Do you have an idea for a startup, or have you identified an urgent problem you want to solve? Are you looking to connect and partner with other students across Duke? Present your idea, find teams, and explore many of the entrepreneurship programs at Duke.
Present your Startup Idea or Problem Area of Interest to match with teammates. Students can also just attend and join...
Student group Duke Climate Coalition is striking to demand a Green New Deal. They will meet at Durham Central Park at 12:30 p.m. from there, participants will march downtown. There will be speakers outlining what a Green New Deal future could look like. Duke Climate Coalition is fighting for a Green New Deal because they want to stop climate change and...
Achieving universal access to reliable electricity is crucial to improving broader development outcomes. The absence of consistent, reliable, and up-to-date data on energy services and outcomes prevents timely and effective decision-making on critical matters of policy and investment. Data analytics and machine learning offer great promise in data-poor environments for identifying existing...
The End of Semester Enviro-Blow out is designed to engage the environmental community at Duke — students, faculty, and staff — by providing an opportunity for everyone to network and socialize in an eco-focused space prior to final exams. It will feature tabling by environmental and cultural groups and departments, arts and crafts, pancake art, henna, a photobooth, a Sustainable Duke thrift...
In 2016, the miraculous film Grüsse aus Fukushima was released in Germany and appeared at various international film festivals. It expresses the essence of anxiety and hope seen in ordinary people’s everyday lives around Fukushima Nuclear Plant no. 1 through the dramatic story of conflict and sympathy between an old Geisha woman and a young German girl. They will analyze how they reflect...
Interested in the Home Depot SmartHome at Duke University? Sign up to take a tour! Tours will start in front of the Smart Home (1402 Faber Street), where street parking is available. They are held rain or shine! On the tour, we can show you what the future of residential technology looks like. Everything from energy, with solar thermal water heating, solar photovoltaics, and variable frequency...
New for the 2019–20 academic year, the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions is offering Policy Boot Camps to share their team's experience directly engaging with decision makers. For the fall semester, Duke University students will have the opportunity to learn more about environmental policy making institutions—what they are, how they work, and how to engage them....
GLEAN will be hosting its second Talk Series this Friday. They have invited Victoria Plutshack as their speaker. Victoria is a University of Chicago and University of Cambridge alum. She is currently a Policy Associate at the Energy Access Project at Duke University's Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions.
...Satellite data have been used successfully for over a decade for tropospheric composition research as well as health and air quality applied research. The utility of future observations will grow because of advances in sensor technology, implementation of new orbit strategies, and continued retrieval algorithm development.
In this presentation, Dr. Bryan Duncan, Atmospheric...
The Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum is pleased to invite you to their annual symposium, Climate Policy in Practice, on Friday, November 22 from 9am -2:30pm.
They will discuss the political, legal and equitable considerations for shaping climate policy. Conversation will center on efforts to combat climate change at the local, state and federal level, as well as...