President Shirley M. Tilghman on energy and the environment

****************************** Barrons' gift to support work that connects environment and humanities

************************** Sustainability projects funded through High Meadows gift

****************************** University approves new certificates in global health, energy ******************************

You have to love nature, rising junior Stephanie Hill said, when you grow up, as she did, in a remote, pristine village on the shores of a glacier-fed lake in British Columbia.

Megan Prier, a rising sophomore who hails from suburban Malvern, Pa., developed her passion for environmental issues in a different way. She became inspired about the possibility for change in high school after watching a documentary film on global warming.

And Reid Fritz, a rising junior from San Diego, Calif., said he can't remember a time when he wasn't interested in all things aquatic.

Together, these Princeton University students have embarked on a unique project this summer with others to study Lake Carnegie, its ecosystem and the streams that feed into it, part of a major, long-term effort that will complement University-wide goals to develop and expand in environmentally sustainable ways.  >> read story

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Stephen W. Pacala, Director
Katharine B. Hackett '79, Associate Director