Farm field monitor takes innovation prize

Posted on March 3, 2015 by Karla Cook

Kelly Caylor

An agricultural/environmental sensing monitor designed by Kelly Caylor and his team took third prize in the Keller Center’s 10^th Annual Innovation Forum last week at Princeton University. PulsePod, a combination of hardware and software, provides in-field monitoring of crop health, microclimate, water and nutrients — information that is currently not easily available to farmers. The device communicates securely with Internet-based computers that store data and perform analysis that helps farmers to optimize their resources, said Caylor, associate professor in civil and environmental engineering and director of the ENV program. His team includes Adam Wolf, an associate research scholar in ecology and environmental biology, and Ben Siegfried, a Princeton alumnus and technical assistant in civil and environmental engineering. First and second prizes in the competition, which is for University researchers to present potentially marketable discoveries, went to Mark Esposito, for an enzyme-blocking method to stop the spread of cancer and to Blake Johnson for his 3-D printed personalized nerve regeneration technology.

At the launch

Posted on March 1, 2015 by Karla Cook

“When I see this crowd – and the diversity of the crowd – it’s obvious that food and agriculture are maybe the most compelling example of an academic or intellectual discipline that has a role to play in every department and every division on campus.”

– Kelly Caylor, Professor, CEE; Director, ENV Program

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Classes linked to food and related systems

Posted on February 27, 2015 by Karla Cook

Several faculty at Princeton University teach classes related to food and its supporting complex systems. Note that this assembly is ongoing. Please click through to Connected Courses and write with additions.

– karlac@princeton.edu

Campus as Lab

Posted on February 27, 2015 by Karla Cook

Sustainability at Princeton, under the direction of Shana Weber, an ecologist, provides a collection of opportunities for Campus as Lab. Here’s the department’s website. Here’s the Campus as Lab site.

Engaged alums gather food community

Posted on February 27, 2015 by Karla Cook

Dinner at Eno Terra, after the first Princeton Studies Food conference. A sponsor, Gordon Douglas ’55 MD, at right in photo, along with his wife, Sheila Mahoney, talked with (from left) Lyndon Estes, WWS-STEP associate research scholar; Kristi Wiedemann of Sustainability at Princeton; Anthony Shu, former business manager of Spoon University-Princeton (now at study abroad); and Tim Searchinger, research scholar at WWS-STEP.

Princeton Studies Food conference

Posted on February 27, 2015 by Karla Cook

Tim Searchinger, research scholar at WWS-STEP, and Amy Lerner, post-doc research fellow, organized the first annual Princeton Studies Conference.

Campus Dining hosts Barton Seaver

Posted on February 27, 2015 by Karla Cook

Barton Seaver, Director of the Healthy and Sustainable Food Program at the Harvard School of Public Health, visited Campus Dining last fall. Here’s the story on the CD site.