Comments(0) Climate change is expected to cause mass human migration, including immigration across international borders, according to a new study by three Princeton University professors and researchers. The researchers — all from the University’s Woodrow Wil…
Comments(0) Seemingly redundant portions of the fruit fly genome may not be so redundant after all.New findings from a Princeton-led team of researchers suggest that repeated instructional regions in the flies’ DNA may contribute to normal development under le…
Comments(0) On a quest to discover new states of matter, a team of Princeton University scientists has found that electrons on the surface of specific materials act like miniature superheroes, relentlessly dodging the cliff-like obstacles of imperfect microsurfaces, sometimes moving straight through barriers.
Comments(0) Robert Socolow, a Princeton professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, has received the Keystone Award for Leadership in the Environment, which recognizes contributions to solving society’s environmental problems.
Comments(0) Two members of the Princeton University faculty have been recognized for major contributions to ecological research.
Comments(0) Norman Ryder, a professor emeritus of sociology at Princeton University who conducted pioneering studies of fertility in the United States, died of a brain hemorrhage June 30 at the University Medical Center at Princeton. He was 86.
Comments(0) Marvin Bressler, a sociologist specializing in higher education who helped shape undergraduate life at Princeton since the 1960s, died July 7 of complications of heart failure at the Stonebridge at Montgomery retirement community in Skillman, N.J. He was 87.
Comments(0) Princeton University’s 2009-10 Annual Giving campaign raised $48,582,819 — the third highest total in its history — with 60.8 percent of undergraduate alumni participating. The results are notable for their strength and breadth across all of Princeton’s constituencies: undergraduate alumni, graduate alumni, parents and friends.
Comments(0) Thomas Gregor, an assistant professor of physics and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton, has been named a 2010 Searle Scholar for his innovative research.
Comments(0) Princeton legal scholar Stanley Katz has been honored with the 2010 Fellows Award by the Phi Beta Kappa Society. The award recognizes "an individual who has demonstrated scholarly achievement and excellence in his or her chosen field and who, by work and life, has exemplified the goals and ideals of Phi Beta Kappa.