remote islands of the East Pacific. With funding from CEES, […]
This past fall, undergraduate health communication and software engineering students were asked to work together to design an application that would improve accessibility around Wake Forest’s campus. From wheelchairs to long boards, students considered the unique ways people maneuver around our 340 acres each day. One […]
Dennis Lemly, Associate Professor of Biology at Wake Forest University, authored a report which implicates elevated levels of selenium, a toxin found in coal ash, in deaths and deformities among Sutton Lake’s fish populations. Lemly reports to WFAE “concentrations of selenium in Lake […]
By Steven Folmar, Professor, Anthropology In 2012, I was awarded $1400 from CEES for small-scale, community-focused development efforts in Nepal. The target population is the poorest and most marginalized group in Nepal, known as Dalits. They are spread throughout most of Nepal, in small, semi-autonomous […]
CEES Director and Professor of Biology Miles Silman recently spoke to WUNC about how global temperature increases are affecting tropical forests. Silman and his research group have been measuring forest response to climate shifts for the past 10 years as part of the Andes […]
The Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability (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 was […]
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 […]
