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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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Benjamin Moll

Moll receives 2017 Bernácer Prize for macroeconomics and finance

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Clifford Brangwynne, Okwui Okpokwasili and Allan Sly

Princeton faculty Brangwynne, Sly; arts fellow Okpokwasili awarded MacArthur Fellowships

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Frances Arnold

Princeton engineering alumna Frances Arnold wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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Harriet Flower

Flower awarded Society for Classical Studies' Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit

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Wallace Best

Best receives book award from American Academy of Religion; Krakowski honorable mention

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Princeton team wins first prize in national anti-gerrymandering contest

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Roberto Car

Chemist Car wins DOE funding for computational chemistry center

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Abhi Raj

Raj wins graduate student fellowship from DOE to study lithium ion batteries

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Fisch receives Fusion Power Associates’ Distinguished Career Award

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Melanie McReynolds

McReynolds wins HHMI Hanna Gray Fellowship for early career researchers

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Markos Markakis, Trisha Datta, Dean of the College Jill Dolan, Devon Wood-Thomas, President Christopher L. Eisgruber,  Annabel Barry, Grace Sommers and Matthew Tyler

Students honored at Opening Exercises

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Irvin Glassman

Glassman honored with Guggenheim Medal in aeronautics

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Bonnie Bassler

Bassler receives Schering Prize for discovering bacterial communication

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Four Princeton graduate students receive DAAD awards for research and study in Germany

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Akshay Venkatesh

Princeton alumnus Venkatesh wins Fields Medal in mathematics

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Economist Ashenfelter, historian Jordan recognized by British Academy

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Lewis Arts complex receives industry awards for redevelopment, construction

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Nancy Weiss Malkiel

Historian Malkiel receives Phi Beta Kappa’s Sidney Hook award for academic distinction

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Daniel Marlow

Physicist Marlow wins DOE funding for high energy physics

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Ran Raz

Computer scientist Raz named 2018 Simons Investigator

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Suspended art in Frick Chemistry Laboratory

DOE Energy Frontier Research Center at Princeton to focus on bioinspired light-escalated chemistry

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Gillian Knapp

Knapp receives presidential award for STEM mentorship

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Jose Avalos and Haw Yang

Princeton professors Avalos, Yang receive DOE funding for biotechnology advances

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Students honored for leadership and service at Class Day

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Katherine Tyler

Princeton senior Tyler will receive New Jersey’s Jefferson Award for service

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Corina Tarnita and Nijah Cunningham

Princeton's Phi Beta Kappa chapter presents teaching awards to Cunningham, Tarnita

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Bonnie Bassler teaching in classroom

Bassler receives Dickson Prize in Medicine for discovering how bacteria communicate

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Sara Krolewski

Princeton senior Krolewski receives Witherspoon Scholarship to study in Scotland

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Graduate College

Four faculty members honored for excellence in mentoring graduate students

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Clifford Brangwynne

Brangwynne selected as Howard Hughes Medical Investigator

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