July 09, 2012
Doing laundry with rainwater while conducting research in the backyard green house.
Checking up on the growth of the green roof as well as how much rainwater has collected in the six 400 gallon tanks in the basement.
Observing wattage used by each room’s controlled lighting, while the hum of a self...
February 03, 2012
Watch Greer compete Thursday, Feb. 8, at 7. p.m. on the ABC network's Durham's affiliate WTVD-TV. Watch a sneak preview.---
November 03, 2011
Durham, NC - Without Duke's new scholarship program for international students, Laxmi Rajak says, "I would probably have been washing clothes at other people's houses like my mother does because she could never have afforded my further education."Rajak, a first-year student from Nepal, calls her...
March 29, 2011
The Rev. Paul Gerritson, pastor of the Mount Moriah Baptist Church, faced a troubling dilemma. The church has been located on the same plot of rural Orange County land for more 100 years. Since then, more than 400 church members had been buried in the cemetery behind the church.
May 04, 2010
I was about to finish my sophomore year in Pratt and I still wasn’t sure whether I wanted to go down the structural or environmental route in civil engineering. So, of course, I made the same decision anyone else in my position would: to study abroad in Australia! However, because the Australian...
February 23, 2010
Two years ago, a group of Duke University engineering undergrads traveled to Uganda to address some of the most pressing needs of a small community. Among other projects, they planned to help villagers connect to the outside world through the Internet and to improve the ability of local coffee...
