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Meglodon, a massive shark
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Shark Week was every week for megalodon .

New Princeton research shows that prehistoric megatooth sharks — the biggest sharks that ever lived — were apex predators at the highest level ever measured, feeding on other predators and predators-of-predators in a complicated food web.

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Princeton mathematician June Huh awarded prestigious Fields Medal .

Princeton University mathematician June Huh has received the 2022 Fields Medal, often referred to as the "Nobel Prize of mathematics," from the International Mathematical Union. The award was announced July 5 in Helsinki.

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simulation of water molecules

How water turns into ice — with quantum accuracy

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Butterfly on milkweed

Princeton research shows how the decline in pollinators can ripple across ecosystems

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Five Princeton podcasts to accompany your summer travels

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Barton named Princeton’s assistant vice president for facilities operations

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Neuroscientist Bradley Dickerson wins McKnight Scholar Award for biological 'gyroscope'

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Simon Gikandi and Chika Okeke-Agulu recognized by British Academy for their contribution to the humanities

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Mami Akiyama

‘I believe in the power of solidarity.’ Our Year of the Tiger series continues.

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Princeton’s Paul Chirik awarded $1M for green chemistry research

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Garip named to Census Bureau committee on racial, ethnic and other populations

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Fox pup and mother

Scientific field research and the arts come together in a Princeton course using motion-capture cameras to record campus wildlife

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Max Nguyen amid the equipment at the firehouse

Graduate students join Princeton Fire Department, continuing a long tradition of community service

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Bumblebees kept in isolation make up for it by being more social later

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Braverman and Lieb win mathematics prizes for cross-discipline work

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Syukuro Manabe at press conference

Nobel laureate Suki Manabe named 'Great Immigrant' for contributions to America

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Princeton mathematician June Huh awarded prestigious Fields Medal

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Summer Reads 2022

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Wherry appointed vice dean for diversity and inclusion in Princeton’s Office of the Dean of the Faculty

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Stoddard named Schmidt Science Polymath

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An emerging class of solar energy technology, made with perovskite semiconductors

Once seen as fleeting, a new solar tech proves its lasting power

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Seven elected to Princeton Board of Trustees

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Gene Jarrett and his book cover, "Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird"

Gene Jarrett takes us back to the Gilded Age in his new biography of Paul Laurence Dunbar

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Ivy on the outer walls of Nassau Hall

University update following the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization

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Peter Barzilai

USA Today’s Peter Barzilai named new editor of Princeton Alumni Weekly

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Megan Pan '23 as Jordan Baker, Jay White '24 as Nick Carraway, Xavier Jefferson as Jay Gatsby and Allison Spann '20 as Daisy Fay Buchanan.

Princeton Summer Theater celebrates the return to live performance

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Meglodon, a massive shark

Shark Week was every week for megalodon

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Bryan Grenfell

Princeton biologist Bryan Grenfell wins Kyoto Prize

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Lucy Partman leads her class

Inside ‘The Looking Lab,’ a Princeton course where visual arts spark entrepreneurial thinking

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Serena Lu ’20

‘We have all these people that came before us, and we carry that in who we are.’ Our Year of the Tiger series continues.

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Noga Alon

Noga Alon wins 2022 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences

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Shane Campbell-Staton and Sarah Kocher

Campbell-Staton and Kocher named Pew Scholars in the Biomedical Sciences

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