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19-736: The High Meadows Environmental Institute is an interdisciplinary center for environmental research that includes over 120 researchers from 29 departments. Researchers study the causes and impacts of climate change and other key environmental issues involving energy, food, water, and biodiversity. Long-term projects include the Carbon Mitigation Initiative, the Center for Biocomplexity, and the Integrated Ground Water Modeling Center. Grand Challenges and other initiatives focus on climate change and infectious disease, food and

38-544: A faculty committee which recommended the creation of the Princeton Environmental Institute. In December 1995, the Institute moved into the newly-renovated Guyot Hall. The founding director of the institute in 1994 was Simon Levin . François M. M. Morel held the position of Director twice, first between 1998 and 2004. Ignacio Rodríguez-Iturbe , who served as acting director of the institute in 2002, founded

57-502: A number of years, and was a director of Dow Chemical Company . His fields of specialization in economics include econometrics, science policy, and the evolution of postsecondary education. He is author of several books, including A Larger Sense of Purpose: Higher Education and Society (Princeton University Press, 2005). In 2000, Shapiro received the Council of Scientific Society Presidents Citation for Outstanding Leadership. In 2008, he

76-563: Is a Canadian academic, civil servant, former Principal and Vice-Chancellor of McGill University from 1994 to 2004, and the first Ethics Commissioner of Canada between May 17, 2004 and March 29, 2007. Born in Montreal , Quebec , he received a Bachelor of Arts from McGill University in 1956. In 1967 he received a Doctorate in Education from Harvard University . He then joined the faculty of Boston University and later became Associate Dean of

95-534: The Ontario public service serving as Deputy Minister of Education, Deputy Minister of Skills Development, Deputy Secretary of Cabinet, Deputy Minister and Secretary of Management Board and Deputy Minister of Colleges and Universities. From 1992 until 1994 he was Professor of Education and Public Policy at the University of Toronto . From 1994 until 2004 he was Principal and Vice-Chancellor of McGill University. In May 2004 he

114-643: The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University . Shapiro served as the president of University of Michigan from 1980 to 1988 and as the president of Princeton University from 1988 to 2001. Born to a Jewish family in Montreal , Quebec, Shapiro attended Lower Canada College , a prestigious independent school in Montreal which was at that time boys-only. He earned his B.Comm. , with honors, from McGill University in 1956 and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1964, both in

133-655: The Director became Gabriel Vecchi. In 2000, the institute established the Carbon Mitigation Initiative (CMI) in partnership with BP . The Carbon Mitigation Initiative has identified eight major carbon mitigation strategies or "wedges" for reducing human-based carbon emissions. In 2014, with funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the institute established the Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observations and Modeling project (SOCCOM), to study

152-678: The School of Education. In 1976 he was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Western Ontario and became Vice-President (Academic) and Provost in 1978. From 1980 until 1986 he was the Director of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, and in 1984 published The Report of The Commission on Private Schools in Ontario for the Ministry of Education of Ontario. In 1986 he joined

171-519: The Southern Ocean's role in climate regulation. In 2019, the institute received $ 2.5 million in federal funding to study resilience and sustainability in urban food systems. In 2020, the Institute received a gift to create the Thomas A. and Currie C. Barron Family Biodiversity Research Challenge Fund to support research on the preservation of species and ecosystems. The Princeton Environmental Institute

190-639: The boards of a number of prominent ventures, including the for-profit HCA (founded by the Frist family, which donated the Frist Campus Center to Princeton), and the non-profit Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and Robert Wood Johnson Medical School . He is a fellow of the Hastings Center , an independent bioethics research institution. He also served on the United States Olympic Committee for

209-441: The environment, ecohydrology, urban resilience, and sustainable development. The Princeton Environmental Institute was founded in 1994 as part of a broader initiative led by university president Harold T. Shapiro , to make Princeton a center for addressing global environmental challenges. Shapiro met with Tom Barron , Robert H. Socolow and Henry S. Horn in 1992 to discuss the university's possible direction. Shapiro then formed

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228-526: The field of ecohydrology . Stephen W. Pacala was Acting Director of the Princeton Environmental Institute from 2005 to 2006, and Director from 2006 to 2014. François M. M. Morel returned for a second time as Director from 2014-2017. The Director of the institute from 2017-2021 was Michael Celia, the Theodora Shelton Pitney Professor of Environmental Studies and professor of civil and environmental engineering at Princeton. As of July 2021,

247-412: The field of economics. His doctoral dissertation was titled "The Canadian monetary sector: an econometric analysis." Shapiro's parents owned the famous Ruby Foo's in Montreal. After his father's untimely death, the restaurant was passed down to him and his twin brother, Bernard , who would later become the first Ethics Commissioner of Canada and 14th principal of McGill University . Shapiro managed

266-615: The following year. Shapiro continues to live in Princeton , and is professor emeritus in the departments of economics and public policy at the university. He is trustee emeritus of the Institute for Advanced Study . His present academic interests include bioethics , on which he writes extensively. Shapiro chaired the National Bioethics Advisory Commission during President Bill Clinton 's second term. He also sits on

285-466: The restaurant while studying economics at McGill University , where he also began graduate school until he moved to Princeton University . He joined the faculty of the University of Michigan as assistant professor of economics in 1964. He held a variety of academic and administrative appointments, including as chairman of its department of economics and vice-president for academic affairs, until his selection as president of that university in 1980. He

304-538: Was a practicing psychologist and earned her PhD. His daughter, Janet, is a professor of psychology and the dean of the Graduate School of Social Work at Bryn Mawr College. His daughter, Karen, is the chief administrative officer of the Rutgers School of Health Professions. Italics denote acting or interim president (or term) Bernard Shapiro Bernard Jack Shapiro , OC GOQ (born June 8, 1935)

323-863: Was awarded the Clark Kerr Medal for Distinguished Leadership in Higher Education, presented annually by the University of California-Berkeley Academic Senate. He also received the William D. Carey Award for leadership in Science Policy from the American Association for the Advancement of Science.. Shapiro has been married to Vivian Shapiro for 53 years. Together they have four children: Anne, Marilyn, Janet and Karen. They also have 11 grandchildren. Vivian

342-696: Was president of Michigan until he left to become president of Princeton University in 1988. As Princeton's president, Shapiro oversaw the largest increase in the university endowment in the history of the school. Shapiro was elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1990. He announced his retirement from the presidency of Princeton in fall 2000 to take effect in June 2001. Shirley Tilghman , his successor, took office on June 15 of

361-522: Was renamed as the High Meadows Environmental Institute, following a gift from Judy and Carl Ferenbach III's High Meadows Foundation in 2020. The High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI) is projected to move to a new building at Princeton in early 2025. Harold T. Shapiro Harold Tafler Shapiro (born June 8, 1935) is an economist and university administrator. He is currently a professor of economics and public affairs at

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