Experiment in Graduate Education with an Environmental and Public Policy Focus

通过这一奖项，化学部支持普林斯顿环境研究所的早期发展：科学与工程研究计划。十个科学和工程系将参与一项联合努力，为科学和工程研究生有效参与解决环境问题的终身职业生涯做好准备。除了通常的系级研究项目外，学生还将参加一门补充课程，研究他们的研究主题对环境的影响。这一教育努力也有望使教师的研究计划与环境目标更好地结合起来。重点将放在改善不同学科之间的信息流和发展跨学科研究方案上。该项目将由普林斯顿大学化学系的托马斯·G·斯皮罗博士和工程学院能源与环境研究中心主任罗伯特·G·索科洛博士领导。伍德罗·威尔逊公共和国际事务学院科学、技术和公共政策领域的教员将为政策问题课程提供工作人员。学生将有机会在工业和其他非学术环境中实习。要审查的案例研究的例子包括：平流层臭氧化学与超音速运输先进发动机设计的相互作用；海洋中的金属循环；燃煤发电厂的污染管理；生物圈中的二恶英迁移；以及氯化原料燃烧中二恶英的形成。

With this award, the Division of Chemistry supports the early stages of development of the Princeton Environmental Institute: Research Initiative in Science and Engineering. Ten science and engineering departments will participate in a joint effort to prepare science and engineering graduate students for life-time careers of effective participation in environmental problem-solving. In addition to pursuing the usual departmental research programs, students will engage in a supplemental course of study and research addressing the environmental implications of their research topic. This educational effort is also expected to result in a better alignment of faculty research programs with environmental objectives. Emphasis will be placed on improving information flows among various disciplines and the development of interdisciplinary research programs. The program will be led by Dr. Thomas G. Spiro, Chemistry Department, Princeton University, and Dr. Robert G. Socolow, Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies in the School of Engineering. Faculty from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in the area of Science, Technology, and Public Policy will staff courses on policy issues. Students will have opportunities for internships in industrial and other non-academic settings. Examples of case studies to be examined include: interplay of stratospheric ozone chemistry with advanced engine design for supersonic transport; metals cycling in the ocean; pollution management at coal-fired power plants; dioxin transport in the biosphere; and dioxin formation in combustion of chlorinated feedstocks.