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How it Works: Mass Spectrometer

Learn how Lee Ferguson and other researchers across North Carolina are using a technology called mass spectrometry to protect our drinking water
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Pratt Trailblazers: Heileen Hsu-Kim

Heileen Hsu-Kim is a leading figure in the study of how environmental contaminants move across the landscape and impact human health
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| The Nicholas Institute

Risky Business: Climate Threats Bring Change to Insurance and Finance Sectors

Duke symposium launches public-private research effort on managing climate risks
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| The Chronicle

Pratt School Holds Town Hall on Plans for $700 Million NY Climate Exchange
Architectural rendering from the air south east of Governors Island, showing the proposed Climate Exchange in the foreground and the lower Manhattan skyline in the distance.

| Duke Today

Virtual Town Hall to Introduce Climate Exchange
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| Duke Engineering

Engineering in the Global Community: Paving the Way for Change
Pratt Replay 2023

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2023 Wrapped

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CEE Seminar -Fate of nanoplastics in biofilms

- Fitzpatrick Center Schiciano Auditorium Side A, room 1464

Presenter: Dr. Caitlyn Butler, Associate Professor, Graduate Program Director & Associate, Department Head Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst

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Media Coverage

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The Conversation |

Climate Engineering Carries Serious National Security Risks and the World Needs to Be Prepared

Tyler Felgenhauer joins Indiana University colleague Ben Kravitz in penning an article on the potential promise and perils of climate engineering projects

Coastal Review |

NC Scientists Receive Tools for Tracking New Compounds

Lee Ferguson says investments by the North Carolina General Assembly puts NC researchers in an improved spot to better their statewide PFAS investigations.

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