nicholas school news

May 14, 2008 - Krithi Karanth Receives First Dean’s Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Paper
May 6, 2008 - Paper By Brad Murray Selected As One Of Top 20 Most Cited Articles From 2003-2007
April 29, 2008 - Policy And Geography Shape Tropical Parks’ Success In Stemming Deforestation, New Paper Finds
April 28, 2008 - Nine Nicholas School Students Receive Funding For International Research Travel
April 24, 2008 - Following Dan Rittschof in Search of Snails
April 22, 2008 - Comic Relief: Nationally Syndicated Cartoonist Jim Toomey (Del-Mem ’08) Promotes Shark Conservation
April 22, 2008 - New Book By Nicholas School’s Curt Richardson Synthesizes 14 Years Of Research In Florida’s Everglades
April 14, 2008 - Nicholas School Appoints Associate Dean for International Programs
April 10, 2008 - Ocean Conservationist Wallace J. Nichols to Speak at Duke on April 22
April 8, 2008 - 2008 Oosting Memorial Lecture and Student Symposium
March 31, 2008 - David Orr, Trailblazing Expert on Environmental Literary and Design, to Speak at 2008 Nicholas School Recognition Ceremony
March 26, 2008 - Take Part in EarthHour 2008
March 24, 2008 - Seven Nicholas School Students Named 2008-09 Doris Duke Conservation Fellows
March 20, 2008 - Environmental Leadership Awards Presented to Three Current or Recent PhD Students at Duke Marine Lab
March 20, 2008 - Gift to Create New Molecular Biology Chair at Duke Marine Lab
March 14, 2008 - Duke to Offer New Undergraduate Certificate Program in Energy and the Environment
March 13, 2008 - News Tip: EPA Ozone Standards Should Be Based on Science, Not Economics, Duke Expert Says
March 12, 2008 - Prioritization Workshops: Protecting Noncommercial Plant Resource from Introduced Pests
March 7, 2008 - Duke Marine Lab Offers Innovative Summer Courses in Marine Conservation
March 1, 2008 - Duke Board of Trustees Approves New Ph.D. Program in Marine Science and Conservation
February 27, 2008 - Why Juniper Trees Can Live On Less Water
February 20, 2008 - Students Receive Awards for Outstanding Papers at 2007 AGU Meeting
February 18, 2008 - Stanback’s Gift Supports the Investigation of a Link Between Cancer and Environment
February 6, 2008 - Nicholas School Faculty Take Part in AAAS Meeting
February 5, 2008 - Nicholas School’s Rob Jackson Named Fellow of American Geophysical Union
January 30, 2008 - Nicholas School Students Establish Duke Chapter of the Association for Fire Ecology
January 29, 2008 - Applying Lessons from Evolution to Security
January 29, 2008 - Duke Deans To Discuss 'What Would You Do With $100 Million?"
January 28, 2008 - Irreconcilable Differences: Fine-Root Life Spans and Soil Carbon Persistence
January 28, 2008 - Earth's Soils Bear Unmistakable Footprints of Humans
January 23, 2008 - Energy Policy Risk Analysis Expert Dalia Patino-Echverri Joins Nicholas School Faculty
January 22, 2008 - Dean Chameides Takes Leadership Role In Campus Sustainability
January 16, 2008 - Nicholas School Names New Associate Dean for External Affairs
January 9, 2008 - More than 400 Turn Out for Town Hall Meeting on Drought
January 4, 2008 - New Annual Award Created to Recognize the Outstanding Graduate Student Manuscript
January 4, 2008 - Global Soil Change Motivates Workshop on Earth’s Critical Zone
January 4, 2008 - North Atlantic Warming Tied to Natural Variability
January 3, 2008 - Duke To Host Public Town Hall Meeting On Drought, Water Conservation On Jan. 8
November 30, 2007 - DukeEngage Grants to Seed New Student Programs
November 30, 2007 - Duke Creates New Post to Coordinate Student Environmental Initiatives
November 15, 2007 - Flying Blind: Fewer Satellites Monitor Environmental Hotspots, Duke Researchers Find
November 8, 2007 - Duke to Establish New Center for Engineering, Energy and the Environment
October 30, 2007 - Deborah Rigling Gallagher Appointed Associate Faculty Director Of Duke Corporate Sustainability Initiative
October 26, 2007 - Urban Nature Writer Jenny Price To Speak At Duke On Nov. 12
October 25, 2007 - Bruce Corliss and Larry Crowder Named AAAS Fellows
October 24, 2007 - Everglades Phosphorus Limits on Right Track, But More is Needed
October 17, 2007 - Study Sheds Light on Small Fisheries’ Impacts on Turtle Declines
October 17, 2007 - Isotopic Studies Identify Sources of Contamination in Middle Eastern Groundwater
October 17, 2007 - Cindy Van Dover Featured in The New York Times
October 17, 2007 - Symposium on Forestry and Conservation to be Held Nov. 9
October 12, 2007 - Duke Marine Lab’s “Green Wave” Joins In Big Sweep
October 11, 2007 - Duke Forest Annual Gathering to be Held Oct. 18
October 9, 2007 - President Brodhead Visits Nicholas School
October 1, 2007 - Duke Environmental Leadership Program To Host Oct. 23 Forum On Durham’s Commitment To Sustainability
September 28, 2007 - Duke Achieves 25.6 Percent Annual Return on University Investments
September 28, 2007 - Study Identifies New Wintering Grounds for Humpback Whales in Hawaiian Islands
September 27, 2007 - Duke University Launches New Corporate Sustainability Initiative
September 26, 2007 - Study Examines Use Of Human Resettlement As Conservation Tool In Indian Tiger Reserve
September 24, 2007 - Founders' Day Convocation Sept. 27 in Duke Chapel
September 20, 2007 - 76 Students Take Part in First Annual Nicholas School Volunteer Day
September 20, 2007 - Paper by Nicholas School PhD Candidate Examines Dams’ Impacts on California Salmon
September 12, 2007 - FACE Experiment Receives Two-Year, $1.56 Million Renewal of Research Funds from U.S. Department of Energy
August 29, 2007 - Duke Launches Environmental Law and Policy Clinic
August 23, 2007 - MEM Student Nick Magliocca Named Recipient of First $10,000 Dorothy Bertine Internship
August 17, 2007 - New Climate Change Film Features Stuart Pimm, Three Others with Nicholas School Ties
August 7, 2007 - Experiment Suggests Limitations to Carbon Dioxide 'Tree Banking'
July 25, 2007 - Pratson Helps Teach Weeklong Short Course on Renewable Energy and Sustainable Urban Development
June 28, 2007 - Nicholas School to Have Major Presence at 2007 Ecological Society Meeting
June 21, 2007 - Six Nicholas School Students Named 2007-08 Doris Duke Conservation Fellows
June 20, 2007 - Duke Names William Chameides New Dean of the Nicholas School
June 19, 2007 - Ram Oren Named Chair of Environmental Sciences and Policy Division
June 1, 2007 - Bush’s Call For Global Greenhouse Emissions Goals Is Sign Of Growing Consensus That “U.S. Must Take A Leadership Role”
May 31, 2007 - Green is Beautiful, a video on the Marine Lab's newest building
May 24, 2007 - Division Of Coastal Systems Science And Policy Receives New Name
May 24, 2007 - Nicholas School Team Receives EPA Grant to Examine Potential Environmental Impacts of Estrogen in Hog Waste
May 15, 2007 - EPA Funds New Center at Duke to Study Inequalities in Birth Weight and Prematurity
May 14, 2007 - Duke University Names Emily Klein Interim Dean Of Nicholas School
May 10, 2007 - Drylands Are Not the Same as Badlands
May 9, 2007 - ConocoPhillips Pledges $1 Million to Climate Change Policy Partnership at Duke
May 3, 2007 - Duke University Names New Nicholas Professor Of Global Environmental Change
May 3, 2007 - James Salzman Receives Distinguished Chair From Duke School Of Law
May 2, 2007 - Signs of Health Returning to Restored 'SWAMP' in Duke Forest
April 26, 2007 - Duke to Dedicate Research and Teaching 'Swamp' on May 2
April 25, 2007 - Susan Lozier Receives Universitywide Award for Excellence in Mentoring
April 20, 2007 - Nicholas Graduate Eric Treml Receives World Wildlife Fund’s Fuller Fellowship
April 17, 2007 - New Undersea Vent Suggests Snake-Headed Mythology
April 2, 2007 - Supreme Court Ruling Opens Door for Global Warming Solutions
April 2, 2007 - Duke to Hold Earth Day Festivities on April 20
March 23, 2007 - Two Nicholas School Students Receive Awards for Outstanding Papers at 2006 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting
March 21, 2007 - Duke Team to Blog from Bottom of Pacific
March 20, 2007 - Environmental Journalist Mark London to Speak at Duke
March 15, 2007 - "Not So Big" Advocate Sarah Susanka To Speak at 2007 Nicholas School Recognition Ceremony
March 14, 2007 - Duke Forestry Student Awarded Luce Scholarship
February 26, 2007 - Upcoming Conference on Future of Water in North Carolina
February 19, 2007 - $1 Million Pledged to Climate Change Policy Partnership
February 15, 2007 - Group Examines Durham County Lead Poisoning Hazards
February 14, 2007 - David Hyrenbach, PhD Awarded 2007 Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation for Mediterranean Marine Protection
February 5, 2007 - Award-Winning Economist Joins Nicholas School Faculty
February 2, 2007 - New report presents strongest evidence yet of human link to global warming, Duke expert says
January 25, 2007 Book Assails Unrealistic Mathematical Models
January 23, 2007 - Doubling Vehicle Fuel Efficiency Could Cut Carbon Dioxide Emissions by 10 Percent, Duke Scientists Say
January 19, 2007 - Climate-Change Legislation Gaining Momentum, Duke Expert Says
January 11, 2007 - Duke Ecologist Named Recipient of 2007 Proctor Prize from Sigma XI

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