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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 with aim to source talent from all sectors of society
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
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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
Simulation of water molecules with red oxygen spheres and white hydrogen spheres
In simulation of how water freezes, artificial intelligence breaks the ice
Aug. 8, 2022
Physical Sciences
Research operations return to Level 1 (Normal Operations)
Effective Aug. 15, 2022, research operations return to Level 1 (Normal Operations)
Aug. 8, 2022
University News
Simon Gikandi and Chika Okeke-Agulu recognized by British Academy for their contribution to the humanities
Aug. 3, 2022
Humanities Research
Awards
Image showing the radiation residue from the Big Bang distorted by dark matter 12 billions years ago.
Researchers observe 12-billion-year-old dark matter, the oldest ever detected in the universe
Aug. 1, 2022
Physical Sciences
Paul Chirik
Princeton’s Paul Chirik awarded $1M for green chemistry research
July 21, 2022
Environment
Awards
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Scientific field research and the arts come together in a Princeton course using motion-capture cameras to record campus wildlife
July 15, 2022
Environment
Humanities Research
Radhika Nagpal
Radhika Nagpal joins the faculty, expanding research in robotics and collective intelligence
July 14, 2022
Technology
Craig Arnold
Q&A with Craig B. Arnold — Vice Dean for Innovation
July 7, 2022
Innovation
Common Eastern Bumblebee on a yellow flower.
Bumblebees kept in isolation make up for it by being more social later
July 6, 2022
Brain and Behavior
Life Sciences
Nobel laureate Suki Manabe named 'Great Immigrant' for contributions to America
July 5, 2022
Environment
Awards
Braverman and Lieb
Braverman and Lieb win mathematics prizes for cross-discipline work
July 5, 2022
Physical Sciences
Awards
June Huh, in front of chalkboard with equations
Princeton mathematician June Huh awarded prestigious Fields Medal
July 5, 2022
Physical Sciences
Awards
Professor Stoddard wearing a red shirt and blue blazer
Stoddard named Schmidt Science Polymath
June 29, 2022
Awards
magnifying glass focused on a perovskite solar cell
Once seen as fleeting, a new solar tech proves its lasting power
June 29, 2022
Energy
Environment
Engineering
Gene Jarret left with book cover right
Gene Jarrett takes us back to the Gilded Age in his new biography of Paul Laurence Dunbar
June 27, 2022
Humanities Research
A large grey shark known as Megalodon
Shark Week was every week for megalodon
June 22, 2022
Physical Sciences
Bryan Grenfell, smiling and wearing a collared shirt and sweater
Princeton biologist Bryan Grenfell wins Kyoto Prize
June 22, 2022
Environment
Public Policy
Noga Alon wins 2022 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences
June 15, 2022
Physical Sciences
Campbell-Staton (left) and Kocher (right)
Campbell-Staton and Kocher named Pew Scholars in the Biomedical Sciences
June 15, 2022
Awards
Two researchers
Physics grad students Herzog-Arbeitman '19 and Longenecker win $250,000 Hertz fellowships
June 10, 2022
Awards
farming scenes
How restoring abandoned farms to natural habitats can mitigate climate change
June 9, 2022
Environment
Public Policy
tortoise
'Fantastic giant tortoise,' believed extinct, confirmed alive in the Galápagos
June 9, 2022
Environment
Life Sciences
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Experiments in twisted, layered quantum materials offer new picture of how electrons behave
June 8, 2022
Physical Sciences
Board approves 15 faculty appointments
June 7, 2022
University News
Network cables
Google, GE, ClearPath have joined a new Princeton research consortium focusing on low-carbon technology
June 6, 2022
Collaboration with Industry
Technology
Leah Boustan and cover of her book
Modern immigrants' children have climbed the economic ladder as fast as the Ellis Island generation
June 6, 2022
Social Science
Various pixelated letter P
Easy as an inkjet, a new soft printing technique has opened the way for pixelated elastics
May 26, 2022
Diagram containing overlapping shapes
Electrons in a crystal exhibit linked and knotted quantum twists
May 20, 2022
Physical Sciences
Wheat
How fast-growing algae could enhance growth of food crops
May 19, 2022
Environment
Life Sciences
common skin cancer squamous cell carcinoma
New method melds data to make a 3-D map of cells’ activities
May 16, 2022
Engineering
Physical Sciences
Princeton Research Day returns, fully in-person for the first time in three years
May 10, 2022
Craig B. Arnold appointed vice dean for innovation
May 10, 2022
Vice Dean for Innovation
Innovation
University News
New partnerships, programs and positions are part of Princeton’s ongoing commitment to combat systemic racism
May 5, 2022
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
How mosquito brains encode human odor so they can seek us out
May 4, 2022
Princeton partners with UNCF and HBCUs to expand research and innovation
May 4, 2022
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Princeton Alliance for Collaborative Research and Innovation (PACRI)
University News
Two dancers against a backdrop of DNA
Tethers bring distant genes together to coordinate embryo development
May 4, 2022
Life Sciences
Harry Shapiro's senior thesis has revealed new ways to cut carbon emissions on Princeton's campus
May 4, 2022
Our COVID-19 vaccines would not exist without this unsung Princeton technology
May 2, 2022
COVID-19
Biotechnology
University News
Unchecked global emissions on track to initiate mass extinction of marine life
April 28, 2022
Environment
Lewis-Sigler building
Health, environment and imaging are focus of this year’s Schmidt Transformative Technology Fund grants
April 28, 2022
Eric and Wendy Schmidt Transformative Technology Award
Frick atrium
Princeton’s IP Accelerator Fund awarded to enhance impact of six new technologies
April 18, 2022
Intellectual Property Accelerator Award

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