Awards

Schmidt funding awarded to investigations into life’s electrical landscape, miniaturized sensors and gene editing
May 5, 2023
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Written by Catherine Zandonella, Office of the Dean for Research

Three projects with the potential to open new avenues in science and engineering have been selected for funding through Princeton’s Eric and Wendy Schmidt Transformative Technology Fund.

Six Princeton professors have been elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
April 24, 2023
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Written by Jamie Saxon, Office of Communications

Princeton faculty members Linda Colley, Rafaela Dancygier, Judith Hamera, Ilya Kaminsky, Fintan O’Toole and Laurence Ralph have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Also elected are two alumni: Amy Gladfelter, a member of the Class of 1996, and…

Princeton faculty members Mendelberg, Leving and Alsdorf receive 2023 Guggenheim Fellowships
April 7, 2023
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Written by Jamie Saxon, Office of Communications

Three Princeton faculty members have received 2023 Guggenheim Fellowships. They are Bridget Alsdorf, professor of art and archaeology; Yuri Leving, professor of Slavic languages and literatures; and Tali Mendelberg, the John Work Garrett Professor in Politics, director of the Program on Inequality at the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and…

Historian Corinna Zeltsman awarded NEH grant
March 23, 2023
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Written by Jamie Saxon, Office of Communications
Four win Jacobus Fellowship, Princeton's top graduate student honor
Feb. 21, 2023
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Written by By Julie Clack and Liz Fuller-Wright, Office of Communications

Binyamin "Benny" Kleinman, Jason Molesky, Mira Nencheva and Lila Rodgers have been named winners of the Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship, Princeton University’s top honor for graduate students.

The Jacobus Fellows will be honored at Alumni Day ceremonies Saturday, Feb. 25.

Mathematician Ludovic Tangpi wins prestigious fellowship from American Mathematical Society
Feb. 16, 2023
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Written by Liz Fuller-Wright, Office of Communications

Mathematician Ludovic Tangpi has been awarded the third annual AMS Claytor-Gilmer Fellowship. The year-long fellowship was established to further excellence in mathematics research and to help generate wider and sustained participation by Black mathematicians.

Tangpi, an assistant professor in Princeton University's Department of…

Bryan, Buschman and McComas will receive prestigious honors from the National Academy of Sciences
Jan. 23, 2023
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Written by Liz Fuller-Wright, Office of Communications

Three Princetonians are among the 16 scientists receiving the highest honors given by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). These major awards recognize extraordinary scientific achievements in a wide range of fields spanning the physical, biological, social and medical sciences. The winners will receive their awards at a ceremony on April 30…

Quantum chemist Marissa Weichman receives NSF CAREER award
Jan. 20, 2023
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Written by Wendy Plump, Department of Chemistry

Department of Chemistry Assistant Professor Marissa Weichman has been awarded a five-year Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the NSF’s most prestigious award in support of early-career faculty.

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June Huh wins MacArthur ‘genius’ grant for creative approaches to mathematical puzzles
Oct. 12, 2022
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Written by Liz Fuller-Wright, Office of Communications

June Huh, a professor of mathematics at Princeton University who won the 2022 Fields Medal earlier this year, has been awarded a 2022 MacArthur Fellowship for …

Dean for Research Award for Distinguished Innovation awarded to Zemer Gitai for antibiotic-searching platform
Oct. 12, 2022
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Written by Catherine Zandonella, Office of the Dean for Research

The 2022 Dean for Research Award for Distinguished Innovation will be awarded to Zemer Gitai, Princeton’s Edwin Grant Conklin Professor of Biology and a professor of molecular biology, for a new drug-discovery platform that searches out drug candidates with unique or novel mechanisms of action.