HMEI Climate and Energy Challenge Announces Call for Proposals

The High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI) is pleased to announce a call for innovative research and teaching proposals on behalf of the Climate and Energy Challenge – a long-term research and teaching cooperative under the flagship Grand Challenges Program. The goal is to catalyze new scholarship, teaching, and mentorship focused on multidisciplinary aspects of climate change and other environmental consequences of energy production. We aim to advance solutions, encourage faculty development, increase Princeton’s institutional capabilities, and enhance the undergraduate experience.

Priority in the selection process will be given to proposals that allow faculty and senior research staff to move into a new area of research and/or produce collaborations involving two or more faculty from different academic disciplines and with potential to attract larger extramural grants. Like other Grand Challenges, research projects associated with the Climate and Energy cooperative necessarily will include important education-related activities such as courses and/or immersion experiences for undergraduates including multi-year sequences of assignments culminating in robust senior independent work and publishable research. Proposals will be evaluated on how well they address both the teaching and research goals of the Grand Challenges Program.

Several awards will be made at levels up to $200,000 over two years.

The deadline for proposals is September 15, 2025.

Visit the Call for Proposals page for more information and to apply.