PEI Urban Challenge awards $348,000 to new urban sustainability projects
September 18, 2017Extreme waves and cloudbursts: PEI’s Urban Grand Challenges program has funded three new urban-sustainability projects totaling $348,000.
An immune signaling pathway for control of Yellow Fever Virus infection
August 15, 2017Princeton researchers uncovered a critical role for a new immune signaling pathway in controlling infection by the Yellow Fever Virus (YFV).
Synthetic Gas Would Cut Air Pollution but Worsen Climate Damage in China
May 1, 2017 ・ Chris Emery for the Office of Engineering CommunicationsThe use of synthetic natural gas instead of coal in China could improve air quality and public health due to air pollution, but it would also markedly increase CO2 emissions, with damaging implications for the climate.
PEI Announces a Call for Proposals to the Urban Grand Challenge
April 18, 2017 ・ Igor HeifetzPrinceton Environmental Institute (PEI) is pleased to announce a call for proposals to the Urban Grand Challenge.
RESEARCH HONOR: Coverdale receives ESA Graduate Student Policy Award
April 3, 2017 ・ Office of CommunicationsGraduate student Tyler Coverdale, participant in PEI’s Grand Challenge Program, one of six nationwide to receive a Graduate Student Policy Award from The Ecological Society of America.
Study: Cold Climates and Ocean Carbon Sequestration
March 15, 2017 ・ Igor HeifetzFormer Princeton graduate student Xingchen Wang is lead author of a climate study published in PNAS on research he conducted while working in Daniel Sigman’s lab.
Innovations in Building Intelligent Cities
March 13, 2017 ・ Bennett McIntosh for the Office of the Dean for ResearchInterdisciplinary work of faculty to find new ways to build urban infrastructures.
PEI Awards $374,000 for Innovative Research, Teaching, Mentorship, and Service focused on Urban Sustainability
February 7, 2017 ・ Joanna M. Foster ’08 for the Princeton Environmental InstitutePrinceton Environmental Institute has announced awards totaling $374,000 to support five faculty research projects as part of the Urban Grand Challenge – one of several long term research cooperatives that comprise its Grand Challenges program. With the majority of the…
A Dangerous Moment for Climate Change and for Science
November 22, 2016 ・ Robert SocolowRobert Socolow on climate change as a risk management problem requiring immediate action.
