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.
Voting Green – Monday, September 9th at 5 p.m. in ZSR Library Auditorium
The Environment and Sustainability Studies (ENV) Program and DEaCOfriendly are pleased to welcome North Carolina League of Conservation Voters’ Ty McFarland. Learn how to determine your election candidate’s environmental voting record. Snacks provided.
News
- Dr. Ovidiu Csillik’s Work Published in PNASDr. Ovidiu Csillik is pleased to share that his recent publication in PNAS has been featured in Reuters, Nature Highlights, and Mongabay. The study provides an in-depth analysis of aboveground carbon losses and gains in the Amazon forest, emphasizing the significant impact of forest degradation on the regional carbon balance. Utilizing high-resolution airborne laser […]
- ENV Program welcomes new facultyAs 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 […]
- Velásquez Runk published in Science DirectDr. Julie Velásquez Runk, Director, Professor & Weigl Fellow of Environment and Sustainability Studies, has published “Looking through the lens of social science approaches: A scoping review of leishmaniases and Chagas disease research” in Science Direct – Acta Tropica
- Climate Risk Mappingby Ella Gay (’24). I was initially drawn to this internship because of the environmental research aspect that it seemed to offer. As a biology major interested in research and an environmental studies minor looking to explore the effects of climate change, it seemed like a perfect fit. I feel like my three years of […]
- Bioregionalism addresses climate change, environmental justice, colonialism, and globalization.By Luis M. Bou (’25). Thanks to my summer fellowship, I was able to research this summer in Adjuntas, Puerto Rico about bioregionalism and how it addresses the struggles and crises that humanity is living right now in the midst of climate change. I was able to navigate the ideas of re-learning, live-in-place, re-inhabitation, and […]