The Environment and Sustainability Studies (ENV) Program

The mission of the Environment and Sustainability Studies (ENV) Program is to prepare students to create just and sustainable futures. By leveraging the experiential learning of liberal arts education and coupling it with our vibrant professional schools, we teach students how to think across disciplinary boundaries to address environmental challenges and to act within their communities for environmental justice. We ready students to be bold and ethical leaders who respond to environmental issues using socio-environmental synthesis for evidence-based, creative, and principled action.

Upcoming Events

Check out upcoming program-related events at Wake Forest below.

News

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  Welcome Haylie Hodge!
  The ENV Program is very happy to welcome Haylie Hodge as the new Academic Coordinator.  Haylie has lived much of her life in Winston-Salem and holds two degrees in environmental studies.  AC Jo Hamilton took early retirement and we look forward to learning about her new adventures.
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  Webinar on Trilingual Storybook
  The authors and illustrators of the illustrated story book An Adventure of Wounaan Children and Many Birds hosted a trilingual webinar about the work on December 3.  Authors Chenier Carpio Opua, Doris Cheucarama Membache, Dorindo Membora Peña, and Julie Velásquez Runk joined illustrator Frankie Grin to discuss the book, which was originally written in Wounaan meu and translated […]
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  Incoming ENV Professor Crystal Dixon co-authors article on Weaver Fertilizer Plant Fire
  Prof. Crystal Dixon co-authored “Using the Environmental Health Disparities Framework to understand Black and Latino perspectives of a local fertilizer plant fire”. One of our ENV affiliated faculty, Prof. Rowie Kirby-Straker, was another co-author.
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  Stone Mountain Student Class Trip
  Dr. Stephen Smith’s ENV 321(Earth’s Dynamic Surface) class took a trip to Stone Mountain State Park, NC. Apart from about 10 minutes of rain on the summit, they all had a great day!
• ENV Program welcomes new faculty
  As we wind down the summer and prepare to begin the 2024-2025 academic year, we are happy to welcome three new faculty members to the ENV team and send off Dr. Sames on new adventures. Dr. Leslie Straker has joined us from the WFU Graduate Program in Sustainability.  He has coastal expertise in natural and […]