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Robert Socolow's Time Capsule for Climate Change, Freshman Seminar Collection

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Princeton University. Freshman Seminar: Time Capsules for Climate Change.

The FRS 151: Time Capsules for Climate Change course was a freshman seminar taught by Professor Robert Socolow. For the 2017 fall semester, six freshmen thought about climate change and the impact on their futures. After extensively researching their respective topics, they each prepared a final term paper that was placed into four different sealed folders, time capsules, to be opened at their graduation, 10th reunion, 25th reunion, and 50th reunion. The entire process was an exercise in honing their analytical skills and learning how to conceptualize their near and far futures.

The students of the course are Meléa Emunah, Dana Iverson, Jason Kong, Gianna Mavica, Lauren Sanchez, and Dora Zhao. The instructors were Robert Socolow, Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Scholar, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Nadir Jeevanjee, a Harry Hess postdoctoral fellow in the Princeton geosciences department and also affiliated with Princeton Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory.

This collection consists of sealed folders for each class containing the term papers written by the students, reflections from the students and instructors, as well as a letter from Daniel J. Linke, University Archivist.

This collection is arranged chronologically by the year they are set to be open.

This collection was transferred to the University Archives in January 2018 by the class.

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This collection was processed by Valencia L. Johnson in March 2018. Finding aid written by Valencia L. Johnson in April 2018. finind aid updated by Valencia L. Johnson in January 2022.

No materials were separated from this collection.

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University Archives
Finding Aid Author
Valencia L. Johnson
Finding Aid Date
2017
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The folders of this collection will be closed until the years noted in their titles.

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Collection Inventory

Physical Description

1 box

Graduation: 2021, 2017. 1 folder.
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1 folder

10th Reunion: 2031, 2017. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Times Capsules for Climate Change_bios, 2017. 14 digital files.
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14 digital files

25th Reunion: 2046, 2017. 1 folder.
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1 folder

50th Reunion: 2071, 2017. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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2 boxes

Graduation: 2022, 2018. 1 folder.
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1 folder

10th Reunion: 2032, 2018.
25th Reunion: 2047, 2018.
50th Reunion: 2072, 2018.

Graduation 2023, 2019. 1 folder.
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1 folder

10th Reunion: 2033, 2019. 1 folder.
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1 folder

25th Reunion: 2048, 2019. 1 folder.
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1 folder

50th Reunion: 2073, 2019. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Graduation: 2024, 2020. 1 folder.
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1 folder

10th Reunion: 2034, 2020. 1 folder.
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1 folder

25th Reunion: 2049, 2020. 1 folder.
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1 folder

50th Reunion: 2074, 2020.

Graduation 2025, 2021. 1 folder.
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1 folder

10th Reunion: 2035, 2021. 1 folder.
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1 folder

25th Reunion: 2050, 2021. 1 folder.
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1 folder

50th Reunion: 2075, 2021. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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