Discovery: Research at Princeton
Findings, feature articles, books and awards from Princeton University researchers
Lauren Pincus studies the interaction of microplastics and heavy metals in the natural environment of New Jersey’s Barnegat Bay (pictured) and at Lake Carnegie on Princeton University’s campus. Pincus, a National Science Foundation Earth Sciences Continue Reading →
By Daniel Day The American Sociological Association (ASA) recognized Viviana Zelizer, the Lloyd Cotsen ’50 Professor of Sociology, for her pioneering contributions with its highest honor, the W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award. Continue Reading →
By Liz Fuller-Wright and Daniel Day Two Princeton professors, Jeanne Altmann and Peter Singer, have been awarded 2023 Frontiers of Knowledge Awards by the BBVA Foundation. The awards recognize basic research and creative work worldwide Continue Reading →
By the Office of Engineering Communications Four Princeton University researchers — Nathalie de Leon, Julia Mikhailova, Barry Rand and Jeff Thompson — have won a Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Experimental Physics Investigators Initiative award. Continue Reading →
By Liz Fuller-Wright Three Princetonians are among the 16 scientists receiving the highest honors given by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). These major awards recognize extraordinary scientific achievements in a wide range of fields Continue Reading →
By Jamie Saxon Patricia Smith, professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts, and Ilya Kaminsky, professor of creative writing, have been named Academy of American Poets Chancellors. Chancellors serve six-year terms Continue Reading →
By Jeffrey Labrecque and Steven Schultz Princeton’s new Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute will promote new directions in research, education and innovation at the intersection of engineering and the life sciences while serving as the home for Continue Reading →
By John Greenwald An unprecedented six new public-private partnership grants have been awarded to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, which is managed by Princeton University, for research on the science and Continue Reading →
By Samantha Schuh A highly successful 50-year collaboration between Princeton’s Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (AOS) Program and the nearby Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) has been renewed for another five years by the National Oceanic Continue Reading →
By Liz Fuller-Wright A new initiative aims to enhance our fundamental understanding of AI, enable its use in academic disciplines, and examine AI’s safety, policy and ethical implications. The Princeton Language and Intelligence (PLI) initiative, Continue Reading →
Columbia University Press, April 2023 Susan Wolfson, Professor of English Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) made a pioneering and durably influential argument for women’s equality. Emerging from the turbulent decade Continue Reading →
Princeton University Press, July 2023 Joshua Winn, Professor of Astrophysical Sciences For centuries, people have speculated about the possibility of planets orbiting distant stars, but only since the 1990s has technology allowed astronomers to detect Continue Reading →
Princeton University Press, November 2023 Coleen T. Murphy, James A. Elkins Jr. Professor in the Life Sciences; Professor of Molecular Biology and Director, Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics All of us would like to live Continue Reading →
By Jamie Saxon Three Princeton faculty members have received 2023 Guggenheim Fellowships. Bridget Alsdorf, professor of art and archaeology, was awarded the Guggenheim in the field of fine arts research. Her research specializes in European Continue Reading →
Yale University Press, May 2023 Harold James, Claude and Lore Kelly Professor in European Studies, Professor of History and International Affairs The eminent economic historian Harold James presents a new perspective on financial crises, dividing Continue Reading →
Harper Collins, August 2023 Kathryn Edin, William Church Osborn Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs; Director, Bendheim-Thoman Center for Research on Child Wellbeing Timothy Nelson, Lecturer in Sociology Continue Reading →
University of California Press, April 2023 Ryo Morimoto, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Richard Stockton Bicentennial Preceptor “There is a nuclear ghost in Minamisōma.” This is how one resident describes a mysterious experience following the 2011 Continue Reading →
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