Research News

March 12, 2019 | Duke Engineering

Breaking Down Plastic Degradation

Duke CEE PhD Candidate Joana Sipe wants to know exactly how many microplastic particles your water bottle will contribute to our global pollution problem

February 08, 2019 | Duke Engineering

Barros, Tarokh Elected Members of the National Academy of Engineering

Duke Engineering faculty recognized for contributions to water-cycle modeling and wireless communications

November 14, 2018 | Duke Engineering

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 | Duke Engineering

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

Tomasz Hueckel examines a model of evolution of capillary water between the soil grains during evaporation, which is a critical element of studies of desiccation of isolation barriers

October 17, 2018 | Duke Engineering

Safeguarding Storage for Nuclear Waste

New international research project aims to keep nuclear waste isolated, 10,000 years into the future

August 28, 2018 | Duke Engineering

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 | Duke Engineering

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 | Duke Engineering

Risky Business

Mark Borsuk brings expertise in assessing and mitigating risk to Duke Engineering and the university at large

May 18, 2018 | Duke Engineering

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 | Duke Engineering

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