DURHAM, N.C. – Duke women’s soccer defender Sammie Thomas will be one of approximately 350 students in the Pratt School of Engineering’s graduating Class of 2016. However, she will be one of just two students to receive a degree in environmental engineering.
The environmental engineering program was announced during the spring semester of 2013 and this May will mark its inaugural graduating class.
“It’s amazing just because we’ve kind of whittled down,” Thomas said. “At first there were four of us and now there’s only two. We’re kind of just whittling down and we’re so close — the ones that have been through the program — because we’re figuring it out as we go along and the teachers are working with us and we’re all still trying to make it work and grow the program with the younger classes as well.