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    • The Life of an Ethiopian saint
    • Senior thesis research leads to potential cancer therapies
    • Lost and found: Prokofiev’s score for Eugene Onegin
    • Wildlife and Cows can be partners, not enemies, in search for food
    • The future of Princeton mathematics
    • Study shows fallout of a giant meteorite strike on Earth
    • Princeton sound lab pushes boundaries of realism
    • Princeton psychologists study perceptions of poverty
    • Storm of the century may become storm of the decade
    • Detection of cosmic effect may bring universe’s formation into sharper focus
    • Synchronizing billons of electrons in the quest for quantum computers
    • Physicists spot Higgs boson
    • Crescent-shaped bacteria reveal their secrets
    • Lasso peptides round up bacteria
    • Research on race and inequality
    • Expedition verifies the extraterrestrial nature of quasicrystals
    • Iron replaces pricey metal
    • Princeton research takes asymmetry to heart
    • Spotlight on the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
    • Princeton’s Physical Sciences-Oncology Center
    • The forces behind lung defects
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    • Michelangelo: A Life on Paper
    • Sheldon Garon – Beyond Our Means: Why America Spends While the World Saves
    • Worse Than a Monolith: Alliance Politics and Problems of Coercive Diplomacy in Asia
    • Language expert explores the art and science of translation
    • Daniel Rodgers Age of Fracture
    • Computer expert makes it easy for the rest of us
    • Liberal Leviathan: The Origins, Crisis, and Transformation of the American World Order
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    • Princeton economist Christopher Sims wins Nobel Prize in economics
    • Princeton biologist Bonnie Bassler receives L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science award
    • Four Princeton researchers receive inaugural Simons Investigators award
    • Princeton poet Tracy K. Smith wins Pulitzer Prize
    • Princeton historian Peter Brown wins international Balzan Prize
    • Two Princeton researchers receive highest government award for science
    • Harold T. Shapiro receives National Academy of Sciences’ Public Welfare Medal
    • Toni Morrison receives Presidential Medal of Freedom
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