Mark Borsuk and Duke's CIRCAD center are working with insurance industry partners to develop new insights, tools, and approaches that improve how individuals, organizations, and communities anticipate, manage, and recover from catastrophic events.
Duke researchers are leading efforts to identify and mitigate harmful PFAS chemicals in NC drinking water.
Lee Ferguson tests water samples from around North Carolina to help a statewide initiative search for high levels of PFAS.
Stumped by high levels of PFAS contamination in Chapel Hill and Pittsboro drinking water, Lee Ferguson used new methods to find the source of the pollution upstream.
Lee Ferguson's lab works to detect PFAS precursors coming from a local textile manufacturing plant.
Lee Ferguson comments on findings that water treatment facilities capable of removing "forever chemicals" also have other, unintended benefits.
Lee Ferguson suggests that white clothing may help people worried about chemical exposures because they do not contain dyes.
Andrew Jones talks about his research on biofilms and the connections it has with math, biology, medicine, and everyday life.
CEE Professor Andrew Jones joins an interdisciplinary team of Duke researchers working in western NC to understand what kinds of fungus might enter our homes and community buildings after climate disasters.
Mike Bergin says, “I think it would be almost impossible to not make some sort of indoor pollution with any type of candle.”
Claudia Gunsch provides her expertise on balancing healthy microbiomes for the complicated case of your personal yoga mat
Mark Wiesner weighs in on if it's risky to use tea bags that shed microplastics, as not all of them do
