Four engineering professors receive Moore Foundation experimental physics awards

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 →

Bryan, McComas and Buschman receive prestigious honors from the National Academy of Sciences

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 →

At Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute, quest for better lives starts with curiosity

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 →

AI hope versus hype

Arvind Narayanan, professor of computer science and one of TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people in AI, sheds light on the capabilities and pitfalls of artificial intelligence. Continue Reading →

They’re playing our song

Professor of Music Elizabeth Margulis combines research in neuroscience, psychology and music to explore the science behind imagination and creativity. Continue Reading →

Bryan Grenfell wins Kyoto Prize

By Liz Fuller-Wright Bryan Grenfell, the Kathryn Briger and Sarah Fenton Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Public Affairs, is one of three recipients of the Kyoto Prize in 2022. Grenfell won the basic Continue Reading →

The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880–1930

University of Chicago Press, April 2022 Autumn Womack, Assistant Professor of African American Studies and English As the nineteenth century came to a close and questions concerning the future of African American life reached a Continue Reading →

India Is Broken: A People Betrayed, Independence to Today

Stanford University Press, Feb. 2023 Ashoka Mody, Charles and Marie Robertson Visiting Professor in International Economic Policy When Indian leaders first took control of their government in 1947, they proclaimed the ideals of national unity Continue Reading →

About the Cover

Tree, by Zhen James Xiang 2012 Ph.D. in electrical engineering Second-place winner in Princeton’s 2011 Art of Science competition The algorithm used here recursively cuts an image into smaller rectangular pieces. For each cut, a larger rectangle is divided either horizontally or vertically into Continue Reading →