On April 20, the Arbor Day Foundation honored Wake Forest’s commitment to the care and preservation of its trees with a Tree Campus USA designation. To earn the honor, WFU achieved five core standards for sustainable campus forestry. Read more from Wake Forest Magazine.

From a cardboard boat race to a panel discussion on fracking to a food activism workshop, Wake Forest’s 10 days of celebrating the earth will engage the campus in thinking about sustainability issues April 19 through April 28. Read more from the Office of Sustainability.

Counting kilowatt-hours and gallons of water used on campus has just gotten easier with Wake Forest’s adoption of the new Building Dashboard. Now, everyone on campus can help monitor energy use and see the impact of energy reduction efforts.

Angie Hobbs, reference coordinator for the Professional Center Library, challenged the library staff to recycle law books and other materials into decorative and useful items for display in the library during the holiday season.

North Carolina has one of the highest rates of food hardship in the country. To ease the hunger and share the holiday, students cooked and delivered over 200 Thanksgiving meals to members of the Winston-Salem community.

As recruiters storm campuses this fall, applicants need new ways to distinguish themselves in a challenging job market. Tracey Watson (’10) never imagined her campus sustainability internship would lead to working with the Centers for Disease Control.

Christine Todd Whitman, former EPA head and New Jersey’s first female governor, will address the environment, sustainability and politics at Wake Forest at 7 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 19, in the Kulynych Auditorium of the Porter B. Byrum Welcome Center.

All types of organizations will be on campus Wednesday for the Office of Personal and Career Development’s Fall Internship and Job Fair. As students attend the event or meet with recruiters this fall, they should think green to distinguish themselves.

For three weeks, 23 high school students from as far away as California have been exploring challenges related to green initiatives and gaining the confidence and the tools to implement sustainable success stories at home.

Wake Forest’s Welcome Center & Admissions building, completed in March, has been awarded the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) gold certification. This is the third new building to have a goal of LEED silver and then achieve a higher level.