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Design Climate wrapped this semester with fantastic student presentations. Congratulations to all our students for their hard work. Managing seven teams meant that this year’s class time was chock full, so we decided to shift our traditional end-of-class “award” ceremony…

Design Climate rocked last night’s Innovation Showcase at Duke Energy week. Many congrats to all the students, faculty, and collaborators who made Energy Week this year a success!

“You don’t learn to walk by following the rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.” – Richard Branson. In business as in life, magic happens when action meets collaboration. When it comes to action…Successful business leaders know that luck…

Congratulations to Duke Design Climate alum company ReefCycle for winning a place in The New York Climate Exchange‘s inaugural Climate Tech Fellowship. Last year, our students collaborated with Laura E. Dalton, Ph.D., to investigate and scale ReefCycle’s unique approach to…

This week, Design Climate students toured the labs of co-designers A-Andrew Jones, Jason Somarelli, and Laura E. Dalton, Ph.D. All are making strides toward commercializing innovations, and our students loved learning about these efforts.

Our 2025-2026 projects—including geothermal energy, data center resilience, circular economy, plastics recycling, and more—will benefit from student talent drawn from Biomedical, Mechanical, Civil & Environmental, Duke University Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University Master of Engineering Management, Duke M. Eng…

Blending entrepreneurship, design thinking, and sustainability, Connexus is a mobile hub for recruiting trainees from underserved communities in North Carolina, to work in weatherization, solar installation, and other in-demand jobs.

From sustainable cooling for data centers to geothermal energy to microbes that eat plastics, we are excited about the slate of projects Design Climate students will tackle this year!