Princeton researchers are part of a flood risk study that has received $2.3 million in funding from the Rockefeller Foundation.
The project, “New Directions in Coastal Resilient Design Strategies—Four Integrated Designs,” is a comprehensive study of the flood risks of vulnerable coastal populations in areas affected by Hurricane Sandy.
The Princeton project team, […]
Princeton engineers have won a highly competitive grant of $1.2 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to collaborate with the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab in order to tackle materials science challenges in the creation of fusion energy.
One key challenge is how to contain the hot plasma that fuels fusion power […]
Lynn Loo, professor of chemical and biological engineering at Princeton, has been named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum for 2012. Loo is one of 192 young leaders from 59 countries honored this year for their outstanding leadership, professional accomplishments and commitment to society.
Past Young Global […]
Physics Today highlights a new paper showing that the performance of diesel and rocket engines may be improved by exploiting size differences in droplets. The paper is by Chung Law, Robert H. Goddard Professor of Engineering, and researchers Chenglong Tang, and Peng Zhang.
Read the full report here.
In an essay published today on Climate Central and in The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Robert Socolow revisits the revolutionary “wedges” approach to climate change that he and Steve Pacala laid out in the journal Science back in 2004.
Socolow’s conclusion: the […]
Princeton’s Andlinger Center director Emily Carter was in Bremen, Germany, earlier this week to receive an award from the
German Chemical Society. The plenary lecture she gave associated with the award ceremony was boldly titled “How Quantum Mechanics Can Help Solve the World’s Energy Problems.”
In the video above, […]
Princeton Engineering alumna Lisa Jackson will be speaking on the Princeton campus April 28 about the “State of Environmental Protection in the Nation and the Challenges of the Future.” The talk, which begins at 5 p.m. in the Friend Center auditorium, is free and open to the public.
This month Jackson, head of the […]
In a recent essay for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists titled “Reflections on Fukushima: A time to mourn, to learn, and to teach,” Rob Socolow writes about the consequences and lessons from the March 11 accident at the Fukushima Daiichi plants in Japan.
Princeton researchers push the frontiers of next-generation fuels
The current issue of PRISM magazine features the research of Chung "Ed" Law, who is the director of a $20 million energy research center at Princeton whose mission is to spur the invention of new, cleaner fuels for the 21st century.
"Think the internal combustion engine is dead?" writes Charles Q […]
Google funds projects on privacy and Internet energy efficiency
Today’s Daily Princetonian reports on new Google grants for two Princeton Engineering projects. Ed Felten received $400,000 for his research on preserving privacy in the face of sophisticated web-tracking technologies. Margaret Martonosi, Jennifer Rexford, Michael Freedman, and Mung Chiang received $100,000 for their project on […]
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