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Princeton University @princeton.edu · 2h
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.
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'I'm here for you': Residential college heads are faculty who foster Princeton’s living-learning community
The professors play a vital role on Princeton's campus, cultivating community in academic and residential life.
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Princeton University @princeton.edu · 29/09/2026
Princeton professors Ellora Derenoncourt and Elizabeth Ellis have been awarded 2026 MacArthur Fellowships: 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.
The words: "Princeton professors Ellora Derenoncourt and Elizabeth Ellis awarded MacArthur ‘genius’ grants" with photos of Ellora and Elizabeth
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Princeton University @princeton.edu · 29/09/2026
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.
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PUL makes Manchu collection records available online
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 schola...
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Princeton University @princeton.edu · 28/09/2026
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
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Nassau Hall Faculty Room Open House
In conjunction with Princeton 1776 Fest at Morven Museum & Garden, the University welcomes campus and community visitors to an open house and self-guided tour of the Faculty Room of Nassau Hall.A Nati...
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Princeton University @princeton.edu · 28/09/2026
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.
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Meet Nicole Fabricand-Person, co-curator of “The Art of Japanese Publishing”
Ahead of the opening of “The Art of Japanese Publishing,” exhibition co-curator and Japanese Art Specialist Nicole Fabricand-Person ‘76 *01 reflected on her time at Princeton.
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Princeton University @princeton.edu · 25/09/2026
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.
participants hold up their water color art at the Princeton University Art Museumstudents participate in yoga at the Class of 1986 Fitness and Wellness Centera student pets a golden retrievercommunity members create succulent potted plants
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Flatiron Institute @flatironinstitute.org · 25/09/2026
New papers in @science.org from #FlatironCCQ researchers and collaborators have mapped the quantum possibilities of atomically thin materials. Read more from @princeton.edu: bit.ly/4rG0Bs7 #science #physics
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Princeton University @princeton.edu · 25/09/2026
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. bit.ly/4ydLLLQ
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The ongoing impact of Princeton’s Net-Zero Initiative
Princeton’s Net-Zero America study helped shape major U.S. climate policies and has since evolved into a global network of country-specific Net-Zero projects, providing actionable data and modeling to...
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Princeton University @princeton.edu · 24/09/2026
A new study from Princeton and Cornell uses mathematical models to test parameters that increase and decrease the likelihood of an echo chamber forming.
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Study reveals how echo chambers form and what prevents them | Cornell Chronicle
Study reveals how a few very general constraints can lead to echo chambers – self-reinforcing feedback loops – in biological systems such as birds in a flock, cells in tissue or ants in a swarm.
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Princeton University @princeton.edu · 24/09/2026
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: bit.ly/4d1hyXX
a close-up of stones in various colors next to a photo of the artist adding pieces to the mosaica birds-eye-view of the mosaica close-up of the colorful mosaic which shows animals, flowers, and other shapes
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Princeton University @princeton.edu · 21/09/2026
📲 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. 🌳
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Princeton Engineering - What happens when social media users take back control?
Social media feeds are populated by algorithms designed to keep users engaged. Now, researchers at Princeton are studying what happens when users can
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Princeton University @princeton.edu · 18/09/2026
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: bit.ly/4fLX8nv
The words: "Real and Remembered: Princetonians Caught Between Study and Revolution"
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Princeton University @princeton.edu · 18/09/2026
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.
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'I'm here for you': Residential college heads are faculty who foster Princeton’s living-learning community
The professors play a vital role on Princeton's campus, cultivating community in academic and residential life.
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Princeton University @princeton.edu · 18/09/2026
“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.
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‘What Is Missing?’: Stunning exhibition by Maya Lin opens new gallery at Briger Hall
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. The show opens with an artist talk S...
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Princeton University @princeton.edu · 17/09/2026
"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: bit.ly/3V04ybK
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Princeton University @princeton.edu · 17/09/2026
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."
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Ulrich Knoepflmacher, ‘towering scholar’ of Victorian fiction, poetry and children’s literature, dies at 95
Knoepflmacher's research interests included Victorian literature and culture, English and American children’s books, 19th-century poetry and the English novel. He was among the first to recognize the ...
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Princeton University @princeton.edu · 16/09/2026
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: bit.ly/4fq5TUc
Celeste Nelson in lab
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Princeton University @princeton.edu · 16/09/2026
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.
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Princeton engineers create an erasable semiconductor programmed with light
The research takes an important step toward creating semiconductors that are adaptable and more energy efficient.
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Princeton University @princeton.edu · 15/09/2026
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.
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‘What Is Missing?’: Stunning exhibition by Maya Lin opens new gallery at Briger Hall
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. The show opens with an artist talk S...
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Princeton University @princeton.edu · 15/09/2026
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."
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Princeton collaborators celebrate start of observatory's ‘ultra-high-definition time-lapse record of our Universe’
Princeton researchers have played a major role in developing software pipelines to process the massive amounts of data the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory generates scanning the cosmos.
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Princeton University @princeton.edu · 15/09/2026
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: bit.ly/4yYKcld
A lecture poster titled "America at 250: From 'Created Equal' to Birthright Citizenship" featuring Akhil Reed Amar, a Sterling Professor at Yale Law School. The event is scheduled for Wednesday, September 16, 5:00 PM, at McCosh 50.
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Princeton University @princeton.edu · 14/09/2026
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.
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'I'm here for you': Residential college heads are faculty who foster Princeton’s living-learning community
The professors play a vital role on Princeton's campus, cultivating community in academic and residential life.
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Princeton University @princeton.edu · 14/09/2026
Congrats to Princeton Atelier Director and professor Tina M. Campt who has been named the 2026–27 Scholar in Residence by The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).
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Professor Tina Campt Named Scholar in Residence at The Museum of Modern Art
Princeton Atelier Director and Professor Tina M. Campt has been named the 2026–27 Scholar in Residence by The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Campt is a Black feminist theorist of visual culture and cont...
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Princeton University @princeton.edu · 14/09/2026
🔋 The goal: to build safe batteries with enough energy density to last all day and enough power density that users can get a full charge in minutes rather than hours. 🔋 The strategy: combine two types of cathode materials into a new type of solid-state device.
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Princeton Engineering - Peering into matter points the way to better batteries
The goal: to build safe batteries with enough energy density to last all day and enough power density that users can get a full charge in minutes rather than hours. The strategy: combine two types of ...
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Princeton University @princeton.edu · 14/09/2026
The Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities at Princeton will support 11 reading groups this year. Grad students and faculty from across the humanities and humanistic social sciences are invited to explore shared interests—from public memory to magical realism: bit.ly/3SItsiD
Joyce Carol Oates addressing an audience
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Princeton University @princeton.edu · 11/09/2026
Today, the campus community gathered at the 9/11 Memorial Garden for the University's annual interfaith service to remember those who tragically lost their lives on September 11, 2001, including 14 Princeton alumni.
a bouquet of flowers underneath the remembrance bella bouquet of flowers surrounded by candles on top of the memorial stonesPresident Eisgruber speaks at the eventLinda Knights taps the bell with a mallet
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Princeton University @princeton.edu · 11/09/2026
Remembering those who tragically lost their lives on September 11, 2001, including the 14 Princeton alumni whom we will #NeverForget.
A bouquet of flowers placed under the Remembrance bell
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Princeton University @princeton.edu · 10/09/2026
Professor and 2021 Nobel laureate David MacMillan has been awarded the 2027 Arthur C. Cope Award by @acs.org in recognition of extraordinary achievement and contributions to the field of catalysis. They also named professor Paul Chirik as recipient of the 2027 ACS Award in Organometallic Chemistry.
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In banner ACS year for chemistry department, MacMillan and Chirik receive awards
MacMillan has been awarded the American Chemical Society's career Cope Award, Chirik the 2027 ACS Award in Organometallic Chemistry.
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Princeton University @princeton.edu · 10/09/2026
On Friday, September 11 at 12:00pm, alumni and University officials will lead a campus Service of Remembrance. The Memorial Garden and the annual service honor the 14 Princeton alumni who tragically lost their lives. All are welcome to attend the ceremony. Event details: bit.ly/3UKfJZa
9/11 Service of Remembrance 
Memorial Garden
Friday, September 11, 2026
12:00 pm
Sponsored by Princeton Alumni Association and Office of Religious Life at Princeton
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Princeton University @princeton.edu · 10/09/2026
Now open at Princeton University's Firestone Library, "The Art of Japanese Publishing: A Selection of Japanese Illustrated Books from the Marquand Library Collection 1660-1960".
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The Art of Japanese Publishing
Marquand Library celebrates the art of Japanese publishing in this exhibition with selections from our collection of rare Japanese illustrated books.
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Princeton University @princeton.edu · 09/09/2026
Princeton undergrads share their experiences in the medieval studies minor — why they were interested in the field, their favorite courses, independent research topics, and more: bit.ly/4ynW27W
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Princeton University @princeton.edu · 09/09/2026
In this Q&A, assistant professor Evan Soltas discusses what the high cost of housing in American cities reveals about regulatory barriers to construction.
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Meet Evan Soltas: Analyzing barriers to housing construction and affordability in America’s cities
Evan Soltas, assistant professor of economics and public affairs, is a public finance economist who studies housing and urban policy. His recent research examines how taxes, subsidies and regulations ...
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Princeton University @princeton.edu · 09/09/2026
Local students explore career pathways at Princeton University Art Museum through the Municipality of Princeton’s Summer Youth Employment Program: bit.ly/46x2qhv
Kat Strickland, Estefany Rodriguez Morrison, and intern Paloma Maya together in one of the Museum's CreativityWide shot of Museum's Creativity Lab
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Princeton University @princeton.edu · 08/09/2026
A new model of agrivoltaic farms shows shading crops with solar panels doesn't just protect tomatoes from a warming climate. It makes outdoor labor safer, too.
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Solar panels could cool down farms—and farmworkers
A new model of agrivoltaic farms shows shading crops with solar panels doesn't just protect tomatoes from a warming climate. It makes outdoor labor safer, too.
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Princeton University @princeton.edu · 08/09/2026
Animals live in close partnership with communities of microbes that support digestion, immune development, and defense against pathogens, but human activities are changing those partnerships, says Princeton postdoc @kate-lagerstrom.bsky.social.
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When do human-driven changes to wildlife microbiomes become a One Health concern?
Animals live in close partnership with communities of microbes that support digestion, immune development, and defence against pathogens, but human activities are changing those partnerships, says Kat...
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Princeton University @princeton.edu · 08/09/2026
Vice President for Campus Life W. Rochelle Calhoun, who has played a pivotal role in enriching the undergraduate and graduate student experience during a period of significant growth at Princeton, will retire at the end of the 2026-27 academic year: bit.ly/4iRRmCL
Portrait of Rochelle with the words: "W. Rochelle Calhoun to retire after more than a decade as vice president for campus life at Princeton University"
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Princeton University @princeton.edu · 04/09/2026
The Princeton-led Quantum Leap Challenge Institute will devise techniques for fabricating hardware and develop education and workforce training programs that deepen U.S. leadership in quantum science and engineering.
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Princeton to lead major federally funded institute to unlock quantum computing challenges
Nathalie de Leon will direct the new institute, which is one of eight announced as part of the National Science Foundation’s Quantum Leap Challenge Institutes program.
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Princeton University @princeton.edu · 04/09/2026
As we bid farewell to summer, we will feel the heat from some of the hottest days again this winter due to our extensive geo-exchange system. Here's how it works: bit.ly/4i6ST7I
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Princeton University @princeton.edu · 03/09/2026
Princeton University celebrated the academic accomplishments of its students with the awarding of undergraduate prizes to seven students at Opening Exercises: bit.ly/3UznalV
President Eisgruber and Dean Gordin with undergraduate academic prize winners Jake Tessnow, Eli Gold, Antonia Comaniciu, Noah Dorn, Divija Durga, Haruka Nabeshima and Isaac Badipe. Includes the words: "Undergraduate prizes awarded to seven Princeton students for academic achievement"
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Princeton University @princeton.edu · 03/09/2026
At the Pre-read Assembly, President Eisgruber and author and literacy advocate Maryanne Wolf held a wide-ranging conversation about the value of deep reading and what it means to have “a good reading life.” The annual event introduces new students to the intellectual life of the University.
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Pre-read author Maryanne Wolf urges incoming class to read deeply, 'with courage and effort'
The Pre-read Assembly focused on Wolf's book, “Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World,” which President Eisgruber selected for incoming students to read over the summer.
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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
PEN America's co-CEO @selopez.bsky.social joined Princeton President Christopher L. Eisgruber for a wide-ranging conversation that introduced transfer and first-year students to the University’s expansive commitment to academic freedom and free expression. More at: www.princeton.edu/news/2026/08...
Photo of Summer Lopez, PEN America Co-CEO,  above a quote emphasizing the importance of free speech as foundational to human rights. It mentions that freedom of assembly, press, and religion rely on this freedom. The PEN America logo is present.
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Princeton University @princeton.edu · 01/09/2026
At an Orientation session for incoming students, President Eisgruber was joined by Summer Lopez *08, co-chief executive officer of @penamerica.bsky.social, to discuss Princeton’s "bold and powerful commitment" to free expression: bit.ly/464tK6m
Photo of Summer Lopez with the words: “You can’t have freedom of assembly, you can’t have freedom of the press and freedom of religion and the other rights that we hold dear, without this foundational freedom.”
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Princeton University @princeton.edu · 31/08/2026
Princeton University celebrated the academic accomplishments of its students with the awarding of undergraduate prizes to seven students at Opening Exercises.
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Undergraduate prizes awarded to seven students for academic achievement
Princeton celebrated the the students' accomplishments at Opening Exercises.
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Princeton University @princeton.edu · 31/08/2026
At Opening Exercises for the Class of 2030, President Eisgruber emphasized the enduring power of a liberal arts education to prepare students for whatever the future may hold: bit.ly/4wXpws2
President Eisgruber at the podiumClass of 2030 banner being held by two studentsGroup of students sitting together during Opening Exercises
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Princeton University @princeton.edu · 30/08/2026
The campus community welcomed Princeton's GREAT Class of 2030 with traditional Opening Exercises and the annual Pre-rade. 🧡🖤
a large group of Rockefeller College students cheer as they walk through FitzRandolph Gatetwo Mathey College students make moose antlers with their handstwo Butler College students cheer for the cameraseven Whitman College students come together for a posed photo
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Princeton University @princeton.edu · 30/08/2026
At the Pre-read Assembly this evening, #Princeton2030 will hear from "Reader, Come Home" author Maryanne Wolf as she discusses the book with President Eisgruber: bit.ly/4xsRLQL
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Ludwig Cancer Research @ludwigcancer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Ludwig @princeton.edu’s @yibinkang.bsky.social and Yong Tang have discovered that tumors reach out across the body and reprogram fat metabolism in the liver to indirectly shield themselves from immune attack—and shown how this might be undermined to enhance immunotherapy. bit.ly/4iyloey #CanSky
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Princeton University @princeton.edu · 28/08/2026
The U.S. National Science Foundation has announced that Princeton University will lead one of eight major initiatives to accelerate the development of quantum computing.
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Princeton to lead major federally funded institute to unlock quantum computing challenges
Nathalie de Leon will direct the new institute, which is one of eight announced as part of the National Science Foundation’s Quantum Leap Challenge Institutes program.
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Integrated GroundWater Modeling Center @igwmc.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
🌊 QUEST 26 is a wrap! A week of educators exploring hydrology beneath the surface with hydrologic cycle activities, water's connection to ecosystems & communities, and local NJ phenomena for the classroom.💧📚 @reedh2o.bsky.social @princeton.edu #Hydrology
Two educators examine a clear cup during a classroom activity. One holds the empty cup near eye level while the other begins pouring blue water into it. Other educators talk in the background.A group of educators smile with arms outstretched during an activity, while one crouches to move around the group.Three educators examine rocks together. One points at a specific rock, one looks closer with a magnifying glass, and the third observes.A tour guide stands in front of a building while a group of educators listens attentively.
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Princeton University @princeton.edu · 27/08/2026
Princeton remembers professor Antony Jameson, whose groundbreaking research transformed how modern aircraft are designed and tested.
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Antony Jameson, influential aerospace engineer and pioneer of the jet age, dies at 91
Throughout his 60-year career, he pursued a single question: How does air move around an airplane, and how can that knowledge improve design?
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