Climate Pathfinders Series
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The Climate Pathfinders student profile series spotlights the leadership, innovation and impact of undergraduate and graduate students taking meaningful and sustainable actions for climate and sustainability. Each story showcases the student’s specific path, area of study, inspirational projects and unique perspective — with all sharing the same goal of addressing today’s environmental challenges.
Tyler Norris' research on rethinking load growth is shaping industry and policy conversations, with bipartisan policy efforts, academic impact and a new career opportunity.
Karimah Preston, a student in the Duke Climate & Sustainability Master of Engineering program, found that environmental problems facing her hometown of Chicago are also happening in other cities across the globe. At Duke, she is designing solutions for a brighter future.
Undergraduate Lizzy Glazer lived on the ocean in a sailboat for three months and spending time underwater as a certified divemaster after high school.
Student Aaron Siegle is incorporating his research and interests in his dual undergraduate and master’s degrees.
MBA student Eliza Harrison's expertise spans the full seaweed supply chain – from cultivation and harvesting to processing and product development. She sees seaweed not just as a climate solution, but as a platform for innovation across habitat restoration, carbon capture, animal feed and sustainable materials such as bioplastics.
M.D./Ph.D. student Trisha Dalapati says: "Climate change is affecting our health in ways that we’re only beginning to understand.”
Dhruv Rungta, right, with Pa Rom, a pineapple farmer who is impacted by elephant damage working to find new solutions in Thailand.
Brandon Hersh '24 poses in the heart of where it all began, Duke Athletics. Photo by Jared Lazarus
Tyler Ratcliffe is a Duke undergraduate powering up the future through leadership on campus as an “energy evangelist.” Photo by Bill Snead/University Communications and Marketing