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 […]
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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 […]
More than 100 Duke alumni and friends gathered at San Francisco’s Exploratorium on Tuesday, Dec. 3, to hear how Nicholas School faculty and students are developing a robust technology commercialization platform for scalable products and services that will benefit the planet, help people live better lives, and create economic value. […]
Bridgestone Americas today announced an investment in tire sensor and data management company Tyrata, Inc. Using an automated and cost-effective drive-over solution that measures tire tread, Tyrata collects tire wear data and provides actionable, cloud-based analytics that accelerate Bridgestone’s efforts to improve fleet safety, efficiency and sustainability. “With Tyrata’s unique technology, […]
The latest progress report for our Environmental Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program shows the gains that we’ve made in the past year, such as providing summer grants for students studying sustainability solutions and renewable energy, participating in research to develop a commercial path for a cottonseed that does not contain the […]