The Role of Utilities in an Uncertain Future
Sponsor(s):
Pratt School of Engineering, Duke Climate Commitment, and Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment and Sustainability
Wednesday, October 08, 2025
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Jeff Hughes
Addressing Hypoxia as a Barrier to mRNA Lipid Nanoparticle Medicines: Mechanisms, Materials, and Therapies
Sponsor(s):
QBio
Friday, October 17, 2025
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Owen Fenton, PhD
Advances in dynamic and responsive materials for intestinal organoid culture
Thursday, January 15, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Kristi Anseth (Boulder)
CEE Seminar -Engineering Sustainable Approaches to Water Treatment and Critical Mineral Recovery
Sponsor(s):
Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)
Tuesday, January 20, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Dr. Anushka Mishrra, Postdoctoral Associate, Duke University
CEE Seminar - Advances in environmental monitoring and risk assessment to reduce exposures to enteric pathogens
Sponsor(s):
Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)
Tuesday, January 27, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Dr. Angela Harris, PhD; Associate Professor; Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering Department; North Carolina State University
Nuclear mechanobiology – from striated muscle disease to ultrarapid cellular mechanosensing
Thursday, January 29, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Jan Lammerding (Cornell)
CEE Seminar - Assessing Releases from Solid Materials: From Stress to Exposure
Sponsor(s):
Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)
Tuesday, February 03, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Dr. Nathan Bossa, Ph.D. Assistant Research Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Duke University
Society-Centered AI Hackathon 2026
Sponsor(s):
Duke Society-Centered AI Initiative
Friday, February 06, 2026
All Day
CEE Seminar - How occult precipitation influences land surface processes across scales
Sponsor(s):
Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)
Tuesday, February 10, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Dr. Lauren Lowman Associate Professor, Engineering Department, Wake Forest University
CEE Seminar - From Cavity Expansion to Clinical Diagnosis
Sponsor(s):
Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)
Tuesday, February 17, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Dr. Tal Cohen Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT
CEE Seminar - The Myth of Access: Affordability, Perception, and the Reality of Infrastructure Equity
Sponsor(s):
Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)
Tuesday, February 24, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Dr. Ben Rachunok, Assistant Professor, Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrialand Systems Engineering, NC State University
BME Distinguished Seminar Series: Engineering Materials for Clinical Nerve Repair, and Other Applications Along the Way
Thursday, March 05, 2026
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Dr. Christine Schmidt, University of Florida
CEE Seminar - Greening a Gray World: Advancing Design of Complex, Lower-Clinker Cement Systems for Sustainable Infrastructure
Sponsor(s):
Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)
Tuesday, March 17, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Dr. Kim Kurtis, FACI, FACerS, Jones Chair and Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Tech.
BioE Seminar Series: Prashant Mali Seminar
Thursday, March 19, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Prashant Mali (UCSD)
CEE Seminar - Mathematical and Computational Understanding of Neural Networks: From Representation to Learning and From Shallow to Deep, and Beyond
Sponsor(s):
Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)
Tuesday, March 24, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Dr. Hongkai Zhao, Chair and Ruth F. DeVarney Professor, Department of Mathematics, Duke University
CEE Seminar - Advancing pedestrian mapping and simulation in urban areas using multimodal sensing and generative models
Sponsor(s):
Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)
Tuesday, March 31, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Aaron Appelle, Ph.D. Candidate (CEE), M.S. Candidate (CS), concurrent, Laboratory of Intelligent Systems Technology, Duke University
CEE Seminar - Unlocking Infrastructure Durability, Resilience, and Sustainability with Stainless Steel Clad Rebar
Sponsor(s):
Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)
Tuesday, April 07, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Dr. Samuel McAlpine, Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer, Allium
CEE Seminar - Toward Single Atom Catalysis for Environmental Application
Sponsor(s):
Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)
Tuesday, April 14, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Dr. Jaehong Kim, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Yale University
CEE Seminar - Engineering Microbial Systems for Water, Climate, and Sustainable Agriculture
Sponsor(s):
Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)
Tuesday, April 21, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Dr. Mari Winkler, John R. Kiely Endowed Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Washington
