Researchers study the causes and impacts of climate change and other key environmental issues involving energy, food, water, and biodiversity.
Grand Challenges and other initiatives focus on climate change and infectious disease, food and the environment, ecohydrology, urban resilience, and sustainable development.
Shapiro met with Tom Barron, Robert H. Socolow and Henry S. Horn in 1992 to discuss the university's possible direction.
[4][23][24] In 2019, the institute received $2.5 million in federal funding to study resilience and sustainability in urban food systems.
[1][2][27][28] The High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI) is projected to move to a new building at Princeton in early 2025.