Droughts, political unrest in 6th century Arabia signify societal threat of extreme weather
June 28, 2022 ・ University of BaselThe Arabian Peninsula experienced extreme dry conditions in the 6th century CE that — combined with political unrest and war — destabilized the region’s ruling power and ushered in nearly a century of upheaval and conflicts that reshaped the Middle…
Allison Carruth joins American studies, High Meadows Environmental Institute faculty
January 27, 2021 ・ Sarah Malone and Morgan KellyAllison Carruth, whose collaborative work bridges the arts, humanities and sciences, has joined the Princeton faculty as a professor of American studies and the High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI) in a new joint appointment that will expand interdisciplinary teaching and…
Reed Maxwell, Jerry Zee join Princeton Environmental Institute faculty
September 1, 2020 ・ Morgan KellyThe Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI) welcomed Sept. 1 new faculty members Reed Maxwell, professor of civil and environmental engineering and the Princeton Environmental Institute, and Jerry Zee, assistant professor of anthropology and the Princeton Environmental Institute. Their appointments expand the…
Hack Graduate Award recipients explore water issues from groundwater cleanup to carbon-capturing crystals
June 4, 2020 ・ Morgan KellyThe Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI) has selected seven Princeton University graduate students as 2020 recipients of the Mary and Randall Hack ’69 Graduate Awards for Water and the Environment. The awardees are Francisco Carrillo, Eunah Han, Julie Kim, Aleksander Musiał,…
PEI graduate awardee Vinicius de Aguiar Furuie wins Princeton’s top graduate student honor
February 13, 2020Vinicius de Aguiar Furuie, a doctoral student in anthropology and two-time PEI graduate award recipient, was one of four Princeton Ph.D. candidates to receive the Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship, the University’s top honor for graduate students. De Aguiar Furuie has…
‘Creative Ecologies’: Storytelling and environmentalism
January 27, 2020 ・ Jamie SaxonStudents in several Princeton courses this fall examined the perils of climate change by considering how storytelling — with elements of description, language and structure — can influence people’s perceptions and fire up the imagination. One of the classes in…
Open dialogue: Taking a deep dive into the climate debate
October 24, 2019 ・ Tom GarlinghouseThis fall, Princeton undergraduates are taking a deep dive into the climate debate in the environmental studies seminar “Crossing the Climate Change Divide.” The course is taught by award-winning journalist Meera Subramanian, who is asking students to examine what people…
Journalist Meera Subramanian, 2019 Barron Visiting Professor, explores intersection of culture and environment
September 25, 2019 ・ Morgan KellyJournalist Meera Subramanian, the 2019-20 Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Visiting Professor in the Environment and the Humanities in the Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI), comes to Princeton as part of her exploration of what motivates people’s relationships with and…
Course explores the Millstone River, Princeton’s backyard wilderness
May 23, 2019 ・ Morgan KellyAn 8-foot deer shape cut from a discarded mirror stood along one wall of the Lucas Gallery at 185 Nassau St. on the Princeton campus, its humanoid body reflecting the people gathered around a table set with native New Jersey…
