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Rodriguez-Iturbe to receive Bowie Medal
By Chris Emery · Posted July 2, 2009; 02:46 p.m.
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.
Weinan E to receive Kleinman Prize for mathematics
By Staff · Posted July 1, 2009; 04:09 p.m.
Weinan E, a professor of mathematics and applied and computational mathematics at Princeton, has been selected by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) to receive the Ralph E. Kleinman Prize for his work connecting mathematics with applications outside the field.
Socolow to receive Frank Kreith Energy Award
By Staff · Posted June 24, 2009; 09:27 p.m.
Robert Socolow, a Princeton professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, will receive the American Society of Mechanical Engineers' Frank Kreith Energy Award for his pioneering contributions in energy research.
Blinder named fellow of American Academy of Political and Social Science
By Staff · Posted June 24, 2009; 09:24 p.m.
Princeton faculty member Alan Blinder has been inducted into the American Academy of Political and Social Science as the 2009 John Kenneth Galbraith Fellow.
Brinkman confirmed as director of DOE's Office of Science
By Kitta MacPherson · Posted June 23, 2009; 11:57 a.m.
William Brinkman, a senior research physicist in the Department of Physics at Princeton University, has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate as director of the Office of Science in the U.S. Department of Energy.
Two faculty members named to Royal Society
By Kitta MacPherson · Posted June 22, 2009; 12:05 p.m.
Two members of the Princeton faculty have been named members of the Royal Society of Chemistry, a learned society based in the United Kingdom.
Obama taps Woodrow Wilson School's Leach '64 to lead NEH
By Staff · Posted June 4, 2009; 03:00 p.m.
President Barack Obama has announced that he intends to nominate Jim Leach, a 1964 Princeton alumnus and current faculty member in the University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, to chair the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Two to receive Phi Beta Kappa teaching awards
By Eric Quiñones · Posted May 28, 2009; 12:20 p.m.
Sanjeev Kulkarni, professor of electrical engineering, and Anthony Grafton, the Henry Putnam University Professor of History, will be honored by the Princeton chapter of Phi Beta Kappa with its annual awards for excellence in undergraduate teaching.
Four professors honored for excellence in mentoring graduate students
By Ushma Patel · Posted May 20, 2009; 09:20 a.m.
Four Princeton faculty members have been named the recipients of Graduate Mentoring Awards by the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning and will be honored during the Graduate School's hooding ceremony on Monday, June 1.
Portes elected to American Philosophical Society
By Staff · Posted May 14, 2009; 10:27 a.m.
Princeton sociologist Alejandro Portes is one of 35 newly elected members of the American Philosophical Society.
Seven faculty members among inaugural group of SIAM fellows
By Kitta MacPherson · Posted May 11, 2009; 09:45 a.m.
Seven Princeton faculty members have been elected to the inaugural group of fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).
Hopfield wins IEEE's Rosenblatt Award
By Kitta MacPherson · Posted May 8, 2009; 10:23 a.m.
John Hopfield, the Howard A. Prior Professor Emeritus in the Life Sciences, will receive the 2009 Frank Rosenblatt Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for his seminal contributions to the understanding of information processing in biological systems.
Allen named recipient of Academy Award in Architecture
By Jennifer Greenstein Altmann · Posted May 5, 2009; 09:13 a.m.
Stan Allen, the dean of Princeton's School of Architecture, has been awarded an Academy Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Corngold and Harman receive Behrman Award
By Ruth Stevens · Posted May 2, 2009; 09:00 p.m.
Stanley Corngold, professor of German and comparative literature, and Gilbert Harman, the Stuart Professor of Philosophy, have received Princeton's Behrman Award for distinguished achievement in the humanities. They were honored at a May 2 dinner.
Gould honored by Royal Society for brain research
By Kitta MacPherson · Posted April 30, 2009; 10:11 a.m.
Elizabeth Gould, a Princeton professor of psychology, has been awarded the 2009 Benjamin Franklin Medal by the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce for her groundbreaking brain research.
Two elected to National Academy of Sciences
By Kitta MacPherson · Posted April 29, 2009; 10:42 a.m.
Two Princeton faculty members have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences this year. They are among 72 new members and 18 foreign associates chosen in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
Chyba, two alumni named to Obama's science and technology council
By Staff · Posted April 28, 2009; 12:42 p.m.
President Barack Obama has named Christopher Chyba, professor of astrophysical sciences and international affairs at Princeton, to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).
Five named to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
By Staff · Posted April 20, 2009; 01:17 p.m.
Five Princeton faculty members have been named fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. They are among 210 leaders in the sciences, the humanities and the arts, business, public affairs and the nonprofit sector elected this year in recognition of contributions to their respective fields.
Six receive Guggenheim Fellowships
By Eric Quiñones · Posted April 8, 2009; 05:59 p.m.
Six Princeton faculty members are among the 180 artists, scholars and scientists selected from nearly 3,000 applicants for the 2009 Guggenheim Fellowships.
White wins Academy Award in Music
By Jennifer Greenstein Altmann · Posted March 30, 2009; 10:54 a.m.
Barbara White, associate professor of music, has received an Academy Award in Music from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The award, given to White and three others, "honors outstanding artistic achievement and acknowledges the composer who has arrived at his or her own voice," according to the academy.
Appiah named president of PEN American Center
By Jennifer Greenstein Altmann · Posted March 27, 2009; 08:51 a.m.
Kwame Anthony Appiah, the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values, has been elected president of the PEN American Center, the 3,400-member association of literary writers, editors and translators.
Obama chooses Princeton's Rouse for Council of Economic Advisers
By Staff · Posted March 11, 2009; 11:00 a.m.
President Barack Obama has selected Princeton's Cecilia Rouse, a well-known scholar of the economics of education, for his Council of Economic Advisers.
Krueger nominated as assistant treasury secretary
By Staff · Posted March 9, 2009; 02:06 p.m.
NOTE: Krueger's appointment was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on May 6. Princeton Professor Alan Krueger has been nominated to serve as assistant U.S. treasury secretary for economic policy, the White House announced March 8.
Princeton's Mirzakhani honored by American Mathematical Society
By Kitta MacPherson · Posted March 6, 2009; 11:23 a.m.
Maryam Mirzakhani, a professor of mathematics at Princeton, has been awarded the 2009 Leonard M. and Eleanor B. Blumenthal Award for the Advancement of Research in Pure Mathematics by the American Mathematical Society.
Nordenson honored by American Institute of Architects
By Jennifer Greenstein Altmann · Posted March 1, 2009; 05:36 p.m.
Professor of Architecture Guy Nordenson has been selected as one of six recipients of the American Institute of Architects' 2009 Institute Honors for Collaborative Achievement. The award recognizes and encourages the distinguished achievements of architects and others who have had a beneficial influence on or advanced the architectural profession.
Car honored with Humboldt award
By Kitta MacPherson · Posted February 16, 2009; 05:24 p.m.
Roberto Car, the Ralph W. Dornte *31 Professor in Chemistry at Princeton, has been selected to receive a Humboldt Research Award.
Brombert honored by French ambassador
By Ruth Stevens · Posted February 9, 2009; 12:31 p.m.
Princeton Professor Emeritus Victor Brombert was presented with the Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur (Legion of Honor) in a ceremony Feb. 6 at Maclean House.
Bassler earns Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences
By Kitta MacPherson · Posted February 3, 2009; 06:22 p.m.
Bonnie Bassler, the Squibb Professor in Molecular Biology at Princeton, will receive the eighth annual Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences.
American Physical Society names three Princeton fellows
By Kitta MacPherson · Posted January 29, 2009; 08:38 a.m.
A research physicist at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and two Princeton faculty members have been named fellows by the American Physical Society.
Shapiro receives Clark Kerr Medal
By Staff · Posted January 28, 2009; 08:33 a.m.
Princeton President Emeritus Harold T. Shapiro has received the 2008 Clark Kerr Medal for Distinguished Leadership in Higher Education. He was awarded the medal at a private event in Berkeley, Calif., Jan. 27.
Princeton's Anne-Marie Slaughter to lead policy planning staff at U.S. State Department
By Staff · Posted January 27, 2009; 02:00 p.m.
Anne-Marie Slaughter has resigned as dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs to become director of the policy planning staff at the U.S. State Department.
Two faculty honored by British government
By Jennifer Greenstein Altmann · Posted January 26, 2009; 11:13 a.m.
Two Princeton faculty members have been awarded high honors by the British government. David Cannadine, the Whitney Oates Senior Research Scholar in the Council of the Humanities and a lecturer in the history department, has received a knighthood. Linda Colley, the Shelby Davis 1958 Professor of History, has been appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
Chiang receives Presidential Early Career Award
By Chris Emery · Posted January 14, 2009; 03:31 p.m.
Mung Chiang, a Princeton engineering professor who studies the communications networks integral to modern society, has received a 2007 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from the White House.
AAAS selects three fellows at Princeton
By Kitta MacPherson · Posted December 24, 2008; 12:15 p.m.
Three members of the Princeton University faculty have been awarded the distinction of AAAS Fellow, an honor bestowed upon members of the science society by their peers.
Biehl wins anthropology book award
By Ushma Patel · Posted December 22, 2008; 05:42 p.m.
João Biehl, professor of anthropology, has received the Diana Forsythe Prize for his book "Will to Live: AIDS Therapies and the Politics of Survival."
Heller-Roazen wins literary studies prize
By Jennifer Greenstein Altmann · Posted December 18, 2008; 04:13 p.m.
Daniel Heller-Roazen, a professor of comparative literature, has received the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies from the Modern Language Association of America.
Aschheim receives Joan Mitchell Foundation Award
By Marguerite d'Aprile-Smith · Posted December 16, 2008; 02:22 p.m.
Eve Aschheim, senior lecturer in visual arts at the Lewis Center for the Arts, is one of 25 contemporary artists awarded a prestigious grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation.
Zarnstorff, Prager earn Dawson Award
By Staff · Posted December 16, 2008; 02:05 p.m.
Michael Zarnstorff of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and Stewart Prager, who has been named the next director of the lab, have received the American Physical Society's 2008 Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics.
George receives Presidential Citizens Medal
By Staff · Posted December 10, 2008; 05:33 p.m.
Robert George, Princeton's McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, received the Presidential Citizens Medal at a ceremony at the White House on Dec. 10. The medal, awarded in recognition of exemplary deeds of service to the nation, is one of the highest honors a president can confer on a civilian.
Historian Peter Brown selected to share $1 million Kluge Prize
By Ruth Stevens · Posted December 3, 2008; 11:33 a.m.
Peter Brown, Princeton's Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History, has been named a co-winner of the 2008 Kluge Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Study of Humanity.
Treisman wins Grawemeyer Award for Psychology
By Kitta MacPherson · Posted December 2, 2008; 10:00 p.m.
A Princeton University scientist whose work has explored how brains build meaningful images from a sea of visual information has won the 2009 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Psychology.
Princeton scientists win Blavatniks
By Kitta MacPherson · Posted November 26, 2008; 09:53 a.m.
Princeton researchers have garnered three of the top five Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists bestowed by the New York Academy of Sciences.
Gallo, Sanborn named Fulbright Scholars
By Staff · Posted November 26, 2008; 09:27 a.m.
Princeton faculty members Rubén Gallo and Keith Sanborn have received Fulbright Scholar grants to conduct research abroad this year.
Billington receives Distinguished Award of Merit for engineering achievements
By Chris Emery · Posted November 21, 2008; 01:30 p.m.
David Billington, a Princeton professor of civil and environmental engineering, has received the 2008 Distinguished Award of Merit from the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC).
Marrone-Puglia receives Rubbettino Prize
By Staff · Posted November 18, 2008; 05:52 p.m.
Gaetana Marrone-Puglia, a professor of French and Italian at Princeton, has been awarded the Fondazione Rubbettino First Prize for her work in editing the Encyclopedia of Italian Studies.
George named to international ethics body
By Staff · Posted November 14, 2008; 04:00 p.m.
Robert George, Princeton's McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, has been selected as the U.S. member of the World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology.
Ashenfelter wins medal from Czech academy
By Staff · Posted November 6, 2008; 05:05 p.m.
Princeton economist Orley Ashenfelter has been given the Karel Engliš Medal for Merit in the Social and Economic Sciences, awarded by the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. Ashenfelter, the Joseph Douglas Green 1895 Professor of Economics, was presented with the medal at an awards ceremony in Prague earlier this year.
Appiah honored for work in racial, ethnic and religious relations
By Jennifer Greenstein Altmann · Posted November 4, 2008; 09:23 a.m.
Princeton professor Kwame Anthony Appiah has been awarded Brandeis University's first Joseph B. and Toby Gittler Prize, which recognizes outstanding and lasting contributions to racial, ethnic and religious relations.
Nelson, Petta awarded prestigious Packard Fellowships
By Staff · Posted October 31, 2008; 11:38 a.m.
Celeste Nelson, an assistant professor of chemical engineering, and Jason Petta, an assistant professor of physics, have been chosen to receive the highly selective David and Lucile Packard Foundation's Fellowships for Science and Engineering.
Yazdani named one of 'Brilliant 10' by Popular Science magazine
By Kitta MacPherson · Posted October 29, 2008; 10:54 a.m.
Popular Science magazine has named Princeton's Ali Yazdani, a professor of physics, one of its "Brilliant 10" in its seventh annual listing of top young scientists.
Holmes to receive 2009 Lyapunov Award
By Chris Emery · Posted October 27, 2008; 05:53 p.m.
Philip Holmes, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, has won the 2009 Lyapunov Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Choueiri elected president of the Lebanese Academy of Sciences
By Chris Emery · Posted October 20, 2008; 12:08 p.m.
Edgar Choueiri, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, has been elected president of the Lebanese Academy of Sciences.
Princeton's Paul Krugman wins Nobel in economics
By Eric Quiñones · Posted October 13, 2008; 06:40 p.m.
Princeton economist Paul Krugman, acclaimed in his field for insights into international trade patterns that overturned longheld theories about the global economy before he rose to popular distinction as a media columnist and commentator, has been awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in economics.
Torquato honored as outstanding contributor to materials physics
By Kitta MacPherson · Posted October 7, 2008; 04:35 p.m.
Salvatore Torquato, a professor of chemistry at Princeton, has been selected to receive the 2009 David Adler Lectureship Award by the American Physical Society (APS).
Sorensen to receive national chemistry award
By Kitta MacPherson · Posted September 30, 2008; 10:32 a.m.
Erik Sorensen, the Arthur Allan Patchett Professor in Organic Chemistry at Princeton, has been recognized by the American Chemical Society (ACS) for his research excellence.
Princeton faculty win prestigious NIH awards
By Kitta MacPherson · Posted September 25, 2008; 01:14 p.m.
Four Princeton faculty members have been awarded grants from the National Institutes of Health for work deemed "high impact" by the federal medical research agency.
George earns Salvatori Prize from Heritage Foundation
By Staff · Posted September 25, 2008; 12:56 p.m.
Robert George, Princeton's McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, has received the Heritage Foundation's 2008 Salvatori Prize for American Citizenship.
Debenedetti receives chemical engineering honor
By Steven Schultz · Posted August 19, 2008; 12:40 p.m.
The American Institute of Chemical Engineers has selected Pablo Debenedetti to receive the 2008 William H. Walker Award for Excellence in Contributions to Chemical Engineering Literature.
Murphy dubbed Keck Young Scholar
By Kitta MacPherson · Posted July 28, 2008; 06:31 p.m.
Coleen Murphy, an assistant professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton, has been named a Distinguished Young Scholar in Medical Research for 2008 by the W.M. Keck Foundation.
PPPL's Davidson to receive Maxwell Prize
By Staff · Posted July 25, 2008; 04:24 p.m.
Ronald Davidson, a professor of astrophysical sciences at Princeton University and a physicist at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), has been awarded the James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics.
Verdu honored for contributions to information theory
By Staff · Posted July 25, 2008; 04:19 p.m.
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers has honored Sergio Verdu with the 2008 IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal "for fundamental contributions to information theory and the development of multi-user detection."
Walters selected as AD of the Year
By Staff · Posted June 26, 2008; 04:41 p.m.
Princeton Director of Athletics Gary Walters is one of 29 winners of the AstroTurf AD of the Year Award.
Couzin named Searle Scholar
By Kitta MacPherson · Posted June 26, 2008; 03:20 p.m.
Iain Couzin, an assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton, has been named a 2008 Searle Scholar for his innovative research.
Gilson honored for language instruction
By Staff · Posted June 10, 2008; 10:41 a.m.
Erika Gilson, a senior lecturer in Near Eastern studies at Princeton, has received the Walton Award from the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages for her contributions to the field of language instruction.
Hollander to be honored in Italy
By Staff · Posted May 27, 2008; 04:50 p.m.
Princeton professor emeritus Robert Hollander will be honored with a Gold Florin award by the city of Florence, Italy, on May 30 for his translation of Dante Alighieri's "The Divine Comedy." Hollander will share the honor with his wife, Joan, with whom he collaborated.
Levin chosen as member of Italian academic institute
By Staff · Posted May 21, 2008; 09:16 a.m.
Princeton ecologist Simon Levin, who has made major contributions in the areas of biological conservation and ecosystem management, has been selected as a foreign member of the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, a venerable Italian academic institute.
Three elected to American Philosophical Society
By Staff · Posted May 20, 2008; 11:47 a.m.
Three Princeton scholars are among 38 people recently elected to membership in the American Philosophical Society.
Piglia to receive French literary prize
By Eric Quiñones · Posted May 15, 2008; 03:44 p.m.
Princeton faculty member Ricardo Piglia, considered one of the most outstanding Latin American contemporary writers, will receive the 2008 Premio Roger Caillois, a prestigious French literary prize.
Groves earns Frontiers in Biological Chemistry Award
By Kitta MacPherson · Posted May 12, 2008; 01:23 p.m.
John Groves, the Hugh Stott Taylor Chair in Chemistry, will receive the Frontiers in Biological Chemistry Award for 2009 from the Max Planck Institute for Bioinorganic Chemistry in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany.
Three Princetonians elected to arts and letters academy
By Staff · Posted May 8, 2008; 09:50 p.m.
Two Princeton faculty members and one alumnus are among the eight new members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. They were selected for reaching the "highest level of artistic achievement."
Four honored for their work mentoring graduate students
By Ushma Patel · Posted May 8, 2008; 10:54 a.m.
Four Princeton faculty members have been named the recipients of Graduate Mentoring Awards by the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning and will be honored during the Graduate School's hooding ceremony on Monday, June 2.
Eleven named to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
By Eric Quiñones · Posted May 4, 2008; 11:07 a.m.
Eleven Princeton faculty members have been named fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. They are among 212 leaders in scholarship, business, the arts and public affairs elected this year in recognition of contributions to their respective fields.
Muldoon and Rodgers receive Behrman Award
By Ruth Stevens · Posted May 3, 2008; 11:00 p.m.
Paul Muldoon, the Howard G.B. Clark '21 University Professor in the Humanities, and Daniel Rodgers, the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History, have received Princeton's Behrman Award for distinguished achievement in the humanities. They were honored at a May 3 dinner.
Ashenfelter honored by economics association
By Staff · Posted April 21, 2008; 10:27 p.m.
Orley Ashenfelter, Princeton's Joseph Douglas Green 1895 Professor of Economics, has been named a distinguished fellow by the American Economic Association, an honor bestowed each year upon no more than three economists in the United States and Canada.
Five awarded Sloan Research Fellowships
By Staff · Posted March 5, 2008; 08:49 a.m.
Five Princeton faculty members have been selected to receive 2008 Sloan Research Fellowships, highly competitive grants to outstanding scientists and scholars early in their careers.
Ostriker elected treasurer of NAS
By Staff · Posted February 13, 2008; 07:23 p.m.
Jeremiah Ostriker, professor of astrophysical sciences, has been elected treasurer of the National Academy of Sciences.
Groves earns Grand Prix in chemistry
By Staff · Posted February 13, 2008; 07:19 p.m.
John Groves, the Hugh Stott Taylor Chair of Chemistry, is one of two people selected to receive the 2008 Grand Prix de la Fondation de la Maison de la Chimie. The ceremony will take place Oct. 1 in Paris.
Cook honored for book on Islamic thought
By Eric Quiñones · Posted February 7, 2008; 05:57 p.m.
Michael Cook, Princeton's Class of 1943 University Professor of Near Eastern Studies, has been awarded a Farabi International Award by Iran's Ministry of Science, Research and Technology for his book "Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought."
Princeton professors, alumnus win math awards
By Ushma Patel · Posted January 22, 2008; 05:54 p.m.
Two Princeton mathematics professors and a 2007 University graduate have been honored by the American Mathematical Society.
Silhavy earns first Novitski Prize
By Staff · Posted January 20, 2008; 06:13 p.m.
Thomas Silhavy, the Warner-Lambert Parke-Davis Professor of Molecular Biology, has received the first Novitski Prize from the Genetics Society of America.
Powell named director of admission
By Eric Quiñones · Posted January 10, 2008; 10:47 a.m.
Logan Powell, who has served in senior admission positions at Bowdoin College and Harvard University, has been appointed director of admission at Princeton. His appointment was effective Dec. 12.
PPPL researchers honored
By Staff · Posted January 7, 2008; 01:31 p.m.
Several researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have received honors and awards recognizing their contributions to the field.
PPPL Director Goldston to step down, search begins for successor
By Cass Cliatt · Posted December 13, 2007; 12:00 p.m.
After more than 10 years at the helm of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), Robert Goldston has announced he will step down as director to focus on a broad range of domestic and international fusion energy initiatives. The University immediately will launch an international search for a new director, whose appointment will become part of Princeton's proposal when it competes for a new contract to continue managing the lab.
Anthropologist Biehl wins major book award
By Ushma Patel · Posted December 10, 2007; 06:00 p.m.
João Biehl, associate professor of anthropology, has won the 2007 Margaret Mead Award, one of the most prestigious honors for anthropological books.
Rodríguez-Iturbe named to Pontifical Academy
By Teresa Riordan · Posted December 5, 2007; 10:41 a.m.
Ignacio Rodríguez-Iturbe, the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has been named a member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.
Healy among top 25 in security industry
By Staff · Posted November 29, 2007; 03:39 p.m.
Steven Healy, Princeton's director of public safety, has been named one of the top 25 people in the security industry by Security magazine.
Tilghman selected as one of 'America's Best Leaders'
By Staff · Posted November 14, 2007; 03:12 p.m.
Princeton President Shirley M. Tilghman is one of 18 people highlighted in U.S. News & World Report as "America's Best Leaders."
Three selected as AAAS fellows
By Chad Boutin · Posted October 25, 2007; 02:00 p.m.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science has selected three members of the Princeton University community as fellows in recognition of their "efforts toward advancing science applications that are deemed scientifically or socially distinguished."
Deaton to head American Economic Association
By Staff · Posted October 21, 2007; 04:06 p.m.
Angus Deaton, the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of International Affairs and professor of economics and international affairs, has been elected president-elect of the American Economic Association.
Walters named influential sports educator
By Staff · Posted October 17, 2007; 05:51 p.m.
Gary Walters, Princeton's director of athletics and the former chair of the NCAA Division I men's basketball committee, has been named one of the 100 Most Influential Sports Educators in America by the Institute for International Sport.
Nobel winner from institute is Princeton visiting lecturer
By Staff · Posted October 15, 2007; 09:41 a.m.
Eric Maskin, one of three economists selected Oct. 15 to receive the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, has a Princeton University connection.
Princeton faculty part of Nobel-winning panel
By Emily Aronson · Posted October 12, 2007; 07:06 p.m.
Eleven Princeton faculty members have been involved in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, Oct. 12. Michael Celia, Leo Donner, Anand Gnanadesikan, Isaac Held, Gabiel Lau, Denise Mauzerall, Michael Oppenheimer, Venkatachalam Ramaswamy, Jorge Sarmiento, Robert Socolow and Robert Williams have contributed to panel reports over the years.
Boaz Barak named Packard Fellow
By Teresa Riordan · Posted October 10, 2007; 05:18 p.m.
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation has named Boaz Barak, an assistant professor of computer science at Princeton, one of 20 new recipients of Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering. Each Packard Fellow receives an unrestricted research grant of $625,000 over five years.
Llinás receives newly created NIH award
By Chad Boutin · Posted September 24, 2007; 11:06 a.m.
Princeton's Manuel Llinás has been selected to receive a National Institutes of Health New Innovator Award, which provides early-career scientists with $1.5 million over a five-year period.
Verdu recognized for information theory work
By Hilary Parker · Posted August 29, 2007; 09:18 p.m.
The Information Theory Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers has recognized electrical engineering professor Sergio Verdu with its most prestigious honor, the 2007 Claude E. Shannon Award, for his "consistent and profound contributions to the field of information theory."
Professor, students earn ACLS fellowships
By Eric Quiñones · Posted August 27, 2007; 08:53 a.m.
The American Council of Learned Societies has awarded fellowships to Princeton faculty member Benjamin Elman and four graduate students to support their research in the humanities and humanities-related social sciences.
Teiser awarded French academy prize
By Eric Quiñones · Posted August 23, 2007; 07:49 p.m.
Princeton scholar Stephen Teiser has been awarded the Prix Stanislas Julien, a prestigious prize from the French academic society Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres that recognizes Western-language scholarship on the Asian humanities.
Debenedetti earns award for research on liquids
By Steven Schultz · Posted August 21, 2007; 07:09 p.m.
Chemical engineering professor Pablo Debenedetti has been named the 2008 recipient of the Joel Henry Hildebrand Award in the Theoretical and Experimental Chemistry of Liquids.
Chiang honored for world-changing work
By Hilary Parker · Posted August 15, 2007; 02:58 p.m.
Princeton electrical engineer Mung Chiang has been named one of the world's top 35 innovators under the age of 35 by Technology Review magazine.
McPherson to receive first Pritzker literature award
By Staff · Posted July 17, 2007; 12:36 p.m.
James McPherson, Princeton's George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History Emeritus, has been selected to receive the first Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing.
Chiang chosen as ONR Young Investigator
By Hilary Parker · Posted July 9, 2007; 02:37 p.m.
The Office of Naval Research has named Princeton's Mung Chiang the recipient of Young Investigator Program award to continue his work on communications networks. He is one of only 33 researchers selected this year for the prestigious program, which supports the work of scientists and engineers early in their academic careers "who show exceptional promise for doing creative research."
Groves earns prestigious NIH MERIT award
By Chad Boutin · Posted July 3, 2007; 03:40 p.m.
Princeton chemist John Groves has received a rare MERIT award from the National Institutes of Health to continue exploring iron-based chemistry within living things.
Award honors Peh's research and outreach
By Hilary Parker · Posted July 2, 2007; 11:52 a.m.
Princeton's Li-Shiuan Peh has been named the winner of the 2007 Anita Borg Early Career Award by the Computer Research Association's Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research.
Chou recognized as nanotechnology pioneer
By Hilary Parker · Posted June 27, 2007; 04:25 p.m.
Stephen Chou, the Joseph C. Elgin Professor of Engineering, recently was honored for his contributions to the nanotechnology field with a Nano 50 award from Nanotech Briefs magazine.
Oates named Humanist of the Year
By Ruth Stevens · Posted June 27, 2007; 04:19 p.m.
Joyce Carol Oates, the Roger S. Berlind '52 Professor in the Humanities, has been named the 2007 Humanist of the Year by the American Humanist Association.
Faculty members named to Royal Society
By Chad Boutin · Posted May 28, 2007; 08:47 p.m.
Princeton's Rosemary Grant and Jeremiah Ostriker have been elected to the Royal Society, the United Kingdom's national academy of science.
Keohane elected fellow of social science academy
By Chad Boutin · Posted May 28, 2007; 08:42 p.m.
Robert Keohane, Princeton professor of public and international affairs, is one of four new fellows named to the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
Four honored for their work mentoring graduate students
By Ruth Stevens · Posted May 21, 2007; 03:08 p.m.
Four Princeton faculty members have been named the recipients of Graduate Mentoring Awards by the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning and will be honored during the Graduate School's hooding ceremony on Monday, June 4.
Smith named National Humanities Center fellow
By Staff · Posted May 17, 2007; 04:55 p.m.
Professor of English Nigel Smith has been named a fellow of the National Humanities Center for the 2007-08 academic year.
Appiah book wins international affairs award
By Staff · Posted May 17, 2007; 04:52 p.m.
"Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers," by Princeton's Kwame Anthony Appiah, has won the Council on Foreign Relations' sixth annual Arthur Ross Book Award for the best book published in the past two years on international affairs.
Celia recognized as outstanding hydrologist
By Hilary Parker · Posted May 10, 2007; 05:31 p.m.
The National Ground Water Association has chosen Michael Celia as the 2008 Henry Darcy Distinguished Lecturer. The prestigious honor, awarded annually since its establishment in 1986, supports the travel of one expert to share his or her work in lectures at universities throughout the world.
Kaster and Knoepflmacher receive Behrman Award
By Ruth Stevens · Posted May 8, 2007; 05:18 p.m.
Robert Kaster, the Kennedy Foundation Professor of Latin Language and Literature, and Ulrich Knoepflmacher, the William and Annie S. Paton Foundation Professor of Ancient and Modern Literature, have received Princeton's Behrman Award for distinguished achievement in the humanities. They were honored at a May 5 dinner.
Torquato to receive Kleinman Prize
By Chad Boutin · Posted May 7, 2007; 06:23 p.m.
The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) has selected Princeton's Salvatore Torquato to receive the Ralph E. Kleinman Prize for his work connecting mathematics with applications outside the field.
Five named to American Academy
By Chad Boutin · Posted May 4, 2007; 04:07 p.m.
Three current and two retired Princeton faculty members have been named fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. They are among 227 leaders in scholarship, business, the arts and public affairs elected this year in recognition of contributions to their respective fields.
Five elected to National Academy of Sciences
By Chad Boutin · Posted May 4, 2007; 03:52 p.m.
Five Princeton faculty members have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences this year. They are among 72 new members and 18 foreign associates chosen in recognition of their distinguished and continuing accomplishments in original research.
Hudson named one of best young novelists
By Emily Aronson · Posted March 2, 2007; 09:20 a.m.
Gabe Hudson, a 2006-07 Hodder Fellow in the Council of the Humanities and lecturer in the Program in Creative Writing, has been named to Granta's "Best of Young American Novelists" list.
MacMillan receives award in organic chemistry
By Chad Boutin · Posted February 22, 2007; 08:48 a.m.
David MacMillan, the A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Organic Chemistry, has been selected to receive an award for his work from the International Society for Heterocyclic Chemistry (ISHC).
LaMarche named vice provost
By Ruth Stevens · Posted February 14, 2007; 12:00 p.m.
Paul LaMarche, a longtime University employee, has been named vice provost for space programming and planning, effective March 1.
Two elected to National Academy of Engineering
By Hilary Parker · Posted February 10, 2007; 04:11 p.m.
Stephen Chou and Sergio Verdu, professors of electrical engineering, have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, one of the greatest honors in the engineering field.
Tilghman awarded genetics society medal
By Ruth Stevens · Posted January 18, 2007; 06:20 p.m.
Princeton President Shirley M. Tilghman, a world-renowned scholar and leader in the field of molecular biology, has been awarded the Genetics Society of America Medal. The award is presented annually by the society in recognition of a scientist's outstanding contributions in the field of genetics for the past 15 years.
Socolow selected for engineering future group
By Hilary Parker · Posted January 11, 2007; 06:19 p.m.
The National Academy of Engineering has named Robert Socolow, Princeton professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, to a prestigious international committee to identify the greatest challenges and opportunities for engineering in the 21st century.
Szabó earns prize from mathematical society
By Chad Boutin · Posted January 8, 2007; 11:44 a.m.
Zoltán Szabó, a professor of mathematics at Princeton, has been awarded the 2007 Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry. The prize, one of the highest distinctions for work in geometry or topology, is presented every three years by the American Mathematical Society.
George recognized for outstanding contributions
By Jennifer Greenstein Altmann · Posted December 29, 2006; 12:00 a.m.
Robert George, the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, has been awarded the 2006 Sidney Hook Memorial Award by the National Association of Scholars in recognition of outstanding contributions to academic freedom and excellence.
Schäfer chosen for Mellon award
By Ruth Stevens · Posted December 22, 2006; 02:12 p.m.
Peter Schäfer, the Ronald O. Perelman Professor of Judaic Studies at Princeton, has been selected by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as one of four winners of its Distinguished Achievement Awards.
Suckewer wins prize for laser research
By Steven Schultz · Posted December 20, 2006; 12:58 p.m.
The American Physical Society has selected Szymon Suckewer, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and co-director of the Program in Plasma Science and Technology, to receive the 2007 Arthur Schawlow Prize in Laser Science.
Gallo to receive MLA book award
By Ruth Stevens · Posted December 20, 2006; 12:50 p.m.
A book by Rubén Gallo, assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese languages and cultures at Princeton, has been chosen for the Modern Language Association's Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize.
Three faculty members selected as AAAS fellows
By Chad Boutin · Posted December 18, 2006; 12:57 p.m.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science has selected three Princeton faculty members as fellows in recognition of their "efforts toward advancing science applications that are deemed scientifically or socially distinguished."
Two groups honor Smits for his contributions
By Steven Schultz · Posted December 1, 2006; 03:49 p.m.
Alexander Smits, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, will receive two major awards in 2007 for his work on turbulence and fluid mechanics.
Takaezu honored by New York museum
By Ruth Stevens · Posted November 16, 2006; 03:39 p.m.
Longtime Princeton faculty member Toshiko Takaezu has been honored by the Museum of Arts & Design in New York.
Ying-shih Yu selected for Kluge Prize
By Ruth Stevens · Posted November 15, 2006; 08:34 p.m.
Ying-shih Yu, Princeton's Gordon Wu '58 Professor Emeritus of Chinese Studies, has been named the co-winner of the third John W. Kluge Prize for lifetime achievement in the study of humanity.
Kaufmann wins award from Czech academy
By Chad Boutin · Posted November 8, 2006; 09:26 p.m.
Princeton's Thomas DeCosta Kaufmann has been awarded the F. Palacky Honorary Medal for Merit in Social Sciences by the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.
Slaughter to lead Rice task force
By Staff · Posted November 6, 2006; 05:49 p.m.
Anne-Marie Slaughter, dean of Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, has been selected to chair the U.S. Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on Democracy Promotion. The group met for the first time Nov. 6 in Washington, D.C.