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| Established: | 1938 as the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, 1991 as the Nicholas School |
| Type: | Private |
| Location: | Durham, North Carolina, USA |
| Website: | www.nicholas.duke.edu |
The Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences is one of seven graduate and professional schools at Duke University. The date of establishment or date of founding of an Institution is the date on which that institution chooses to claim as its starting point Year 1938 ( MCMXXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1991 ( MCMXCI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar. Unlike Public universities, private universities generally do not receive direct operational funding from national or subnational governments and thus rely on private Durham is a city in the US state of North Carolina. It is the County seat of Durham County North Carolina ( is a state located on the Atlantic Seaboard in the southeastern United States The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages Duke University is a private Research University located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. A secondary facility is maintained in the coastal town of Beaufort, North Carolina. Beaufort (ˈboʊfɚt "BO-furt" is a town in Carteret County, North Carolina, United States. The school provides educational opportunities for students at the doctoral level (Ph. D), graduate professional level (Master of Environmental Management and Master of Forestry), and undergraduate level (B. S. and A. B). It is composed of three research divisions: Coastal Systems Science and Policy, Earth and Ocean Sciences, and Environmental Sciences and Policy.
History
Environmental and earth sciences have a long history at Duke. The School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and the Marine Lab were both formed in 1938. Duke's Department of Geology was formed in 1936. The Nicholas School was founded in 1991 when Duke combined its School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and the Duke University Marine Laboratory. In 1997, the Department of Geology joined the Nicholas School as the Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences. Though the school was originally called the Duke School of Environment at its inception in 1991, it was named the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences in 2000 following a $20 million gift from Peter M. and Ginny Nicholas. Peter M Nicholas co-founded medical device firm Boston Scientific with partner John Abele.
In 2008, the school's graduate program was ranked second in the nation by U.S. News & World Report [1]. USNews & World Report is an influential weekly American Newsmagazine published in Washington D
Peter M. and Ginny Nicholas pledged $70 million in December 2003 towards the creation of a nonpartisan policy institute affiliated with the Nicholas School. Peter M Nicholas co-founded medical device firm Boston Scientific with partner John Abele. In 2005, the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions was established. The Institute maintains offices both on the Duke University campus as well as in Washington, DC [2]. Washington DC ( formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D
External links
- Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences
- Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions
- Duke University
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