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Research at Princeton University discovers surprising new avenues for tackling cancer and other diseases. It opens astonishing windows onto the world — and the universe. It helps secure the nation’s safety, prosperity and competitiveness. Learn more:
- Princeton will lead U.S. effort to design better chips for wireless networks
- Princeton joins new cancer research hub with NY clinicians
- A global race is on to unlock the quantum realm. Follow Princeton's research.
- Six ways Princeton engineers are making people's lives better
- How our chemists are cracking nature’s code to understand what drives…everything
- On YouTube: Tracing the hidden, long-distance journey of groundwater
- An underground marvel: 'Traffic' between fungi and plants
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Edmund White, professor of creative writing and ‘iconic gay writer of the 20th and 21st centuries,’ dies at 85
In the classroom White left an indelible mark on future literary voices and lifelong readers, alike.
Six exceptional scholars selected as Princeton’s 2025-26 Fung Global Fellows
The program is funded by a portion of a gift from Princeton 1970 alumnus William Fung of Hong Kong that is designed to substantially increase the University’s engagement with scholars around the world and inspire ideas that transcend borders.
Princeton Summer Theater opens its 2025 season
The season runs June 12 through Aug. 2, opening with a musical adaptation of "The Bridges of Madison County." This year's children's show is a kid-friendly version of “The Odyssey."

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