Grand Challenges Highlights: Fall/Winter 2009
December 31, 2009 ・ Carol PetersNow in its third year of funding, the Grand Challenges Initiative, administered by PEI in collaboration with the Woodrow Wilson School and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has created a diverse research and scholarship endeavor. Below are a…
Internship Program Strengthens Links Between In- and Outside Classroom
December 31, 2009 ・ Carol PetersFrom top to bottom: Melecia Wright ’11 making the artificial substrate she and Thinh Vu ’12 devised during their Development Grand Challenge internship in South Africa; Molly O’Connor ’11 follows a root as part of the mapping process, the spatial…
Going Underground for a Climate Solution
December 14, 2009 ・ Chris EmeryCatherine Peters, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, tours the Homestake Mine in South Dakota, where she plans to test whether the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide can be stored safely underground. (Photo: Bill Harlan/Sanford Underground Laboratory) Hoping to…
PEI Robert Socolow Offers Perspective On Climate Change
December 7, 2009 ・ Chris EmeryRobert Socolow (Photo: Frank Wojciechowski) Name: Robert Socolow Title: Professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, co-director of the Carbon Mitigation Initiative and director of the Siebel Energy Grand Challenge. Scholarship: Assessing which technologies and policies might be effective in reducing…
Program strengthens links between work inside and outside the classroom
October 15, 2009 ・ Carol Peters
Bernard Haykel, Principal Investigator of EGC program, publishes article “Al-Qaida stumbles in Saudi”
September 27, 2009 ・ Carol PetersPEI and Grand Challenges: The 2009 Summer of Learning Symposium
September 25, 2009 ・ Carol PetersOn September 25, 2009, The Princeton Environmental Institute held its second annual Summer of Learning Symposium. It was a culminating event for the 107 undergraduate students whose summer internships, sponsored by PEI and Grand Challenges, focused on scientific, technical, policy…
Sigman, Zoli Win MacArthur ‘Genius Grants’
September 22, 2009 ・ Kitta MacPherson and Chris EmeryDaniel Sigman Theodore Zoli Daniel Sigman, a Princeton University biogeochemist who has conducted pioneering work exploring the large-scale systems that have supported life on the planet throughout the millennia, has been selected as a 2009 MacArthur Fellow. Also chosen was…
Princeton Awarded More Than $17 Million in Recovery Act Funding
September 18, 2009 ・ Hilary ParkerCraig Arnold (right), associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, is one of the Princeton faculty members who has received research funding through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Here, he works with postdoctoral researcher Romain Fardel to examine an…
