Denise Mauzerall has been appointed to serve as a member of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Board. The EPA SAB provides expert guidance that is essential to EPA’s ability to protect public health and safeguard the environment. Their advice assists the EPA to employ sound science in pursuit of resolutions to a broad range of urgent environmental matters.

Princeton University researchers have uncovered a previously unknown, and possibly substantial, source of the greenhouse gas methane to the Earth's atmosphere.

In the Discovery: Research at Princeton, 2014-2015 issue, there is an article about Professor Jaffe's group on their research about a new bacterium titled " Wetlands provide solutions for agricultural runoff".

The department is pleased to announce that Professor Mark Zondlo received outstanding student evaluations for his CEE 311 Spring 2014 course.

Professor Jean Herve Prevost will be delivering the 2014 Biot Lecture at Columbia University on November 19, 2014.

In the field of innovation, the prize worth SR2 million, was awarded to two scientific teams: Dr. Eric F. Wood and Dr. Justin Sheffield from Princeton University of the United States of America for their anti-drought control system, and another team led by Dr. Christine Larsen of the University of Colorado, USA, for her discovery of a new technology to reduce the cost of measuring soil humidity, ice depth and the water plant content to an unprecedented level.

The Princeton Engineering Office of Graduate Affairs is pleased to announce that two of the department's graduate students, Nathaniel Chaney and Yao Yao, have each received a Wu Prize for Excellence.