PEI Faculty Seminar Series: The Bonds We Make and the Bonds We Break; A Chemist’s View of How Metals Drive Biology
LENGTH ・ 00:59:34You may have learned in high school that covalent combinations of the CHNOPS elements comprise nearly all of biology. However, it is the family of less abundant elements, particularly iron, manganese, cobalt and copper, that mediate the most important…
PEI Faculty Seminar Series: Goldilocks in Byzantium – Did More Rain Help a Struggling Empire Survive the Arab-Islamic conquest?
LENGTH ・ 00:54:43John Haldon, Shelby Cullom Davis ’30 Professor of European History. Professor of History and Hellenic Studies. Director, Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies. The eastern Roman empire was the largest state in western Eurasia…
PEI Faculty Seminar Series: Lead Exposure and the Black-White Test Score Gap
LENGTH ・ 00:55:21We consider a new source of racial disparities in test scores: African American students’ disproportionate exposure to environmental toxins, and, in particular, lead. Using a unique individual-level dataset of children’s preschool lead levels linked with future educational outcomes for…
PEI Faculty Seminar Series: The Des Moines Farming Corridor
LENGTH ・ 00:56:58Downtown Des Moines once lacking in its 9 to 5 downtown a residential presence, has been radically restructured through a process that I developed 25 years ago with the Des Moines Vision Plan of 1990. The plan has fostered…
PEI Faculty Seminar Series: Spatio-temporal Dynamics of Childhood Infectious Disease
LENGTH ・ 00:53:11“Spatio-temporal Dynamics of Childhood Infectious Disease: Predictability and the Impact of Vaccination” by Bryan Grenfell, Kathryn Briger and Sarah Fenton Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School. Violent epidemics of childhood infections such as…
PEI Faculty Seminar Series: CO2 Sequestration in Conventional and Unconventional Reservoirs
LENGTH ・ 01:01:12Michael Celia, Theodora Shelton Pitney Professor of Environmental Studies. Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Director, Program in Environmental Engineering and Water Resources. Carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) is the only currently available technology that can significantly reduce atmospheric…
PEI Faculty Seminar Series: Expert Judgment and Uncertainty Quantification for Sea Level Rise
LENGTH ・ 00:54:01Michael Oppenheimer, Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School. Director, Center for Science Technology and Environmental Policy Structural uncertainty in models presents a longstanding obstacle to estimating future sea level rise. The model-based range…
Fluvial Metropolis Workshop – Part 1
LENGTH ・ 02:36:25The Fluvial Metropolis Workshop is the first in a series of activities to be organized as part of the University of São Paulo/ Princeton University Strategic Partnership for Teaching and Research Collaboration. Topics of discussion will include basic issues…
