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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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Sachs Scholarship awarded to Princeton seniors Shaun Cason and Anna Allport and University of Oxford student Isabelle (Izzy) Stuart
Princeton seniors Shaun Cason and Anna Allport and University of Oxford student Isabelle (Izzy) Stuart have been named recipients of the Daniel M. Sachs Class of 1960 Graduating Scholarship, one of Princeton University’s highest awards. Cason has been named as the Sachs Scholar at Worcester...
Enter the 13th annual International Eye Photo Contest!
The 13th annual International Eye Photo Contest is now open! All Princeton undergraduates who have studied, worked, volunteered or conducted research abroad in the past year are eligible and may submit a total of four (4) photos. The deadline for submission is Wednesday, February 8, 2023 at 5...
Global History Lab Refugees' Essays Compiled in New Collection
Refugees and displaced people rarely figure as historical actors, and almost never as historical narrators. We often assume a person residing in a refugee camp, lacking funding, training, social networks, and other material resources that enable the research and writing of academic history,...
Was It Only a Fairy Tale? Musical Theater Storytelling Immerses Students in Italian Language, Culture and Folk Literature
A 2022 Global Seminar takes students to Gesualdo, Italy, to learn musical theater writing and performance processes As the dark and cold days of January settle in, 13 Princeton students can warm at the recollection of six engaging weeks they spent this past summer immersed in...
Study Abroad Applications Now Open: University of Oxford, University of Cambridge
The applications for studying abroad at the University of Cambridge, Pembroke College and at our four partner colleges at the University of Oxford for either the full Academic Year 23-24 or Spring Term 2024 only are now OPEN and the recordings from the virtual info sessions can be found under...
The Pacific Ocean’s oxygen-starved ‘OMZ’ is growing, new Princeton research finds
Areas of low-oxygen water stretch for thousands of miles through the world’s oceans. The largest of these “oxygen minimum zones” (OMZs) is found along the Pacific coast of North and South America, centered off the coast of Mexico. Until recently, climate models have been unable to say...
Research Offers Unexpected Insights on the Emergence of the Bering Land Bridge
A new study shows that the Bering Land Bridge, the strip of land that once connected Asia to Alaska, emerged far later during the last ice age than previously thought. The unexpected findings shorten the window of time that humans could have first migrated from Asia to the Americas across...
"Meet Princeton!" The Novogratz Bridge Year Program: Two Students in Conversation
Novogratz Bridge Year Program alums Leila Owens '23 (India) and Nicole Williams '23 (Senegal) were featured on the "Meet Princeton!" podcast to talk about their Bridge Year experiences teaching and working with an NGO, favorite foods, changing perspectives and how they transitioned back to...
VIDEO: Investigating the Impacts of Climate Change on Biodiversity
Ecosystem health is declining around the world. Deforestation, habitat loss and the impacts of climate change are disrupting the normal rhythms of nature and impacting the availability of natural resources upon which species rely, making it increasingly difficult for many plants and animals to...
Ukrainian and Russian Scholars At Princeton Discuss Their New Normal
Huddled with her mother beneath old blankets and broken furniture in a basement in Chernihiv in northern Ukraine, under siege by Russian troops and with bombs exploding on the residential streets outside, Yana Prymachenko felt the eerie resonance of her World War II scholarship. Prymachenko is...