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Diagram depicting the crystal structure of Mak1 bound to the drug acarbose
Oral and gut microbes can inactivate an antidiabetic drug, Princeton scientists find
Dec. 21, 2021
Physical Sciences
 Illustration of bacteria passing through a porous medium
Researchers find the best way for bacteria to navigate maze-like environments
Dec. 9, 2021
Engineering
Celebrate Princeton Innovation 2021 Meet the featured presenters Video series
Celebrate Princeton Innovation 2021 Video Series
Dec. 7, 2021
Board approves appointment of new faculty member
Dec. 7, 2021
University News
Card announcing winner
Mohammad Seyedsayamdost to receive Dean for Research Award for Distinguished Innovation for method of discovering “hidden” antibiotics
Nov. 30, 2021
Innovation
Awards
Coronavirus researcher Cameron Myhrvold is using 'spectacular' new technologies to seek and destroy viral pathogens
Nov. 24, 2021
Life Sciences
Close up of chip
New chip hides wireless messages in plain sight
Nov. 23, 2021
Engineering
Kelsey Hatzell
Battery visionary Kelsey Hatzell on the power of interfaces
Nov. 16, 2021
Engineering
Soft robotics
Tiny bubbles: Researchers develop a flexible new system for creating soft robotics
Nov. 11, 2021
Engineering
Researcher observing polymer flow
Fractured artificial rock helps crack a 54-year-old mystery
Nov. 5, 2021
Engineering
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Three Princeton researchers win NIH high-risk, high-reward fellowships
Nov. 5, 2021
Awards
University News
This photo shows the world's purest sample of gallium arsenide wired inside an experimental setup that looked at electrons in a two-dimensional plane.
Ultra-pure semiconductor opens new frontier in the study of electrons
Nov. 4, 2021
Engineering
Elephant in a field
Princeton scientists identify genes behind tusklessness in African elephants facing poaching pressure
Nov. 1, 2021
Environment
Turning 'gee-whiz ideas' into reality at Nobel Laureate Dave MacMillan's latest PCI Symposium
Oct. 28, 2021
University News
Banner showing the Earth
Princeton experts identify priorities for Glasgow climate summit and global actions going forward
Oct. 25, 2021
Environment
People at water fountains
Lead Remediation Efforts Show Promise for Safe Drinking Water in New York City Public Schools
Oct. 21, 2021
Environment
Public Policy
Ambulance on the genomic strand
Princeton-led studies boost CRISPR gene-editing prospects
Oct. 20, 2021
Biotechnology
Phase diagram
Unmasking the magic of superconductivity in twisted graphene
Oct. 20, 2021
Technology
Eye close up
In new cognitive research, people's eyes reveal that clichés are underrated
Oct. 20, 2021
Social Science
Five Nobel prize winners 2021
Princeton faculty and alumni awarded Nobel prizes
Oct. 18, 2021
Princeton provides annual update on diversity, equity and inclusion efforts
Oct. 13, 2021
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Joshua Angrist, left, and David Card
Princeton alumni Card and Angrist win the 2021 Nobel Prize in economic sciences
Oct. 11, 2021
Awards
Olga Ulturgasheva looking at reindeer
New Indigenous initiatives ushered in at Princeton
Oct. 8, 2021
Maria Ressa
Princeton alumna Maria Ressa wins Nobel Peace Prize
Oct. 8, 2021
Awards
Princeton’s David MacMillan receives Nobel Prize in chemistry
Oct. 6, 2021
University News
Princeton’s Syukuro Manabe receives Nobel Prize in physics
Oct. 5, 2021
University News
Environment
Members of the Kleiner lab
Kleiner develops method to profile RNA-modifying enzymes
Oct. 4, 2021
Physical Sciences
People standing in shape of the United States
Princeton, University of Southern California research shows that immigration boosts U.S. life expectancy
Oct. 4, 2021
Public Policy
Board approves 21 faculty appointments
Sept. 29, 2021
University News
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Historian and writer Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor awarded a MacArthur Fellowship
Sept. 28, 2021
Humanities Research
University News
Aerial view of campus
New Princeton Dean for Research initiatives aim to broaden inclusion in research, innovation and entrepreneurship
Sept. 23, 2021
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
University News
Stephen Pacala and Andrea Goldsmith
White House appoints Goldsmith, Pacala and two Princeton alumni to panel of science advisors
Sept. 22, 2021
University News
Professor Joel Cooper and graduate student Logan Pearce
Princeton researchers discover new strategy to encourage vaccinations and masking
Sept. 21, 2021
COVID-19
Social Science
Library image of Nassau Hall
Faculty experts will provide scholarly advice to inform dissociation process
Sept. 21, 2021
University News
Environment
Darell Fields (left), and physicist Clifford Johnson
Designer and inventor Darell Fields and physicist Clifford Johnson named Presidential Visiting Scholars at Princeton
Sept. 15, 2021
University News
Cosmic dust
Satellite in sun’s backyard unravels the origins of interplanetary dust
Sept. 14, 2021
Physical Sciences
Architect’s rendering of the proposed complex.
New engineering and environmental studies facilities will support innovative research that benefits society
Sept. 14, 2021
University News
Atoms represented as balls in green and yellow
Faculty to lead development of quantum simulators in major NSF-funded effort
Sept. 2, 2021
Technology
Farm field seen from above
New platform speeds up effort to turn crops into fuel
Aug. 30, 2021
Energy
Environment
Chemical model made of sticks linked together
Researchers invent world's smallest biomechanical linkage
Aug. 25, 2021
Biotechnology
Graduate student working in lab
New regional Princeton-led innovation hub to accelerate tech, enhance diversity in entrepreneurship
Aug. 25, 2021
Innovation
University News
Historical images
African Digital Humanities Project at Princeton awarded over $600,000 in two NEH grants
Aug. 20, 2021
Humanities Research
Vaccine vials
Vaccine stockpiling by nations could lead to increase in COVID-19 cases, novel variant emergence
Aug. 18, 2021
COVID-19
Public Policy
sea ice
The Arctic Ocean’s deep past provides clues to its imminent future
Aug. 16, 2021
Environment
Clouds over forested area
Planting forests may cool the planet more than thought
Aug. 9, 2021
Environment
Neurons
Scientists unveil brain wiring diagram with 200,000 cells and half a billion connections
Aug. 6, 2021
Brain and Behavior
Elizabeth Paul
Princeton alumna and postdoctoral fellow wins award for groundbreaking plasma physics
Aug. 5, 2021
Energy
Paul Chirik, Princeton’s Edwards S. Sanford Professor in Chemistry and Yoonsu Park, a postdoctoral research associate in the Chirik lab
Princeton chemists discover a key to greener food production
July 30, 2021
Physical Sciences
Shiv Priyam Raghurama
'Less than 1% probability' that Earth’s energy imbalance increase occurred naturally, say Princeton and GFDL scientists
July 28, 2021
Energy
Environment
Vaccine
Princeton-led technology for room-temperature vaccines and biological drugs selected as finalist in Science Center QED research accelerator program
July 28, 2021
Innovation
Biotechnology
A simulation of the magnetic field lines surrounding a black hole
Magnetic ‘balding’ of black holes saves general relativity prediction
July 27, 2021
Physical Sciences
The SuperBIT balloon in flight, above NASA's Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility, Texas, in June 2016
Balloon-borne telescope is set to launch to study dark matter
July 26, 2021
Physical Sciences
Microchip from a device for reducing the energy usage of data centers
Energy-efficient computing and wastewater cleanup are basis of new industrial collaborations
July 22, 2021
DFR Innovation Fund for New Industrial Collaborations
Medieval document
Two new projects in humanities research receive innovation funding
July 21, 2021
DFR Innovation Fund for New Ideas in the Humanities
Close up of fruit fly embryos
Five new projects in the natural sciences receive Dean for Research Innovation funding
July 21, 2021
DFR Innovation Fund for New Ideas in the Natural Sciences
Images for rewarded research projects
Projects that blaze new trails in research will receive Dean for Research Innovation funding
July 21, 2021
Engineering
Humanities Research
Brain and Behavior
Energy
Dean for Research Innovation Award
swimmer with two tails
New method found for moving tiny artificial swimmers
July 16, 2021
Engineering
field
Shared prosperity is key to clean energy transition, say experts at E-ffiliates retreat
July 14, 2021
Engineering
Boriana Pratt/servers locked in Faraday cage
Princeton's new research data environment offers security, collaboration
July 14, 2021
Engineering
Assistant Professor of Chemistry Leslie Schoop
Schoop lab designs, probes new Dirac semimetal
July 13, 2021
Physical Sciences

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