Liz Fuller-wright

At 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, NASA’s IMAP, a Princeton-led mission to understand the Sun’s impact on its space environment, launched successfully from Cape Canaveral.

McComas, a professor of astrophysical sciences and associated faculty in mechanical and aerospace engineering, is the principal investigator for the entire NASA science mission. Rankin, a research scholar and lecturer in astrophysical sciences, oversees a critical instrument.

NASA’s IMAP mission, led by Princeton University’s David McComas, will study the heliosphere — the invisible electromagnetic shield that protects our solar system — to better understand this mysterious boundary and provide critical solar storm monitoring.

The Pre-read Assembly focused on Gordin's 2021 book “On the Fringe,” which incoming students read over the summer as their introduction to the intellectual life of the University. 

His research, discoveries and teaching transformed our understanding of the smallest known particles and prepared a generation of neutrino physicists for groundbreaking research. 

Students in AST 250/251 build sophisticated space physics instruments of their own design  — suiting in bunny suits, booties, hairnets, gloves and masks alongside the engineers and scientists building NASA flight hardware. 

P. Adams Sitney, emeritus professor of visual arts in the Lewis Center for the Arts, was one of the world’s leading experts on avant-garde film.

Princeton is one of four founding partners of the Hub, along with the New Jersey Economic Development Authority, Microsoft and CoreWeave.

Hooding 2025: Recognizing graduate students’ deep scholarship and ‘bold leadership across a breathtaking array of disciplines’

“Continue to educate yourself and to grow as a person, becoming more focused on what really matters, more widely knowledgeable, better read, more disciplined, more strategic," the '75 alumnus told graduating seniors. "But also wiser, kinder, more empathetic, more generous, more loving, more forgiving."

Princeton faculty members William Bialek, Kai Li, Peter Singer and Christopher Skinner were elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science recently elected Schiffer, the dean for research at Princeton University, to be one of its 471 new lifetime fellows. Also elected were 17 undergraduate and graduate Princeton alumni.

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy joined President Eisgruber and representatives from Microsoft, CoreWeave and the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) for an official ribbon cutting March 27.

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.

The detailed images will help scientists answer long-standing questions about the universe’s origins.

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.

Princeton molecular biologist Bonnie Bassler, emeritus professors Larry Martin Bartels and Ingrid Daubechies, and undergraduate alumni John Dabiri and Cynthia Dwork received the National Medal of Science, the nation’s highest scientific honor.