Discovery Day is an annual poster show organized each May as the culminating event for seniors in the ENV Certificate program, as well as students who received research support from HMEI. In 2018, Discovery Day was expanded to include students concentrating in ecology and evolutionary biology.

Discovery Day provides Princeton University seniors and graduate students with an opportunity to display and discuss their research methodologies and results, to exchange perspectives, and to propose solutions to the world’s most pressing environmental challenges. Event attendees, including fellow students, faculty and university administrators, are treated to an extensive display of environmental research taking place at Princeton. For more information or questions regarding the event, please contact HMEI’s Undergraduate/Graduate Program Manager Amber Lee.

In 2019, 115 undergraduate and graduate students representing 19 academic departments exhibited posters on focal themes including: climate and environmental; science; biodiversity and conservation; land use; oceans; urban sustainability; energy technology; culture and the environment; water; and health. Coverage of past years’ events are below.

In 2020 and 2021, printed archives of undergraduate research were produced in lieu of Discovery Day events, which were not held due to the University being closed in response to COVID-19. Online versions of both booklets are below.

 

Archives

Discovery Day Press

Kessie Alexandre (left), a graduate student in anthropology, talks with Kayla Moffett ’18 in ecology and evolutionary biology at HMEI Discovery Day 2018. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski for HMEI)

 

At Discovery Day 2018, Josh Murray ’18, a geosciencs major who received a two-year HMEI Environmental Scholars Program award in 2016 to support his research, and worked on his project as a 2015 and 2016 HMEI summer intern. (Photo by Georgette Chalker, Department of Geosciences)

 

Kathleen Noble ’18 of ecology and evolutionary biology explains her project to Dan Rubenstein, Class of 1877 Professor of Zoology and professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, at Discovery Day 2018. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski for HMEI)