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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.

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.

AI-generated images of rare species could improve efforts to understand, monitor and protect them.

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.

The Plastic Pollution Working Group is Duke’s central hub for sharing work by faculty, staff and students related to plastic debris.

Duke and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations have signed an agreement to establish a five-year initiative to support small-scale fisheries worldwide through research, knowledge sharing and capacity building. John Virdin will lead Duke’s efforts.

The Duke Critical Minerals Hub was one of three faculty collaborations selected for support through a new internal funding opportunity. The project brings together experts from engineering and the natural and social sciences to establish an interdisciplinary platform for research and education on lithium and other critical minerals.

A Marine Lab doctoral student’s Antarctic drone surveys grew into a Bass Connections project investigating seals and penguins, retreating glaciers and blooming vegetation.

From Costa Rica to Thailand, the rising senior has forged an interdisciplinary path.

The forest’s Blackwood Division is an important training and testing site for members of the Nicholas School’s Marine Robotics and Remote Sensing Lab.

At the Nicholas School of the Environment, researchers and entrepreneurs are joining forces to solve environmental problems.

Kidney disease is typically linked to conditions like diabetes and high blood pressure, which gradually wear down the kidneys’ delicate systems that keep the body in balance. But the communities that 91ÉçÇø¸£Àû researchers Nishad Jayasundara , PhD, and nephrologist Anna Strasma , MD, study are facing a different problem.