for Research, Education and Civic Engagement Initiatives
This is the complete list of High Meadows Foundation Fund recipients from 2008 to present. For more information about the High Meadows Foundation or to apply for a High Meadows grant please visit the High Meadows Foundation Sustainability Fund page.
| Project Lead(s) | Affiliation | Proposal Title | Funding Year(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amber Lin '19 | Princeton University Energy Association | MIT Energy Conference | 2017 |
| Dr. Paul Gauthier | Department of Geosciences | Princeton Vertical Farming Project | 2017 |
| Alan Braddock | Princeton Environmental Institute/Department of Art and Archaeology | Barnes Foundation Field Trip for Spring Course "EcoCritical Exhibition" | 2017 |
| Olivia Trase '17 | Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Senior Thesis: Plant Communication in Agriculture | 2016 |
| Mike Brew | Princeton University Art Museum | Solar Panels for 2 Low Speed Vehicles (LSVs) | 2016 |
| Ben Sorkin '17 and Kirk Robinson '17 | Princeton Racing Electric/Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | Design of a Long-Range Electric Marine Propulsion System | 2016 |
| Smitha Haneef | Campus Dining | Tiger Chef Challenge | 2016 |
| Selina Pi '19 | Greening Dining | 2016 Real Food Challenge Regional Action Training | 2016 |
| Jamie Simpson '16 | Office of Dean of Undergraduate Students | Class of 2016 Sustainable Cap and Gown Initiative | 2015-2016 |
| Smitha Haneef | Campus Dining | Urban Cultivator Indoor Vertical Grower | 2015-2016 |
| Lisa Nicolaison | The Campus Farmers' Market Team | Spring 2016 Campus Farmers' Market | 2016 |
| Lily Secora | The Graduate School | Sustainable Regalia for Graduate Student Hooding and Commencement 2016 | 2016 |
| Dr. Shana Weber | Office of Sustainability | Design overhaul of the Tiger Energy App | 2016-2017 |
| Dr. Forrest Meggers | Architecture School | ARC 311 Course Project: Solar Picnic Table (for charging electronics) | 2016 |
| Dr. Sander van der Linden | Psychology, Woodrow Wilson School, ACEE | Social and Environmental Decision-Making (SED) Lab | 2015-2016 |
| Dr. Shana Weber | Office of Sustainability | Yellowstone Sustainability Software Development Internship | 2015 |
| Rozalie Czesana '18 | Princeton Studies Food | Pilot: Science, Society, and Dinner | 2015 |
| Leigh Anne Schriever '16 | SURGE | "What Will Princeton Look Like With Climate Change" Art Submission Contest | 2014 |
| Smitha Haneef | Campus Dining |
A Conversation on Sustainability and Community Conservation with Barton Seaver |
2014 |
| Kevin Griffin '17 | Student Independent Research Project | Biodigester Project | 2014 |
| Jeremy Zullow '17 | SURGE | People's Climate March | 2014 |
| Isaac Lederman '15 | SURGE | Do it in the Dark Energy Competition | 2014 |
| Isaac Lederman '15, Jeremy Zullow '17, Gina Talt '15 | SURGE, Greening Princeton | Earth Day Picnic | 2014 |
| Injinash Unshin '15 and Elise Backman '15 | Sustainable Fashion Initiative | Verte Magazine | 2013, 2014 |
| Meg Partridge '14 | Sustainable Fashion Initiative | Sustainable Fashion Week and Spring Fashion Show | 2014 |
| Misha Semenov '15, Olivia Howard '15, Lena Sun '16 | Greening Princeton, EcoReps | Earth Day | 2013 |
| Eileen Zerba | Princeton Environmental Institute | Course Development: Food, Agriculture and the Environment | 2013 |
| Karen Malatesta, Wole Soboyejo | Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | Faculty Research: Bioremediation of Plastic Waste | 2012 |
| Sarah Bluher '13 | Princeton BEE Team | Bee Team Yard/Outdoor Action Expansion | 2012 |
|
Amanda Rees '12 |
Chemical and Biological Engineering | Senior Thesis: Producing and Characterizing Bioethanol from Cellulosic Biomass | 2012 |
| Kristi Wiedemann | Princeton Garden Project | Student Garden Project Summer Coordinator Support | 2012 |
| Jessica Popkin, Jenny Price | Art of Sustainability Course | Sustainability Games at the Princeton University Art Museum | 2012 |
| Michelle Liu '13 | Engineers Without Borders USA: Princeton University Chapter | Student Informal Course: Sustainable Engineering and Development Scholars (SEADS) | 2011 |
| Hank Song '11, Nicole Businelli '13 | Engineers Without Borders USA: Princeton University Chapter, Students United for a Responsible Global Environment (SURGE), International Student Association at Princeton | Student Conference: Collective Motion - Mainstreaming Sustainability in Development | 2011 |
| William Evans | Facilities Engineering | Demonstrating Power: Development of Interactive Bike Generator Exhibit | 2011 |
| Rena Chen '11 | The Environmental Discourses on the Ingestion of Bugs League (EDIBL) | Event Series | 2011 |
| Don Weston | VP For Finance and Treasury | Purchasing Department Vendor Life Cycle Assessment Tool Development, Phase 2 | 2011 |
| Shana Weber | Office of Sustainability | Drink Local Initiative: Reducing Bottled Water Consumption and Changing Culture | 2011 |
| Shana Weber, Art Murphy | Office of Sustainability, Facilities Engineering | Building Energy Performance Kiosk for Butler College | 2011 |
| Shana Weber | Office of Sustainability | Student Environmental Communication Network (SECN) Summer 2011 Intensive Training Internship | 2011 |
| Shana Weber | Office of Sustainability | Sustainability Open House 2010 | 2011 |
| Shana Weber | Office of Sustainability | Sustainability Progress Publication 2010 and 2011 | 2011 |
| Stephanie Teeple '14 | Engineers Without Borders USA: Princeton University Chapter | Collective Motion Conference: Mainstreaming Sustainability in Development | |
| Julia Yang '10 | Independent Student Initiative | Senior Thesis Project: Pull the Plug - Social Norms as an Inducement of Sustainability Behavior | 2010 |
| Richard Curtis | Outdoor Action | Outdoor Action Frosh Trip Sustainability Initiative | 2010 |
| Shana Weber | Office of Sustainability | Office of Sustainability post-grad 1-year Sustainability Fellowship | 2010 |
| Joseph Vellone '10 | Slow Food Princeton | Slow Food Princeton Speaker Series | 2010 |
| Jeffrey Domanski | Office of Sustainability | U-Bikes Campus Bike Rental Program | 2010 |
| Shana Weber | Office of Sustainability | Sustainability Ambassador Program Internship | 2010 |
| Eileen Zerba, Gregory Paczkowski | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Athletics | Effects of Sustainable Practices on Indoor Air Quality and Water Quality, Human Health and Building Energy Use of a Princeton Aquatic Complex | 2010 |
| Sigrid Adriaenssens | Civil and Environmental Engineering | An Environmental and Economic Model for Assessing Structural Systems | 2010 |
| Eileen Zerba | The Princeton Environmental Institute | Environmental challenges and sustainable solutions for protecting water resources: tracking the impact of land use and sustainable practices on a regional watershed | 2009 |
| Peter Jaffee | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Mitigation of Nitrogen Runoff from the Princeton University Campus | 2009 |
| Denise Mauzerall | Woodrow Wilson School, STEP Program | Climate change and air pollution: regional and global analysis of benefits and tradeoffs of emission reduction options | 2009 |
| Xenia Morin | Program in Environmental Studies, Princeton Environmental Institute | Sustainable Agriculture and Food Course Development | 2009 |
| Elie Bou-Zeid | Civil and Environmental Engineering | A Sensor Network Over Princeton University | 2009 |
| Lydia Kallipoliti MA '09 and PhD '13, Alicia Imperiale MA '09 | School of Architecture | EcoRedux: Design Remedies for a Dying Planet; Educational Web Resources | 2009 |
| Paul Lewis | School of Architecture | Princeton's Exterior Pathways: Lighting Analysis and Sustainable Prototypes | 2009 |
| Serge Goldstein, Steven Sather | Office of Information Technology | Toward Print-Less and Paper-Less Courses: Pilot Amazon Kindle Program | 2009 |
| Shana Weber | Office of Sustainability | Communicating Sustainability 2009: The Student Environmental Communication Network | 2009 |
| Richard Curtis | Outdoor Action | Expansion of the Outdoor Action Sustainability Initiative | 2009 |
| Ruthie Schwab '09, Elena Dillard '11 | Forbes Garden Project | Implementation of sustainable food systems programs at the 79 Alexander Street demonstration garden plot | 2009 |
| Ruthie Schwab '09, Stephanie Hill '10, Emma Hare '10 | Greening Princeton Farmers' Market | Promotional and operational materials for the Greening Princeton Farmers' Market | 2009 |
| Nathalie Pinkerton PhD '13, Joseph Roy-Mayhew PhD '13 | Department of Chemical Engineering | 1-Day Sustainability Conference Featuring Princeton Research | 2009 |
| Shana Weber | Office of Sustainability | Intern Program | 2009 |
| Teresa Riordan | School of Engineering and Applied Science: Office of Communications | Engineering Sustainability Video Storytelling Program | 2009 |
| Daniel Growald '11 | Students United for a Responsible Global Environment (SURGE) | PowerShift 2009 Delegation to Washington, D.C. | 2009 |
| Alyce Tzue '10 | Student Design Agency | Design for Social Causes Conference 2009 | 2009 |
| Shana Weber | Office of Sustainability | Communicating Sustainability 2008: The Student Environmental Communication Network | 2008 |
| Shana Weber | Office of Sustainability | Ecology Representative Program | 2008 |
| Richard Curtis | Outdoor Action | Outdoor Action Sustainability Initiative | 2008 |
| Stephanie Hill '10 | Forbes Garden Project | Design and implementation of the organic demonstration garden to a larger lot near Forbes College | 2008 |
| Katharyn Anderson '08 | Greening Princeton Farmers' Market | Promotional and operational materials for the Greening Princeton Farmers' Market, the first truly student-run local farmers market in the country | 2008 |
| Jeffrey Domanski | Bicycle and Pedestrian Program | Support for a student-run program (UBikes) operating out of Forbes College | 2008 |
| Shana Weber | Office of Sustainability | CFL Bulb Exchange Program | 2008 |
| Kim Jackson, Andrea DeRose | Transportation Demand Management Program | Assessment of sustainable campus transportation opportunities | 2008 |
| Don Weston | Purchasing Department | Sustainable Purchasing Initiative | 2008 |
| Shana Weber | Office of Sustainability | Office of Sustainability Internship Program | 2008 |
| Guy Nordenson, Jim Smith | School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering | Urban and ecological adaptation design and hydrological modeling project | 2008 |
| Catherine Peters, Michael Littman, Sharad Malik | Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education | Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) courses for the 2008-2009 academic year | 2008 |
| Eileen Zerba | The Princeton Environmental Institute | Environmental Challenges and Sustainable Solutions project | 2008 |