Today’s Wall Street Journal has terrific coverage of William “Red” Whittaker, who with a team of students from Carnegie Mellon is competing for the $20 million Google Lunar X Prize, which will go to the first privately funded team able to get a robot to reach the moon, travel 500 meters and flash data back to […]
In a report speculating that an African land grab could lead to future water conflicts, New Scientist magazine cites a new study by Princeton Engineering’s Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe examining how “virtual water” moves around the world. In an effort to secure their food supply, China, India, and Saudia Arabia are leasing water-rich tracts in sub-Saharan Africa to […]
Ashley Thrall, a recently minted Ph.D. in civil and environmental engineering, has won a travel fellowship from the architecture firm of SOM that will enable her to draw on a wide range of inspirations in order to rethink the design of deployable structures used in disaster relief. […]
The Bergen Record yesterday featured Alexander Salazar, who will begin pursuing a master’s in civil and environmental engineering at Princeton in the fall.
“Salazar’s story seems like a script for a modern version of the American Dream,” writes Mike Kelly, who chronicles Salazar’s journey from barely speaking […]
Kelly Caylor, Justin Sheffield, and Eric Wood, members of the department of civil and environmental engineering, have won a grant from the Princeton Global Collaborative Network Fund to study how rainfall variability and land and water degradation affect food […]
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 […]
Princeton engineers are building a 92-foot-long replica of the Golden Gate Bridge as part of a $3 million National Science Foundation interactive display that will open in 2012.
Assistant professor Maria Moreyra Garlock is leading the model-building project along […]
A superfast research aircraft outfitted with cutting-edge air-monitoring instruments returned today from its inaugural mission in the quest to map the earth’s atmosphere for the first time in fine-grained, three-dimensional detail. The plane, known as HIAPER, collected data while zigzagging up and down […]
A new book on Felix Candela’s architecture, by Princeton Engineering professors David Billington and Maria Garlock, has been named one of the top ten architecture books of 2008.
The beautifully wrought book, published by Yale University Press, features […]
Princeton researchers have a new paper in the May 8 issue of the journal Nature which shows that water dynamics play a pivotal role in the biodiversity of river networks. The team has created a computer simulation that allows them to predict – based on rainfall measurements and on how […]
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