An insurance salesman, an engineer and a priest walk into a classroom. Learn more about why this isn’t the start of a bad joke, but exactly the type of unlikely alliance that we need in the face of climate change.  

Follow the journey of a group of engineering students as they spend their summer constructing a bridge and improving lives in a small Bolivian town. 

Meet Rachael Lau (Duke CEE BSE ’20, MEng ’22, PhD ’24), a Duke Fulbright Alum who secured a grant from the federal government to build upon her earthquake work done in Nepal. 

No matter how clean our technologies become, people must be persuaded to use them to make a difference. Check out the different approaches that experts are taking to make this happen. 

Learn more about a new research project by Lisa Satterwhite on how climate change disproportionately affects rural areas of North Carolina through exposure to harmful algal blooms. 

To become more resilient to the risk of floods, small towns in North Carolina need better data. See how a group of undergraduate students worked to narrow the gap. 

Get a glimpse into professor Laura Dalton's lab and find out how and why she’s studying ways to make cement more environmentally friendly. 

Learn how PhD student Shannon Plunkett's fieldwork in South America uncovered details about how artisanal gold mining causes mercury toxicity. 

Duke Engineers have garnered a lot of attention in the last few months. Find out which faculty and students were recognized this fall for their outstanding achievements and contributions.

Join Dean Jerry Lynch, Professor Judy Ledlee and Professor Jesko von Windheim as they discuss how to educate engineers on designing climate change solutions that go beyond profit to also support people and the planet. 

Earlier this semester, students from the "Applied Climate and Sustainability Engineering" and "Material Design in a Circular Economy" courses visited Faircloth Farms in Clinton, NC. Check out the trip’s highlights as the students learned about what goes into sustainable farming. 

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“It’s important to have perspective when it comes to realizing that the designs that we submit are not just lines on a paper, but actual work and sweat hours that people must put in.”

—LILY JAROSZ,
CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING JUNIOR

on her bridge-building experience in Bolivia

Background image for "On Camera": Julie Anne Greenberg, System IX Isaias: Give us a little time, and we'll get it all put back together (2022), from the Duke Engineering art collection.

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