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2025 Graduates Announcement
June 17, 2025

We are pleased to announce the recent graduation of 20 MPA STEP Certificate recipients, 5 MPP STEP Certificate recipients, 4 HMEI-STEP Fellows graduating with the STEP certificate, and 1 PhD student graduate of the STEP Cluster at SPIA. In addition, we had 28 graduating Environmental Policy Associates. Congratulations to our students!  

Study Reveals Songbirds Change Flight Patterns Over Midwest's Vast Farmlands
May 29, 2025
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Written by Kathi Borgmann, Cornell University

A new study published today in the journal Conservation Biology has found that songbirds modify their migration patterns when migrating through the vast agricultural landscape of the Midwest known as the "Corn Belt" in similar ways when crossing natural…

Researchers Identify Key Social Vulnerability Factors Relating Flood Risks to Buildings and Crops
May 19, 2025
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Written by Sina Razzaghi Asl, Ph.D. ; Cara Clase, Ph.D., Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment

 

A Princeton-led study uncovers the relationship between flood risk and social vulnerability; communities with high levels of renters, farming, and forestry found to be linked to increased economic loss.

Floods are among the most destructive natural hazards, causing…

Researchers Uncover Clearer Patterns in Extreme Storm Surge Trends Amid Rising Sea Levels
April 25, 2025
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Written by Cara Clase, Ph.D., Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment

A study from the University of Central Florida and Princeton University finds evidence that storm surge events are becoming more extreme in some regions of the U.S.

Storm surges—sudden, abnormal rises in sea levels during storms—pose a major threat to low-lying coastal communities. Some of the…

New US Academic Alliance for the IPCC to support vital work of climate scientists
March 20, 2025
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Written by AGU

A new Alliance of US-based academic institutions that are Observer organizations at the UN’s climate science body has opened an application portal inviting nominations for the IPCC Seventh Assessment report.

 

A newly established network of U.S. academic…

AI technique boosts climate change defenses
March 18, 2025
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Written by John Sullivan

Researchers from Princeton and Rutgers University have used reinforcement learning, a method frequently deployed to train artificial intelligence, to show how flexible responses can substantially increase the cost-effectiveness of steps to defend cities like New York against climate change.

The research is part…

Princeton-led study highlights widespread health co-benefits from all-of-society clean energy actions in the US
March 13, 2025
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Written by Cara Clase, Ph.D., Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment

A Princeton study underscores the health benefits of an all-of-society clean energy transition, suggesting that coordinated policy efforts across various sectors and actors could prevent thousands of premature deaths a year.  

Transitioning to clean energy is not just about reducing…

 

 

Student & Alumni News

2025 Graduates Announcement
June 17, 2025

We are pleased to announce the recent graduation of 20 MPA STEP Certificate recipients, 5 MPP STEP Certificate recipients, 4 HMEI-STEP Fellows graduating with the STEP certificate, and 1 PhD student graduate of the STEP Cluster at SPIA. In addition, we had 28 graduating Environmental Policy Associates. Congratulations to our students!  

The Environmental Policy Associates go to D.C.
March 6, 2025

In late January, C-PREE's Environmental Policy Associates embarked on a career trek to Washington, D.C.  Check out the digital scrapbook below to see what they did!

 

Building Trust and Technology to Decarbonize a Legacy Industry
Feb. 24, 2025
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Written by Divyansh Chug

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In December 2024, I conducted a series of interviews with over 20 brick kiln owners in Rajasthan and Bihar in India. These conversations sought to understand the realities of an industry critical to construction and deeply entwined with environmental challenges. The kiln owners described the…

From Science to Storytelling: My summer as a science journalist with the AAAS Mass Media Fellowship
Dec. 9, 2024
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Written by Bing Lin, STEP Ph.D.

This summer, I had the incredible opportunity to participate in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Mass Media Fellowship with Inside Climate News (ICN). Over 10 weeks, I traded…

Read updates from Princeton's student delegation about the 29th Conference of the Parties in Baku, Azerbaijan
Nov. 11, 2024

At these annual conferences, governments assess their countries' progress in addressing climate change, including country reports on greenhouse gas mitigation targets and reports of subsidiary bodies. At this major global convening, heads of state, ministers, and negotiators as well as civil society representatives, researchers, local…

Congratulations to Our 2024 Graduates!
June 7, 2024
 

Please join us in celebrating the graduating students affiliated with C-PREE this year. We have a great cohort of 18 graduating students that have been involved with our work during their time at Princeton. MPA and MPP students who pursued the environmental component of the Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (STEP) Certificate,…

COP28: Princeton Delegate Blog
Dec. 11, 2023
Read updates from Princeton's student delegation about the 28th Conference of the Parties in the United Arab Emirates. 

 

At these annual conferences, governments assess their countries' progress in addressing climate change, including country reports on greenhouse gas mitigation…