One of the Nicholas School’s greatest strengths is the willingness of our alumni to assist current students. A great way to get involved is through the school’s Alumni-in-Residence Program, which brings Nicholas and Duke graduates back to campus for 2-3 days to share their expertise and advice with students in […]
Yearly Archives: 2017
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A team of faculty and students from Duke’s Nicholas School of the Environment and Pratt School of Engineering is one of 21 international research teams selected to compete in the 2017 Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE, co-sponsored by Royal Dutch Shell and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). It’s a race […]
Submit your photo for the spring contest April 17-28 Want a chance to win an iPad or a $100 gift certificate to Amazon.com? All members of the Nicholas School community, including donors, are invited to participate in the I am Duke Environment Spring 2017 Photo Contest and share how YOU are representing […]
From Durham to D.C. to San Francisco, the Nicholas School community has come together to celebrate the school’s 25th anniversary. The year-long celebration kicked off in April 2016 with a celebration of the Stanback Internship Program, which has been a pivotal part of the Nicholas School’s efforts to prepare our […]
Each year, we invite the amazing candidates we have accepted into our Master of Environmental Management program to come to campus to learn more about our academic program and help them make their decision on which graduate school to attend. This past weekend, over 160 admitted students joined us at […]
The seven-year, university-wide Duke Forward campaign ends on June 30th and – thanks to donors like you – the Nicholas School is closing in on our $100 million campaign goal. Recently, we kicked off a $25 million financial aid initiative Forging Future Leaders Together that will extend beyond the campaign’s end, and many […]
We dare you not to be moved by the winning photos from the Fall 2016 I Am Duke Environment Photo Contest! The five winning shots, including Looking Forward by grand prize winner Kendra E Kaiser, PhD’17, really capture the scope of the Nicholas community’s daily interactions with the environment and […]
It has been seven months since Andy Read took over as director of the Duke University Marine Lab. We asked him to share some of the exciting new things happening at our coastal campus that our donors might be interested to hear about. ~~~~ Over the last two decades, the […]
As we first shared in our October newsletter, Jeffrey Vincent, the Clarence F. Korstian Professor of Forest Economics and Management and a member of the Nicholas School faculty since 2007, stepped up to the plate as interim dean after Alan Townsend took a leave of absence for personal reasons in […]
The Nicholas School is offering a new concentration in Business & Environment (BE) within the MEM program to meet the growing private-sector demand for managers, consultants and analysts who can develop and implement business practices that benefit the environment, society and shareholder value alike. Jay S. Golden, associate professor of the […]