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Princeton researchers map rural U.S. counties most vulnerable to COVID-19
April 16, 2020
COVID-19
Public Policy
Melissa Lee
WWS reacts: How developing countries might grapple with COVID-19
April 16, 2020
COVID-19
Public Policy
Andrea Goldsmith
Andrea Goldsmith, entrepreneur and leader in wireless communications, appointed Princeton University dean of engineering
April 15, 2020
Engineering
University News
Kyle Jamieson and H. Vincent Poor
NSF RAPID grant backs Princeton research to track and contain pandemic
April 13, 2020
COVID-19
Engineering
Viruses appear as spheres covered with spike proteins
Princeton awards over half-a-million dollars in funding for rapid, novel and actionable COVID-19 research projects
April 10, 2020
COVID-19
Innovation
Awards
Biotechnology
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University strives to support New Jersey communities during coronavirus pandemic
April 10, 2020
COVID-19
Michael Dickman, Yaacob Dweck, and Yiyun Li. 
Three Princeton faculty, six alumni win Guggenheim Fellowships
April 10, 2020
Awards
ventilator prototype
Particle physicists design simplified ventilator for COVID-19 patients
April 9, 2020
COVID-19
Physical Sciences
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Three Princeton graduate alumni named Schmidt Science Fellows
April 9, 2020
Awards
Person holding boxes
University staff work 24/7 to support on-campus community during coronavirus pandemic
April 8, 2020
COVID-19
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Tiny polymer springs give a boost to environmental cleanup
April 6, 2020
Innovation
Engineering
Alin Coman
NSF RAPID grant awarded for study of how anxiety affects the spread of COVID-19 information
April 2, 2020
COVID-19
Social Science
Artistic rendering shows how a row of umbrellas could be deployed to protect a coastal community
Giant umbrellas shift from convenient canopy to sturdy storm shield
April 2, 2020
Engineering
Environment
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On the policy front lines: State health and value strategies program helps state governments tackle COVID-19
April 1, 2020
COVID-19
Public Policy
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Multi-year datasets suggest projecting outcomes of people’s lives with AI isn't so simple
March 31, 2020
Social Science
Data Science
Philip Warren Anderson
Nobel laureate and Princeton physicist Philip Anderson dies at age 96
March 30, 2020
Physical Sciences
University News
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Poor people experience greater financial hardship in areas where income inequality is greatest
March 30, 2020
Social Science
Public Policy
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Loners help society survive, say Princeton ecologists
March 27, 2020
Life Sciences
Vibrio cholerae biofilm bacteria
Mechanical forces shape bacterial biofilms’ puzzling patterns
March 26, 2020
Engineering
Virus
New mathematical model can more effectively track epidemics
March 25, 2020
COVID-19
Engineering
Data Science
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Food systems are fodder for curbing cities’ environmental impacts
March 24, 2020
Data Science
Environment
Water balloons
Water-balloon physics is high-impact science
March 19, 2020
Engineering
Hillel Furstenberg
Mathematics Ph.D. alumnus Furstenberg receives Abel Prize
March 19, 2020
Awards
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President Eisgruber’s message to all Princetonians on meeting the unprecedented challenges presented by COVID-19
March 17, 2020
University News
Mohamed Abou Donia
Donia wins Moore Foundation award for aquatic symbiosis research
March 11, 2020
Life Sciences
Awards
Human liver cells
Researchers identify factors essential for chronic hepatitis B infection
March 10, 2020
Life Sciences
Biotechnology
MacMillan Group
MacMillan illuminates the micro-environment, creating a new path to cancer drugs
March 5, 2020
Collaboration with Industry
Biotechnology
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Geneticists pump the brakes on DNA, revealing key developmental process
March 5, 2020
Engineering
Biotechnology
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How a chemist and a physicist solved a 50-year-old puzzle — with help from the Princeton Catalysis Initiative
March 4, 2020
Innovation
Collaboration with Industry
Science in the service of humanity: Princeton joins Rutgers, NJIT to advance health-related innovations
Feb. 27, 2020
University News
Physicist Novimir Pablant
Design of the W7-X fusion device enables it to overcome obstacles, scientists find
Feb. 24, 2020
Energy
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Internet security borne out of collaboration between Princeton and Let's Encrypt
Feb. 21, 2020
Data Science
Andrew Powis
Particle beam could help map Earth’s magnetic field to understand how space weather impacts the planet
Feb. 20, 2020
Energy
Clifford Brangwynne
Brangwynne, pioneer of cell biology, receives Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences
Feb. 19, 2020
Engineering
Awards
Enzyme Nocturnin
Princeton accelerates innovation through funding of six technologies with potential for societal impact
Feb. 17, 2020
Innovation
Technology Development
Innovation Funding
Intellectual Property Accelerator Award
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Fast and fragile: Two new studies explain the strange electron flow in future materials
Feb. 13, 2020
Physical Sciences
Technology
nanoparticles
It’s all in the delivery — nanoparticle platform could transform medical treatments
Feb. 12, 2020
Innovation
Biotechnology
Physicist Yi-Min Huang
Investigating the trigger for a sudden explosive process that occurs throughout the universe
Feb. 12, 2020
Energy
Three faculty members
Three Princeton faculty members named 2020 Sloan Research Fellows
Feb. 12, 2020
Awards
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Bassler receives Gruber Genetics Prize for discoveries on how bacteria communicate
Feb. 7, 2020
Life Sciences
Awards
Cancer cells
Researchers uncover potential cancer-causing mutations in genes’ control switches
Feb. 5, 2020
Biotechnology
Data Science
Rodney Priestley, Princeton’s inaugural vice dean for innovation
Rodney Priestley, Princeton's inaugural vice dean for innovation, discusses transformation of research into solutions for society
Feb. 5, 2020
Innovation
Vice Dean for Innovation Priestley
Santa Catalina fox
Microbes linked to cancer in threatened California foxes, report Princeton researchers
Feb. 4, 2020
Physical Sciences
Neanderthaler
New study identifies Neanderthal ancestry in African populations and describes its origin
Jan. 30, 2020
Social Science
Sun flares
NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe mission enters design phase
Jan. 28, 2020
Energy
Floating teacups. Illustration by J.F. Podevin
Quantum computing: Opening new realms of possibilities
Jan. 21, 2020
Engineering
Microtubules
By recreating cell division in a test tube, researchers discover vital role for protein elevated in a quarter of all cancers
Jan. 15, 2020
Biotechnology
Princeton climatologist Michael Oppenheimer on CBS’s “60 Minutes”
Sea level rise is speeding up, says Princeton climatologist Michael Oppenheimer
Jan. 13, 2020
Environment
Historian Kevin Kruse
Historian Kruse revisits the legacy of Princeton alumnus and civil rights champion John Doar
Jan. 13, 2020
Humanities Research
Princeton researcher with baby in the Princeton Baby Lab
Baby and adult brains ‘sync up’ during play, finds Princeton Baby Lab
Jan. 9, 2020
Brain and Behavior
Laurence Ralph
'The Torture Letters': Laurence Ralph explores Chicago’s dark history
Jan. 9, 2020
Humanities Research
Ecology and evolutionary biology graduate student Chris Tokita,
Of ants and men: Ant behavior might mirror political polarization, say Princeton researchers
Jan. 8, 2020
Social Science
Giraffe with tracking nodes
AI-based motion-capture system for animals has applications from drug development to ecology
Jan. 8, 2020
Biotechnology
Illustration of the searing-hot gas planet WASP-12b and its star.
Planet WASP-12b is on a death spiral, say scientists
Jan. 7, 2020
Physical Sciences
Nickolas Jones, postdoctoral research associate in psychology; Stacey Sinclair, professor of psychology and public affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs; and Diana Tamir, assistant professor of psychology
No laboratory needed: The Person Project mines social science data with secure online activities
Jan. 7, 2020
Social Science
Scientist at work
Identifying new drugs to cure hepatitis B and E virus infection
Dec. 31, 2019
Biotechnology
Photo and letter
T.S. Eliot letters, among best-known sealed literary archives, open at Princeton after 60 years
Dec. 30, 2019
Humanities Research
Electronic device
In leap for quantum computing, silicon quantum bits establish a long-distance relationship
Dec. 30, 2019
Technology
Bright light
New rules illuminate how objects absorb and emit light
Dec. 23, 2019
Engineering
Technology
Students and professor at table
‘Grow-and-prune’ AI mimics brain development, slashes energy use
Dec. 20, 2019
Engineering
Data Science

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