Juneteenth — A Day of Reflection
Thursday, Jun 18, 2020
Provost Deborah Prentice writes to Princeton employees about Juneteenth — a day of reflection.
Announcements
Princeton announces plan for phased reopening of on-campus laboratory research
Tuesday, Jun 2, 2020
Princeton University has created a plan for the phased resumption of on-campus research in a safe and orderly manner, and as promptly as circumstances permit.
The plan asks faculty and department leadership to create procedures to resume laboratory activities while ensuring compliance with University-wide policies and public health guidance.
Statement from President Eisgruber on the killing of George Floyd and the importance of confronting racism
Monday, Jun 1, 2020
Statement from President Eisgruber on the killing of George Floyd and the importance of confronting racism
Princeton awards five honorary degrees
Sunday, May 31, 2020
Princeton University awarded five honorary degrees at Princeton’s 273rd Commencement, which were conferred virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Physics faculty members awarded Moore Foundation funding for quantum systems
Thursday, May 28, 2020
Three faculty members, M. Zahid Hasan, N. Phuan Ong and Ali Yazdani, in the Princeton University Department of Physics have each been awarded five-year grants by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation as part of the Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Systems (EPiQS) Initiative.
Four faculty members honored for excellence in mentoring graduate students
Tuesday, May 26, 2020
Four Princeton University faculty members have been named recipients of the Graduate Mentoring Awards by the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning and will be honored during the Graduate School’s virtual Hooding ceremony at 4 p.m., Friday, May 29.
Sixteen scholars named Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellows with aim to enhance diversity in academia
Tuesday, May 26, 2020
Sixteen scholars from across the disciplines have been named Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellows at Princeton. They join 12 fellows who were the first cohort selected to the program last year, with the aim of enhancing diversity in the professoriate.
Sloan Foundation awards $1.5M to study greenhouse gas emissions from urban and agricultural wastewater
Tuesday, May 12, 2020
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has awarded Mark Zondlo, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, and Z. Jason Ren, professor of civil and environmental engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, a three-year, $1.5 million award to study emissions from an unlikely place: wastewater.
Three innovative projects selected to receive funding from the Schmidt Transformative Technology Fund
Monday, May 11, 2020
Three research endeavors aimed at fundamental challenges in health, information technology and water conservation have been selected for funding through the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Transformative Technology Fund.
Uniting innovation at Princeton: The Princeton Entrepreneurship Council joins the Office of the Dean for Research
Friday, May 8, 2020
The Princeton Entrepreneurship Council (PEC) has become part of the Office of the Dean for Research, reporting to Vice Dean for Innovation Rodney Priestley. The move emphasizes the role of entrepreneurship in enhancing the societal impact of innovations that emerge from research.
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