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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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 annual event challenges faculty to tell their best research stories in under eight minutes. "Put them together, you get lightbulbs," an industry partner says.
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.
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.
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.
Natalia Lalin has interned on Capitol Hill and at the U.N. Her senior thesis underscores the complexities of conventional wisdom in international relations.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Princeton University chapter of Phi Beta Kappa will present its annual awards for excellence in undergraduate teaching in a ceremony on Monday, May 27.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 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.
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.
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 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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