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American Southwest landscape
Climate change could mean fewer sunny days for hot regions banking on solar power
Oct. 7, 2020
Energy
Environment
Mohammad (Mo) Seyedsayamdost
Princeton chemist Mohammad Seyedsayamdost awarded a MacArthur Fellowship
Oct. 6, 2020
Physical Sciences
Awards
Filmed movement of breath in front of a person
Research shows conversation quickly spreads droplets more than six feet inside buildings
Oct. 1, 2020
COVID-19
Viruses appear as spheres covered with spike proteins
Largest COVID-19 contact tracing study to date finds children key to spread, evidence of superspreaders
Sept. 30, 2020
COVID-19
Biotechnology
Angelo Campus
Angelo Campus electrifies the renewable energy business with BoxPower
Sept. 28, 2020
Energy
Person in lab with tape on floor showing egress
Princeton researchers report high level of compliance with on-campus health and safety protocols
Sept. 22, 2020
COVID-19
Woman with mask
Long-term COVID-19 containment will be shaped by strength and duration of natural, vaccine-induced immunity
Sept. 21, 2020
COVID-19
Betsy Levy Paluck and Meghan Testerman
Professor Betsy Levy Paluck and librarian Meghan Testerman awarded Data-Driven Social Science Initiative Grant to fund open database of prejudice reduction studies
Sept. 20, 2020
Life Sciences
Awards
Snail image
Kang finds keys to control the ‘driver of cancer’s aggressiveness’
Sept. 17, 2020
Physical Sciences
Toxoplasmosis
Novel drug could be a powerful weapon in the fight against malaria and toxoplasmosis
Sept. 15, 2020
Engineering
Biotechnology
Aleksandr Loguno
Mathematician Logunov wins New Horizons Prize
Sept. 10, 2020
Awards
Princeton microbiologist Mohamed Abou Donia
Donia wins Vilcek Prize in biomedical science
Sept. 9, 2020
Awards
Snow and ice melt during a record heat wave in February 2020
Understand the past to understand the future: Climate science at Princeton
Aug. 28, 2020
Environment
Assistant Professor Todd Hyster, graduate student Jacob DeHovitz, and David MacMillan
Hyster and Macmillan report new platform for stereocontrol
Aug. 27, 2020
Physical Sciences
Quantum computer image
Princeton plays major role in new $115 million quantum science center
Aug. 26, 2020
University News
Energy
World map at night
Tough, timely and team-driven: 50 years of energy research
Aug. 21, 2020
Energy
Row of planets
Princeton researchers join collaboration of NSF Physics Research Center
Aug. 19, 2020
Physical Sciences
A new tool called an OptoBinder
New tools catch and release cellular targets at the flip of a light switch
Aug. 18, 2020
Engineering
Biotechnology
Tilé Nougar, a Kulaale speaking village in Chad
Lionnet awarded National Science Foundation grant to document endangered languages
Aug. 17, 2020
Social Science
Awards
Olga Russakovsky
Russakovsky recognized for fighting bias and advancing diversity in AI research
Aug. 17, 2020
Awards
Data Science
Painting by Henri Rousseau, “Fight between a Tiger and a Buffal
From muddy boots to mathematics: Advancing the science of ecosystems and biodiversity
Aug. 14, 2020
Physical Sciences
Environment
Lena Delta Reserve in Russia
Water, drought and flooding
Aug. 6, 2020
Engineering
Environment
Chemistry building
Princeton's Prud'homme and Yang partner with Genentech to decode a key process in vaccines and cancer treatments
July 31, 2020
Engineering
Collaboration with Industry
Earth
Climate modeling at Princeton
July 29, 2020
Environment
Students and faculty in lab
Center for materials of the future awarded $18M six-year funding
July 28, 2020
University News
Technology
Parasite
The worm in the bud: Do parasites interfere with immunization? 
July 27, 2020
COVID-19
Physical Sciences
Public Policy
Andrew Dobson
Preventing the next pandemic
July 23, 2020
COVID-19
Public Policy
Aedes aegypti mosquito
A taste for humans: How disease-carrying mosquitoes evolved to specialize in biting us
July 23, 2020
Physical Sciences
Fruit fly embryos
Complex developmental patterns are under the control of surprisingly simple signals
July 23, 2020
Physical Sciences
Adam Burrows
Astrophysicist Adam Burrows wins international prize for brown dwarf and exoplanet research
July 23, 2020
Physical Sciences
Awards
Fake news
Tracking misinformation campaigns in real-time is possible, study shows
July 22, 2020
Social Science
Public Policy
Clifford Brangwynn
Bioengineer Clifford Brangwynne named 2020 Blavatnik National Awards laureate
July 22, 2020
Engineering
Awards
Image of water
New study provides evidence for decades-old theory to explain the odd behaviors of water
July 16, 2020
Dean Debenedetti
Engineering
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope
New view of nature’s oldest light adds fresh twist to debate over universe’s age
July 15, 2020
Physical Sciences
Three planets in the Kepler-431 system
Artificial intelligence predicts which planetary systems will survive
July 13, 2020
Physical Sciences
Gardening tool
Emotional well-being while home gardening similar to other popular activities, study finds
July 10, 2020
Social Science
Environment
Scene from a weekly Stellarator conference
Worldwide Stellarator research goes virtual
July 10, 2020
COVID-19
Energy
Still from animated film 'The Torture Letters'
‘The Torture Letters’: a film by Princeton anthropologist Laurence Ralph on policing urban America
July 8, 2020
Social Science
University Chapel, Princeton
Campus seismometers illustrate compliance with the stay-at-home order
July 7, 2020
COVID-19
Campus building
Princeton announces plan for fall 2020, guidelines for undergraduates returning to campus
July 6, 2020
University News
Illustration of car radar
New radar allows cars to spot hazards around corners
June 25, 2020
Data Science
Windows
Board approves 24 faculty appointments
June 25, 2020
Device that uses electrical fields to herd cells
Researchers use electric fields to herd cells like flocks of sheep
June 24, 2020
Engineering
University building. Photo by Denise Applewhite, Office of Communications
Princeton faculty members receive grants for COVID-19 research from C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute
June 23, 2020
COVID-19
Adam Burrows
Astrophysicist Jo Dunkley wins Tomassoni Chisesi Prize
June 23, 2020
Physical Sciences
Awards
Matthew Kunz
Astrophysicist Kunz receives NSF award for research and for establishing plasma physics summer school aimed at attracting underrepresented students to field
June 23, 2020
Engineering
Awards
Lauren von Berg, Class of  2020
Lauren von Berg, Class of 2020, publishes research from internship studying Antarctic sea ice
June 22, 2020
Data Science
Environment
Chen Zhang, a graduate student
Triggering bacteria in the service of medicine
June 22, 2020
Physical Sciences
Nassau Hall
President Eisgruber calls on University leadership to confront realities and legacy of racism at every level of our institution
June 22, 2020
University News
Hummingbird
Wild hummingbirds see a broad range of colors humans can only imagine
June 15, 2020
Physical Sciences
Artist’s rendering of the solar system and heliosphere
NASA’s IBEX charts 11 years of change at the boundary to interstellar space
June 11, 2020
Physical Sciences
Illustration of various gut microbiomes
Study investigates potential for gut microbiome to alter drug safety and efficacy
June 10, 2020
Life Sciences
Biotechnology
Migratory shorebirds
Study on shorebirds suggests that when conserving species, not all land is equal
June 9, 2020
Environment
Keith Wailoo
‘We Roar’: Wailoo sees the intersecting vulnerabilities behind COVID-19 fatalities
June 9, 2020
COVID-19
Social Science
Dancers with net, various poses
Artist collaborations awarded Dean for Research Innovation funding
June 8, 2020
DFR Innovation Fund for Collaborations between Artists and Scientists or Engineers
nanofibers
New industrial collaborations awarded Dean for Research Innovation funding
June 8, 2020
DFR Innovation Fund for New Industrial Collaborations
Precolonial and colonial African tribe
Social sciences projects receive Dean for Research Innovation awards
June 8, 2020
DFR Innovation Fund for New Ideas in the Social Sciences
A marsupial
Natural sciences projects receive Dean for Research Innovation awards
June 8, 2020
DFR Innovation Fund for New Ideas in the Natural Sciences
Groundbreaking University of Maryland physicist wins Princeton Presidential Fellowship to bring her skills to PPPL
June 8, 2020
Energy
Audrey Shih, a chemical and biological engineering concentrator
Senior thesis project probes intricacies of groundwater cleanup
June 8, 2020
Engineering

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