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Meet Miles Silman

by June 7, 2012

Biology Professor, Miles Silman is the Director of the Center for Energy, Environment, and Sustainability.  The WFU News Center recently posted a faculty profile on his exciting work and ongoing involvement in studying climate change, sustainability, tropical conservation, and the environment.
As a conservation biologist, Miles Silman has been a leader Read more »

T. Michael Anderson Receives Funding from the National Science Foundation for Studies of Savanna Moisture Gradients

by March 11, 2012
T. Michael Anderson

Congratulations to T. Michael Anderson, Assistant Professor of Biology, whose proposal entitled “Collaborative Research:  Mechanisms of tree recruitment limitation across a savanna soil moisture availability gradient” has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

William Smith Receives National Science Foundation Funding for Studies of Barrier Island Ecosystems

by January 25, 2012

Congratulations to William K. Smith, professor of biology and Charles H. Babcock chair of botany, whose proposal entitled “CBIN: A Research Network for Sustaining Barrier Island Ecosystems in a Changing Gobal Environment” has been funded by the National Science Foundation.

Child Abuse in Birds?

by September 29, 2011

WFU News Service, August 2011
For one species of seabird in the Galápagos, the child abuse “cycle of violence” found in humans plays out in the wild.
The new study of Nazca boobies by Wake Forest University researchers provides the first evidence from the animal world showing those who are abused when Read more »

Art and Biology: What Do You See in the Andes?

by September 22, 2011

Famous painting is ‘reading’ assignment for first-year students
More than 1,200 first-year students and their advisers visited Reynolda House Museum of American Art on Sunday as part of this year’s summer “reading” project. Rather than reading an assigned book before they arrived on campus, new students instead studied a painting, Frederic Read more »

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