Written by David Leathers, Director of Climate & Extreme Weather, Health Action Alliance Editor’s note: This article is adapted from a version first published by Training Industry for learning and development leaders in April 2026. Last chance to register! Join our June 18 webinar to learn how your organization can […]
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Written by Victoria Salinas, climate leader in residence at Duke University, and Akash Aithal, market research professional at Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment Editor’s note: This article is adapted from a version first published by Training Industry for learning and development leaders in April 2026. Extreme weather is […]
Written by David Leathers, Director of Climate & Extreme Weather, Health Action Alliance, and Steven Levine, Co-Founder and CEO, Health Action Alliance Editor’s note: This article is adapted from a version first published by Training Industry for learning and development leaders in March 2026. Over the past decade, the U.S. […]
Written by Victoria Salinas, Climate Leader in Residence at Duke University, and David Leathers, Director of Climate and Extreme Weather at the Health Action Alliance Editor’s note: This article is adapted from a version first published by Training Industry for learning and development leaders in February 2026. As summer begins, […]
Salinas began a yearlong term as Duke University’s fourth Climate Leader in Residence (CLIR) in June 2025. She is based at the Nicholas School of the Environment and the Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability. Salinas most recently served as Deputy Administrator for Resilience at the Federal Emergency Management […]
Thanks to the generosity of our donors, the Business & Environment (B&E) program at the Nicholas School is expanding opportunities for faculty and students to translate environmental science into real-world impact. A recent example is the Mobile MRV Lab, a real-time, field-deployable system developed in the lab of Dr. Nicolas […]
The Nicholas School and the Fuqua School of Business at Duke just announced their new Master in Business, Climate, and Sustainability, a joint degree that prepares students to navigate complex systems, translate insight into strategy, and lead across industries. Unlike sustainability-focused degrees or general business management programs, this 10-month program […]
Debuting in Spring 2025, Shannon Parker’s new Sustainable Operations and Supply Chain course offered Master of Environmental Management (MEM) students the opportunity to tackle real sustainability challenges on Duke’s campus. The course bridged classroom theory to real-world decision-making. Parker returned to the Nicholas School of the Environment in August 2024 as […]
Belton Copp MEM’16 is applying the knowledge he gained during his Water Resource Management studies at the Nicholas School to transform wastewater into clean and useable products. While at Duke, Copp led a team of master’s and doctoral students in the creation of a business plan for “Model Earth,” which […]
QATCH Technologies was founded on a technology developed at Duke by Dr. Stefan Zauscher, Sternberg Family Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, and Dr. Zehra Parlak, a postdoctoral researcher at Zauscher’s Lab. The team had been working on a pre-screening tool for biopharmaceutical drug discovery that could determine whether […]
Growing up, Dalia Patiño-Echeverri spent four months each year on a remote family farm in the mountains outside Bogotá, Colombia, where she spent halcyon days riding horseback amid dairy cattle and fruit trees. But she also understood the rigors of her rural setting, which had no electricity for many years. […]
Within 18 months of graduating from the Nicholas School of the Environment, Sid Sharma MEM’14 was running his own business. Working with two childhood friends in Baltimore, he launched Mobtown Fermentation, which brewed Wild Kombucha, a carbonated drink made from fermented green tea. As demand for their product grew, the […]