Research News
November 14, 2018
CEE Graduate Named a Forbes '30 Under 30' in Energy
Megan O'Connor PhD '17 is the cofounder of Nth Cycle, a company that helps recycle rare earth metals from used electronics
November 05, 2018
Reinventing the Toilet: Seeking a ‘Safe and Dignified Solution’ to the Sanitation Crisis
Supported through multiple grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Center for WaSH-AID and two emerging technologies hope to reshape the lives and health of billions of people both worldwide and at home
October 17, 2018
Safeguarding Storage for Nuclear Waste
New international research project aims to keep nuclear waste isolated, 10,000 years into the future
August 28, 2018
All That Is Gold Is Not Biochemically Stable
Researchers stumble upon the lesson that typically stable gold nanoparticles can’t always be trusted
August 23, 2018
Nathaniel Chaney: Harnessing Petabytes to Better Understand the Global Water Cycle
New faculty member Nathaniel Chaney studies how the geological and manmade features over land influence the global water cycle and as a result, impact weather, water resources and agriculture
May 23, 2018
Risky Business
Mark Borsuk brings expertise in assessing and mitigating risk to Duke Engineering and the university at large
May 18, 2018
Predicting Weather with Big Data
Ana Barros talks about working with big data in environmental fields before the term even existed and how her work has evolved over the years
April 19, 2018
Spring Break 2018: Environmental Research at Duke Kunshan University
Duke students spent their spring break in China experimenting with methods of measuring air and water quality
April 11, 2018
Hope Floats
At the sandy edge of Raleigh’s Lake Crabtree, a pack of purple-clad Clemson students splashed through the chilly water toward their team’s canoe, cheering and clapping as they helped their exhausted-looking teammates come ashore. A few yards away, members of the University of Georgia team rolled up [...]
March 20, 2018
What's in the Water?
Ph.D. student William Gerhard studies the organisms in large ships' ballast tanks