Princeton University

As a graduate student at Princeton, I have both the freedom to pursue my own research interests and the support of faculty that are among the best in the world.

I am studying nitrogen cycling in stormwater detention ponds and the potential use of these infrastructure in reducing stormwater nitrogen loads in urban areas.   My research involves a combination of fieldwork, laboratory experimentation and numerical modeling analyses.    I am also a fellow in the Princeton Environmental Institute’s Science, Technology and Environmental Policy Program, a program that allows Ph.D. students in science and engineering to address the environmental policy implications of their thesis research through supplementary course-work and policy-oriented research.

My undergraduate major was in Environmental Geology, however, I applied to the EEWR program because I was interested in applying my science background to the solution of current, real-world environmental problems.   When I began as a graduate student at Princeton, I was concerned because I did not have an undergraduate degree in Engineering.  I quickly found that my concerns were unfounded- the required core courses of the Ph.D. program provided the preparation I needed to conduct graduate research in Engineering.

As a graduate student in the EEWR program, you also have the opportunity to take courses outside of the department, in fields as diverse as mathematics or policy. The program fosters collaboration between researchers in a wide spectrum of fields, which I have found invaluable as I pursue my research.

Please feel free to contact me at brosenzw@princeton.edu if you have any questions about PEI-STEP, the EEWR program or graduate life at Princeton.