Climate in crisis
Advances in reclaiming carbon from wastewater, lithium-ion-battery recycling, innovative building materials and new approaches to urban infrastructures are active areas of research at Princeton. Continue Reading →
Category: International
Mystery on the moon
Graduate student Erin Flowers investigates similarities between Earth
and Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. Continue Reading →
Origin Story: Rewriting human history through our DNA
Using “genetic archaeology,” Akey traces the intermixing of modern and extinct human lineages. Continue Reading →
People adapt to societal diversity
The team examined 22 years of psychological, sociological and demographic data from more than 338,000 respondents in 100+ countries. Continue Reading →
Finding the Lost Generation
A new interactive website provides scholars and the public with insights into the Lost Generation, a group of writers and artists that came of age during World War I. Continue Reading →
Coming home to document a rapidly changing China
By Catherine Zandonella SOCIOLOGIST Yu Xie is the director of Princeton’s Paul and Marcia Wythes Center on Contemporary China, which aims to conduct research on Chinese society through an interdisciplinary approach. ON A VISIT TO CHINA in Continue Reading →
Big answers from small creatures
A graduate student tracks the spread of viruses from bats to humans in Madagascar By Cara Brook IT IS SPRINGTIME in the Makira-Masoala peninsula of northeastern Madagascar, and the lychee trees are in full fruit. Continue Reading →
A RISKY PROPOSITION: Has global interdependence made us vulnerable?
RISK IS EVERYWHERE. There’s a risk, for example, that volcanic ash will damage aircraft engines. So when a volcano erupted in Iceland in April 2010, concerns about the plume of volcanic ash disrupted air travel Continue Reading →
YING-SHIH YU Receives Inaugural Tang Prize in Sinology
Ying-shih Yu, the Gordon Wu ’58 Professor of Chinese Studies, Emeritus, was awarded the inaugural Tang Prize in Sinology in 2014. The Tang Prize Foundation selection committee recognized Yu for his “mastery of and insight Continue Reading →
Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878 – 1928
It has the quality of myth: a poor cobbler’s son, a seminarian from an oppressed outer province of the Russian empire, reinvents himself as a top leader in a band of revolutionary zealots. He later Continue Reading →
Africa’s poison ‘apple’ provides common ground for elephants and livestock
AFRICAN WILDLIFE OFTEN RUN AFOUL of ranchers securing food and water resources for their animals, but the interests of fauna and farmer might finally be unified by the “Sodom apple,” a toxic invasive plant that Continue Reading →
New mineral: Steinhardtite
A MINERAL DISCOVERED to be of meteoritic origin has been named “steinhardtite” in honor of Paul Steinhardt, Princeton’s Albert Einstein Professor in Science and a professor of physics. The name was approved by the Commission Continue Reading →
Activism Shapes Africa Scholar
Leonard Wantchekon’s education began as a young child in his home village of Zagnanado, in the West African nation of Benin, where elementary school classes gave way to long soccer games and evenings of storytelling Continue Reading →
Princeton establishes strategic partnerships with three universities
Princeton has established strategic partnerships with the University of Tokyo, the University of São Paulo and Humboldt University in Berlin. The agreements expand upon the many institutional partnerships already in place including faculty fellowships, student Continue Reading →
Quantum computing moves forward
New technologies that exploit quantum behavior for computing and other applications are closer than ever to being realized due to recent advances. These advances could enable the creation of immensely powerful computers as well as Continue Reading →
First Princeton-Fung Global Forum held in Shanghai
Architects, engineers and other scholars gathered in February in Shanghai for the inaugural Princeton-Fung Global Forum to discuss population growth, social trends, climate change and other factors determining “The Future of the City.” A $10 Continue Reading →
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