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Princeton researchers have studied the climate and health benefits of alternative strategies for retiring coal plants in Pennsylvania (illustration by Bumper DeJesus).
Retiring coal plants with climate and equity in mind
Oct. 9, 2024
Technology Development
Environment
Public Policy
Glaucio Paulino's research group explores ways to fuse origami, science and technology. Photos by Sameer A. Khan/Fotobuddy
A new guide unfolds origami’s principles for beginners and experts alike
Oct. 9, 2024
National Science Foundation
Technology Development
Collaboration with Industry
Princeton’s John Hopfield receives Nobel Prize in physics
Oct. 8, 2024
Bioengineering
Physical Sciences
Princeton creates Office of Innovation to enhance ecosystem for research, start-ups, tech transfer and industry collaboration
Oct. 4, 2024
University News
Board approves 22 new faculty appointments
Oct. 2, 2024
Awards
A Princeton-led team of researchers and gamers has mapped every neuron and synapse in the brain of an adult fruit fly. Video still from Amy Sterling / FlyWire / Princeton
Mapping an entire (fly) brain: A step toward understanding diseases of the human brain
Oct. 2, 2024
National Institutes of Health
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Bioengineering
Mapping an entire (fly) brain: A step toward understanding diseases of the human brain
Oct. 2, 2024
National Institutes of Health
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Technology Development
Artificial intelligence
Princeton Professor Ruha Benjamin awarded MacArthur ‘genius’ grant
Oct. 1, 2024
MacArthur Foundation
Humanities Research
Metaphor bipolar disorder mind mental. Double face. Split personality.
Princeton-Rutgers Collaboration Awarded $16M Research Grant to Advance Understanding of Mental Illness
Sept. 27, 2024
National Institute of Mental Health
Collaboration with Industry
Study shows routes for recycling carbon dioxide and coal waste into useful products
Sept. 27, 2024
U.S. Department of Energy
Energy
Environment
Person standing in front of equipment
Princeton invests $8 Million in transformative research equipment
Sept. 27, 2024
Provost-DFR Transformative Equipment Initiative
‘Every Voice’ conference celebrates past, present and future of LGBTQ+ Tigers
Sept. 26, 2024
Public Policy
Apprenticeship program at PPPL to expand with DOE funding 
Sept. 25, 2024
U.S. Department of Energy
Energy
Research physicist Lan Gao (Photo credit: Michael Livingston / PPPL Communications Department)
Lan Gao wins a DOE $2.75 million early career award to develop innovative diagnostic tools for future fusion energy devices
Sept. 20, 2024
U.S. Department of Energy
Awards
Researchers Reza Moini and Shashank Gupta create stronger and more durable building materials. Photos by Sameer A. Khan/Fotobuddy
Tougher concrete, inspired by bone
Sept. 19, 2024
National Science Foundation
Engineering
Ammonia Tank
News Producing ‘green ammonia’ using plasma will be the focus of a new Princeton-PPPL project
Sept. 18, 2024
National Science Foundation
U.S. Department of Energy
Technology Development
Energy
Environment
Egemen Kolemen describes how he has used artificial intelligence to increase stability in the reactions that power nuclear fusion as a source of clean electricity. (Photos by David Dooley/Fotobuddy
Initiative aims to make Princeton a leader in AI accelerated engineering
Sept. 18, 2024
Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute
Artificial intelligence
Bioengineering
Energy
Engineering
Princeton launches digital access guides for more than 200 buildings
Sept. 18, 2024
Eduardo Rodriguez
Princeton graduate student wins prestigious plasma physics award
Sept. 16, 2024
Greg Hammett (left) and Bill Dorland (right), winners of the 2024 James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics. (Photo credit: Kate Hammett (left) and University of Maryland (right))
Trailblazers in plasma turbulence computer simulations win 2024 James Clerk Maxwell Prize
Sept. 16, 2024
U.S. Department of Energy
Technology
Awards
Satellite image of planet showing aerosols
Climate modeling institute renewed for five more years
Sept. 14, 2024
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Environment
Low Earth orbit satellites could soon offer millions of people worldwide access to high-speed communications. Now, researchers have invented a technique that enables these satellites’ antennas to manage signals for multiple users at once, making them cheaper and simpler to design and launch. Image by Adobe Stock
Simple shift could make low Earth orbit satellites high capacity
Sept. 12, 2024
Technology
Engineering
Logo for Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
Carnegie Corporation Awards Science and Global Security Program a $750,000 Grant to Confront Rising Nuclear Weapon Threats
Sept. 10, 2024
Public Policy
Technology
Researchers have developed a tool that can bend DNA strands using light. The work represents a new way to probe the genome. Shown here, from an unrelated study, are chromosomes (blue) inside a human cell nucleus. Image by Steve Mabon and Tom Misteli, NCI Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
Researchers bend DNA strands with light, revealing a new way to study the genome
Sept. 9, 2024
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Technology Development
Peter Schiffer
Dean for Research Peter Schiffer assumes role as Vice President for Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Aug. 28, 2024
University News
Four headshots of awardees
NJ R&D Council honors pioneering contributions by Princeton researchers
Aug. 15, 2024
Artificial intelligence
Energy
Technology
Brian Kernighan, William O. Baker *39 Professor in Computer Science
Brian Kernighan recognized for groundbreaking work on computer programming languages
Aug. 15, 2024
Innovation
Data Science
Awards
Diagrams of two molecules, VAN and Keratinicyclin, separated by a C. difficile with the word "synergy"
Antibiotic duo targets harmful C. diff bacteria
Aug. 5, 2024
National Institutes of Health
Life Sciences
Ilana Witten named HHMI Investigator
July 23, 2024
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Brain and Behavior
Priscilla Louis (left), Tim Buschman (right, top), and Jesse Gomez (right, bottom).
Graduate student Priscilla Louis earns prestigious HHMI Gilliam Fellowship
July 17, 2024
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Brain and Behavior
Awards
Floating Sargassum in Puerto Rico (photo courtesy of Loretta Roberson of Marine Biological Laboratory).
Transforming troublesome seaweed into a feedstock of the future
July 17, 2024
Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research
Schmidt Sciences
Bioengineering
Energy
Environment
Princeton geneticists are rewriting the narrative of Neanderthals and other ancient humans
July 12, 2024
National Institutes of Health
Data Science
Princeton Engineering researchers found a way to rapidly mix liquids in 3D porous environments where there is typically not enough space for turbulence to develop. Image courtesy of the researchers.
Better mixing leads to faster reactions for key chemicals
July 10, 2024
National Science Foundation
Bioengineering
Noga Alon receives the 2024 Wolf Prize in Mathematics
July 9, 2024
Awards
Photo Credit: Daniel Hanscom from Getty Images
Diversifying China’s Urban Heating Systems will Reduce Risk of Carbon Lock-in
July 8, 2024
Schmidt Sciences
Energy
Environment
Public Policy
radiant-heat
Common plastics could passively cool and heat buildings with the seasons
June 27, 2024
National Science Foundation
Sloan Foundation
Energy
Physical Sciences
Photo Credit: Feng Hao from Getty Images
Co-production of steel and chemicals could help mitigate hard-to-abate carbon emissions
June 27, 2024
Energy
Environment
Public Policy
Michael in a blue shirt talking to two people
Princeton's Michael Skinnider wins 'Young Explorer Award' grand prize
June 20, 2024
Awards
SHINE diagnostic technology creators
Myhrvold lab: Finding what ails thee - a new technology for fast, easy diagnosis of viral infections
June 18, 2024
ELMA Foundation
Open Philanthropy
Skoll Foundation
Bioengineering
Life Sciences
red seats in a theater
Three Humanities projects awarded funding from Office of the Dean for Research
June 17, 2024
DFR Innovation Fund for New Ideas in the Humanities
Green grass in a meadow
Search for "green ammonia" awarded Exploratory Energy Research funding
June 17, 2024
DFR Innovation Fund for Exploratory Energy Research
brain with an overlay of circuits
Brain-to-image reconstruction research receives funding from Office of the Dean for Research
June 17, 2024
DFR Innovation Fund for New Industrial Collaborations
tree silhouetted by setting sun
Three new research projects receive "Sustainability of Our Planet" funding
June 17, 2024
DFR Innovation Fund for the Sustainability of Our Planet
Human figures standing in a robotics laboratory and interacting with machinery.
New projects bring together artists with scientists and/or engineers
June 17, 2024
DFR Innovation Fund for Collaborations between Artists and Scientists or Engineers
Human figures standing in a robotics laboratory and interacting with machinery.
New research projects and collaborations selected for funding from the Office of the Dean for Research
June 17, 2024
Innovation Funding
Dean for Research Innovation Award
Rob Knowles named Ross Brown Investigator to fund his 'blue sky, out-of-the-box ideas'
June 11, 2024
Foundations and nonprofits
Physical Sciences
Appiah, Carter and Dunkley elected to Royal Society
June 10, 2024
Awards
University News
Peter Sarnak wins 2024 Shaw Prize
June 10, 2024
Awards
University News
Visiting officials observe Princeton’s neuroscience advances
June 7, 2024
Brain and Behavior
An artist rendering of a tokamak surrounded by equations and calculations.
AI approach elevates plasma performance and stability across fusion devices
June 7, 2024
Artificial intelligence
Energy
Spoon-billed sandpiper standing in grass
New study finds lack of evidence of proper conservation efforts for world’s most threatened species
June 7, 2024
Environment
Board approves 14 new faculty appointments
May 31, 2024
University News
cartoon diagram show process of fruit fly brain receiving visual input and influencing its behavior outcome
How fruit flies see love: An AI model of the male’s visual neurons during courtship
May 23, 2024
Brain and Behavior
Illustration combining the ideas of artificial intelligence and fusion
Using artificial intelligence to speed up and improve the most computationally intensive aspects of plasma physics in fusion
May 17, 2024
U.S. Department of Energy
Artificial intelligence
Energy
Physical Sciences
István Pelczer
Chemistry’s new ssNMR instrument: “limitless” possibilities for campus researchers
May 16, 2024
Funding - DFR Funding
Technology
Physical Sciences
Text: ROI Influencers Higher Education 2024, green and yellow background with shape of New Jersey
Princeton leaders prominent on ROI-NJ lists of higher education influencers
May 16, 2024
National Science Foundation
University News
Daniel Notterman
NJ ACTS receives 7-year grant renewal of $39.7M from NIH
May 14, 2024
University News
Two undergraduates smiling next to their presentation poster and colorful robotic flowers speaking with event attendees
Princeton Research Day spotlights collaborations across campus
May 14, 2024
Holder arch east
Goldman, Muir and Rouse elected to National Academy of Sciences
May 13, 2024
multicolored dots
Princeton physicists reveal the microscopic basis of a new form of quantum magnetism
May 9, 2024
Quantum sciences
Physical Sciences

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