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Princeton University professor John Hopfield has been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in physics(Link is external) “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”
He shares the prize with Geoffrey E. Hinton of the University of Toronto.
Before returning to campus for the fall semester, 12 students had the unique opportunity to travel to Liechtenstein, Austria, and Germany to present original research on democracy and security.
On September 13, Brazil LAB kicked off its fall programming with “United States-Brazil: 200 Years of Diplomatic Relations,” a two-day symposium. Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti, the ambassador of Brazil to the U.S. delivered the keynote address.
On Tuesday, September 3, the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS) celebrated the start of a new academic year with a welcome reception for returning and new visiting scholars.
These days, it’s all too common to see a front-page story about a foreign government’s influence operation — secret attempts to sway the opinions of another country’s citizens through social media campaigns, paid advertising, hacking, direct emails, or SMS text messaging.
In August, the FBI confirmed that the Iranian government was behind a hacking scheme to breach and subsequently leak confidential information about both the Trump and Harris presidential campaigns. Last week, the FBI reported that the operation is likely ongoing.
The generations of Americans who remember fallout shelters and “duck and cover” air raid drills is rapidly aging, and the threat of nuclear warfare — while as urgent as ever, if not more so — is a distant concern for most young adults today.
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Shane Campbell-Staton is Showing the World how Human Activity is Shaping Evolution Right Now
One night back in 2016, Shane Campbell-Staton couldn’t sleep. Doing what any person who feels inexplicably restless at 3 a.m. might do, biologist Campbell-Staton embarked down a YouTube rabbit hole. A few videos deep, he came across a clip about the tuskless elephants who live in Gorongosa...
Leonard Wantchekon Awarded Kiel Institute’s 2023 Global Economy Prize
Leonard Wantchekon, the James Madison Professor of Political Economy and Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University, has been awarded the Kiel Institute for the World Economy’s 2023 Global Economy Prize in the science category.
SPIA Researchers Co-Edit Book With Contributions From Global Scholars
Anew book co-edited by SPIA researchers and alumni examines the rise and fall of prior societies and their relation to our own seemingly precarious times. How Worlds Collapse: What History, Systems, and Complexity Can Teach Us about Our Modern World and Fragile Future (Routledge) presents...
Al Asali, Adriaenssens explore potential of combining traditional building crafts, engineering technology
In 2022, Fung Global Fellow, Wesam Al Asali, now assistant professor at IE School of Architecture and Design, and Sigrid Adriaenssens, professor of civil and environmental engineering and director of the Program in Mechanics, Materials and Structures at Princeton University, received a...
Kaelani Burja receives Dale Fellowship to pursue original project after graduation
Class of 2023 member Kaelani Burja has received the Martin A. Dale ’53 Fellowship to spend a year pursuing an independent project of special interest. Burja will travel to Guam, California and New York to research, write and perform an original play about her mother’s life.
Nicaraguan Social Justice Activist Dora María Téllez Joins Princeton as a Visiting Scholar
Dora María Téllez joined the Program in Latin American Studies (PLAS) as a Visiting Research Scholar June through August 2023. Her visiting fellowship was made possible with the support from PLAS, the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, and the Princeton School of Public...
Mathematician Elliott Lieb Wins Kyoto Prize for Pioneering Quantum Discoveries
Princeton University’s Elliott Lieb is one of the three recipients of the 2023 Kyoto Prize. He won the mathematical sciences category, for “pioneering mathematical research in physics, chemistry and quantum information science based on many-body physics.”
Fung Global Fellows to focus on ‘Sustainable Futures’
Five exceptional scholars from around the world will come to Princeton University this fall to begin a year of research, writing and collaboration as the eleventh cohort of Fung Global Fellows. For the 2023-24 academic year, the scholars will once again work on “sustainable futures”...
ESOC Convenes First Latin American Conference
Last month, for the first time, SPIA’s Empirical Studies of Conflict (ESOC) project convened a conference in Latin America, gathering in Bogotá, Colombia, for more than a dozen presentations of working papers on conflict, crime, state legitimacy, political participation, and migration...
Baffour Osei Brings Technical Excellence and Community Mindset to Princeton’s New Robotics Lab
In Princeton Engineering’s new robotics lab a segmented robot snakes slowly across a table, a small-scale version of a machine that could someday automate dangerous construction tasks.