Twitter thread from @Princeton: The Princeton Environmental Forum is a conference featuring Princeton faculty and alumni environmental leaders from across all sectors addressing urgent environmental issues for the 21st century. This event coincides with the 25th anniversary of PEI.
A software package aims to aid drug design and biomedical research by making it easy to construct 3D images of proteins and other molecules using one of the world’s most powerful microscopes. Amit Singer and his team are developing a package they call Algorithms for Single Particle Reconstruction, or ASPIRE, that takes in 2D images captured by cryo-electron microscopy and produces reliable 3D structures without significant human intervention.
https://innovation.princeton.edu/news/amit-singer-software-near-atomic-resolution-using-cryo-electron-microscopy
Beginning on Wednesday, November 6, 2019, Alexander Street, between Lawrence Drive and Canal Pointe Boulevard, will close for about six months as local agencies replace aging bridges and a culvert. Construction won’t prohibit traveling to campus, but it will make travel more time consuming.
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The Princeton University Board of Trustees has approved the appointment of 15 faculty members, including three full professors and 12 assistant professors.
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2019/10/28/board-approves-15-new-appointments-faculty
The World Wildlife Fund is about much more than wildlife, CEO and president Carter Roberts explains on the latest episode of the “All for Earth” podcast. WWF’s mission includes climate, sustainable food production, water scarcity and ecosystems, as well as the issue of biodiversity that is so neatly encapsulated in the organization’s famous panda logo.
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2019/10/24/president-and-ceo-world-wildlife-fund-carter-roberts-appears-all-earth-podcast
For three hurricane seasons in a row, storms with record-breaking rainfall have caused catastrophic flooding in the southern United States: Harvey in 2017, Florence in 2018 and Imelda in 2019.
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2019/10/29/why-are-big-storms-bringing-so-much-more-rain-warming-yes-also-winds
In the open letter to the campus community, Provost Deborah Prentice underscores the University’s commitment to supporting all members of the Princeton community.
Aleksandr Logunov, an assistant professor of mathematics, has been awarded a 2019 Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering. This year’s class features 22 early-career scientists and engineers, who will each receive $875,000 over five years to pursue their research.
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2019/10/23/mathematician-logunov-named-packard-fellow
The Amazon is the world’s largest and most diverse tropical forest and the ancestral home of over 1 million indigenous peoples. How to preserve it was the centrally urgent theme at a conference at Princeton on Oct. 17-18.
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2019/10/23/world-without-amazon-safeguarding-earths-largest-rainforest-focus-princeton
Student columnist Maya Houser writes: “Undergraduate participation in Thrive was unprecedented: students performed, networked, and attended events all weekend. For many current students, such a massive congregation of black alumni at this predominantly white institution was a powerful experience.”
http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2019/10/thriving-together-princetons-8-reflects-on-the-impact-of-thrive-last-weekend
President Eisgruber has been chosen as Educator of the Year by the Research & Development Council of New Jersey. R&D Council Executive Director Kim Case said Princeton stands as a global leader in research and teaching and, under Eisgruber’s leadership, has embraced innovation, connecting research to real-world problems and solutions and leading the way in the development of an innovation ecosystem in the heart of the state.
Edison Awards: R&D Council announces winners of prestigious honors for 2019
In the summer of 2019, a group of Princeton undergraduates embarked on a six-week Global Seminar in central Kenya, studying ecology and conservation as well as filmmaking fundamentals with Princeton faculty and other renowned instructors.
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2019/10/17/delicate-balance-student-films-examine-needs-humans-and-wildlife-kenya
Princeton researchers have identified traits that make certain species more vulnerable than others to human impacts on the environment. The study found that exposure to seasonal temperature changes may be one factor that determines if bird species can adapt to environmental changes such as deforestation.
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2019/10/16/study-helps-pinpoint-what-makes-species-vulnerable-environmental-change
Access to clean, safe water is a life or death question for over a billion people worldwide, with some 500,000 deaths annually related to a shortage of potable water says Farhana Sultana on the latest episode of the “All for Earth” podcast. These staggering numbers are destined to rise as climate change exacerbates water insecurity around the globe.
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2019/10/17/farhana-sultana-talks-about-universal-right-water-all-earth-podcast
The University’s Sustainability Action Plan — released in April 2019 — outlined seven key action areas and included a target of achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2046.
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2019/10/18/how-princeton-plans-reduce-greenhouse-gas-emissions-net-zero-2046
The intensive fires in the Amazon, the rapid melting of glaciers and ice sheets, and continued loss of biodiversity all illustrate that our planet is changing at a dangerous pace. At the same time, we are entering a period of unprecedented technological change.
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2019/10/15/princeton-take-part-new-us-swedish-initiative-artificial-intelligence-and
Sabine Kastner, a professor of psychology and the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, will receive this year’s Award for Education in Neuroscience from the Society for Neuroscience (SfN). The award honors individuals who have made outstanding contributions to neuroscience education and training and will be presented Monday, Oct. 21, at SfN’s annual meeting in Chicago.
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2019/10/21/kastner-receives-award-education-neuroscience
A new series, the Faculty Research Forum, brings together newly hired assistant professors with senior faculty and research administration staff to share information and build community, with the goal of ensuring that early career faculty have the resources they need to be successful.
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2019/10/21/faculty-research-forum-offers-community-knowledge-new-professors