Sustainability across the Curriculum
The sixth annual Magnolias Curriculum Project brought together 14 faculty members on May 10-11, 2017, to develop innovative course components that will inspire systems thinking in students and empower an [...]
Apply to participate in the 2017 Magnolias Project
All Wake Forest faculty are invited to enhance their teaching and engagement with sustainability issues by participating in the Magnolias Project May 10-11, 2017 on the Wake Forest campus. No [...]
Sustaining Dance
Dance is an increasingly popular art form for the investigation of cultural understandings of nature. Associate Professor of Dance, Christina Soriano, engaged her students in just such an investigation this [...]
True Value Meals
by Dr. Angela King, Associate Teaching Professor, Department of Chemistry My family and I live on a 22-acre farm in Stokes County. We are serious gardeners. I can’t remember the [...]
Nature, Environments, and Place in American Thought
By Lisa Blee, Assistant Professor of History In the spring of 2012 I had the opportunity to participate in the inaugural Magnolias Curriculum Project. The readings and discussions in the [...]
Sharing perspectives across disciplines
Eleven faculty members from across the disciplinary spectrum came together on May 13-14, 2014 for the 3rd annual Magnolias Curriculum Project. This year’s workshop was co-facilitated by communications professor Ron [...]
The medieval world and climate change
by Monique O'Connell, Associate Professor of History This past semester I had the chance to put the lessons I learned about sustainability in the curriculum from the Magnolias Project workshop [...]
Community of Scholars Grows
Eleven faculty members from across the disciplinary spectrum came together on May 15-16, 2013 for the 2nd annual Magnolias Curriculum Project. This year’s workshop was facilitated by alumni from last [...]
Thinking like a mountain
Pilot Mountain By Eric Stottlemyer, English Department A few years ago I happened upon an intriguing article written about an indigenous tribe nestled deep in the amazon forest. [...]