University to Showcase Green Initiatives at Sustainability Open House
October 26, 2010 ・ Douglas Fischer, Daily ClimateThe latest campus and local community green initiatives will be showcased at Princeton University’s Sustainability Open House from 3 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 16, in the Chancellor Green Rotunda. Organized by the University’s Office of Sustainability, the event will…
Bocarsly’s Lab Seeks to Turn CO2 into Fuel
September 28, 2010 ・ Jane Soohoo, Civil and Environmental EngineeringTwo PEI-STEP Fellows Awarded Graduate Certificates in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy
June 22, 2010 ・ Carol PetersNing Lin (left) and Luke MacDonald Two PEI-STEP Environmental Policy Fellows, Ning Lin and Luke MacDonald, graduated in June 2010 with Ph.D.s from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and in addition were awarded the Graduate Certificate in Science,…
First Prize Recipients of the 2010 Green Business Plan Competition Convert Garbage into Hope
June 21, 2010 ・ Chris EmeryThis woman and child are among the 2,000 people living in extreme poverty in Kachra Kundi, a landfill on the outskirts of Karachi, Pakistan. A group of Princeton and Rutgers students have developed a plan that includes generating electricity to…
Anthropology Professor Carolyn Rouse Spearheads Effort to Build the First High School in Oshiyie, Ghana, with Support from PEI/Grand Challenges
June 17, 2010 ・ Karin DienstThe work of Carolyn Rouse, a professor of anthropology and African American studies, takes a wide-ranging approach to studying inequality and social justice. She focuses her scholarship on medicine, religion, education and development. Her research has taken her into hospitals,…
PEI Walbridge Fund Awards Three Graduate Research Grants
June 8, 2010 ・ Carol PetersThree graduate students were awarded the 2010 PEI Walbridge Fund Graduate Award in Energy and Environmental Research. The recipients include: Kevin Loutherback, Electrical Engineering; Dalin Shi, Geosciences; and Ann Carla Staver, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. The PEI Walbridge Fund Graduate…
From Silos to Cultural Integration: The Evolution of Campus Sustainability
May 15, 2010 ・ Shana WeberHigher education sometimes has been described as an “ivory tower,” with isolated academic “silos.” While these stereotypes contain a grain of truth they are mostly remnants of the past. Cross-disciplinary cooperative work is what makes campuses today such vibrant places.…
Grand Challenges Highlights: Spring/Summer 2010
May 15, 2010 ・ 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…
Princeton Researchers Develop Disaster Relief Technologies for Haiti
May 14, 2010 ・ Hilary ParkerEven before the Jan. 12 earthquake that devastated Haiti, killing more than 200,000 people and leaving more than 1 million homeless, the citizens of the Caribbean nation were in desperate need of access to clean drinking water and electricity. After…
