Duke University to Offer Free Online Energy and Environment Course

Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment will soon offer a free, team-taught online course on the oil and gas industry and electric power industry through Coursera.

Duke University Names New Dean of Nicholas School

Duke University has named Alan Townsend the new Dean Of the Nicholas School of the Environment.

Duke University Dedicates Two New Buildings

Duke University has dedicated two new buildings, the $40 million Duke Environment Hall,  a 70,000-square-foot building and a $23 million expansion the School of Nursing’s Christine Siegler Pearson Building.

$5 Million NIH Grant Awarded to Duke University

The National Science Foundation has awarded $5 million in grants to a Duke University-led study to explore how centuries of soil erosion from human land use is affecting Earth’s life-supporting outer skin.

Duke Oceanographers Receive Grant Funding

Oceanographers from Duke University, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the University of Miami have received $16 million in grants from the National Science Foundation for the deployment of a new observing system in the subpolar region of the North Atlantic.

Duke Signs Memorandum of Understanding with India’s Centre for Wildlife Studies

Duke University, acting through the Nicholas School of the Environment, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Centre for Wildlife Studies in Bangalore, India, to collaborate on research and educational programs.

Duke Confers LEAF Award

Alexander McCall Smith, bestselling author of the “No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency” series, will receive the 2013 Duke LEAF Award for Lifetime Environmental Achievement in the Fine Arts.

Duke's Nicholas School Professor Earns Top Science Paper Honors

A peer-reviewed study by Heather Stapleton, assistant professor of environmental chemistry at Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment, has been named the top Science Paper of 2011 by the journal Environmental Science & Technology. The study identifies the presence of banned or potentially harmful flame-retardant chemicals in baby products.

Duke Prof Appointed to National Advisory Environmental Health Sciences Council

Randall A. Kramer, professor of environmental economics and global health at Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment and deputy director of the Duke Global Health Institute, has been appointed by U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius to serve on the National Advisory Environmental Health Sciences Council. The council advises the secretary, the director of the National Institutes of Health and director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences on scientific program priorities related to environmental health research. Kramer will serve a three-year term.

Nicholas School Announces 2012 LEAF Award Recipient

Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment will present Oscar-nominated filmmaker John Sayles, a pioneer of the independent film movement of the 1970s, with the 2012 Duke LEAF Award for Lifetime Environmental Achievement in the Fine Arts during a ceremony on April 21 in Reynolds Theatre.

Duke Elects Academic Council Chair

Susan Lozier was elected as Duke University's first-ever Academic Council chair from the Nicholas School of the Environment.