Grand Challenges Highlights: Fall/Winter 2009
December 31, 2009 ・ 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…
Prolonged Drought Devastates Kenyan People, Wildlife
October 6, 2009 ・ Carol PetersFrom Top to Bottom, Butler Will Be a Living Environmental Laboratory
August 13, 2009 ・ Kitta MacPhersonRoofs on more than half of the Butler buildings have been planted with 14 varieties of hardy sedum. The contrasts in the palette of the many-hued rooftop garden will intensify as summer turns to fall. (Photo: Denise Applewhite) In University-led…
New Princeton Dorms Sprout Green Roofs
August 13, 2009 ・ Krystal Knapp
Rodriguez-Iturbe to Receive Bowie Medal
July 2, 2009 ・ Chris EmergyPrinceton’s Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe, the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, will receive the 2009 William Bowie Medal, the highest honor awarded by the American Geophysical Union. Presented annually since 1939, the medal acknowledges an individual…
Caylor Awarded $1.5 Million from NSF to Study Water in Africa
May 21, 2009 ・ Chris EmerySustainability Projects Funded through High Meadows Gift
April 28, 2009 ・ Ruth StevensThe second round of initiatives seeking to improve sustainability on Princeton’s campus have been funded under the auspices of the University’s Sustainability Plan. Supported by a gift from the High Meadows Foundation, the 16 projects range from a study of…
Franz travels to African drylands to understand water
March 18, 2009 ・ Hilary ParkerButler College Dorms Rise Again
November 3, 2008 ・ Ruth StevensThe four new dormitories being constructed on the site of the old Butler College residences should be finished by fall 2009. Three will be part of Butler College and one, Wilf Hall, will be an upperclass dorm. The two-, three-…
