Princeton alumna Mary Brunkow *91 receives Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine .

Brunkow received her Ph.D. from Princeton in 1991 in molecular biology. She shares the award with Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi for discoveries about how the immune system is kept in check.

In the hallways of Princeton, a fascination with the human mind unlocked the power of deep learning .

Serendipitous meetings, scholarly collaborations, and an ethos of "encouraging junior faculty to think big" laid the groundwork for groundbreaking achievement in AI.