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...

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 graduation. ...

For the next in our series spotlighting our amazing alumni, we caught up with Avanthika Srinivasan(Link is external) (Link opens in new window), a performer, artist, and French and Italian major from the Class of 2016. Since graduating from Princeton, Avanthika has found success as a working actor,...

In the late 2010s, as she was finishing up her PhD work in French and francophone studies at Duke University, Sandie Blaise had an idea for a new kind of course.Blaise, whose academic research interests include francophone migration and cultural identities, began conceiving of a French class that...

Six exceptional scholars from around the world will come to Princeton University this fall to begin a year of research, writing and collaboration as the 12th cohort of Fung Global Fellows.For the 2024-25 academic year, the scholars will expand understandings of “colonial residues.” Colonialism is...

Hailey Lambert ’25 and Patrick Newcombe ’25 have been selected as 2024 Udall Scholars. This year’s cohort comprises 55 scholars from 406 candidates nominated by 192 colleges and universities nationwide.The Udall Foundation awards scholarships to college sophomores and juniors who are “committed to...

Trisha Craig has been named executive director of Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS). She assumed her new duties at Princeton on April 15. Craig has been vice president for engagement and senior lecturer in global affairs at Yale-NUS College, an undergraduate...

Amanda Morrison ’19 has been named a Knight-Hennessy Scholar; she will pursue a J.D. at Stanford Law School. Morrison joins a cohort of 90 students— the largest to date— from around the world. Scholars receive full funding towards a graduate degree at any of Stanford’s seven schools.Morrison, from...

Genrietta Churbanova, an anthropology major from Little Rock, Arkansas, has been named the Princeton Class of 2024 valedictorian. John Freeman, a classics major from Chicago, has been selected as the salutatorian. The Princeton faculty accepted the nominations of the Faculty Committee on...

Laura Zhang '26, a SPIA major, reflects on her IIP last summer with the Institute of Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Read the full blog post on the Office of Admission's Undergraduate Student Blog. To learn more about the International Internship Program (IIP),...

Sheldon Garon has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant to direct a five-year collaborative project, “The Global War on Civilians, 1905-1945.”The project investigates the transnational circulation of knowledge and practices that culminated by World War II in...

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...

Email this page Print this page Co-curators Sal Hamerman and Javier Rivero Ramos at exhibition opening (Photo/Brandon Johnson, Princeton University Library)Co-curated by recent Ph.D. graduate Javier Rivero Ramos *23 with Princeton University Library’s Metadata Librarian for Special...

In the late 2010s, as she was finishing up her PhD work in French and francophone studies at Duke University, Sandie Blaise had an idea for a new kind of course.Blaise, whose academic research interests include francophone migration and cultural identities, began conceiving of a French class that...

“One of the highlights of my Princeton experience and of my life.” —John Patrick ’24“The memories created during this journey will be cherished for a lifetime.” —Mikaela Avakian ’24“One of the most significant highs of my time at Princeton.” —Gil Sander Joseph ’25“Transformational would be an...

The American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS) has named Elizabeth Levy Paluck one of eight fellows honored this year. The Princeton professor has previously been the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship.Paluck, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs and...

Princeton University has announced support for a series of scientific investigations to boost crop yields, expand pharmaceutical shelf-life, and increase the accuracy of AI medical diagnostics through the University’s Intellectual Property (IP) Accelerator Fund.Each grant, of up to $100,000, is...