The Daily Princetonian recently highlighted annual summer working trips that the university’s chapter of Engineers Without Borders has been making since 2004 to the Peruvian village of Huamanzaña.
EWB projects there have ranged from improving communal bathroom facilities to installing solar power generators.
Every proposal for community improvement […]
Former Princeton Engineering undergraduate and legendary entrepreneur (at the ripe age of 21) Seth Priebatsch recently gave a TED talk on his ambitions to “build a game layer on the top of the world.”
His first step in doing so is SCVNGR, a phone-based gaming system that Priebatsch first developed at Princeton. After […]
Princeton Engineering alumnus Lance Collins has been named the Joseph Silbert Dean of Engineering at Cornell University.
Collins’s work on mechanisms of droplet breakup in turbulence was recognized with the 1997 Best Paper Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. He was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society […]
Publishers Lunch, an insider’s newsletter in the world of publishing, reports that a book co-authored by Princeton Engineering professor Robert Vanderbei has been snatched up by National Geographic‘s book publishing arm.
The book by Vanderbei and Princeton astrophysicist J. Richard Gott is titled Sizing Up the Universe and according to […]
Tim Kurkjian of ESPN magazine has posted an interesting essay on Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Ross Ohlendorf, who graduated from Princeton in 2005 with a degree in operations research and financial engineering.
Kurkjian focuses on Ohlendorf’s senior thesis at Princeton, which was an analysis of the June amateur […]
Tonight’s broadcast of the PBS science show NOVA will feature Arlie Petters, who attended Princeton as a graduate student and who is now a professor at Duke whose current research is on the cutting edge of mathematical physics.
Petters tells NOVA how his personal journey shaped his professional research:
“When I first […]
This week’s business section of the Princeton Packet features an interesting cover story on the influential yet understated Bendheim Center for Finance at Princeton.
“Less than a decade old, and despite its small size and low profile, the Bendheim Center has already established a global reputation in the highly technical, even arcane […]
The three decades of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s at Bell Laboratories were to black scientists what the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s was to black artists, according to William Massey, who was at Bell Labs during that era and who is now a professor at Princeton.
Today, as part of the University of […]
Controversial stock options for company executives may be much less costly to shareholders than current mathematical models suggest, according to research presented Jan. 5 by Tim Leung of Princeton’s Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering.
At the annual meeting of the American Mathematical Society, Leung demonstrated that, in one scenario, stock options were […]
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