The Fungal Fallout of Climate Disasters
A-Andrew Jones is working with an interdisciplinary team across Duke to study how fungal and bacterial microbes spread in the wake of natural disasters.

A-Andrew Jones is working with an interdisciplinary team across Duke to study how fungal and bacterial microbes spread in the wake of natural disasters.
Students from Duke's Design Climate program are moving forward with two entrepreneurial programs.
Duke Engineering faculty garnered a wide array of awards and recognitions over the first half of 2025.
Find out how Deb Liu's civil engineering degree from Duke helped her blossom into a technology executive with notable stops at Meta, eBay, PayPal and Ancestry.com.
Delaney Ortiz (E ’18) reflects on her time as a Pratt civil engineering student as she leads a group of current undergrads on a tour of the Lilly Library construction site.
Lee Ferguson serves as a ‘watchdog’ for industrial pollutants.
Just over 10 years since first breaking into the top 30, Duke Engineering’s graduate program continues to climb amongst its peers.
Duke start-up VQ Biomedical is developing and commercializing a minimally-invasive catheter-based oxygenator.
Seed funding from the Provost’s Collaboratories program helped Mike Bergin develop technologies, found startups and teach students around keeping solar panels clean from pollution
Mike Bergin says, “I think it would be almost impossible to not make some sort of indoor pollution with any type of candle.”
A new venture focused on materials development seeks to make greener materials for infrastructure, energy and resource health.
As a rising star in green tech and the new executive director of an entrepreneurial ideas incubator called Design Climate, Judy Ledlee is helping the next generation of climate changemakers think differently about how to unleash climate solutions for the world.