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Coast Guard ship USCGC Polar Sea (WAGB-11) traveling through frozen water.
Bering Land Bridge formed surprisingly late during last ice age
Dec. 27, 2022
'Stereotypes can’t hold up against lived experience.' Our Year of the Tiger series continues with June Huh.
Dec. 21, 2022
University News
Magazine cover: African children running on a grassy hill
Discovery: Research at Princeton
Dec. 16, 2022
Close-up depiction of bacteria
How do you treat untreatable infections? Do what the microbes do.
Dec. 15, 2022
Diversity, equity and inclusion report highlights many ways Princeton is working toward enriching teaching, research and community
Dec. 14, 2022
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
University News
Glowing quantum dots in test tubes
Princeton chemists create quantum dots at room temp using lab-designed protein
Dec. 13, 2022
Board approves six faculty appointments
Dec. 7, 2022
University News
Kristina Olson's keen scholarship is informing the conversation on gender identity
Dec. 2, 2022
Life Sciences
High performance computers with Tiger graphics on the sides
Researchers create green fuel with the flip of a light switch
Dec. 1, 2022
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Princeton Innovation Video Series
Dec. 1, 2022
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Princeton establishes Energy Research Fund
Nov. 29, 2022
Energy
University News
This will not be on the test: A new approach to learning quantum chemistry
Nov. 23, 2022
Exoplanet WASP-39b with newly detected patches of clouds
NASA’s Webb reveals an exoplanet atmosphere as never seen before
Nov. 22, 2022
Jennifer Rexford
Jennifer Rexford named Princeton’s next provost
Nov. 22, 2022
University News
Pablo Debenedetti
Debenedetti to step down after 10 years as dean for research
Nov. 22, 2022
Dean Debenedetti
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Insights into energy loss open doors for up-and-coming solar tech
Nov. 18, 2022
Engineering
Researchers discover behavior of immunity genes leading to worse COVID outcomes for men
Nov. 14, 2022
Glassy ball containing colors
New collaboration to probe physical reality’s ‘glue’
Nov. 11, 2022
Physical Sciences
Tax economist Zidar says it’s his job to give you the best numbers, not the convenient ones
Nov. 4, 2022
Public Policy
egg frying in a pan
Researchers cook up a new way to remove microplastics from water
Nov. 3, 2022
Physical Sciences
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Princeton University-HBCU partnerships launch first research projects
Nov. 1, 2022
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
University News
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Gene Jarrett takes us back to the Gilded Age in his new biography of Paul Laurence Dunbar
Oct. 28, 2022
Humanities Research
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Scientists discover exotic quantum state at room temperature
Oct. 26, 2022
Technology
Physical Sciences
Three researchers
Can resilience be learned?
Oct. 19, 2022
Brain and Behavior
New biophysics graduate program draws leading faculty from across the University
Oct. 17, 2022
University News
June Huh wins MacArthur ‘genius’ grant for creative approaches to mathematical puzzles
Oct. 12, 2022
Awards
Zemer Gitai
Dean for Research Award for Distinguished Innovation awarded to Zemer Gitai for antibiotic-searching platform
Oct. 12, 2022
Innovation
Awards
Michelle Chan, Celeste Nelson and A.J. te Velthuis win major NIH awards
Oct. 12, 2022
In her new book, Ruha Benjamin finds hope by celebrating how small changes can ‘spread justice and joy’
Oct. 11, 2022
Public Policy
Princeton scientists win major physics prizes
Oct. 11, 2022
Awards
Photo of Pablo Debenedetti
Debenedetti to receive Rahman Prize for Computational Physics
Oct. 10, 2022
Dean Debenedetti
Awards
Ben Bernanke, former Princeton professor and economics department chair, receives Nobel Prize in economic sciences
Oct. 10, 2022
Public Policy
Awards
Author of new Stevie Nicks book is a Princeton professor who loves 'Tusk,' studies Tchaikovsky
Oct. 4, 2022
Desert landscape
Two projects awarded Dean for Research Innovation Funds for New Ideas in the Social Sciences
Oct. 2, 2022
DFR Innovation Fund for New Ideas in the Social Sciences
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New projects funded by the Dean for Research Innovation Funds in 2022
Sept. 30, 2022
Innovation Funding
Funding - DFR Funding
University News
Diamonds
Imaging technique awarded Innovation Fund for New Industrial Collaborations
Sept. 30, 2022
DFR Innovation Fund for New Industrial Collaborations
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Project awarded funding Innovation Fund for New Ideas in the Humanities
Sept. 30, 2022
DFR Innovation Fund for New Ideas in the Humanities
dinosaur egg fragments
Three projects awarded Innovation Funds for New Ideas in the Natural Sciences in 2022
Sept. 30, 2022
DFR Innovation Fund for New Ideas in the Natural Sciences
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Exploration of open ocean seaweed cultivation selected for inaugural Dean for Research fund for the Sustainability of Our Planet award
Sept. 30, 2022
DFR Innovation Fund for the Sustainability of Our Planet
Princeton dissociates from segments of fossil fuel industry
Sept. 29, 2022
University News
Board approves 17 faculty appointments
Sept. 28, 2022
University News
Brangwynne wins the Breakthrough Prize for revolutionary view of living cells
Sept. 22, 2022
Biotechnology
Awards
Sixteen faculty members transfer to emeritus status
Sept. 21, 2022
University News
More possible entry points for COVID spike protein identified by Princeton scientists
Sept. 21, 2022
COVID-19
Biotechnology
Twelve scholars named Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellows
Sept. 21, 2022
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Princeton named to the Top 100 by National Academy of Inventors
Sept. 8, 2022
As FDA considers menthol cigarette ban, Princeton historian traces Big Tobacco’s race-based marketing
Sept. 7, 2022
Public Policy
Blue Mountain Geothermal Plant in Nevada
The best place to store energy for the electric grid? You might be standing on it
Sept. 6, 2022
Energy
Engineering
'A new era in exoplanet research,' says Princeton member of the Webb Space Telescope team that found carbon dioxide out there
Sept. 2, 2022
Physical Sciences
Decorative illustration of quantum bits on grid
Why ‘erasure’ could be key to practical quantum computing
Sept. 1, 2022
Engineering
Paper origami figures
Researchers unfolded elegant equations to explain the enigma of expanding origami
Sept. 1, 2022
Engineering
Elaine Pagels
Elaine Pagels and Jefferson papers awarded NEH grants
Sept. 1, 2022
Awards
Climate change and the ocean: Oxygen-poor zones shrank under past warm periods, scientists discover
Aug. 31, 2022
Environment
Person staring at a canyon
Can the humanities help solve climate change?
Aug. 29, 2022
Environment
Photo of Optical equipment used for tuning laser pulses for ultrafast measurements.
BioLEC2 launches with new round of DOE funding
Aug. 25, 2022
Biotechnology
Engineering
Human head with beige and green background
Fighting climate change is wildly popular, but most Americans don’t know that other people feel the same way
Aug. 24, 2022
Environment
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Princeton bets big on research software engineering
Aug. 18, 2022
Data Science
Diagram showing how test works
A fast, accurate, equipment-free diagnostic test for SARS-CoV-2 and its variants
Aug. 16, 2022
COVID-19
Biotechnology
Inaugural program with Fresno State, Rowan and Valdosta State universities spurs 'unforgettable summer of research'
Aug. 12, 2022
University News
Princeton research shows how the decline in pollinators can ripple across ecosystems
Aug. 8, 2022
Environment

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