Discovery: Research at Princeton
Findings, feature articles, books and awards from Princeton University researchers
Toni Morrison, Nobel laureate and Princeton’s Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities Emeritus, was named by President Barack Obama as a 2012 recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in Continue Reading →
Harold T. Shapiro (left), Princeton president emeritus and a professor of economics and public affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, was awarded the 2012 National Academy of Sciences’ Public Welfare Continue Reading →
Two Princeton professors have received the 2012 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their research careers. David Continue Reading →
Peter Brown, Princeton’s Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History Emeritus, and senior historian, received the 2011 Balzan Prize for his research on ancient history, specifically the Greco-Roman world. Four Balzan Prizes are awarded annually Continue Reading →
Tracy K. Smith, an assistant professor of creative writing in Princeton’s Lewis Center for the Arts, won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for poetry for Life on Mars, which the prize committee called “a collection of bold, Continue Reading →
Princeton University faculty members were selected in 2012 as four of 21 inaugural Simons Investigators, a prestigious program aimed at supporting research by mathematicians, theoretical physicists and theoretical computer scientists. Each faculty member will receive Continue Reading →
Bonnie Bassler, the Squibb Professor in Molecular Biology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, was among five scientists worldwide selected to receive the 2012 For Women in Science Award presented by UNESCO and cosmetics Continue Reading →
Princeton professor Christopher Sims was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in economics along with Thomas Sargent, a New York University economist and a visiting professor at Princeton at the time, for developing tools to analyze Continue Reading →