Alumni Features

In a guest column, Nicholas School alumna Michaela Stith T'18 shares her insights about the corrosive confluence of environmental, social and economic injustices faced by Indigenous, Black and dark-skinned residents of the Arctic region.

Joel Dunn (MEM’04) Helps Create America’s First National Marine Sanctuary in 20 Years

Shannon Switzer Swanson MEM'15 hosts the documentary, “The Last Drop.”

Sandra Postel MEM'80, founding director of the Global Water Policy Project, has been named the 2021 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate. The Stockholm Prize is among the highest honors awarded in the fields of water science and policy.

Guillermo Ortuño Crespo, a 2020 doctoral graduate of the Nicholas School of the Environment, has been selected to serve as one of four co-leads for the United Nations’ new Early Career Ocean Professional (ECOP) initiative.

From an environmental point of view, the most magical new attraction at the Magic Kingdom this year isn’t a ride or show. It’s a McDonald’s – the first of its kind anywhere – that generates all its own energy from renewable sources.

Five alumni of the Duke Environmental Leadership Master of Environmental Management (DEL-MEM) share how their experience in the program is allowing them to have an impact.

Sara Mroz DEL-MEM ’09, a technical assistant with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, was deployed to Puerto Rico in the fall to assist the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) with hurricane response efforts in the wake of Hurricanes Irma and Maria.