The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) recently elected Peter Schiffer, the dean for research at Princeton University, to be one of its 471 new lifetime fellows. Also elected were 17 undergraduate and graduate alumni.

This designation "honors members whose efforts on behalf of the advancement of science or its…

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) two highly competitive Microelectronics Science Research Center projects. PPPL researchers will lead two collaborative projects involving national labs, as well as academic and…

The Princeton Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellows program, now in its fifth year, has selected 15 scholars for its 2024 cohort from disciplines spanning the humanities, engineering, the sciences and the social sciences. The program recognizes and supports outstanding scholars primed to make important contributions in their fields.

The Princeton University Board of Trustees has approved the appointment of 22 faculty members, including five full professors, one associate professor and 16 assistant professors.

Mircea Dincă, in chemistry, specializes in inorganic and materials chemistry. He is joining…

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) research physicist Lan Gao has received a 2024 

Greg Hammett and Bill Dorland are recognized for groundbreaking contributions to plasma physics

A pair of physicists with long ties to the U.S. Department of Energy(Link is external)’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) are…

The Research & Development Council of New Jersey has awarded Brian Kernighan the Science & Technology Medal, the Council’s highest honor, for his groundbreaking work on computer programming languages. 

PNI graduate student Priscilla Louis, and her advisors, PNI associate director and associate professor…

Princeton mathematician Noga Alon has received the 2024 Wolf Prize in Mathematics “for pioneering contributions to mathematical cryptography, combinatorics, and the theory of computer science.” He shares the prize with Adi Shamir of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.

Michael Skinnider, an assistant professor in the Princeton Branch of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton, received the 2023 NOMIS & Science Young Explorer Award grand prize at a ceremony at the University of Zurich on June 4.