Education, research and external engagement toward a resilient, flourishing, carbon-neutral world.
Design Climate empowers interdisciplinary student teams to create impactful solutions toward a more sustainable future. Through hands-on projects with real-world stakeholders, students create products and business models that address urgent environmental challenges while driving change at the community level.
Discover how Duke takes a holistic, community-building approach through a deep bench of incredible faculty to tackle global challenges in environmental engineering, sustainability and climate innovation.
No matter how clean our technologies become, people must be persuaded to use them to make a difference.
Throughout the disciplines and across its schools and programs, Duke is employing and empowering climate-fluent leaders to educate a new generation of students.
A closer look at the unexpected collaborations with nurses, finance and divinity that are a hallmark of the Duke Climate Commitment.
We’ve curated career-ready disciplines to meet the demands of the rapidly evolving industries.
From earthquakes to financial crashes to the impacts of climate change and manmade materials, the world is full of uncertainties. Duke Engineering researchers are finding new ways to assess risk, inform decision-making and engineer safer, more resilient systems to create a more secure, sustainable future.
Gilbertson designs innovative materials for sustainable solutions in drinking water, food production, and antimicrobial resistance, bridging environmental and public health for a better future.
Imagine a material so intricately structured that unfolding just one gram would cover Wallace Wade Stadium. Feng is pioneering this approach to tackle climate change by capturing and storing gas molecules efficiently.
Delgado Vela uses environmental biotechnology to enhance urban water systems, applying molecular tools and modeling to understand microbial interactions in water treatment.
Alumna Megan O’Connor, Ph.D., founded Nth Cycle in 2017 to tackle electronic waste and boost the domestic supply of critical minerals for the energy transition. Learn why she was named one of Time 100’s Climate Innovators. (Photo credit: Time Magazine)
Getting hands-on experience inside and outside of the classroom is essential to student success. And at Duke Engineering, collaboration isn’t just a concept – it’s our way of life. See this central tenet on full display with CEE PhD student Shannon Plunkett for her work on mercury toxicity caused by artisanal gold mining.
Dive into the latest from Duke Engineering: where ambitious discovery fuels societal impact, and our students, faculty and staff continually push the boundaries of what’s possible in the world through insightful engineering.
Five-year, National Science Foundation “GENIE” Science and Technology Center will work to understand how the genome’s 3D structure helps cells establish their identities, remember past experiences and respond to their environments.
The five-year renewal will focus on developing an AI-native edge stack that supports autonomous interaction among users, agents and the physical environment, integrated with national-priority technologies such as quantum computing.
New research shows that pooling data across patients can make brain-to-speech computer interfaces faster and easier to deploy
Join us for a dynamic lineup of upcoming events, where we delve into groundbreaking research, foster collaboration, and celebrate the spirit of innovation. Don’t miss out on these opportunities to connect and be inspired.
Featured conference speakers include General Charles Q. Brown (Ret), NSA Deputy Director Tim Kosiba, Congresswoman Deborah Ross and Congresswoman Valerie Foushee.
Sep 18 8:00 am-8:00 pm
Sep 15
The Duke Department of Neurology Division of Translational Brain Sciences, Duke Comprehensive Epilepsy Center and Neurology Residency Program are excited to invite you to their 2026 Research Symposium. All clinical, […]
4:00 pm Trent Semans Center for Health Education – Great Hall
Sep 16
The Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science hosts Professor Robert Clark (University of Rochester) to present the MEMS Distinguished Seminar, “Walkabout: From Engineering Research and Entrepreneurship to […]
12:00 pm Fitzpatrick Center Schiciano Auditorium Side A, room 1464
Sep 16
We are developing non-destructive slide-free 3D pathology methods for clinical decision support and surgical guidance. In comparison to conventional slide-based pathology, 3D pathology provides: (1) vastly greater sampling of tissue […]
12:00 pm Wilkinson Building, room 021 auditorium
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