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### Students’ military service brings valued perspective to Princeton SPIA classrooms

Their on-the-ground experience illuminates policy discussions at Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs, adding nuance to conversations about the world’s most pressing problems.

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### In this engineering and humanities ‘mashup’ course, students learn new ways of thinking from builders of the ancient world. Even Galileo weighs in.

The team-taught “Historical Structures” offers an opportunity “to look for the ways that the humanities and the applied sciences inform one another,” says one of the co-instructors.

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Spotlight on Princeton’s transfer students

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Princeton’s growing community of transfer students brings a wealth of experiences and perspectives to campus. Many come from first-generation, lower-income, community college and U.S. military veteran backgrounds. Academic and extracurricular programs — enabled by the University’s endowment and donors’ generosity — support the success of transfer students while at Princeton and beyond. Meet some of our transfer students and learn more about [transfer programs(Link is external) (Link opens in new window)](https://tvn-ebcao.princeton.edu/) as this series rolls out on Princeton’s social media.

*   [Life as a transfer student at Princeton University(Link is external)](https://youtu.be/tSzpsUgxQt0)

*   [Meet Precious Opaola ’28(Link is external)](https://www.instagram.com/p/DEh1c68RBoj/?img_index=1)

*   [Meet Tommy Guan ’25(Link is external)](https://www.instagram.com/p/DFvD8wqx8t9/?img_index=2)

*   [Meet Rubi Larancuent ’27(Link is external)](https://www.instagram.com/p/DFNZCkNRXEA/?igsh=cmZ0NWN5aG9neG1l)

*   [Meet Ridge Jaco ’26(Link is external)](https://www.instagram.com/p/DE5j8VISSaO/?img_index=1)

University News

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### Princeton senior Joshua Yang awarded Gates Cambridge Scholarship

The awards give outstanding students from outside the United Kingdom the opportunity to pursue postgraduate study at the University of Cambridge. Yang is a philosophy major with a minor in journalism and plans to pursue an MPhil in Modern South Asian Studies.

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### U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, Nobel laureate David Card recognized at Princeton Alumni Day

The 110th Alumni Day program underscored the University’s commitment to serving the nation and humanity.

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### Dean of Engineering Andrea Goldsmith to become president of Stony Brook University

Goldsmith, the Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been dean of engineering at Princeton since September 2020, leading a period of major growth.

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Research Roundup

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Quantum fractal patterns visualized

Kevin P. Nuckolls, Michael G. Scheer, Dillon Wong, Myungchul Oh, Ryan L. Lee, Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Biao Lian, and Ali Yazdani, Department of Physics

Nature

Feb. 26, 2025(Link is external)

](https://phy.princeton.edu/news/quantum-fractal-patterns-visualized)

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Distilling complex issues of solidarity in the context of migration and international law

Barbara Buckinx, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, and Amelia Frank-Vitale, Department of Anthropology and Princeton SPIA

AJIL Unbound (American Journal of International Law)

Feb. 24, 2025(Link is external)

](https://anthropology.princeton.edu/news/assistant-professor-amelia-frank-vitale-publishes-article-ajil-unbound)

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Analog-digital quantum simulator yields surprising insights

Dmitry Abanin, Department of Physics

Nature

Feb. 06, 2025(Link is external)

](https://phy.princeton.edu/news/new-hybrid-quantum-simulator-promises-unlock-many-quantum-mysteries)

Mapping an entire (fly) brain to understand our own brains

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For many heartbreaking diseases of the brain — dementia, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and others — doctors can only treat the symptoms. It’s difficult to cure what we don’t understand, and the human brain is almost hopelessly complex.

Now, the vast FlyWire team led by Princeton’s Mala Murthy and Sebastian Seung has made a major step forward by mapping a fruit fly brain. With NIH support, they have opened a pathway for detailed maps of the human brain “and the tailored treatments that could follow.”

*   [Princeton’s full story on the breakthrough](/news/2024/10/02/mapping-entire-fly-brain-step-toward-understanding-diseases-human-brain)

*   [On YouTube: A buzz through the FlyWire science(Link is external)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg7QM9VruKk)

*   [BBC: ‘Huge leap’ to unlock human mind(Link is external)](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0lw0nxw71po)

Exceptional Faculty

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Princeton faculty members are all exceptional scholars in their disciplines who are expected to teach as well as engage in research. Faculty work closely with undergraduates in the supervision of junior year independent work and senior theses.

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AgustĂ­n Fuentes(Link is external)

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Anthropology

Fuentes studies the behavior, biology, and cultures of humans, our evolutionary ancestors, and other species we interact with, offering integrative insights that counter more simplistic narratives of the human experience.

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Frances Lee(Link is external)

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Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and Politics

Lee’s research on Congressional politics and policymaking helps the public and scholars understand and address pressing issues in American democracy.

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Howard Stone(Link is external)

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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Stone’s fluid dynamics research connects engineering to chemistry, physics, and biology, with subjects including microdevices, swimming bacteria, flows of polymeric materials and respiratory virus transmission.

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Bonnie Bassler

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Molecular Biology

Bassler is a pioneer and global leader in discovering the astonishing ways that bacteria communicate. In January, she was awarded the National Medal of Science at a White House ceremony.

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Sigrid Adriaenssens(Link is external)

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Civil and Environmental Engineering

Adriaenssens is an engineering innovator, designing lightweight, elegant and resilient structures for sustainable buildings, bridges and other infrastructure.

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Ruha Benjamin(Link is external)

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African American Studies

Benjamin’s scholarship explores the relationship between technological innovation and social equity. She is the author of 2022’s “Viral Justice” and 2024′s “Imagination: A Manifesto.”

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Anne Cheng(Link is external)

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English

Cheng’s “Ornamentalism” advances a groundbreaking theory about Asiatic femininity in western culture and is an impetus for an upcoming exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum called Monstrous Beauty, opening March 2025.

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Janet Currie(Link is external)

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Princeton School of Public and International Affairs

Currie applies economics expertise to children’s health, development and well-being.

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Arvind Narayanan(Link is external)

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Computer Science and the Center for Information Technology Policy

Narayanan studies the societal impact of artificial intelligence and machine learning.

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Chika Okeke-Agulu(Link is external)

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Art and Archaeology

Okeke-Agulu is a celebrated artist, critic, curator and historian of African and African Diaspora art. He is director of Princeton’s Africa World Initiative.

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Marina Rustow

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Near Eastern Studies and History

Rustow uses machine learning to decipher thousands of Arabic and Hebrew fragments preserved in a medieval Cairo synagogue. A [new NEH grant(Link is external)](https://www.neh.gov/news/NEH-grant-awards-August-2024) supports an expansion of the project.

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Leonard Wantchekon(Link is external)

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Politics

2023 Global Economy Prize winner Wantchekon came of age as a pro-democracy student activist in Benin. He was a keynote speaker and co-host for the recent World Bank-UN Refugee Agency conference on forced displacement.

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Princeton In the News

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Matthew Desmond - “Poverty, by America” & What It Takes to Close the Poverty Gap

Featured: Matthew Desmond

The Daily Show

Mar. 03, 2025(Link is external)

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How AI is changing the world

Featured: Tom Griffiths, Arvind Narayanan

WHYY

Mar. 04, 2025(Link is external)

](https://whyy.org/episodes/how-ai-is-changing-the-world/)

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Airplanes of the Future Could Be Fitted With Feather-Like Flaps

Featured: Aimy Wissa

Wired

Mar. 05, 2025(Link is external)

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#VentureForward

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Through the Venture Forward campaign, Princeton is making audacious bets on talent and potential that will have a transformative impact on the future of humanity.

[Dare to Venture(Link is external)](https://alumni.princeton.edu/venture-forward)

Student Life at Princeton

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Princeton brings together undergraduate and graduate students from all backgrounds, and every corner of the earth, to share their experiences and perspectives with one another. Make your mark as part of our vibrant community.

[LEARN MORE](https://www.princeton.edu/one-community/student-life)

Upcoming Events

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### [Disrupting Binaries: Exhibition by Schuyler Saint-Phard](/events/2025/disrupting-binaries-exhibition-schuyler-saint-phard-10)

Mar 7

Hurley Gallery, Lewis Arts complex, 122 Alexander Street

10:00 a.m.

### [AI Lab Distinguished Lecture Series- Eric Xing](/events/2025/ai-lab-distinguished-lecture-series-eric-xing)

Mar 7

Maeder Hall, 002 Auditorium

2:00 p.m.

### [St. Thomas Boys Choir](/events/2024/st-thomas-boys-choir)

Mar 7

Chapel

7:30 p.m.

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Study at Princeton

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Our approach to learning combines the best aspects of a great research university and an outstanding liberal arts college.

*   [Areas of Study](/academics/areas-of-study)

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Work at Princeton

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Every employee has the opportunity to make an impact supporting our mission of teaching and research.

*   [Faculty and Academic Positions(Link is external)](http://dof.princeton.edu/academicjobs)

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