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. The complexity and precision of the task is a formidable challenge, but the custom frame that allows...

Bonnie Bassler, the Squibb Professor in Molecular Biology, has been awarded the 2023 Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research. The Princess of Asturias Awards are the highest form of recognition bestowed by the Spanish Crown and among the most important prizes...

Before Professor Seema Jayachandran became Amichai Feit’s senior thesis advisor, Feit knew her as a famous development economist he followed on Twitter. “I remember seeing a news story that she was hired at Princeton, and thought it was a really big deal,” he said. “So, I shot her a follow on...

This spring, students in the course “Poetry and War: Translating the Untranslatable” explored Char’s poetry in its historical context and its ongoing “afterlife” in translations around the globe. They explored the Char Papers, held in Princeton University Library’s (PUL) Special...

The EEB is delighted to announce that Paula Kahumbu, an alumna of Princeton University, EEB Lecturer, and CEO of WildlifeDirect, has been featured as a storyteller in National Geographic's latest release, Secrets of Elephants. This documentary is available on National Geographic, Disney+, and...

Chile's 9/11 is among the current Magic Grants for Innovation awarded by the Humanities Council to Professor Javier Guerrero.  Guerrero elaborates on the topic and on the many events we can expect to see during the course of year:  Sept. 11, 2023 will mark the 50th anniversary...

Winning an asylum claim in the United States is a complicated process of proving not just that your life is at risk in your country of citizenship, but that it is at risk in particular ways, both systematic and individual. It’s a tricky needle to thread, and that is part of why asylum grant rates...

Outstanding teachers are essential to any consistently successful language program. Princeton's Chinese, Japanese and Korean language teachers are the hidden gems behind the not-so-secret success of the Department of East Asian Studies (EAS). Department of East Asian Studies Chair,...

In high school, a history teacher encouraged Rory Truex ’07 to study China in college. That trajectory led him to study abroad through Princeton in Beijing, then through the Princeton in Asia program, where he helped create the Summer of Service program for students to teach English in rural...

A SPIA faculty member and a former SPIA dean are among 26 recipients of the 2023-2024 Berlin Prize, awarded by the American Academy in Berlin. Slaughter ...

The Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication (PTIC) has named Sawad Hussain, Hanna Leliv, Lily Meyer and Daisy Rockwell as Princeton University’s translators in residence. Each of the four translators will be joining the Princeton community for one semester over the course of academic...

The M.S. Chadha Center for Global India (CGI) held “Cinema with Power,” a series of events with Indian director, producer and screenwriter Prakash Jha from April 11 to 23, 2023. Jha is best known for his socially and politically relevant films like “Apaharan” (2005), “Aarakshan” (2011) and...

Four Princeton University seniors have been awarded a fellowship from ReachOut 56-81-06, an alumni-funded effort that supports year-long public service projects after graduation. Their projects focus on strengthening New York City’s preparedness initiatives in response to climate change,...

Princeton University seniors Sarah Brown, Caroline Subbiah, Marissa Mejia and Mandy Qua have been awarded a fellowship from ReachOut 56-81-06, an alumni-funded effort that supports year-long public service projects after graduation. Their projects focus on strengthening New York City’s preparedness...

Corinna Zeltsman, assistant professor of history has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in a round of awards to humanities projects nationwide. Zeltsman’s $60,000 grant is for research and writing a book, “Making Paper in Mexico: A Material, Political...

Elke Weber, the Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment, professor of psychology and public affairs, and director of the Fung Global Fellows Program, has been awarded the Patrick Suppes Prize in Psychology from the American Philosophical Society for her work on...

Princeton University seniors David Amelemah, Zachariah Sippy and Jack Thompson have been awarded the Henry Richardson Labouisse ’26 Prize to pursue international civic engagement projects for one year following graduation. Amelemah, a chemical and biological engineering major from Amityville, New...

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...

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” and...

Over spring break, students from Princeton University and the University of Tokyo participated in a mini cultural exchange program — with events in New York City, at Rutgers University and on the Princeton campus — and looked ahead to longer, more meaningful student travel and immersion in the...