Princeton University

Sylvia Lavin, a historian of architecture and an accomplished curator, has been appointed dean of Princeton’s School of Architecture after leading the school in an interim role since January. Her appointment is effective November 1.

Five @princeton.edu economics seniors presented their research at the 8th annual Junior Independent Work Research Forum! Ivy Chen, Lora Kwon, William Neumann, Michael Ozcelik, and Chloe Zhu shared their work and advice for current juniors. Watch the forum here: https://bit.ly/489rgED

🖇️ Recently in JCA @suttonkoeser.bsky.social and @marinarustow.bsky.social's data essay describes the Princeton Geniza Project’s history, explains the structure of the data, and provides context for their nuances, unevenness, and gaps. 🟣 Explore: doi.org/10.22148/jca.1084

Earth Shed is on view at the Princeton University School of Architecture until December 4. The exhibition was designed and organized by assistant professor Erin Besler and is composed primarily from displaced soil sourced from campus.

On this day in 1746, Princeton University received its charter. Hip! Hip! Happy Birthday to the Best Ol' Place of All!

Professor Edward Baring's book, "Vulgar Marxism: Revolutionary Politics and the Dilemmas of Worker Education, 1891–1931," has been awarded @historians.org's Prize in European International History Since 1895.

"Basquiat, the Blue Ribbon Paintings, and the Art of Reproduction" is now on display at the Princeton University Art Museum. The exhibition includes eleven paintings from 1984 that are dense with layered imagery, including anatomical diagrams, film logos, crowned figures, and textual fragments.

Professor @bethlewwilliams.bsky.social shares "Five Essential Books For Understanding Chinese American History" with @literaryhub.bsky.social.

Curious how much damage from extreme events is due to climate change? There are different ways to estimate costs, but the answers are inherently ambiguous, suggests new research in @aguadvances.bsky.social by scientists at Cornell and @princeton.edu. 🧪 eos.org/research-spo...

Jose Roque, an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry, has been awarded a 2026 Packard Fellowship by the @packardfdn.bsky.social. Other 2026 #PackardFellows affiliated with Princeton include Yonglong Xie *19 and Henri Drake: https://bit.ly/4jjSnUs

New programs at the Princeton University Art Museum include tai chi, guided meditations, hands-on workshops in the new Creativity Labs and curatorial tours highlighting health and caregiving in the museum’s collections.

Mercer County Community College and Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts collaborate for second round of support for visual artists living and working in Trenton. Application deadline is November 30: https://bit.ly/4s5bwff

Lead writer and showrunner of Matlock, Jennie Snyder Urman '99 visits Princeton to discuss her career journey and share anecdotes and stories from the writers’ room and set, providing an insider’s glimpse of television writing, pitching, and producing.

Professor Deike’s work focuses on fundamental fluid dynamics, including surface waves, drops and bubbles in turbulence, motivated by their importance in ocean-atmosphere interaction, oxygen and carbon fluxes in the ocean, marine aerosol emissions and cloud processes: https://bit.ly/4jVbvs5

Assistant professor @@andrewrosen.bsky.social, an expert in solid-state materials, has been named to the "35 Under 35" list from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Lorena Grundy '17, Kurt Ristroph *21 and former postdoc R. Kōnane Bay were also named to the list.

Congratulations to Michael Woodford, recipient of the 2026 #NobelPrize in economics. Woodford was a member of the Princeton faculty from 1995 to 2004, as a professor of economics and the Harold H. Helm '20 Professor of Economics and Banking.

A study led by Princeton researchers developed an early-warning framework that uses emissions and technology indicators to predict potential failures in decarbonization pathways years before they are apparent in emissions data.

Princeton University will present its top awards for alumni to Frances Arnold ’79, 2018 Nobel laureate and engineering professor at @caltech.edu and Mary Brunkow *91, 2025 Nobel laureate and distinguished investigator at @isbscience.org.

Congratulations to Anne Carson on receiving the 2026 #NobelPrize in Literature. Carson taught at Princeton University in the 1980s and was recently on campus to deliver the 2025 Fagles Lecture: https://bit.ly/3TteJZj

The hot Jupiter WASP-12b is on a collision course with its host star, and it’s heading that way faster than expected. New research examines a possible explanation for the planet’s speedy inspiraling. aasnova.org/2026/10/07/t... 🔭🧪 @princeton.edu

Princeton researchers used machine learning to construct the first national-scale, high resolution map of groundwater levels across Brazil: https://bit.ly/4rLrlYp The map could help scientists study the effects of both farmland irrigation and climate change.

Congratulations to professor Olga Troyanskaya on receiving a Kyoto University Lectureship Award. The award recognizes Troyanskaya's pioneering contributions to bringing deep learning into functional genomics and establishing the foundation for modern AI-driven genomics: https://bit.ly/4rMXVZG

💙💛 Described as "the most significant English-language poet born since the Second World War”, writer and poet Paul Muldoon has received the UCD Ulysses Medal, the highest honour the University can bestow. @artshumanitiesucd.bsky.social #poetry

In conjunction with Princeton 1776 Fest, the University welcomed the public to an open house of the Faculty Room inside Nassau Hall. A National Historic Landmark, Nassau Hall was a site of the Battle of Princeton in 1777 and served as the seat of government for the Continental Congress.

Princeton University is collaborating on a new five-year initiative funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health. The award will support work to develop affordable gene-editing therapies for children with inborn errors of immunity (IEIs), a group of over 500 rare genetic diseases.

Princeton does a "take your professor to dinner" thing where students can invite a professor to dinner at the dining halls. A few students in my Chinese DH class invited me to join them last night. It probably seemed small to them, but it is moments like this when my work feels most meaningful.

The Princeton University Board of Trustees has approved the appointment of seven faculty members, including one full professor, two associate professors and four assistant professors.

Princeton professor Luc Deike has won an Experimental Physics Investigators Initiative award from The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. The award will support Deike’s research using a unique new facility housed in his lab to study cloud microphysics at cold temperature: https://bit.ly/4jFoM7U

Princeton’s residential college heads explain their unique roles, share how faculty foster community in the residential colleges, and reflect on how serving as college heads enriches their own work and lives.

Princeton professors Ellora Derenoncourt and Elizabeth Ellis have been awarded 2026 MacArthur Fellowships: https://bit.ly/4hg0dgs Princeton graduate alum Kaiyu Guan *13, now professor at the University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign, has also been named a 2026 #MacFellow.

Princeton University Library’s catalog now includes nearly 100 Manchu items, making accessible records that previously existed only in handwritten cataloging notes and a PDF shared among Manchu scholars.

In conjunction with Princeton 1776 Fest, the University welcomes visitors to an open house and self-guided tour of the Faculty Room of Nassau Hall. A National Historic Landmark, Nassau Hall was a site of the Battle of Princeton and served as the seat of government for the Continental Congress

Ahead of the opening of "The Art of Japanese Publishing," exhibition at Princeton University Library, co-curator and Japanese Art Specialist Nicole Fabricand-Person ’76 *01 reflects on her time at Princeton from student to staff.

At Community Care Day, students, faculty, staff and the campus community came together for various activities with a goal of developing habits and practices for integrating self- and community care into their daily and weekly life.

New papers in @science.org from #FlatironCCQ researchers and collaborators have mapped the quantum possibilities of atomically thin materials. Read more from @princeton.edu: https://bit.ly/4rG0Bs7 #science #physics

Rarely does a single academic study make an impact in Congress, but Princeton’s 2020 Net-Zero America report achieved that and more: it actively shaped major government decarbonization policies. https://bit.ly/4ydLLLQ

A new study from Princeton and Cornell uses mathematical models to test parameters that increase and decrease the likelihood of an echo chamber forming.

A new colorful stone mosaic installed at the Princeton University Chapel honors Native and Indigenous stories, installed as part of efforts to expand the representations of faiths and belief systems in the communal space where the University community and public are welcome: https://bit.ly/4d1hyXX

📲 Researchers at @princetoncitp.bsky.social have created a social media tool that allows users to build their own social media feeds from scratch. Meet Bonsai. 🌳

After the passage of the 1765 Stamp Act, Princeton became a center of revolutionary thought and youthful activism. “Real and Remembered: Princetonians Caught Between Study and Revolution" explores campus and student experiences before, during and after the war: https://bit.ly/4fLX8nv

Residential colleges provide a close-knit community where undergrads live, eat, study and socialize. Heads of college are tenured faculty who live in college houses and work with staff, student peer leaders and faculty advisers to nurture undergrads’ intellectual, social and personal development.

“What Is Missing? What If?” is a two-story multimedia display by Maya Lin that presents immersive, larger-than-life audio and video of threatened and endangered species. It opens with an artist talk on September 22.

"We grow seeds because seeds are the foundation of foodways." At the Princeton Seed Farm, Princeton faculty members, student volunteers and community partners are committed to preserving culturally meaningful seeds: https://bit.ly/3V04ybK

Princeton remembers professor emeritus Ulrich “Uli” Knoepflmacher, "a towering scholar of Victorian fiction and poetry who brought to his subject a deep familiarity with traditions of realism, religious humanism, existential despair, culture and Romanticism."

A new kind of predictive power gives scientists a new lens on organ development and opens the door to engineering healthy tissue or addressing disorders with greater control. More on the research led by professor Celeste Nelson: https://bit.ly/4fq5TUc

Princeton engineers have created a semiconductor with unique properties: it is just a few molecules thick and can repeatedly change its properties in response to light. This is a step toward building more energy-efficient sensors, optoelectronic devices and computing technologies.

Princeton’s High Meadows Environmental Institute will open Maya Lin’s “What Is Missing? What If?” with an artist’s talk Sept. 22. The centerpiece of the exhibition is a two-story multimedia display that presents immersive, larger-than-life audio and video of threatened and endangered species.

Some 2,800 scientists, including Princeton researchers, are involved in the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory's decade-long survey of the Southern Hemisphere sky, known as the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). The New York Times described it as "a dazzling census of our cosmos."

Yale professor and constitutional scholar Akhil Reed Amar will deliver Princeton's Constitution Day Lecture "America at 250: From 'Created Equal' to Birthright Citizenship" on September 16: https://bit.ly/4yYKcld

From welcoming students to their homes away from home to cultivating community and extending learning beyond the classroom, residential college heads work with college staff, student peer leaders and faculty advisers to nurture undergraduates’ intellectual, social and personal development.