James Wei has written a new book on Great Inventions that Changed the World. The book is written for a lay audience and covers inventions in a wide range of fields, from medicine and communications to music and painting.
The book grows out of an freshman course Wei taught at Princeton […]
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 […]
Princeton Energy & Climate Scholars have just returned from Rio+20, where they rubbed elbows with U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, the president of Aruba, and Sir Richard Branson – all while gaining behind-the-scenes insights into environmental policy. The Princeton engineering students who attended the Rio+20 conference on sustainable development — the largest United Nations […]
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 […]
Yesterday the Baltimore Sun profiled Vorbeck Materials, a company started by Princeton Engineering alumnus John Lettow.
Last week the Department of Energy announced that it had selected Vorbeck as one of three startup companies for the title of America’s Next Top Energy Innovator. U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu recognized Vorbeck […]
The Department of Energy has just announced that Vorbeck Materials – one of the hottest companies out there exploiting the seemingly limitless possibilities of graphene, the Earth’s strongest substance — has been nominated for the honor of “America’s Next Top Energy Innovator.”
Vorbeck was started by John Lettow, who graduated from […]
Art of Science gets wide international play
Princeton’s 2011 Art of Science exhibit has gotten wide international play on the web and in print. GEO Russia, Maxisciences, 20 minutos, L’espresso, MSNBC, and The New York Times all featured galleries, so be sure to check them out. […]
SwoopTEXT sweeps media
SwoopTEXT, a student communication platform invented by two 2011 Princeton graduates that enables instant and targeted group communication via text message, is getting a lot of play in the media of late.
The platform was Invented by Michael Perl, who majored in chemistry, and Michael Keaton, who majored in chemical and biological […]
Times Higher Education has just published its world university rankings, with Princeton ranked third among engineering schools. The top five engineering schools are Caltech, MIT, Princeton, UC-Berkeley, and Stanford (in that order).
Princeton Engineering has experienced extraordinary growth of late. During the past six years, sponsored research has […]
The current issue of Chemical Engineering Education features a lovely profile of Pablo Debenedetti, the vice dean of the School of Engineering and Class of 1950 Professor in Engineering and Applied Science.
The profile delineates Debenedetti’s many significant scholarly achievements (he was inducted into the National Academy of […]
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- Technology Review: mining cellphone data without violating privacy
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