Prominent ecosystem scientist and author Alan Townsend, Ph.D., will lead the Andrew Sabin Family Center for Environment and Sustainability(opens in a new tab), Wake Forest University announced today following a national search.
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Exciting news and foreboding warnings abound alongside the accelerated development of Artificial Intelligence these days. Multi-Agent AI (MAAI), which consists of networks of AI agents operating together in a dynamic environment, is no exception. Sabin Center Faculty Affiliate Sarra Alqahtani recently received a National Science […]
In a recent explainer from our colleagues at Wake Forest News, Sabin Center Fellow William Farfan-Rios talks us through how Andes Amazon forests struggle to adapt to the challenges of climate change. With four decades of monitoring data across a massive transect covering 3,500 meters in elevational […]
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A Wake Forest-led study spanning 40+ years of forest monitoring finds that tree communities in the Amazon and Andes are accumulating a “climatic debt” — falling far behind the pace of warming with major implications for global biodiversity.
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Wake Forest biology professor Gloria Muday studies how extreme heat causes tomato pollen to fail and is developing heat-tolerant varieties rich in protective antioxidants — research with major implications for the global food supply.
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Wake Forest civil engineering professor Lauren Lowman explains how “weather whiplash” — rapid swings between drought and flooding — is fueling more frequent Southeast wildfires, and why fire is actually essential to native ecosystems.
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Rev. Ben Chavis, who coined the term “environmental racism,” will keynote Wake Forest’s Environmental Justice Summit, joining scholars and frontline activists for a day of dialogue on equity, energy justice, and Indigenous rights.
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Wake Forest-affiliated researcher Claudia Vega was named a 2025 TED Fellow for her groundbreaking science on mercury contamination from illegal gold mining in the Amazon and its devastating effects on food chains and Indigenous communities.
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A major study co-authored by Wake Forest researchers — analyzing 250,000+ trees across the Americas — finds that tropical forests are changing too slowly to stay in equilibrium with rapidly shifting temperatures and rainfall.
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A $300,000 Wells Fargo Foundation grant supports Wake Forest Law’s Heirs’ Property Project, which helps minority and low-income North Carolinians resolve inherited land ownership disputes and protect generational wealth.
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