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Professor François Morel awarded Carnegie Mellon Dickson prize

February 28, 2013 ・ Georgette Chalker, Geosciences Department

The 2013 Carnegie Mellon Dickson prize has been awarded to Geosciences professor François Morel.  Carnegie Mellon University annually presents the award to individuals who make outstanding contributions to sciences on behalf of a fund endowed by Dr. Joseph Z. Dickson,…

S.O.S. sign written in beach sand near beach waves hahaha

March 22 Deadline: New Applicants to the Princeton Energy and Climate Scholars (PECS) Program

February 27, 2013 ・ Holly Welles

The Faculty Board of Princeton Energy and Climate Scholars (PECS) is seeking applications from talented and highly motivated graduate students throughout the University who are conducting research within the broad area of climate and energy. PECS is designed to enhance…

Class Snapshot: ‘The Energy-Water Nexus’

January 24, 2013 ・ Nick DiUlio for the Princeton Environmental Institute

Instructors: Eric Larson, a research engineer with the Energy Systems Analysis Group of the Princeton Environmental Instituteand lecturer in chemical and biological engineering and inmechanical and aerospace engineering; Sankaran Sundaresan, professor of chemical and biological engineering; and Daniel Giammar, the…

Socolow Essay on the Truths We Must Tell Ourselves to Manage Climate Change

December 7, 2012 ・ Holly Welles

Cli­mate change is unwel­come news, and the best and worst out­comes con­sis­tent with cur­rent sci­ence are very dif­fer­ent, says Prince­ton University’s Robert Socolow, pro­fes­sor of mechan­i­cal and aero­space engi­neer­ing, in a new review arti­cle pub­lished in the Van­der­bilt Law Review. …