The United States Engineers Without Borders organization has named Princeton’s EWB chapter a 2013 Premier Project winner for its library project in Ashaiman, Ghana. In the summer of 2011, five students from Princeton Engineers Without Borders traveled to Ashaiman, to finish the construction of a community library. This trip was the culmination of […]
Akamai, the leading company in the field of cloud computing, announced this week it has acquired Verivue, a company that relies on a private content delivery network invented at Princeton.
Verivue’s infrastructure is largely built around a system designed by CoBlitz, a company that grew out of a Princeton research project for […]
Robert J. Moore ’06 on the power of data
Last weekend Robert J. Moore, co-founder of R.J. Metrics and a 2006 Princeton Engineering graduate, was in town to be a judge at a startup networking event organized by students
Momchil Tomov, Ryan Shea, and Vivian Qu.
If you missed the event, you may want to take in this TEDx […]
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 […]
Humanitarian News recently featured the Ghana library being built in Ashaiman by the Princeton chapter of Engineers Without Borders.
Judging from EWB’s blog, the crew has made tremendous progress this summer. EWB members plan to finish construction of the library, to outfit it with furniture and […]
The Soyuz space capsule that carried Princeton Engineering’s entrepreneur-in-residence Greg Olsen back to earth from his journey into space in 2005 goes on display today through October 18 at Princeton Market Fair in West Windsor, N.J.
Olsen, the third private citizen to travel in space, re-entered the atmosphere in the Soyuz […]
Fast Company yesterday blogged about em[Power], the global student-run organization that aims to help people living in landfills in such places as Pakistan and Bangladesh use energy generated from garbage to improve their lives.
em[Power] was founded by Tiffany Tong, a graduate student in electrical […]
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’s Mudd library has posted a 1962 instructional film for students who were serving as campus tour guides.
At first what is striking about this film (above) is how much the Princeton undergraduate experience has changed in less than 50 years. For one, thing Princeton students are a much more cosmopolitan group, taking […]
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 […]
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