Hatching a new hypothesis about egg shape diversity

The research of Mary Caswell Stoddard, an assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton University, suggests that the shape of an egg for a bird of a given species may be driven in part by features of a bird's physiology related to its capability for flight.

Princeton professor Tracy K. Smith named U.S. Poet Laureate

Tracy K. Smith, the Roger S. Berlind '52 Professor in the Humanities and a professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University, has been named U.S. Poet Laureate for 2017-18.