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,…
Dual Focus on the Environment: Mauzerall Connects Climate Change, Pollution in Search for Solutions
June 10, 2010 ・ Ushma PatelDenise Mauzerall, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and public and international affairs, employs both scientific and regulatory perspectives in analyzing the effects of air pollution on climate change, human health and agricultural production. She has emerged as…
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…
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…
Meet Mike J. Smith, Spring 2010 BP-Vann Visiting Fellow
May 15, 2010 ・ Carol PetersMike Smith has traveled and lived all over the world during his long career with BP, and this year he added Princeton to the list of places where he has worked and taught. During the spring semester Smith brought his…
Research & Center Spring/Summer 2010
May 15, 2010 ・ Carol PetersCarbon Mitigation Initiative CMI hosted its 9th annual meeting February 9 and 10, 2010. Stephen W. Pacala chairs National Academy Report on “Verifying Greenhouse Gas Emissions: methods to support international climate agreements released in March. Research in François Morel’s group…
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…
From New Jersey to Nairobi: Princeton in Africa Marks 10 Years
May 12, 2010 ・ Jennifer Greenstein AltmannTen years ago, Princeton alumnus Steven Feldstein spent a year in Rwanda assessing orphanages and documenting the lives of street children as part of his work for a humanitarian relief organization. Feldstein was in Africa with the first group of…
Rodriguez-Iturbe Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
April 27, 2010 ・ Steven SchultzIgnacio Rodriguez-Iturbe (Photo: Frank Wojciechowski) Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe, an environmental engineer and pioneer in the field of ecohydrology, has been elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors in all areas of science. Rodriquez-Iturbe, the…
