Interview by Cakey Worthington MEM’16, MF’16 Anne (Liberti) Payeur MF’16 and Hunterr Payeur MF’16 met as students in Duke University’s Master of Forestry program at the Nicholas School of the Environment. More than a decade later, both have built careers rooted in forestry, conservation, and land stewardship—while also building a […]
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Lori Bennear, Stanback Dean of the Nicholas School of the Environment, and Jerry Lynch, Vinik Dean of the Pratt School of Engineering, kicked off an event in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, Feb. 26, to celebrate Duke’s distinctive cross-disciplinary collaboration on critical minerals. During the event, co-sponsored by the environment and […]
Interview by Tommy Caggiano MEM/MF’15 Tell me about yourself and how your interest in forestry and conservation began. It started with time outdoors growing up in the Adirondacks in upstate New York, a place that’s both a working forest landscape and a protected region. I saw firsthand how land management […]
Interview by Lisa Watts MEM’04 Kirsten Moy BS’11, grew up in Chapel Hill, N.C., surrounded by science and the sea. Her father studied marine science at Duke, and her mother ran an autism research lab at UNC, giving Kirsten both campuses as her childhood playground. She followed her passion to […]
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 […]
For Sally Kleberg, Nicholas School Board member emeritus and long-time donor, caring for the land is a birthright, woven through generations of her South Texas family. Part of the fifth generation of the family that founded King Ranch, a 170-year-old family-owned ranch in Texas, Sally was taught early that survival […]
Interview by Julie Furr Youngman, T’87, SOE’94, JD’94 Dr. Chad Nelsen is the CEO of Surfrider Foundation, a national nonprofit dedicated to the protection and enjoyment of the world’s oceans. He grew up on the coast of California, surfing, swimming, fishing, and, for his first job, lifeguarding at Laguna Beach. […]
Interview by Julie Furr Youngman, T’87, SOE’94, JD’94 Michael Pentony, MEM’96, 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 […]
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., DEL-MEM’11 and 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 […]
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, […]