CHW affiliates Jonathan Cohen and Anu Ramaswami have received innovation grants from Princeton's School of Engineering and Applied Science. The awards enable engineering faculty members to take their research in bold new directions that address critical issues in technology, health, and the environment. The grants often fuel initial discoveries that lead to larger awards from external funding agencies.

Cohen, the Robert Bendheim and Lynn Bendheim Thoman Professor in Neuroscience, will be researching “a quantum approach to modeling perception, decision making and control.” Ramaswami, the Sanjay Swani ’87 Professor of India Studies and professor of civil and environmental engineering, received funds for a project on “democratizing zero-carbon modeling with metropolitan policy actors in New Jersey and Global South urban regions.”

The latest round of innovation grants fund 21 projects and total more than $3 million.