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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.

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

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

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.

Researchers led by Duke Marine Lab visiting scholar Ty Roach found that rice corals pass down heat resistance to offspring. The work is informing efforts to breed corals that are more tolerant of warming waters.

The findings could inform planetary health assessments, enhance ecosystem management, and guide climate change projections and mitigation strategies.

A Nicholas School startup focused on improving energy system management through smarter forecasting and robust risk analysis has been selected for the 15th cohort of the Joules Accelerator, a nationally recognized program for high-potential energy ventures.

A look athow Duke experts are thinking about ways to help communities, from new insurance methods to building collaborations.