Foundations

An international team led by researchers at Princeton University has uncovered a new class of magnet that exhibits novel quantum effects that extend to room temperature.

Fernando Codá Marques, a Princeton University professor of mathematics, has been named a 2020 Simons Investigator by the New York-based Simons Foundation.

Codá Marques is interested in problems in the interface between geometry and analysis. He works in geometry, topology, partial differential equations and Morse theory.

Princeton University researchers may have solved a long-standing mystery in conservation that could influence how natural lands are designated for the preservation of endangered species.

Around the world, the migratory shorebirds that are a conspicuous feature of coastal habitats are losing access to the tidal flats — the areas between dry land and the sea — they rely on for food as they travel and prepare to breed. But a major puzzle has been that species’ populations are plummeting several times faster than the rate at which coastal ecosystems are lost to development.

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.