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New Course for Spring 2011! ENV 302 /CEE 302/EEB 302: Advanced Analysis of Environmental Systems

December 2, 2010 ・ Tucker Willsie

Do you want to understand the effect of energy, water, and food on environmental systems throughout the world? This course is an introduction to the study of environmental systems. Students will use quantitative analysis to examine three of today’s most…

Princeton Continues Significant Progress Toward Sustainability Goals

November 15, 2010 ・ Ruth Stevens

For the second consecutive year since adopting a Sustainability Plan, Princeton University’s on-campus greenhouse gas emissions have decreased. Last year, emissions declined for the first time since the University’s energy-efficient cogeneration plant was installed in 1996 by a modest amount…

Making Sustainable Energy Technologies Come Alive

November 4, 2010 ・ Carol Peters

Craig Arnold (right), an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, is leading the freshman seminar “Science and Technology for a Sustainable Future,” in which students including Kojo Quaye (center) are learning about opportunities and challenges related to the development…

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

Bocarsly’s Lab Seeks to Turn CO2 into Fuel

September 28, 2010 ・ Jane Soohoo, Civil and Environmental Engineering
S.O.S. sign written in beach sand near beach waves hahaha

Wagner Joins Nationwide Project to Boost Energy Efficiency of Buildings

September 9, 2010 ・ Chris Emery and Patti Wieser

Princeton University researchers will participate in a $122 million research project sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to develop technologies and educational programs to make buildings more energy efficient.  Scientists from Princeton’s School of Engineering and Applied Science…

First Prize Recipients of the 2010 Green Business Plan Competition Convert Garbage into Hope

June 21, 2010 ・ Chris Emery

This 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…

Princeton Professor Margaret Martonosi Receives McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning Graduate Mentoring Award

May 20, 2010 ・ Nick DiUlio

Four Princeton faculty members have been named the recipients of Graduate Mentoring Awards by the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning and will be honored during the Graduate School’s hooding ceremony on Monday, May 31, in McCarter Theatre. They are:…