“Le petit Victor,” as he called himself, was a giant to Princeton colleagues and students.

Lane's book “Of Rule and Office” considers Plato’s thoughts on the accountability of those in power, reflecting on his question: "Who shall guard the guardians?"

Whether you’re scrambling for a last-minute gift or laying in your own stores for winter reading, these acclaimed faculty titles have you covered. The list includes novels, memoir, history, poetry, biography, essays and nonfiction.

Chai Andrade is a 2024 graduate who majored in anthropology and earned a certificate in archaeology. Musslewhite is a senior history major who is pursuing minors in classics, European studies and humanistic studies, and a certificate in history and the practice of diplomacy.

The 4-year apprenticeship program celebrated its second cohort to graduate. It recently expanded to other national laboratories with $3 million in funding from the DOE’s Office of Science.

Princeton’s leadership in this work over the last several years was evident throughout the conference.

Baccalaureate, an end-of-year interfaith service that is one of the University's oldest traditions, is scheduled for 2 p.m. Sunday, May 25.

Five assistant professors have been newly appointed to the Princeton University faculty.

The former Google chairman and CEO urged Princeton undergraduates and graduate students to tackle the “inconceivably large” opportunities and challenges that artificial intelligence presents.

A new Humanities Initiative provides structure and support to supercharge scholarship, teaching and public collaborations for the 21st century and beyond.

She is one of the youngest recipients ever of the prestigious Spanish literary award.

The event is at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday in McCosh Hall and will be livestreamed on Princeton's YouTube channel. While tickets are sold out, there will be a waiting line for any seats not filled by 5:25 p.m.

The arrival of professor J. Kēhaulani Kauanui marks a key stage in University efforts to enhance research and scholarship, along with recognition and support for Native and Indigenous students and scholars.

The 2021 recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature reflected on writing, compassion, belonging, home and the "qualities which make us human."

The 9 a.m. service on Monday, Nov. 11, will also be livestreamed.

Jordan will also receive the American Historical Society's Award for Scholarly Distinction in January.

The Martin A. Dale '53 Fellowship provides grants for Princeton seniors to spend the year after graduation on "an independent project of extraordinary merit." Juliette Carbonnier and Collin Riggins are the latest recipients.

The conference has been scheduled for Oct. 9-11, 2025. All Princeton alumni are invited back to campus for the gathering. 

Voting registration rates among Princeton undergraduate and graduate students have more than doubled largely thanks to the program.

Princeton University will present the honors at Alumni Day, scheduled for Feb. 22, 2025.

The award supports independent research in the arts and humanities at the American Academy in Rome. Both Princeton recipients are undergraduate alumni.

Physical chemist Giacinto Scoles, Princeton’s Donner Professor of Science, Emeritus, died in Sassenheim, the Netherlands, on Sept. 25 with his wife of nearly 60 years at his side. He was 89.

Princeton engineers and industry leaders have squelched a threat that had lurked for years in the internet’s encryption system.

In the Class of 2028, 71.5% of students qualify for financial aid and 21.7% of the class are lower-income students eligible for federal Pell grants.

A commitment to the liberal arts is at the core of Princeton University's mission. A new cohort of outstanding postdocs has joined the Society of Fellows for three years of teaching and research.

CSDP brings voices from across the political spectrum into conversation with Princeton social scientists and students. 

Stone is a leading engineering scholar and pioneer in fluid dynamics research. University Professor is Princeton’s highest honor for faculty.

Xie, a materials engineer, won a 2024 Packard Fellowship for creating atomically thin materials. “Thinking and inventing down to an atomic level like Saien is doing, most spectacularly I should add, is the future,” said James Sturm, ECE department chair.

Four Princeton researchers won major awards from the National Institutes of Health to support their blue-sky research.

“Close Encounters: Facing the Bomb in a New Nuclear Age” is on display at SPIA’s Bernstein Gallery through Oct. 25. 

The program, now in its fifth year, recognizes and supports outstanding scholars primed to make important contributions in their fields. The 2024 cohort includes disciplines spanning the humanities, engineering, the sciences and the social sciences.

Hopfield, the Howard A. Prior Professor in the Life Sciences, Emeritus, and professor of molecular biology, emeritus, shares the 2024 Nobel Prize with Toronto's Geoffrey E. Hinton.

Craig B. Arnold has been named Princeton’s first University Innovation Officer and heads the new office.

The Princeton University Board of Trustees has approved the appointment of 22 faculty members, including five full professors, one associate professor and 16 assistant professors.

Decision informed by report of the CPUC Committee on Naming.

An international team of researchers and gamers, led by Princeton’s Mala Murthy and Sebastian Seung, mapped every neuron and every synaptic connection in an adult fruit fly's brain, building a comprehensive “connectome” that represents a massive step toward understanding the human brain.

A leader in her field with over 35 years of experience, Shroff has transformed Princeton’s audit and compliance functions during her more than 17 years at the University.

The MacArthur Foundation honored Benjamin for her critical analysis of how technology perpetuates inequality and for ‘championing the role of imagination in social transformation.'

A new report led by Emily Carter and Elizabeth Zeitler *14 offers research and policy ideas, including carbon fiber replacements for rebar in construction and titanium in high-tech applications.

Princeton's first alumni affinity conference since 2019 welcomed more than 600 alumni and guests to campus Sept. 19-21, for “Every Voice: Honoring and Celebrating Princeton’s LGBTQ+ Alumni.” 

The expansion will allow other national laboratories to join PPPL in supporting the growth of the next generation of innovators and technicians.

Events this fall include a sold-out conversation with Icelandic-Chinese recording artist Laufey.

The free guides provide physical accessibility information for academic, administrative and residential college buildings, as well as parking and athletic facilities. The project is among several ongoing efforts to make the campus more accessible and inclusive. 

Princeton’s Dean of the Faculty, the William S. Tod Professor of English, is being honored for his biography, “Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird.”

Li's book connects her personal story as a young immigrant and scientist with the origin stories of artificial intelligence. She urged students to make the most of Princeton's "buffet of intellectual possibilities and opportunities.”

Among this year’s incoming group of nearly 800 new graduate students are those pursuing doctoral studies in new programs in bioengineering and in quantum science and engineering.

“We are excited to welcome this incredibly accomplished group to the Princeton community,” said Dean of Admission and Financial Aid Karen Richardson.

Princeton celebrated the the students' accomplishments at Opening Exercises.

President Christopher L. Eisgruber warmly welcomed incoming students to campus during the annual Opening Exercises ceremony on Sunday, Sept. 1.

This year's session was the President's third annual Orientation presentation on academic freedom and free expression.

Peter Schiffer will succeed McComas as vice president for PPPL, in addition to his role as Princeton’s dean for research

The Emma Bloomberg Center hosted more students than ever this summer through distinct college access and support programs. 

The acclaimed poet Reginald Dwayne Betts runs the nonprofit Freedom Reads, which brings libraries into prisons. Three have been installed at the Garden State Youth Correctional Facility in Chesterfield with support from Princeton University Library.

This summer, sixteen Indigenous high school students and recent graduates visited campus for the Santa Fe Indian School Leadership Institute's Summer Policy Academy, where the fellows studied how government policies affect tribal communities.

The prestigious award supports blue-sky biological and biomedical science research. Witten is a neuroscientist and Class of 2002 alum.

Crotty has a decade of experience at Princeton in various administrative roles. 

The annual event challenges faculty to tell their best research stories in under eight minutes. "Put them together, you get lightbulbs," an industry partner says.

After graduating from Princeton, he hopes to pursue a Ph.D. in robotics with a research focus on system safety and sustainability.

Modern humans and Neanderthals interacted over a 200,000-year period, says geneticist Joshua Akey.

The position in the Office of the Vice President for Campus Life underscores Princeton’s commitment to cultivating a campus culture where every student feels valued and heard.

Campt and Painter will both pursue book projects during a semester in Germany. The two are among 24 recipients of the distinguished fellowship for U.S. scholars, writers, composers and artists.

Mathematician Noga Alon was honored “for pioneering contributions to mathematical cryptography, combinatorics, and the theory of computer science.”

The three Princetonians were among 24 naturalized citizens recognized this year by the Carnegie Corporation of New York for their contributions to America. 

Princeton professors share what’s on their lists, including new fiction titles, history, philosophy, poetry, American politics — and essential AI reading from one of the field’s leading lights.

Following Boden’s retirement, associate dean Theresa Thames will become Princeton’s next dean of religious life and the chapel.

Princeton University has named seven members to its Board of Trustees, effective July 1.

Wilmerding established in the Department of Art & Archaeology a leading program for the study of American art. His retirement in 2007 augmented the Princeton University Art Museum’s collection with momentous gifts honoring his legacy.

Amélie Lemay has crafted computer simulations that could one day help lead the way to removing PFAS pollution from the environment.

Natalia Lalin has interned on Capitol Hill and at the U.N. Her senior thesis underscores the complexities of conventional wisdom in international relations.

Fernando Avilés-García used artificial intelligence to analyze Dante’s "Divine Comedy" — "a perfect marriage of science and humanities.”

The show’s star Sarah Paulson also won, for Best Performance by an Actress. 

The University's new residential colleges have won two AIA National 2024 Design Awards, for architecture and housing.

The season opened June 13 with a reimagined "Dracula" and continues through Aug. 3. This year's children's production is a fairytale “whodunnit" playing Friday, Saturday and Sunday mornings July 12-Aug. 3.

Knowles receives a five-year grant to explore why some rare biomolecules exist in only one of two mirror-image forms.

The three were among those recognized for making "a substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge."

Mathematician Peter Sarnak is the solo recipient of the 2024 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences.

John Ngai, director of the NIH BRAIN Initiative and U.S. Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman visited the Princeton Neuroscience Institute to discuss recent advances toward understanding the fundamental workings of the brain.

The Princeton University Board of Trustees has approved the appointment of 14 faculty members, including two full professors, two associate professors and 10 assistant professors.

Nine members of Princeton's Class of 2024 became commissioned officers May 28 in a ceremony led by Gen. Christopher Cavoli, a Class of 1987 alumnus.

Princeton's President offered graduates his gratitude, along with a wish: "that you lean into life after Princeton, and into your communities wherever you are, with the same dazzling energy and imagination you showed while you were here." 

Genrietta Churbanova, the Class of 2024 valedictorian and an anthropology major from Little Rock, Arkansas, delivered the valedictory address at Princeton's Commencement ceremony on Tuesday, May 28, 2024.

John Freeman, a classics major from Chicago, delivered the salutatory address.

The May 28 ceremony featured remarks from President Christopher L. Eisgruber, valedictory and salutatory addresses, and the awarding of undergraduate and graduate degrees. 

Princeton’s Ph.D. and master’s degree recipients were honored at Jadwin Gym, surrounded by faculty, family, friends and the many supporters of their years of effort.

This year's recipients are Laura Kalin, Gary Bass, Seth A. Perry, and Clancy W. Rowley.

Princeton awarded honorary degrees during its 2024 Commencement ceremony to Rubén Blades Bellido de Luna, Mark A. Milley, Joyce Carol Oates, Terrence J. Sejnowski, Lamar Alexander, Dr. Paula A. Johnson and Randall Kennedy.

Princeton University streamed end-of-year ceremonies beginning with the Class of 2024 Baccalaureate service on Sunday, May 26, and continuing through Commencement on Tuesday, May 28.

Emmy-award winning actor Sam Waterston, known for his longtime role on “Law & Order,” addressed Princeton’s Class of 2022 at Class Day ceremonies Monday, May 27.

Princeton seniors gathered for Class Day to recognize each other's achievements and enjoy lighthearted stories and reminiscences the day before Commencement. 

Princeton University is livestreaming end-of-year ceremonies, continuing through Commencement on Tuesday, May 28.

At its Class Day ceremony, the Class of 2024 honored the achievements and leadership of some of its most outstanding members.

Federal Judge Nusrat J. Choudhury of the Eastern District of New York, the first Muslim woman and first Bangladeshi American to serve as a U.S. federal judge addressed students at the end-of-year interfaith service that is one of Princeton's oldest traditions.

Judge Nusrat J. Choudhury of the Eastern District of New York, the first Muslim woman and first Bangladeshi American to serve as a U.S. federal judge, spoke at Baccalaureate, an end-of-year interfaith service that is one of Princeton's oldest traditions.

Princeton University is livestreaming end-of-year ceremonies beginning with the Class of 2024 Baccalaureate service on Sunday, May 26, and continuing through Commencement on Tuesday, May 28.

The University welcomed about 25,000 alumni and guests, as well as the Class of 2024, for this year’s Reunions.

The Princeton University chapter of Phi Beta Kappa will present its annual awards for excellence in undergraduate teaching in a ceremony on Monday, May 27.

Eisgruber was among 88 recipients recognized during a May 18 ceremony at Ellis Island’s Great Hall.

This year's award winners are Maria DiBattista, Alison Isenberg, Tania Lombrozo and Andrés Monroy-Hernández.

Reunions events begin Thursday, May 23, and run through Sunday, May 26. 

Princeton is celebrating undergraduate and graduate degree candidates starting with the Baccalaureate service Sunday, May 26, and continuing through Tuesday, May 28, which is this year’s Commencement date. Tickets are required to attend most events.  

Jamie Chiu, Katherine Sniezek, Laura Nelson, Ravin Raj, Casey Lewry, Pasquale Toscano, Jasante’ Howard, Filippo Palomba, Marie-Louise James, and Katie VanderKam have been recognized for their outstanding abilities as instructors.

This year’s recipients of the Princeton Prize for Distinguished Secondary School Teaching are educators from schools in Jersey City, Orange, South Brunswick and Sussex.

The award recognizes students who have demonstrated a strong commitment to the undergraduate experience through efforts in student organizations, athletics, community service, religious life, residential life and the arts. 

Ferrer, born in Puerto Rico, was the first Latino actor to win an Academy Award, among numerous accolades on stage, in film, and on television over his 60-year career.

Philosopher Gideon Rosen and cancer biologist Eileen White have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. More than a dozen Princeton alumni are also among the Academy's new members.

Princeton's Noreen Goldman, Tom Muir and Cecelia Rouse were chosen in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Twelve Princeton alumni are also new members.

Two projects — one that maps the function of the brain’s neuronal network in unprecedented detail and another that combines robotics and light-based computer circuits to create safe self-driving vehicles — have been awarded funding through Princeton’s Eric and Wendy Schmidt Transformative Technology Fund.

The institute promotes new directions in research, education and innovation at the intersection of engineering and the life sciences while serving as the home for new interdisciplinary bioengineering postdoctoral, graduate and undergraduate programs.

Princeton professors Rachael DeLue and Peter Singer have received the University’s Howard T. Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities.

The program forges bonds for even more powerful research collaborations.

The third annual event was presented by the Arts Council of Princeton with support from Princeton University.

Weber was recognized in the humanities and social sciences category "for her research on environmental decision-making and the factors that motivate action against climate change."

Taylor was the foremost early sociological critic of IQ tests. He joined Princeton’s faculty in 1973 and for 15 years directed the fledgling program in African American Studies that would become the Department of African American Studies.

Princeton chemists are expanding our understanding of the universe by identifying complex molecules in interstellar space.

The class is one of 90 courses offered this year through the University's Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship, now marking its 25th anniversary.

The Soros Fellowship is a merit-based graduate school program for immigrants and children of immigrants.

The troupe draws undergraduate and graduate students from across academic disciplines.

Patrick is a Near Eastern studies major who is also pursuing certificates in Ancient Roman language and literature, Arabic language and literature, Hellenic studies and medieval studies.

His multimedia installation evoking traumatic memories from a Soviet-era gulag will represent Bulgaria, his parents’ home country, in the prestigious international art exhibition.

The Class of 2024 members are expected to give remarks at the Commencement ceremony on Tuesday, May 28. 

Princeton welcomed 600 leaders from academia, business and government to campus to explore the rapidly evolving possibilities and challenges of artificial intelligence and to begin charting a course for New Jersey’s role in the future of AI.

The Princeton junior plans to use the scholarship to pursue a law degree with a focus in Indian and Tribal Law.

This year’s recipients are Angela Creager, Rebecca Lazier, Jan-Werner Müller, Robert Pringle, Kim Lane Scheppele, Anna M. Shields and Corina Tarnita. Three graduate alumni and one undergraduate alum are also 2024 Guggenheim Fellows.

The Turing Award is considered the highest honor in computer science, often called the “Nobel Prize of Computing.”

The annual celebration included the recognition of six staff members named as President's Achievement Award winners and two employees as recipients of the Donald Griffin ’23 Management Award.

In the field, digital technology saves immense amounts of time and limits fruitless digging. In the classroom, VR recreations help bring the past to life.

The celebrated pianist Jonathan Biss, who chronicled his struggles with anxiety in his memoir "Unquiet," is the latest performer drawn to campus for the PUC's innovative Healing with Music series.

Princeton astrophysicists are at the forefront of heliosphere research. Here, they share their excitement about April's North American eclipse, and about NASA's upcoming IMAP mission exploring solar activity.

The Class of 2024 has announced that Sam Waterston will give remarks at Class Day on Monday, May 27. The Class Day ceremony is traditionally organized by the senior class and held the day before Princeton's Commencement.

The Princeton faculty has voted to accept the proposal of the Graduate School to add graduate students to each of its four governing subcommittees.

Four new full professors and five new associate or assistant professors are joining Princeton.

The estimated “net cost after aid” to attend Princeton for the average scholarship recipient is expected to be approximately $13,000 for 2024-25. Most families with incomes up to $100,000 pay nothing.

Kahneman, author of the best-seller "Thinking, Fast and Slow," laid the foundation for a new field of research — behavioral economics — earning him the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002.

With the help of a dedicated group of departmental volunteers from across campus and at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), the campus community stepped up to support the United Way of Greater Mercer County’s education, financial stability, food insecurity and health programs.

Building on decades of growth in socioeconomic diversity, the University will seek to enroll even more students from low-income and middle-income households. A limited legacy preference will be retained to recognize Princeton’s special bond with an increasingly diverse alumni base.

Betsy Levy Paluck was honored for applying theory-driven interventions to successfully reduce prejudice and conflict in settings from American high schools to post-conflict Rwanda.

The alumni-funded effort supports Princeton students to complete a public service project of their own design during the year after graduation.

Pi Day is Einstein's birthday. Science historian Michael Gordin, Princeton's next dean of the college, offers insights on the famous Princetonian's life and times, including nearly a decade at IAS with J. Robert Oppenheimer. 

At Princeton, interdisciplinary collaborations of researchers are using artificial intelligence to accelerate discovery across the University in fields ranging from neuroscience to Near Eastern studies.

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Students arrive at college with varying levels of preparation for foundational STEM courses. The new Lecturer Corps is meeting Princeton's talented students where they are to support their success in chemistry, physics and math.

A new Princeton Plasma Innovation Center at PPPL will feature sustainable designs and technologies, with support from the Department of Energy and Princeton University. 

Naveen Verma and his team are reimagining the physics of computing to create chips that can handle modern AI workloads in compact or energy-constrained environments.

University President Christopher L. Eisgruber met Feb. 26 with the Princeton Mayor and Council. The University announced last month that it plans to contribute more than $50 million over five years to the municipality and local organizations. 

A summary of the many ways in which Princeton University currently contributes to and engages with the Princeton community. Submitted in a memo to the Princeton mayor and council on Feb. 21, 2024.

The 109th Alumni Day program demonstrated the impact of Princeton’s “audacious bets” on talent and potential.

The book connects Li’s personal story as a young immigrant and scientist with the origin stories of artificial intelligence. She will be honored with the University’s Woodrow Wilson Award during Alumni Day on Feb. 24.

Jonathan Mayer teaches in the School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) and the Department of Computer Science at Princeton. He is a resident faculty member at the University's Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP).

The award is the highest general distinction conferred on an undergraduate. The students will be recognized at Alumni Day on Saturday. 

The Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship, Princeton University’s top honor for graduate students, has been awarded to José de Jesús Montaño López, an engineeer using yeast to grow biofuels; Geneva Smith, a legal historian building the first archive of 'slave court' records; Pasquale Toscano, an English student analyzing epics through a disability lens; and Ryan Unger, a mathematician who disproved the third law of black hole thermodynamics.

Ellora Derenoncourt, Boris Hanin, Chi Jin, Aleksandra Korolova and Ian Zemke have been selected for the 2024 cohort of highly innovative early-career scientists.

The Order of the French Academic Palms recognizes Rentzou’s contributions to culture and the arts.

James Li, a member of the Class of 2027 and Yeh College, was an avid student of philosophy, linguistics and languages.

Attendees at the Princeton Alliance for Collaborative Research (PACRI) meeting shared results and explored ways to forge new partnerships for research that benefits society.

Alice McGuinness, Nathalie Verlinde and Jack Nunn have been named recipients of the Daniel M. Sachs Class of 1960 Graduating Scholarship, one of Princeton University’s highest awards.

Two new reports chronicle the impact on campus and beyond.

The dean of the faculty and author of ‘Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird’ suggests readings and film for enrichment. Campus events offer further opportunities to explore Black history.

Prud’homme’s drug manufacturing techniques enabled vaccines for COVID-19 and treatments for many devastating diseases. Four Princeton alumni were also elected for 2024.

University Professorships are Princeton's highest honor for faculty. The appointment recognizes scholarly preeminence and exceptional contributions to the University’s research and teaching community.

For its first project, the new Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory facility will build a magnet to help detect dark matter.

Now in its fourth year, the two-week program focuses on the joy of learning, exploring new subjects and building community.

Bravo specializes in the history of photography and art history. Creager's scholarship examines 20th-century biomedical research. Morimoto's work focuses on nuclear history, culture and memory.

Princeton has assembled a stunning collection of high-tech microscopes. Our research in the realm of the minuscule is making a giant impact.

Four full professors and two assistant professors have been newly appointed to the Princeton University faculty.

The donations over the next five years are in addition to taxes the University pays and its voluntary contributions to Princeton Public Schools and Mercer County.

"Princeton University's excellence depends upon attracting and supporting talented individuals from throughout our society and around the world," President Eisgruber writes in the University's third annual report.    

Gordin has been a University professor for more than 20 years and is a leading expert on the history of science. He will begin his new role July 1. 

The National Science Foundation has named Princeton a mentor university for NJIT and the University of Delaware to help their scientists and engineers translate fundamental research into practical applications.

Mayer's WWII experience as a Jewish refugee from Germany and member of the U.S. "Ritchie Boys" intelligence unit inspired his deep scholarship on the history of diplomacy.

Lisk taught biology at Princeton for 30 years before transferring to emeritus status in 1990.

New paper from Princeton team challenges the conventional wisdom of superconducting quantum transitions.

The President's annual letter calls on the Princeton community to speak up for the value of higher education in America.

The honor cites her ‘lifetime of eminence in astronomical research.’