Faculty News
Four Princeton professors honored by American Physical Society
By Ushma Patel · Posted October 22, 2009; 10:18 a.m.
Four Princeton professors have been recognized with awards from the American Physical Society.
Poor elected a fellow of the UK's Royal Academy of Engineering
By Chris Emery · Posted October 14, 2009; 07:55 p.m.
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.
Gunn, Fuchs receive National Medals of Science in White House ceremony
By Staff · Posted October 7, 2009; 06:55 p.m.
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.
Sigman, Zoli win MacArthur 'genius grants'
By Kitta MacPherson and Chris Emery · Posted September 22, 2009; 12:00 a.m.
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.
Gunn wins National Medal of Science
By Kitta MacPherson · Posted September 17, 2009; 03:57 p.m.
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.
Princeton engineering professor named top young innovator
By Chris Emery · Posted September 4, 2009; 01:51 p.m.
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.
Bartels honored by American Political Science Association
By Staff · Posted September 4, 2009; 01:45 p.m.
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.
Agawu honored with Harrison Medal
By Jennifer Greenstein Altmann · Posted August 31, 2009; 06:18 p.m.
Professor of music Kofi Agawu has been awarded the 2009 Harrison Medal from the Society for Musicology in Ireland.
Mathematical physics awards given to three faculty members
By Jennifer Greenstein Altmann · Posted August 31, 2009; 06:13 p.m.
Three Princeton faculty members received awards at the International Congress of Mathematical Physics, which was held in August in Prague.
Fischhoff named AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow
By Staff · Posted August 27, 2009; 12:26 p.m.
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.