Check out the latest media coverage of Duke civil and environmental engineering research and education.
Duke CEE in the News
BNN Bloomberg |
How to Reduce Your Exposure to Microplastics
Even tea bags can be made of materials that contain plastic, according to CEE Professor Mark Wiesner.
USA Today |
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.
Fast Company |
Are EVs Making the ‘Forever Chemicals’ Crisis Even Worse?
Lee Ferguson and collaborators from Texas Tech find that lithium ion battery production and disposal is a major contributor to a type of PFAS contamination in the environment
The News and Observer |
Why Your Phone Weather App Probably Won’t Tell You if You’re Stranded on a Heat Island
Mike Bergin and David Carlson show a method for statistically compensating for a lack of heat data in underserved urban areas
The Assembly |
The Wrong Side of Forever
Lee Ferguson talks about his work to find PFAS chemicals in the environment across the countries and trace their sources
Scientific American |
The Science Is Clear: Offshore Wind Isn’t What’s Killing Whales
Doug Nowacek says there are no links whatsoever between the offshore wind development activity and especially the humpback whale mortalities.
The Conversation |
Climate Engineering Carries Serious National Security Risks and the World Needs to Be Prepared
Tyler Felgenhauer joins Indiana University colleague Ben Kravitz in penning an article on the potential promise and perils of climate engineering projects
Coastal Review |
NC Scientists Receive Tools for Tracking New Compounds
Lee Ferguson says investments by the North Carolina General Assembly puts NC researchers in an improved spot to better their statewide PFAS investigations.
Science Friday |
The Complicated Truths About Offshore Wind and Right Whales
Doug Nowacek speaks to how noise from offshore windfarm construction might disrupt the lives of endangered right whales.
Discover Magazine |
Social Media and Search Engines Can Now Forecast Disease Outbreaks
CEE Professor Gaby Katul warns that we can not afford to wait another 100 years for the next pandemic to occur in an article that explores the ways that internet data is being used to track and predict disease spread.