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Professor Stoddard Named CST Director
May 29, 2025

Professor Mary (Cassie) Stoddard has been named the incoming Director of the Council on Science and Technology (CST), starting July 2025. 

The CST is comprised of dedicated faculty and staff who work to advance STEM literacy across Princeton University and beyond through rigorous course development, creative interdisciplinary…

HUMAN FOOTPRINT Season 2 with Professor Shane Campbell-Staton Returns to PBS on June 25th
May 5, 2025

"Follow Shane as he travels the globe and gives audiences a firsthand look at how people have transformed the planet and the millions of species around us. Along the way, Shane meets farmers, scientists, journalists and business owners across Asia, Europe, Africa and the Americas. He discovers that the ways that we reshaped the world have been…

Major Venture Forward gift from Devon and Pete Briger ’86 names Environmental Studies Building
April 17, 2025

Pete Briger ’86 and his wife, Devon Briger, have made a major gift in the Venture Forward campaign, supporting the construction of the environmental studies building at Princeton University. Their gift to name Briger Hall will strengthen and expand Princeton’s science and scholarship regarding some of humanity’s most pressing and…

Global Biodiversity Loss from Outsourced Deforestation
Feb. 21, 2025

A new study co-authored by Alex Wiebe, a doctoral student at Princton’s Ecology and Evolutionary Biology department and Dr. David Wilcove, Professor of Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, and Public Affairs reveals the relationship between the resource consumption of high-income nations and international biodiversity loss. This research examines how…

New Study Finds that Some Climate-Mitigation Strategies are Better for Wildlife than Others
Jan. 27, 2025

Dr. Jeffrey Smith, Associate Research Scholar at Princeton University’s High Meadow Environmental Institute, published a new study this week in Science evaluating how various climate change mitigation strategies affect biodiversity. In collaboration with scientists Dr. Jonathan Levine, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton,…

Bridgett vonHoldt sits down with NPR to discuss the American Red Wolf and the ‘ghost genes’ that could save the species from endangerment.
Oct. 23, 2024

“In honor of Halloween, we're bringing you a Short Wave (The Science podcast from NPR) ghost story — featuring an animal that has long been the stuff of conservationist legend: the American red wolf.

This small, cinnamon-colored canid roamed free across the American Southeast, preying on deer and small mammals and…

Rosemary Grant reflects on the triumphs and challenges of groundbreaking research on the Galápagos Islands' finches
July 23, 2024

Studying Darwin’s finches has been the life’s work of the renowned British evolutionary biologists Rosemary and Peter Grant. For several months every year for 40 years, the husband-and-wife team visited the Galápagos Islands in the eastern Pacific to meticulously track the fate of thousands of finches on two small islands there. The Grants…

Emma Zajdela's Group of Mentees Receive Santa Fe Institute Prize
July 2, 2024

Emma Zajdela, an Intelligence Community postdoctoral research fellow in the Levin and Oppenheimer Labs, HMEI, and C-PREE at Princeton University, served as a faculty for the first Complexity Global School (CGS) organized by the Santa Fe Institute in December 2023.  The 2024…

Guillaume Falmagne receives Lopez-Loreta Prize
June 19, 2024

The Lopez-Loreta Foundation has just awarded a 1-million-euro Prize to HMEI/EEB postdoctoral researcher Guillaume Falmagne, to fund for 5 years his project CORESO/COLNET: "COoperation in Large-scale NETworks: experimenting optimal structures". The project will set forth drivers of cooperation at large scales, through the design and use of a…

Festschrift honoring Daniel Rubenstein's 43 years of service in EEB
Jan. 11, 2024

A festschrift in honor of Daniel I. Rubenstein’s 43 years of service in the department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology was held on October 2-3, 2023 at Princeton University.  EEB’s chair Jonathan Levine introduced the event, highlighting Dan’s career at Princeton and the Mpala Research Centre in Kenya, his scholarly work on decision…