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...

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...

The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs’ Innovations for Successful Societies has released summaries and analyses of hundreds of Ukrainian laws pertaining to reconstruction, the second component of a larger project aimed at helping the country rebuild infrastructure the Russian...

Princeton SPIA’s Research Record series highlights the vast scholarly achievements of our faculty members, whose expertise extends beyond the classroom and into everyday life.If you’d like your work considered for future editions of Research Record, click here and select “research project.”The...

Hundreds of thousands of species are under the threat of extinction and will disappear if substantial conservation efforts are not made.  In the face of this biodiversity crisis, policymakers and government officials across the globe have expanded protected areas that harbor threatened species...