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PPH researchers apply cutting-edge AI and computational models to massive datasets to develop a deep understanding of the factors that shape health and illness.

William “Bill” Browder, an emeritus professor of mathematics, died in early February at the age of 91.

Xinning Zhang and Ashley Maloney discovered that a geology technique shows promise in detecting cancer-like cells. If their preliminary results bear out, they may have identified a new signature for cancer, which could mean earlier diagnosis and better outcomes.

Jenny Greene, a professor of astrophysical sciences and the director of Princeton’s Prison Teaching Initiative, was awarded the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring.

The Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) are the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government for early-career scientists and engineers.

Hopfield, the Howard A. Prior Professor in the Life Sciences, Emeritus, and professor of molecular biology, emeritus, shares the 2024 Nobel Prize with Toronto's Geoffrey E. Hinton.

Li's book connects her personal story as a young immigrant and scientist with the origin stories of artificial intelligence. She urged students to make the most of Princeton's "buffet of intellectual possibilities and opportunities.”

Modern humans and Neanderthals interacted over a 200,000-year period, says geneticist Joshua Akey.

Following Boden’s retirement, associate dean Theresa Thames will become Princeton’s next dean of religious life and the chapel.

Fernando Avilés-García’s thesis uses artificial intelligence to analyze the language in Dante’s “Divine Comedy.”

John Ngai, director of the NIH BRAIN Initiative and U.S. Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman visited the Princeton Neuroscience Institute to discuss recent advances toward understanding the fundamental workings of the brain.

Princeton’s Ph.D. and master’s degree recipients were honored at Jadwin Gym, surrounded by faculty, family, friends and the many supporters of their years of effort.

Federal Judge Nusrat J. Choudhury of the Eastern District of New York, the first Muslim woman and first Bangladeshi American to serve as a U.S. federal judge addressed students at the end-of-year interfaith service that is one of Princeton’s oldest traditions.

Philosopher Gideon Rosen and cancer biologist Eileen White have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. More than a dozen Princeton alumni are also among the Academy’s new members.

Princeton welcomed 600 leaders from academia, business and government to campus to explore the rapidly evolving possibilities and challenges of artificial intelligence and to begin charting a course for New Jersey’s role in the future of AI.

Betsy Levy Paluck was honored for applying theory-driven interventions to successfully reduce prejudice and conflict in settings from American high schools to post-conflict Rwanda.

At Princeton, interdisciplinary collaborations of researchers are using artificial intelligence to accelerate discovery across the University in fields ranging from neuroscience to Near Eastern studies.

The Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship, Princeton University’s top honor for graduate students, has been awarded to José de Jesús Montaño López, an engineeer using yeast to grow biofuels; Geneva Smith, a legal historian building the first archive of ‘slave court’ records; Pasquale Toscano, an English student analyzing epics through a disability lens; and Ryan Unger, a mathematician who disproved the third law of black hole thermodynamics.

The governor described the hub as “a new home for the world’s boldest and brightest to pioneer breakthroughs for the betterment of humankind.”

Hubbard, the top-ranking information technology administrator at the Georgia Institute of Technology, will join the University in January.