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'Young filmmakers' produce videos about School of Engineering .

Three recent Princeton graduates took part this summer in a "young filmmakers" program in the School of Engineering and Applied Science.  

Crossing boundaries to confront global problems .

Several dozen Princeton students and faculty are taking aim at the world's most pressing — and complex — problems through the Grand Challenges Program. This interdisciplinary, collaborative effort by the Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI), the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs is creating new programs in teaching and research in the areas of development, energy and health while building on the University's existing strengths in these areas.

PEI awards $1.01 million in Water and the Environment Grand Challenge projects .

PEI has awarded $1.01 million as part of the Water and the Environment Grand Challenge program for projects ranging from the ecological impacts of extreme weather to a national “climate park” in the New Jersey Meadowlands to engineered nanoparticles that target groundwater pollutants.

Student work: Sympoh Urban Arts Crew .

Senior Taofik Kolade directed this video on Sympoh, the original Ivy League urban arts crew. 

Student work: Camera stabilization senior thesis .

Zennen Clifton, class of 2008, profiles a camera stabilization platform developed by Engineering School classmates Taofik Kolade and Mike Wood for their senior thesis.

Researchers combine efforts to help people of African savannas manage their land .

When an interdisciplinary research team from Princeton arrived in the savanna of central Kenya last summer, they found that one region they were planning to study — Koija — had not received any rainfall for 18 months. The team is part of the Water in Africa initiative funded by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS), which promotes interdisciplinary programs of global import.

Video: Recap: Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition .

The Princeton Autonomous Vehicle Engineering team designed and created unmanned vehicles for the Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition.