On November 2nd, Dean Vincent and the Nicholas School Board of Visitors welcomed five new members to the Board at the bi-annual BOV meeting in Beaufort at the Duke University Marine Lab. Among the new members are Dr. Beth Stevens (T’81) — Disney’s former Senior Vice President for Corporate Citizenship, Environment & Conservation, Jud […]
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This year marks the Nicholas School’s first year participating in Giving Tuesday, the annual international day dedicated to charitable giving. Giving Tuesday –often stylized as #GivingTuesday for the purposes of hashtag activism — takes place on the first Tuesday following Thanksgiving each year. The international movement started in 2012 as […]
Senior Carmen Hoyt was recently featured in an episode of Xploration Awesome Planet alongside Emmy-nominated host Philippe Cousteau. The Earth and Ocean Sciences major traveled to Cancun, Mexico, in June to swim with whale sharks after winning the show’s first #StudentExplorer contest. “Carmen is an incredible champion for conservation and the environment,” […]
Dean Vincent presented the Nicholas School’s new strategic plan last week, which is the product of more than two years of work by the school’s faculty and staff. The title of the plan, Working Together to Advance Environmental Education and Research, is both an intentional nod toward Duke’s new academic […]
Q&A with Duke undergrad Anne Harshbarger We recently caught up with Anne Harshbarger T’19, a Duke junior who is double-majoring in environmental sciences and biology, with a concentration in marine science and conservation. Harshbarger spent two semesters at the Duke University Marine Laboratory (DUML), where she worked in the Marine […]
Each member of the Nicholas School faculty brings a unique element to their role that has a lasting impact on those around them. In the case of Nicolette Cagle, PhD, her powerful impact is being felt around the community by her students, local children, and even local wildlife. On the […]
Celeste Whitman is a second-year student in the Nicholas School’s Master of Environmental Management program who has made an effort to focus both her coursework and her extracurricular activities on environmental water resource management in underrepresented, minority and indigenous communities. Thanks to the Kuzmier-Lee-Nikitine Internship Fund, David R. Brower Fund, […]
On August 21st, over 200 new on-campus Master of Environmental Management (MEM) and Master of Forestry (MF) students eagerly arrived at Duke’s Environment Hall to begin their two-year journey of enrichment in environmental science, practice, and policy. The new arrivals – who make up the largest incoming class to date […]
The university’s Duke Forward comprehensive fundraising campaign officially ended on June 30, 2017. The Nicholas School raised more than $114.9 million over the seven years of the campaign — more than doubling the original goal of $55 million and showing university colleagues that the strength and generosity of the Nicholas […]
Duke University has received $11 million for the construction and operation of a new state-of-the-art ship that will expand teaching and research capabilities at its marine lab. The gift to the Nicholas School of the Environment comes from the Grainger Family Descendants Fund, a donor-advised fund at The Chicago Community […]
On May 13, 166 master’s students in our environmental management, forestry, science and Duke Environmental Leadership programs, along with 40 doctoral students and 55 undergrads with environmental majors, graduated from the Nicholas School and received their diplomas. At the MEM/PhD ceremony, led by Dean Jeff Vincent, graduates, friends and family […]
If you didn’t use that opportunity to give to the Nicholas School Annual Fund, don’t worry: There’s still time! Annual Fund contributions are absolutely essential to meet the school’s financial aid needs, and play an integral role in providing field trips, internships and other experiential learning opportunities for our students. […]