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four faculty photos
Four Princeton faculty members awarded NEH grants
Dec. 21, 2020
Humanities Research
wind turbines and solar panels
Big but affordable effort needed for America to reach net-zero emissions by 2050, Princeton study shows
Dec. 15, 2020
University News
Energy
Environment
Closeup of a metasurface
Super surfaces use terahertz waves to help bounce wireless communication into the next generation
Dec. 14, 2020
Technology
Close up of graphene
‘Magic’ angle graphene and the creation of unexpected topological quantum states
Dec. 14, 2020
Physical Sciences
Approaching hurricane
Forecasting the next COVID-19
Dec. 14, 2020
COVID-19
Biotechnology
Public Policy
The diatom species, Fragilariopsis kerguelensis is a floating algae that is abundant in the Antarctic Ocean
What caused the ice ages? Tiny ocean fossils offer key evidence
Dec. 10, 2020
Biotechnology
Physical Sciences
Princeton Medical Center nurses wear face-and-neck covers designed and built by Princetonians
In pandemic, Princeton graduate students and faculty raced to create innovative protections for hospital staff
Dec. 7, 2020
COVID-19
Multiple plants root systems
How plants compete for underground real estate affects climate change and food production
Dec. 3, 2020
Physical Sciences
research image
Math enables custom arrangements of liquid “nesting dolls”
Dec. 1, 2020
Physical Sciences
Michael Mueller
Agreement with National Renewable Energy Laboratory formalizes research exchanges for clean energy development
Dec. 1, 2020
Technology Development
Large green sphere
Massive underground instrument finds final secret of our sun’s fusion
Dec. 1, 2020
Physical Sciences
A T cell attacks a cancer cell
Computing empowers immune cells to kill cancer
Nov. 30, 2020
Biotechnology
Data Science
Plastics, shown as green particles
Plastic pollution is everywhere. study reveals how it travels
Nov. 30, 2020
Engineering
Environment
Red graphic
COVID-19 shutdowns disproportionately affected low-income Black households
Nov. 30, 2020
COVID-19
Public Policy
Person watching sports
Basketball on the brain: Neuroscientists use sports to study surprise
Nov. 25, 2020
Brain and Behavior
Board approves five faculty appointments
Nov. 25, 2020
University News
Smith
A.J. Stewart Smith, five others named AAAS fellows
Nov. 24, 2020
University News
bacteria
Social bacteria build shelters using the physics of fingerprint patterns
Nov. 23, 2020
Life Sciences
Physical Sciences
campus building at twilight
Graduate School expands sixth-year funding program to support Ph.D. students during the pandemic
Nov. 20, 2020
University News
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A new ERA in Princeton research administration
Nov. 19, 2020
Task Force on Administrative Workload
University News
Cliff Brangwynne in front of whiteboard with equations
Clifford Brangwynne to lead Princeton Bioengineering Initiative
Nov. 18, 2020
Engineering
University News
In the mysterious Blue Ring Nebula, scientists see the fate of binary stars
Nov. 18, 2020
Physical Sciences
Everybody’s got a hungry heart
Nov. 17, 2020
Physical Sciences
People in developing countries eat less wild game as they migrate from rural to urban areas
Nov. 16, 2020
Environment
Tom Barron, Class of 1974
Currie Barron and Tom Barron ’74 establish research fund to preserve biodiversity
Nov. 16, 2020
Environment
Engage 2020, a three-day innovation and entrepreneurship conference
Princeton announces new programs to expand innovation and entrepreneurship for societal benefit at Engage 2020 conference
Nov. 16, 2020
Innovation
Vice Dean for Innovation Priestley
Robert Cava, the Russell Wellman Moore Professor of Chemistry
Cava brings materials expertise to Quantum Consortium
Nov. 9, 2020
Engineering
People social distancing and mask wearing
Large, delayed outbreaks of endemic diseases possible following COVID-19 controls
Nov. 9, 2020
COVID-19
Environment
gloved hands conducting an experiment
Princeton Innovation video series
Nov. 9, 2020
Innovation
Particles
Strange quasi-particles reveal new magnetic behavior, verify nearly century-old prediction
Nov. 5, 2020
Engineering
Protein structure
Software for determining the 3D structure of proteins
Nov. 3, 2020
Physical Sciences
Quantum computing. Artist's rendering by Rachel Davidowitz
A new spin on atoms gives scientists a closer look at quantum weirdness
Oct. 30, 2020
Engineering
Robert Prud’homme
Robert Prud’homme named first recipient of Princeton’s Dean for Research Award for Distinguished Innovation
Oct. 30, 2020
Innovation
Engineering
Awards
Crew retrieving an ocean-monitoring robotic float
Princeton project expands to create a worldwide fleet of robotic floats to monitor ocean health
Oct. 29, 2020
Physical Sciences
Environment
Princeton's small commuter line, "the Dinky"
Princeton’s “Dinky” train helps nuclear arms control researchers
Oct. 28, 2020
Engineering
X-ray
New technique could help repair nerve damage
Oct. 27, 2020
Biotechnology
Deana Lawson
Princeton Professor of Visual Arts Deana Lawson wins Hugo Boss Prize, first photographer to be awarded the prize
Oct. 22, 2020
Benjamin Mbau, an Mpala-based research assistant
Princeton and Mpala scholars link obesity and disease to dramatic dietary changes
Oct. 21, 2020
Life Sciences
Biotechnology
Professor Stefana Parascho (right) and Isla Xi Han stand beneath a concrete and glass brick prototype
Robots and humans collaborate to revolutionize architecture
Oct. 21, 2020
Engineering
Logo
Engage 2020, new innovation and entrepreneurship conference, is now in progress
Oct. 20, 2020
Innovation
Vice Dean for Innovation Priestley
University News
Collage of recipients
Five scholars join Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts
Oct. 15, 2020
Humanities Research
infant marmoset
Princeton study suggests that monkeys, like humans, may have 'self-domesticated'
Oct. 15, 2020
Brain and Behavior
Collage of environmental images
Addressing humanity's environmental challenges
Oct. 15, 2020
Environment
Leslie Schoop
Quantum chemist Leslie Schoop wins 2020 Packard Fellowship
Oct. 15, 2020
Technology
People
Tighter border policies leave migrants vulnerable to effects of climate change
Oct. 12, 2020
Public Policy
Invention sparked by COVID-19 pandemic safely disinfects surfaces continuously
Oct. 12, 2020
COVID-19
Energy
Droplets of saliva expelled into the air
How exactly do we spread droplets as we talk? Engineers found out.
Oct. 12, 2020
COVID-19
Engineering
Michael Cook
Michael Cook receives Middle East Medievalists Lifetime Achievement Award
Oct. 9, 2020
Social Science
Awards
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
Board approves 16 faculty appointments
Oct. 6, 2020
University News
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

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