More than 100 undergraduates explored new perspectives on environmental topics through 2021 HMEI summer internships
September 30, 2021 ・ Morgan KellyPrinceton senior Demetra Yancopoulos could not get the words of the late oceanographer John Martin out of her mind after hearing them during a lecture last fall by Princeton geosciences professor Satish Myneni: “Give me half a tanker of iron,…
2021 Hack Graduate Award recipients take on water issues from bacterial gels to plant diversity in arid climates
June 15, 2021 ・ Morgan KellyThe High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI) has selected 11 Princeton University graduate students as 2021 recipients of the Mary and Randall Hack ’69 Graduate Awards for Water and the Environment. The awardees are Avery Agles, Tairan An, Shashank Anand, Jianshu…
PEI awards $1.01 million in Water and the Environment Grand Challenge projects
October 1, 2019 ・ Morgan KellyThe ecological impacts of extreme weather, a national “climate park” in the New Jersey Meadowlands, and engineered nanoparticles that target groundwater pollutants are among the 13 projects funded by the Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI) as part of its Water and…
Drones, Thorns and New Orleans: PEI’s Summer of Learning Symposium features breadth of undergrad research
October 30, 2017PEI’s internship program’s projects focused on global environmental challenges in the areas of policy and resilience, biodiversity and conservation, alternative energy, climate and oceans, and water, soil and human health.
PEI Awards $840,000 for Innovative Research, Teaching, and Mentorship in Water and the Environment
June 13, 2016 ・ Molly Sharlach for the Princeton Environmental InstituteThe Princeton Environmental Institute has awarded a total of $840,000 to support seven original research projects which will become the nucleus of a new Grand Challenges cooperative focused on environmental issues associated with physical, chemical, and biological aspects of oceans…