Freedman receives top honor for computer science
Friday, May 17, 2019
Michael Freedman, a professor of computer science, has been awarded this year’s Grace Murray Hopper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery.
Awards
Avalos wins teacher-scholar award
Tuesday, May 14, 2019
José Avalos has been named a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar “for spatial and dynamic control of engineered metabolism for microbial chemical production."
Four Princeton professors elected to National Academy of Sciences
Wednesday, May 1, 2019
The National Academy of Sciences has elected four Princeton faculty members to join its ranks. They are among 100 new members and 25 foreign associates who were selected in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Those elected bring the total number of active members to 2,347 and the total number of foreign associates to 487. Foreign associates are nonvoting members of the academy, with citizenship outside the United States.
Ritger examines role of literature in the birth of modern punishment
Wednesday, Apr 24, 2019
Whether and how to incorporate rehabilitation into incarceration is an issue that society has grappled with for centuries and still struggles with today. In his dissertation, graduate student Matthew Ritger is looking at an unexpected source to study the period when the concept first began to emerge.
Bhargava and Scholes elected to Royal Society
Thursday, Apr 18, 2019
The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge announced today that Manjul Bhargava and Gregory Scholes are two of the 62 scientists who have become fellows or foreign members of the Royal Society.
Six faculty, alumna Michelle Obama, elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Wednesday, Apr 17, 2019
Princeton faculty members Kathryn Edin, Brian Kernighan, Sara McLanahan, Judith Weisenfeld and Virginia Zakian, as well as visiting research scholar Candis Callison, have been elected to the Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Bezdek's research on ammonia's chemical bonds has applications for environment, industry
Wednesday, Apr 17, 2019
Curiosity about the natural world and practical concerns guided Máté Bezdek’s research into the chemical bonds of nitrogen and hydrogen that make up ammonia.
Weisenfeld elected to Society of American Historians
Friday, Apr 12, 2019
Judith Weisenfeld, the Agate Brown and George L. Collord Professor of Religion, has been elected to the Society of American Historians. The society was founded in 1939 to promote literary distinction in the writing of history and biography.
Kruse and Vinitsky win Guggenheim Fellowships
Thursday, Apr 11, 2019
Princeton faculty members Kevin Kruse, professor of history, and Ilya Vinitsky, professor of Slavic languages and literatures, have received 2019 Guggenheim Fellowships.
Takahashi named Schmidt Science Fellow for study of complex human diseases
Wednesday, Apr 10, 2019
Eric and Wendy Schmidt announced on April 8 that Saki Takahashi is one of 20 new Schmidt Science Fellows — a program of Schmidt Futures, in partnership with the Rhodes Trust.
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