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The official account of Princeton University. In the Nation’s Service and the Service of Humanity.
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While we don’t know with any certainty which research will produce the next blockbuster result or scientific miracle, history tells us they are most likely to come from universities:
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Newly extracted ancient ice — from 6 million years ago — will allow researchers to peer into the history of Earth's climate and provide a clear picture of climate evolution over time.
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What They Found in the Ice Had Never Been Observed: Air Dating Back Nearly 6 Million Years - Futura-Sciences
Deep within Antarctica lie remnants that have remained untouched for extraordinarily long periods of time. It’s there that scientists have managed to extract air trapped for six million years—an essen...
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Researchers at Princeton and
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have shown that a combination of subsidies for clean energy and pollution taxes can significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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Mixing incentives and penalties found key to cutting carbon emissions long term
A study from a team of researchers that includes faculty from the University of California San Diego and Princeton University shows how a mix of subsidies for clean energy and taxes on pollution can s...
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Targeting autocrine retinoic acid signaling by ALDH1A2 inhibition enhances antitumor DC vaccine efficacy
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A new study, by Joshua D. Rabinowitz & Yibin Kang et al at
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Princeton staff, students and local volunteers came together last month for an evening of service, welcoming over 140 guests and strengthening community connections in the spirit of the season.
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Dining partners with Cornerstone Community Kitchen for annual Holiday Dinner
On Wednesday, Dec. 17, Campus Dining staff continued a cherished tradition of supporting the Cornerstone Community Kitchen’s annual Holiday Dinner, an event serving the greater Princeton community. Th...
https://inside.princeton.edu/community-news/2025/dining-cornerstone-community-kitchen-annual-holiday-dinner?utm_campaign=communications&utm_content=1767715229&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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By targeting enzymes that produce a high concentration of retinoic acid in tumors, the Kang Lab at Princeton has found a potential new avenue for thwarting many cancers, including pancreatic cancer, breast cancer and lung cancer.
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Yibin Kang’s team identifies new path to potential cancer treatments
A team of cancer biologists led by Princeton’s Yibin Kang has resolved a confounding paradox about retinoids and cancer cells while identifying a potential new avenue for thwarting many cancers, inclu...
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Princeton researchers have cleared a major hurdle toward the advent of practical quantum computing by developing a new kind of superconducting qubit that improves quantum coherence time by 15 times that of industry standards:
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Born in Northern Ireland, Paul Muldoon immigrated to the U.S. in 1987. He went on to become a @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social–winning poet, longtime professor at
@princeton.edu
, and poetry editor at the
@newyorker.com
. 💥👉 Discover his
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comic — told in his own words:
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On this day in 1777, General George Washington led the Continental Army to victory during the Battle of Princeton and rescued Nassau Hall from its occupation by British forces.
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President Eisgruber has been using his book “Terms of Respect” as a platform to counter misperceptions about free speech and academic freedom.
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‘Terms of Respect’: Eisgruber’s book is opening new avenues to share what colleges get right on free speech and academic inquiry
Eisgruber has spoken at events in Princeton, New York, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Cambridge, Mass., and other cities, and has brought his message to a range of news outlets.
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Princeton’s scientists, engineers and scholars tackle the toughest problems and have shown again & again that they can deliver extraordinary breakthroughs, like those that launched the machine learning revolution, established the first climate models and led to a revolutionary lung-cancer treatment.
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The search for the next big breakthrough at Princeton
What will be the next blockbuster research to emerge from Princeton’s labs? No one can say for sure, but history tells us research universities “are where the really huge discoveries begin.” A samplin...
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2025/12/17/search-next-big-breakthrough-princeton?utm_campaign=communications&utm_content=1766585781&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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A Princeton-led team analyzed the relationship between social vulnerability and flood risk, finding that building flood risk is the most severe in urban areas with a high proportion of renters.
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Renters bear the brunt: Flood risk to buildings rises with social vulnerability
Floods are among the most destructive natural hazards, causing billions of dollars in economic loss each year. By 2050, flood-related losses in the United States are expected to increase by 26%, with ...
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Researchers found that monk parakeets tend to test the waters before diving into relationships, a step toward understanding how social ties begin.
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Parakeets don't rush into new friendships - they move cautiously
New research shows that parakeets slowly build trust with strangers and manage the risks of forming new social bonds.
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At the Princeton Seed Farm, "resources of the university are leveraged to help community partners in the critical work of growing rare, culturally meaningful seeds and pursuing relevant research."
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The Seed Farm
A researcher’s fascination with rare seeds and the people who keep them has inspired a new initiative. Welcome to Princeton University’s Seed Farm.
https://ediblejersey.ediblecommunities.com/food-thought/food-thought-seed-farm/
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@princeton.edu
authors make several “Best of 2025” lists! These fantastic authors and books include Agustín Fuentes's Sex is a Spectrum,
@stephenmacedo.bsky.social
and Frances Lee's In Covid’s Wake, and Harry G. Frankfurt’s On Bullshit: Anniversary Edition:
www.princeton.edu/news/2025/12...
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Books by Princeton professors make year-end ‘best-of’ lists
The accolades for 2025 celebrate faculty novels and short stories, memoirs, poetry, and nonfiction.
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2025/12/19/books-princeton-professors-make-year-end-best-lists
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Eighteen books by Princeton professors have been selected for inclusion in 2025 year-end “best of” lists — in some cases, multiple lists. The accolades celebrate faculty novels and short stories, memoirs, poetry, and nonfiction.
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Books by Princeton professors make year-end ‘best-of’ lists
The accolades for 2025 celebrate faculty novels and short stories, memoirs, poetry, and nonfiction.
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At
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, professor
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talks about the power of music to transport us to other places, connect us with other people, and where music is stored in the brain.
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Music and memory - WHYY
Princeton professor Elizabeth Margulis explains why music has the power to affect our emotions, transport us to far away places and connect us to others.
https://bit.ly/4g1QIPJ
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Princeton engineers have built a superconducting qubit that lasts 3x longer than today's best versions, marking a major step toward practical quantum computers.
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Princeton puts quantum computing on the fast track with new qubit
Princeton engineers have built a superconducting qubit that lasts three times longer than today’s best versions, marking a major step toward practical quantum computers.
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2025/11/05/princeton-puts-quantum-computing-fast-track-new-qubit
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In a new study,
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scientists uncover one reason for the brain’s advantage over AI: it reuses the same cognitive “blocks” across many different tasks. By combining and recombining these blocks, the brain can rapidly assemble new behaviors:
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We’re entering a post-documentation world — one where photos & recordings can no longer be trusted as evidence of reality. How will we adapt?
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's Jake Shapiro and I took a social-science lens to the shift for the
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80th Anniversary Issue:
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What happens when seeing is no longer believing?
Two fast-accelerating trends in how people consume and produce information—in selective exposure to agreeable content and in our ability to generate realistic-looking audio, documents, photos, and vid...
https://thebulletin.org/premium/2025-12/what-happens-when-seeing-is-no-longer-believing/
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Researchers at Princeton and NJIT are building AI literacy and computational thinking in K-12 students with an experimental software and augmented reality:
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A nerve signaling mechanism discovered by a research team including scientists from Princeton could "transform our understanding of pain and lead to safer, more effective treatments."
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Pain-signaling switch discovery could lead to better treatments
Scientists have discovered a new nerve cell signaling mechanism could transform our understanding of pain and lead to better treatments.
https://bit.ly/4j0ioWv
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Four research projects — focused on small molecule structure determination, sustainable energy storage, natural hydrogen gas generation, and tropical marine ecosystem mitigation — have received funding through the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Transformative Technology Fund.
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Four innovative projects selected for 2025 Schmidt Transformative Technology Fund awards
The fund seeks to enable researchers to make leaps rather than incremental advances in the natural sciences and engineering. This year’s selected projects focus on small molecule structure determinati...
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Princeton remembers Katherine Ho, the John L. Weinberg Professor of Economics and Business Policy who was "a brilliant scholar, a charismatic teacher and a devoted adviser."
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Katherine Ho, esteemed health economist and ‘true role model,’ dies at 53
Ho, the John L. Weinberg Professor of Economics and Business Policy, was “a brilliant scholar, a charismatic teacher and a devoted adviser,” said department chair Wolfgang Pesendorfer. A memorial will...
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📸 Relying on light instead of electricity, a new kind of computer vision camera developed by scientists at Princeton and the University of Washington can identify objects at the speed of light.
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New light-powered AI camera processes images at speed of light
Researchers have created a revolutionary camera that processes images at the speed of light, reducing power consumption and time.
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"We need to meet the scale at which humanity is disrupting or disturbing the environment." Princeton's
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led a new study showing that common birds are on the decline, adding that a wide range of action is necessary to address the problem.
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To Reverse Common Bird Declines, Conservationists Will Need to Think Bigger
The most abundant birds are disappearing the fastest. Saving them requires bold, landscape-scale action.
https://www.audubon.org/magazine/reverse-common-bird-declines-conservationists-will-need-think-bigger
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A month before arriving at its destination, NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP), led by Princeton's David McComas, has already begun to collect science data from each of its 10 instruments.
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Princeton in space: IMAP instruments gather ‘first light’ data
A month before arriving at its destination, NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP), led by Princeton's David McComas, has already begun to collect science data from each of its 10 i...
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2025/12/16/princeton-space-imap-instruments-gather-first-light-data?utm_campaign=communications&utm_content=1766070057&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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New Princeton research shows that as generative AI models continue to gain popularity, they are also becoming more indifferent to the truth in order to please their users.
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AI Wants to Make You Happy. Even If It Has to Bend the Truth
AI is being trained to please us, and in doing so, is becoming more indifferent to accuracy.
https://cnet.co/4lP1iL1
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While we don’t know with any certainty which research will produce the next blockbuster result or scientific miracle, history tells us they are most likely to come from universities:
https://bit.ly/3Yy8CBz
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Princeton engineers have created a new superconducting qubit with a coherence time 3x longer than previously reported in lab studies.
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Princeton's new qubit is much like Google's but works 1,000x better
Princeton University researchers made a major breakthrough in quantum computing with a qubit that delivers coherence times three times better than Google and IBM.
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/princeton-built-qubit-works-1000-times-better
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22 days ago
Check out our new paper in Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters in collaboration with Prof. Hammes-Schiffer (Princeton)! We show the applicability of NEO-DFT methods for studying isotopic substitution at electrochemical interfaces.
pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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Isotope Effects for Water at Pt(111) Computed with Nuclear−Electronic Orbital Theory
Hydrogen/deuterium (H/D) substitution at electrochemical interfaces can provide insights into fundamental electrochemical processes. Periodic nuclear–electronic orbital density functional theory (NEO-DFT), which treats specified nuclei quantum mechanically on the same level as the electrons, enables such H/D isotope effects to be investigated computationally. Herein, periodic NEO-DFT is applied to OH–/OD– adsorption, H/D adsorption, and H2O/D2O monolayers at a Pt(111) surface. These calculations inherently include anharmonic zero-point energy and nuclear delocalization of hydrogen and deuterium. Thus, they capture structural differences between H/D isotopologues, guide interpretation of experimental cyclic voltammograms, identify favored adsorption sites, and characterize differences in H2O/D2O hydrogen-bonding interactions. Periodic NEO-DFT maintains the favorable computational scaling of conventional DFT, predicts geometric isotope effects, and can be combined with techniques to model an applied potential. Thus, periodic NEO-DFT represents a promising tool for probing the structures of electrochemical interfaces, interpreting experimental isotope studies, and elucidating electrocatalytic mechanisms.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.jpclett.5c03144
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“It’s just astounding that within the first couple weeks of observations, we see such clear and consistent ENA data across the factor of 10,000 in energy covered collectively by the three imagers,” said David McComas, Princeton University professor and principal investigator for the IMAP mission.
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NASA’s IMAP Mission Captures ‘First Light,’ Looks Back at Earth - NASA Science
All 10 instruments aboard NASA’s newly launched IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) mission have successfully recorded their first measurements
https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/nasas-imap-mission-captures-first-light-looks-back-at-earth/
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As the AI revolution transforms the digital world, millions of people on the African continent cannot tap its full promise because the languages they speak aren’t built into the large language models that drive services like ChatGPT. A Princeton postdoc wants to change that.
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Millions on the African continent can’t fully benefit from the AI revolution. This Princeton course aims to change that.
The new course, part of the Freshman Seminars program, focuses on the issues and challenges around increasing the representation of African languages in LLMs.
https://bit.ly/42o7GC9
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The humanities provide a way to study different cultures around the world and how we should live as beings who are at once social and individual. Learn more about the humanities at Princeton:
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"By studying voids, we should be able to put powerful constraints on the nature of dark energy." Visiting research scholar Alice Pisani is utilizing the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to observe cosmic voids throughout the universe.
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NASA’s Roman Telescope Will Observe Thousands of Newfound Cosmic Voids - NASA
Lee esta nota de prensa en español aquí.
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/roman-space-telescope/nasas-roman-telescope-will-observe-thousands-of-newfound-cosmic-voids/
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Princeton’s geoexchange system keeps campus buildings warm this winter from heat captured during the hottest days last summer:
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Princeton’s Elizabeth Ellis, a historian and citizen of the Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma, is a key player in an exhibition at the Palace of Versailles that brings to light the little-known diplomatic history of French-Native alliances:
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Researchers at Princeton have developed a magnetic sensing technique using quantum entanglement to detect previously hidden fluctuations that are key to understanding quantum materials like graphene and superconductors.
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Princeton Engineering - Diamond defects, now in pairs, reveal hidden fluctuations in the quantum world
A new diamond-based sensing technique uses quantum entanglement to reveal hidden magnetic fluctuations in advanced materials such as superconductors.
https://engineering.princeton.edu/news/2025/11/26/diamond-defects-now-pairs-reveal-hidden-fluctuations-quantum-world?utm_campaign=communications&utm_content=1765818042&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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The New Jersey Artificial Intelligence Hub today announced that it will launch an AI Accelerator, powered by the global innovation platform Plug and Play, early next year.
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NJ AI Hub selects Plug and Play to operate its regional AI Accelerator
The accelerator will connect New Jersey’s AI startups and higher-ed-affiliated entrepreneurs with mentors, investors and industry partners, and attract other world-class startups to the state.
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2025/12/15/nj-ai-hub-selects-plug-and-play-operate-its-regional-ai-accelerator?utm_campaign=communications&utm_content=1765803771&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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In her Nobel Prize speech, Mary Brunkow *91 touched on the "twists and turns" of her career, the scientific significance behind the team's discoveries around immune tolerance and the "powerful synergies between research efforts in academic labs and in the private sector":
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Barry Rand, an expert in advanced electronics and clean energy tech, has been named a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. Rand investigates the optical and electrical properties of ultra-thin materials to build electronics for applications that go beyond what is possible with silicon.
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Princeton Engineering - Barry Rand elected to National Academy of Inventors
Barry Rand, an expert in advanced electronics and clean energy technologies, has been named a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.
https://bit.ly/4q9gAx1
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Earlier this week, President Eisgruber received the Gold Honor Medal from
@socialsciencesinst.bsky.social,
an honor that recognizes “extraordinary individuals who have made the highest contribution to the improvement of society.”
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President Eisgruber honored by the National Institute of Social Sciences
Eisgruber was recognized as a national voice in support of “fairness, integrity and rigorous pursuit of the truth” in higher education.
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2025/12/12/president-eisgruber-honored-national-institute-social-sciences?utm_campaign=communications&utm_content=1765567807&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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The Lewis Center for the Arts has announced the 2026-27 Hodder Fellows: poet Jos Charles, photographer and visual artist Eric Gyamfi, theatermaker nazareth hassan, composer Amirtha Kidambi, and choreographer and performer Anna Sperber. Congratulations! 👏
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Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton announces five Hodder Fellows for 2026-27
Princeton University announces 26-27 Hodder Fellows: Jos Charles, Eric Gyamfi, nazareth hassan, Amirtha Kidambi, Anna Sperber.
https://arts.princeton.edu/news/2025/12/lewis-center-for-the-arts-at-princeton-announces-five-hodder-fellows-for-2026-27/?utm_campaign=communications&utm_content=1765558841&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
26 days ago
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"The humanities prepare students not just to get a job, but to keep it and excel while doing so." In an op-ed for The Philadelphia Inquirer, Princeton's Dean of the Faculty Gene Jarrett makes the case for why a humanities degree is a smart investment:
https://bit.ly/48ge5CZ
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All of the Princeton University Art Museum's design choices — from having most of the art displayed without protective glass to cases with drawers that visitors can open to view more art — invite the experience of close looking. Even if it’s just for 10 minutes:
https://bit.ly/48aDaPv
27 days ago
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A Princeton and University of Chicago study finds that rainfall causes more than 8% of deaths in Mumbai during the monsoon season — a figure 10x higher than listed in official statistics:
https://bit.ly/44kux2p
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"The only way to increase socioeconomic diversity is to be intentional about it." President Eisgruber speaks with
@apnews.com
about Princeton's aggressive goals to recruit more lower-income students, knowing that it offers our "greatest opportunity to attract diverse talent."
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Without affirmative action, elite colleges are prioritizing economic diversity in admissions
Some of the nation’s most prestigious colleges have been enrolling record numbers of low-income students as campuses prioritize economic diversity in the wake of a ban on affirmative action.
https://apnews.com/article/college-admissions-affirmative-action-scholarships-pell-0cdef1e68ccc2c6d743dcd26817e73ee
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When language transcends. Princeton undergraduates and graduate students find community at weekly language tables.
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Often overlooked: Princeton’s language tables build language skills — and community
Contributing Writer for The Prospect Zane Mills VanWicklen takes a tour of Princeton’s language tables.
https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025/12/princeton-prospect-overlooked-language-tables-community
28 days ago
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A study co-authored by Princeton researchers finds that human brains process spoken language in a way that "closely mirrors the layered architecture of advanced AI language models."
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How your brain understands language may be more like AI than previously thought
A new study reveals that the human brain processes spoken language in a sequence that closely mirrors the layered architecture of advanced AI language models. Using electrocorticography data from part...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-12-brain-language-ai-previously-thought.html
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A new app developed at
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allows researchers to construct a large-scale dataset that aggregates individual worker data across many thousands of rides to shed light on the working conditions of rideshare drivers.
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Princeton Engineering - New tool drives gig workers toward wage transparency
A new tool developed by Princeton researchers provides gig workers access to aggregate wage data that companies do not provide, a boon for rideshare labor
https://bit.ly/4qhK6Rl
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