The Duke Campus Farm 2026 CSA is open! Sign up today for a box of weekly or bi-weekly vegetables from the Farm, grown and packed by students. (Photo/Duke Campus Farm)
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Climate Pathfinder: Champion for Athletics and Sustainability
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Alumna Imani Dorsey Kunzweiler has made a difference on the field at Duke and around the country as a professional soccer player. Now she has stepped onto two new teams: Duke Athletics and the Duke Office of Climate and Sustainability. Dorsey Kunzweiler is the new Climate and Sustainability Coordinator for both units, but she’s not new to Duke. A 2018 graduate, she was a star attacking midfielder (2017 ACC Offensive Player of the Year, All-ACC Academic Team) on the Duke women’s soccer team while majoring in environmental science and policy in the Nicholas School of the Environment.
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Oceans Week at Duke is an annual university-wide celebration hosted by Oceans@Duke, connecting research, policy, business, innovation, and community to inspire collaborative action for a thriving ocean future.
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Oncology nurses and climate: AnnMarie Walton of the Duke School of Nursing has work highlighted in the magazine of the Oncology Nursing Society around climate change and how oncology nurses are responding to it. READ MORE.
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Nearly 170 researchers, policymakers, and community leaders gathered at Duke recently to confront one of the nation’s most overlooked climate and equity challenges: food waste. The Duke World Food Policy Center led the Rethinking Food Waste – Duke Climate Collaboration Symposium. It spotlighted the staggering scale of the problem and the increasing momentum to fix it. (Photo courtesy of World Food Policy Center.)
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Data Center Flexibility and Generation Capacity for the Future: Even modest measures to curb data centers’ energy use during peak hours could substantially reduce the amount of new generation capacity needed to meet growing U.S. electricity demands over the next decade. That’s among the key findings of a report on the potential economic benefits of data center load flexibility, released by the Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability. READ MORE.
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Exploring Climate and Health in Nepal |
The effects of climate change are pronounced in Nepal, a country of diverse people and landscapes. Duke students gained perspective on the inextricable ties between climate, health and society with faculty organizer Brian McAdoo during a three-week exploration. (Video from Nicholas School of the Environment)
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New Strategy for Water Security |
The new Aspen National Water Strategy, published by the Aspen Institute’s Energy & Environment Program, provides a comprehensive roadmap to strengthen water security across the United States and ensure that communities, economies, and ecosystems can thrive amid growing water-related challenges. The effort is co-chaired by Martin Doyle of Duke University and Newsha Ajami of the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.
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Sustainability Certifications and Farmers |
New research by Can Zhang, Fuqua associate professor of operations management, finds that well-intentioned changes to sustainability certifications may hurt the farmers they’re meant to protect.
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Iridium Oxide and the Future of Clean Energy |
Iridium oxide is one of the most important — and most problematic — materials in the global push toward clean energy. A new federally funded study by researchers at Duke University and the University of Pennsylvania offers an unprecedented view of the iridium degradation process. The findings provide critical insight into why today’s best catalysts still fail and how future materials might last longer.
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Made for This: Blue Chair Conversation with Bill Pan |
What if we told you impossible… isn’t? Discover how Duke faculty, alumni, physicians and more turn challenges into breakthroughs every day. Bill Pan is made for resilience. As a research scientist, he has to be. When his funding was drastically cut, he looked to his parents’ lives as an example of how to persevere.
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