Interview by Julie Furr Youngman, T’87, SOE’94, JD’94 Mike has devoted his career to serving the public in myriad ways. After majoring in electrical engineering at Duke, he served as an Air Force officer for six years. He returned to Duke to earn an MEM at the Nicholas School, worked […]
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The Karen Kirchof Internship Fund has helped many Nicholas School students gain summer internships to prepare them for careers in the environmental field. Kirchof, who passed away in 2019, influenced the careers of thousands of Nicholas School students during her 27 years as assistant dean and director of the school’s […]
This year the Nicholas School welcomed 15 new Nicholas Scholars with expertise ranging from power systems sustainability to ecotoxicology to community-based food production. Meet the new scholars below! Thank you for your support of these talented, driven students, who may not have otherwise had the opportunity to pursue their career […]
Interview by Wendy Katua, MEM Candidate, Class of 2027 Dr. Henry C. McKoy, Jr., President and CEO of Carolina Community Impact (CCI), has built a trailblazing career at the intersection of energy, economic development, and inclusive finance. A nationally recognized leader and former Presidential appointee under the Biden Administration, Dr. […]
We recently had a conversation with Kira Jacobs MEM’97, who was President of the Nicholas School’s Alumni Council for the past two years. She is now on the school’s Board of Visitors. Kira has worked as a water quality scientist with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency since 1997. In September, […]
We are delighted to share our 2024-25 Annual Fund Impact Report. We hope it conveys the tremendous impact that donor support has had on the Nicholas School of the Environment and Duke Marine Lab over the past year. Thanks to your generosity and commitment, the Nicholas School community continues to: […]
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 […]
I realized I owed everything I had achieved in my professional career to Duke University and the education I received as a student there, and the continued education and professional opportunities it made available to me after I graduated. Tom Mowbray A love of the outdoors leads to study of […]
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 […]
Lucas Joppa PhD’09, who didn’t get to attend his own graduation, said it was his “first time in robes” when he delivered the commencement address at the Nicholas School’s professional graduation ceremony on Friday, May 9. Joppa, a Nicholas School Board of Visitors member, is currently senior managing director and […]