Tackling Antibiotic Resistance: What Do We Know and What Do We Need to Know?
July 15, 2015 ・ Holly WellesRamanan Laxminarayan explains why our antibiotics no longer work as well as they used to and discusses what we can do about it.
China Holds Key to India’s Energy Future
June 4, 2015 ・ Holly WellesPhil Hannam, former Princeton Energy and Climate Scholar, writes about China’s emergence as a key partner in India’s coal power development, and the broad implications for India’s climate change strategy.
Feeding the Future and the Future of Food: Panel Discussion and Screening of the Film “Modern Nature”
May 19, 2015 ・ Igor HeifetzThis panel will highlight research and educational activities currently underway by faculty, alumni, and graduate and undergraduate students to address the “food problem.” The broad focus will include health, environment, animal ethics, climate change, and food production and sufficiency. The…
Termites Can Aid in Keeping Desertification at Bay
May 18, 2015 ・ Igor HeifetzTermites can keep desertification at bay by adding nutrients and helping water infiltrate soil, but the vegetation patterns that result can be confusing.
Million Year-Old Ice Holds Answers to Climate Record
May 17, 2015 ・ Igor HeifetzA team of researchers with members from Princeton University, the University of Maine and Oregon State University has found that greenhouse gasses a million years ago, were only slightly higher than they were between 450,000 and 800,000 years ago. In…
Wasting the Savanna
May 11, 2015 ・ Igor HeifetzTim Searchinger and Lyndon Estes are, respectively, a research scholar and associate research scholar at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs. In recent years, as governments have begun to protect tropical forests because of the carbon…
Faculty Honor: Pringle Named ESA Early Career Fellow for Contributions to Ecology
May 5, 2015 ・ Holly P. WellesRobert Pringle, an assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, was named one of nine Early Career Fellows nationwide by the Ecological Society of America (ESA). Fellows are elected by ESA members, and the five-year fellowships recognize early-career researchers for their…
Class Snapshot: ‘Environmental Challenges and Urban Solutions’
May 4, 2015 ・ Holly WellesThis spring, 12 Princeton undergraduates are joining forces in the interdisciplinary course “Environmental Challenges and Urban Solutions” to confront urbanization and environmental problems and to rethink traditional theories about nature and city dynamics. The instructors: The class is co-taught by Mario…
