Carlos Cortez ’24 straddles two worlds.His family is from Zináparo, a small rural village in Michoácan, Mexico, where few people have ever heard of Princeton University. He’s a senior at Princeton University, where few people have ever heard of Zináparo.But Carlos had an idea to bring these two...

The 14th 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 7, 2024 at 5...

Cognitive psychologist Elke Weber has been awarded a Frontiers of Knowledge Award in humanities and social sciences from the BBVA Foundation.Weber, the Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor of Energy and the Environment and professor of psychology and public affairs, was recognized “for...

Susan Bindig, executive director of Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS), will step down from her position on April 30, 2024, after nearly three decades at Princeton. During her tenure, PIIRS has grown into the University’s primary center for international and regional...

Senior Shane Patrick has been awarded the John and Daria Barry Scholarship for study at the University of Oxford.The scholarship was established in 2019 and “is awarded to the leading students of the United States of America in recognition of their dedication to the pursuit of truth,” according to...

A weekend of festivities is planned to celebrate the 20th anniversary of L’Avant-Scène, Princeton University’s French Theater Workshop, April 18-20. For two decades, Princeton undergraduate and graduate students from across academic disciplines have performed full-length plays in French under the...

Julian Chehirian was born in Brooklyn, the child of artists who fled Bulgaria’s political repression at the end of the 1980s, about a year before the fall of the Berlin Wall. After being granted asylum at the Traiskirchen refugee camp outside Vienna, they waited a year and a half for safe passage to...

Founded in 300 B.C., Antioch was one of the most important political and cultural centers of the Hellenistic East and one of the great metropolises of the Roman Empire. In the 1930s, Princeton archaeologists at Antioch tunneled trenches hither and thither for eight years based on ancient text...

A sensor that detects planet-warming gases, a laser-engraved ceramic tile engineered for evaporative cooling, and a method to improve the nutrition and production of worldwide agriculture are among the energy and environmental innovations awarded funding from the Intellectual Property (IP)...

In a corner of Kelsey Hatzell’s lab sits a small jar filled with a material that has an ability far beyond what its nondescript appearance would suggest: a way to capture and release carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by simply changing the surrounding humidity.The material could slash the energy...

The Andlinger Center has awarded a grant for Innovative Research in Energy and the Environment to an interdisciplinary team seeking to develop a way to separate and extract lithium and other critical minerals for the energy transition. The team, led by Howard Stone, the Donald R. Dixon ’69 and...

Ada Ferrer(Link is external), a historian of Latin America and the Caribbean, will join the History Department in the fall as Dayton-Stockton Professor of History. From 1995 to 2024, she taught at New York University, where she was jointly appointed in the History Department and the Center for Latin...

The prize(Link is external), created in 1997, rewards national and international authors whose historical works stand out for their scientific rigour and quality of writing. Among the latest winners are Maurice Sartre, Augustine Sedgewick, Martin Goodman, Peter Gatrell, Johann Chapoutot, Robert...

Like most college students, I chose to study abroad for life experience and cultural exposure, not to mention scratching a few countries off my bucket list. As a Classics major interested in Greco-Roman antiquity, I was infatuated with the ancient Mediterranean, so I naturally gravitated towards...

Each year, the World Economic Forum convenes in Davos, Switzerland, for hundreds of discussions among thousands of participants from around the world, including investors, business leaders, political leaders, economists, and journalists, on a wide range of global issues.At the 2024 meeting, held...

To commemorate Women’s History Month, the Afghanistan Policy Lab at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs has conducted interviews with eight courageous Afghan school-age girls in Afghansitan. These courageous individuals have been prevented from attending secondary school since...

Many of the most devastating tropical cyclones (TCs) in history, including Hurricanes Andrew (1992) and Katrina (2005), underwent a process known as rapid intensification (RI). Defined by a wind speed increase of at least 30 knots (35 mph) within a 24-hour period, RI can be difficult to predict and...

Researchers at Princeton’s engineering school found that placing a specially designed lid over a box can dramatically increase the airflow from wind blowing across the upper surface. It is not just a parlor trick. The information could help clean and cool urban canyons in cities like New York and...

The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory’s (PPPL) plans to construct a state-of-the-art building, the Princeton Plasma Innovation Center (PPIC), are moving forward. PPPL recently received permission to use $10 million in funding from Princeton University to prepare the site and received a...

Princeton University seniors Travis Kanoa Chai Andrade, Alison Parish, Meera Burghardt and Isabella Moscoe have been awarded fellowships from ReachOut 56-81-06, an alumni-funded effort that supports seniors to complete a public service project of their own design during the year after...