Media Hits

5/3/23 Civil Engineering Magazine

The State of Civil Engineering Education

Vinik Dean of Engineering Jerome P. Lynch joins a conversation about engineering education trends and the steps educators should take to prepare students who are ready to tackle today’s global challenges.

3/15/23 BBC News

US to Limit PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Drinking Water

Lee Ferguson says new EPA limits will likely have a wider impact on public drinking water quality as the thorough testing and treatment process required for PFAS will allow utilities to rid water of other contaminants besides PFAS.

12/5/22 NSF The Discovery Files

Exploring The Microbiome

CEE Professor Claudia Gunsch and Dean Jerome Lynch join NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan and others on a podcast about the new Duke Research Center for Precision Microbiome Engineering, which will be creating microbiome technologies that address challenges at the interface of human health and the built environment.

6/8/22 SustainabilityNext

A New Paradigm for the Water and Sanitation Crisis

Clean-tech has enormous potential to shift the waste management paradigm from treatment and disposal to resource recovery and pollutant elimination, writes Duke Engineering's Marc Deshusses.

6/2/22 Communicating with FINESSE

Translational Engineering: Academics and Careers

The civil engineer who is part of efforts to integrate ethics training into Duke's engineering curriculum writes that entrepreneurial engineering introduces the student to the marketplace. It makes the engineering student think outside of the typical physics comfort zone. Whether the engineering student realizes it, the marketplace is an important context, since engineers often do all the hard work and provide the intellectual firepower for a design.

3/22/22 PBS North Carolina

Why flush toilets are wasteful | Sci NC

Modern flush toilets waste a gallon and a half of treated, potable water every time you flush. The Duke Center for WaSH-AID is working on ways to get rid of waste more efficiently.