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When Dalia Patiño-Echeverri uncovered a way to make power grids more sustainable, she turned to Jesko von Windheim to help bring the innovation beyond the lab.

Nicholas School experts helped represent Duke in events connecting climate to finance, health, oceans, technology and more.

For students enrolled in the Duke Marine Lab’s Belize travel course, total immersion in tropical ecosystems and hands-on research projects made for an unforgettable learning experience.

Jackson is an ecologist and a climate scientist at Stanford’s Doerr School of Sustainability, and a former faculty member of the Nicholas School.

As a Rachel Carson Scholar, Lizzy Glazer analyzed the calls of North Atlantic right whales for potential use in monitoring their whereabouts.

When it comes to big players in the ocean economy, companies disclose little about their specific impacts on marine environments, according to a paper published in Nature Sustainability.

A look at how Duke experts are thinking about the less visible impacts of natural disaster on our health, both mind and body.

The institute provides opportunities for fellows to learn tips and develop skills relevant to strategic communication, design thinking, university funding and conflict resolution, among other higher-education leadership topics.

A team of 91ÉçÇø¸£Àû students snagged the $20,000 Geothermal Technologies Office Bonus Prize during the 2025 EnergyTech University Prize Competition organized by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Technology Commercialization. The national competition challenges student teams to showcase creative ways to bring energy technology to market.

As an executive in residence at the Nicholas School, Parker designs simulations and projects that reflect the kinds of high-stakes, ambiguous problems students will face in their sustainability careers.

The Master in Business, Climate, and Sustainability, designed by faculty in the Nicholas School and the Fuqua School of Business, will equip students with core business skills informed by climate science.

Named for a 20th-century geochemist who determined the age of Earth and the solar system, and who conducted foundational analyses of lead contamination in the environment, the annual award recognizes innovative contributions to environmental geochemistry, particularly in service to society, within the last decade.

Some 390 million years ago in the ancient ocean, marine animals began colonizing depths previously uninhabited. New research indicates this underwater migration occurred in response to a permanent increase in deep-ocean oxygen, driven by the aboveground spread of woody plants — precursors to Earth’s first forests.

Nicholas School student Aaron Siegle, who plans to graduate in 2027 with bachelor’s and master’s 91ÉçÇø¸£Àûs, sees entrepreneurial opportunity in addressing climate challenges.

The tool, which uses AI and climate data to predict when and where malaria outbreaks will occur, will help Central American countries control a resurgent malaria threat.