http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/Selected stories featuring members of the Princeton University community.en-usPrinceton Universitydaily22005-01-01T12:00+00:00 John Groves, the Hugh Stott Taylor Chair of Chemistry, has been selected to receive the 2010 Hans Fischer Career Award in Porphyrin Chemistry by the Society of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/81/24O00/index.xml?section=peoplepeopleKitta MacPherson2009-11-13T10:00-05:00 Roberto Car, the Ralph W. Dornte *31 Professor in Chemistry at Princeton and a faculty fellow   of the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, has been named a winner of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society 2009 Sidney Fernbach Award. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/80/58A71/index.xml?section=peoplepeopleKitta MacPherson2009-11-12T15:40-05:00 Four Princeton professors have been recognized with awards from the American Physical Society.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/62/20E99/index.xml?section=peoplepeopleUshma Patel2009-10-22T10:18-05:00 H. Vincent Poor, the dean of Princeton's School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been elected an international fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering of the United Kingdom, a professional organization composed of Britain's most eminent and distinguished engineers. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/55/64M08/index.xml?section=peoplepeopleChris Emery2009-10-14T19:55-05:00 James Gunn, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Astronomy at Princeton, received the National Medal of Science in a ceremony Wednesday, Oct. 3, at the White House.  http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/49/55C31/index.xml?section=peoplepeopleStaff2009-10-07T18:55-05:00 Daniel Sigman, a Princeton University biogeochemist who has conducted pioneering work exploring the large-scale systems that have supported life on the planet throughout the millennia, has been selected as a 2009 MacArthur Fellow. Also chosen was Theodore Zoli, a 1988 alumnus and a visiting lecturer in Princeton's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering since 2003. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced that they are among 24 trailblazing artists, writers, scientists and others who each will receive a $500,000 no-strings-attached grant over a five-year period. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/35/75G78/index.xml?section=peoplepeopleKitta MacPherson and Chris Emery2009-09-22T00:00-05:00 James Gunn, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Astronomy at Princeton University, has been chosen to receive a National Medal of Science, the nation's highest scientific honor, for his sweeping contributions to modern stargazing, from theory to observation to gadget-building. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/32/17Q70/index.xml?section=peoplepeopleKitta MacPherson2009-09-17T15:57-05:00 Andrew Houck, an assistant professor of electrical engineering and a past Princeton valedictorian, was named to Technology Review magazine's list of the top 35 young innovators for 2009. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/20/86K64/index.xml?section=peoplepeopleChris Emery2009-09-04T13:51-05:00 Princeton scholar Larry Bartels has received the American Political Science Association's 2009 Gladys M. Kammerer Award for his book "Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age." The award is given each year for the best political science publication in the field of U.S. national policy. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/20/86A43/index.xml?section=peoplepeopleStaff2009-09-04T13:45-05:00 Professor of music Kofi Agawu has been awarded the 2009 Harrison Medal from the Society for Musicology in Ireland.  http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/17/56E35/index.xml?section=peoplepeopleJennifer Greenstein Altmann2009-08-31T18:18-05:00 Three Princeton faculty members received awards at the International Congress of Mathematical Physics, which was held in August in Prague.  http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/17/56Q98/index.xml?section=peoplepeopleJennifer Greenstein Altmann2009-08-31T18:13-05:00 Ilya Fischhoff, a postdoctoral research associate in Princeton's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, has received an AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowship and will be working at the U.S. Agency for International Development.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/13/90S18/index.xml?section=peoplepeopleStaff2009-08-27T12:26-05:00 Emily Carter, the Arthur W. Marks '19 Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Applied and Computational Mathematics, has been elected a member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/06/33K51/index.xml?section=peoplepeopleChris Emery2009-08-18T18:15-05:00 Roberto Car, the Ralph W. Dornte *31 Professor in Chemistry at Princeton and a faculty fellow of the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, has been named a winner of the 2009 Dirac Medal for his significant contributions to physics.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/02/13I86/index.xml?section=peoplepeopleKitta MacPherson2009-08-13T21:36-05:00 Francois Rigolot, Princeton's Meredith Howland Pyne Professor of French Literature, will receive the 2011 Paul Oskar Kristeller Lifetime Achievement Award from the Renaissance Society of America. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S24/88/18M57/index.xml?section=peoplepeopleJennifer Greenstein Altmann2009-07-28T18:03-05:00 U.S. President Barack Obama has named three Princeton scientists as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the federal government on young professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S24/76/01S72/index.xml?section=peoplepeopleStaff2009-07-14T15:57-05:00 Jan-Werner Müller, an associate professor of politics at Princeton, has been elected a fellow of Britain's Royal Historical Society.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S24/75/19Q33/index.xml?section=peoplepeopleStaff2009-07-13T17:14-05:00 Joshua Shaevitz, an assistant professor of physics and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton, has been named a Pew Scholar for demonstrating excellence and innovation in his research.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S24/72/51E79/index.xml?section=peoplepeopleKitta MacPherson2009-07-10T14:53-05:00 Susan Stewart, Princeton's Annan Professor of English, has been given an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, bestowed annually to honor exceptional accomplishment in any genre. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S24/71/64K38/index.xml?section=peoplepeopleJennifer Greenstein Altmann2009-07-09T14:39-05:00 Princeton's Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe, the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, will receive the 2009 William Bowie Medal, the highest honor awarded by the American Geophysical Union.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S24/65/60Q58/index.xml?section=peoplepeopleChris Emery2009-07-02T14:46-05:00