900 Fill Frist for Sustainability Open House
September 19, 2008 ・ Ruth StevensSenior Sean Gleason used pedal-power to light up a bulb in an effort to demonstrate sustainable transportation during the Sept. 17 sustainability open house in the Frist Campus Center. About 900 attended the event to learn about endeavors under way…
Princeton Students Explore Lake Carnegie for Nature’s Sake
July 1, 2008 ・ Kitta MacPhersonYou have to love nature, rising junior Stephanie Hill said, when you grow up, as she did, in a remote, pristine village on the shores of a glacier-fed lake in British Columbia. Megan Prier, a rising sophomore who hails from…
Sustainability Projects Funded through High Meadows Gift
June 16, 2008 ・ Ruth StevensThe first round of initiatives has been funded under the auspices of the research, education and civic engagement section of the University’s new Sustainability Plan. Supported by a gift from the High Meadows Foundation, the nine projects range from a…
Rainfall and River Networks Prove Accurate Predictors of Fish Biodiversity
May 7, 2008 ・ Teresa RiordanThe figure at the top right represents average runoff (the amount of rainfall that ends up in rivers or streams) with the driest regions appearing in red and the wettest in blue. The middle figure is an abstraction of the…
Rodriguez-Iturbe Named to Pontifical Academy
April 21, 2008 ・ Ushma PatelIgnacio Rodriguez-Iturbe, the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has been named a member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. The academy, while under the direct protection of the Pope, is an autonomous body composed…
