Princeton Engineer David Hale ’11 pitched his first major league game on Friday, for the Atlanta Braves. First batter up? Princeton alum Will Venable ’06. Hale struck out the Padres hitter and proceeded to pitch 5 scoreless innings. That same night Princeton Engineer Ross Ohlendorf ’05 pitched five winning […]
Three Princeton Engineering faculty members are part of a newly announced $194 million government-industry initiative called the Semiconductor Technology Advanced Research network (STARnet), a consortium of six new university research centers whose mission is to maintain U.S. leadership in microelectronics.
The five-year cooperative effort between academia, government and industry is being directed […]
Technology Review highlights 3D Purple America election map
MIT Technology Review this week highlights Robert Vanderbei‘s 3D Purple America map, a nuanced visualization of the 2012 presidential election showing the proportion of people who voted Democrat or Republican, county by county, as a gradient between blue and red. The height of the horizontal bars indicates how many […]
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 […]
Behind the scenes: NYC’s Second Avenue Subway project
Phil Rice ’77 and Eve Glazer ’06 are coming to the Princeton campus to give their firsthand perspective of construction on the Second Avenue Subway project, New York City’s largest expansion of the subway system in more than 50 years. When completed, it will provide a new line on the east side of […]
Mung Chiang publishes new book on ‘Networked Life’
Cambridge University Press this month has released a new book by Mung Chiang titled Networked Life: 20 Questions and Answers. Driven by twenty real-world questions — from how Google figures out what to charge for ads to why Skype and BitTorrent don’t cost you a cent — this […]
Amruta Sarma ’08 wins Fulbright to India
Amruta Sarma, who graduated from Princeton with a degree in civil and environmental engineering in 2008, has won a Fulbright to India to study the implementation of a heat-wave “early warning system” for health officials so that they can help communities better anticipate and respond to extreme environmental conditions.
After conducting her […]
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 […]
The Engineering School is hosting an ice cream social August 21 at 4 p.m. to showcase Professor Michael Littman‘s display of iconic (and beautiful) engineering objects from the early 20th century. Littman, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, will give a short talk and demonstration of early telephones, radios, […]
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 […]
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EQN is a blog from Princeton University’s School of Engineering and Applied Science that highlights faculty, students and alumni who, through innovation and leadership, are changing the world.
Recent Entries
- Starshade deploys for first time
- Hale ’11 and Ohlendorf ’05 shine in the major leagues
- Flood risk study receives $2.3 million Rockefeller Foundation grant
- Ice cream social August 9 to feature vintage technology
- Jennifer Rexford ’91 one of top 10 ‘cloud trailblazers’
- Dan Boneh *96 wins prize for advances in cryptography
- Computer science researchers untangle a hairy problem
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- Dean H. Vincent Poor elected fellow of Royal Society of Edinburgh
- Bob Kahn wins Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
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