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Design Climate Wraps Semester with Many Wins
Design Climate wrapped this semester with fantastic student presentations. Congratulations to all our students for their hard work. Managing seven…
Innovation Showcase at Duke Energy Week
Design Climate rocked last night’s Innovation Showcase at Duke Energy week. Many congrats to all the students, faculty, and collaborators…
Students to prototype building sensors, models, AI agents, apps, and more
“You don’t learn to walk by following the rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.” – Richard Branson. In…
Design Climate Alum Company Wins Climate Tech Fellowships
Congratulations to Duke Design Climate alum company ReefCycle for winning a place in The New York Climate Exchange‘s inaugural Climate…
Connecting Student and Faculty Entrepreneurs
This week, Design Climate students toured the labs of co-designers A-Andrew Jones, Jason Somarelli, and Laura E. Dalton, Ph.D. All…
Welcome 2025-2026 Project Teams
Our 2025-2026 projects—including geothermal energy, data center resilience, circular economy, plastics recycling, and more—will benefit from student talent drawn from…
Building a Workforce for In-Demand Green Jobs
Blending entrepreneurship, design thinking, and sustainability, Connexus is a mobile hub for recruiting trainees from underserved communities in North Carolina,…
It’s time for the big reveal…
From sustainable cooling for data centers to geothermal energy to microbes that eat plastics, we are excited about the slate…
