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Category: Focus 2022

Preventing the next pandemic

Posted on January 29, 2022 by lmonnens

A.J. te Velthuis and team ask what makes a virus capable of causing a pandemic. Continue Reading →

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Posted in 2022, COVID-19, Focus 2022, Molecular Biology

When cars no longer rule

Posted on January 29, 2022 by lmonnens

Marshall Brown, director of the Princeton Urban Imagination Center, questions the future of traffic signs, parking lots and garbage trucks. Continue Reading →

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Posted in 2022, Architecture, Engineering, Faculty member, Focus 2022, Graduate Student, Princeton Urban Imagination Center, School of Architecture

Mystery on the moon

Posted on January 29, 2022 by lmonnens

Graduate student Erin Flowers investigates similarities between Earth
and Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. Continue Reading →

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Posted in 2022, Astrophysical Sciences, Faculty member, Focus 2022, Graduate Student, International, NASA
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