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Predicting Cyanide’s Role in Making Mercury More Dangerous

CEE PhD student Shannon Plunkett recently won a “Best Student Paper” award for her work on mercury toxicity caused by artisanal gold mining
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Duke Experts Discuss the Potential of AI to Help Prevent, Detect and Treat Disease

Scientific presentations were just one portion of the Duke Summit on AI for Health Innovation
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Collaborative Diamonds Form Under Pressure of Climate Change

A closer look at the design experiences becoming more common in engineering schools across the country
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Engineering the Acceptance of Climate Change Solutions
Awards season updates

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Duke Engineers Awarded 24 Major Externally Funded Graduate Fellowships
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Reimagined First-Year Computing Course Teaches Students to Think Like Engineers
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$25 Million Gift to Establish New STEM+ Scholars Program

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CEE Seminar - A sanitary engineering view of bioaerosol traffic in the atmospheric environment

- Wilkinson Building, room 021 auditorium

Presenter: Dr. Mark Hernandez, Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado - Boulder

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How to Reduce Your Exposure to Microplastics

Even tea bags can be made of materials that contain plastic, according to CEE Professor Mark Wiesner.

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Oh, the Humanities: Can You Guess the Most-Regretted College Majors?

Dean Jerome Lynch says that there’s a lot of business for our graduates. There’s a lot of opportunity out there.

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