The Princeton Gerrymandering Project has won a national contest for proposing a novel legal theory to constrain gerrymanders.
The contest, sponsored by the leading good-government nonprofit Common Cause, sought to identify ideas and principles of fairer representation in the United States.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced Wednesday, Sept. 19, that Roberto Car, Princeton’s Ralph W. *31 Dornte Professor in Chemistry and a professor with the Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials, was one of 10 researchers to win funding for computational chemistry. His proposal title was “Computational Chemical Science Center: Chemistry in Solution and at Interfaces.”
Two Princeton nominees, Lucia Gualtieri and Peter Schauss, have both been recognized as finalists in "Physical Sciences and Engineering" by the 2018 Blavatnik Regional Awards for Young Scientists.
Schering Stiftung announced Monday, Sept. 3, that they were awarding the 2018 Ernst Schering Prize to molecular biologist Bonnie Bassler for her pioneering work on bacterial quorum sensing.
Elizabeth Adams, a national leader in sponsored research administration in academia, has been named director of the Office of Research and Project Administration (ORPA) at Princeton University, effective Aug. 13.
Reporting to Dean for Research Pablo Debenedetti, Adams will oversee ORPA, which has a staff of 18 people who provide support and guidance to researchers and departmental administrators on sponsored research and project administration.
Spend the day — or an hour — at Princeton Research Day, and you get an eclectic tour of research at Princeton University shared through presentations designed to make cutting-edge work accessible to the general public.
For Sarah-Jane Leslie, dean of the Graduate School and the Class of 1943 Professor of Philosophy, that tour included learning how engineers can learn lessons from plants; about new techniques to fight disease; and about novel ways to address the world’s energy crisis.
With a ribbon-cutting, speeches and tour of its extensive laboratory space, the formal opening of the new high-tech Princeton Innovation Center BioLabs incubator was celebrated Thursday, May 17.
A crowd of more than 100 representatives from Princeton University, the town of Plainsboro, local industries and the center's first tenant companies attended the event at the Forrestal Center in Plainsboro.
Princeton chemist Gregory Scholes has been awarded $1,000,000 by the W.M. Keck Foundation to investigate harnessing the wave basis of quantum mechanics to drive chemical reactions.
If successful, this breakthrough will suggest possibilities for understanding and controlling biochemical reactions.
An international collaboration of scientists led by a Princeton University professor of astrophysical sciences has won a major grant from the Simons Foundation to create the framework for an optimal fusion energy device.
On June 4, the Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) at Princeton announced its participation in the University Blockchain Research Initiative, a new $50 million program founded by Ripple to support academic research, technical development and innovation in blockchain, cryptocurrency and digital payments.
