News List
Einara Zahn (who was a Ph.D. student and now is a Postdoc in our lab) receievd the “Lorenz G. Straub Award” award from St. Anthony Falls Lab at the University of Minnesota, a national prize awarded to the best dissertation in the area of hydraulic engineering, ecohydraulics, or…
Bloomberg News wrote an article titled “How to Cool Down Parks in Hot Cities” featuring our work on novel ways to cool cities, including novel material and novel ways to ventilate the city.
Princeton Engineering news featured an article on the recent paper of Postdoc Lucia Stein Montalvo where she shows how using…
Our new article on "Optimizing retro-reflective surfaces to untrap radiation and cool cities" is featured on CNN https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/11/climate/urban-heat-climate-solution-retr…;
You can find the full paper here: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/55ld8v3mq556vgfpyi98d/Optimizing-retro-r……
CEE Professor Elie Bou-Zeid has been awarded the Distinguished Scientific/Technological Accomplishment Award by the Board on Urban Environment of the American Meteorological Society (AMS)!
The award honors “an individual who has made…
The latest development to our Mobile Urban Sensing Technology MUST) is featured in a news article by Princeton Engineering, showing the work of undergrad student Jovan Aigbekaen.
Older news from our lab
Our paper in Nature is featured in a Princeton news article
Our City Reader project wins a Beyond Bauhaus Prize
Our paper on urban heat islands during cold waves featured in Science Daily
Elie Bou-Zeid's paper on Middle East Dust Storm featured in international media in English, Hebrew, and Russian
A news article discuses our cool roof research
A news article discussed our green roof research
Podcast by Scientific American on our Heat Waves - Urban Heat Islands Interaction Paper
Our Cool Roofs study featured in Princeton's School of Engineering and Applied Science News and in Princeton Plasma Physics Lab News. Also see our project website.
Our paper on discussing the impact of elephant hair on the animal's thermoregulation received significant news coverage in over 10 languages.
Here is a list of some selected links
A film on the lab's work by the Princeton communications office
Elie Bou-Zeid receives the Latsis Prize for his research work at EPFL (in French)
Elie Bou-Zeid discusses the Copenhagen summit implications on Al-Jazeera (in Arabic):
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