Research

Should We Fear ‘Backsliding Democracy’?

Mark Beissinger says undermining democratic norms can spur a shift toward autocracy

Naveen Verma Connects Intelligence to the Real World

Psychologist Andrew Shtulman ’01 Finds Surprising Truths About Imagination

In his new book, Shtulman explains that imagination is a learned skill, not an inborn trait

Research Photo: Seeing Clearly

Q&A: Andrew Houck ’00 on Princeton’s New Quantum Science Institute

‘We are hoping it will have an enormous impact,’ Houck says of quantum science

Research Photo: Princeton-Made TidyBot Is a Household Helper

Research on Brain Injuries, Carbon Capture Among 2023 Award Winners

The 19 Research Day winners had to communicate their work for a general audience

Ning Lin *10 Studies Extreme Weather

Brain Injury Project Among 19 Winners at Princeton Research Day

Grad Student Uses Balloons with Telescopes to Study the Cosmos

Even though dark matter can’t be imaged directly, Redmond explains, it distorts the light from galaxies behind it

Princeton Plasma Physics Lab Takes on Sustainability Science

The PPPL has catalyzed its own change and decided to venture beyond fusion

Leslie Reperant *10 Investigates Virus Spread in New Book

Princeton Economics Lab Seeks to Reduce Global Poverty

J-PAL is addressing gender inequality, climate change, and more

Princeton Biologists Watch How Bees React to Isolation

Sarah Kocher’s lab set out to better understand social development

Eszter Hargittai *03 Studies the Digital Divide During the Pandemic

Mathematicians Tied to Princeton Prove Stability of Black Holes

‘In a sense you are proving that these things are real,’ says mathematics professor Sergiu Klainerman

Economist Leah Boustan ’00 Is Busting Myths About Immigrants

Boustan’s new book shows immigrants help grow the economy and spur new innovations

David Nirenberg *92 Is Leading the Institute for Advanced Study

Nirenberg wants to get people who might not be natural collaborators thinking and working together

Faculty Book: Gene Andrew Jarrett ’97 on Paul Laurence Dunbar

Jarrett details the celebrations and struggles of the “poet laureate of his race”

June Huh’s Fields Medal Leads Princeton’s Mathematics Awards

Princeton Researchers Join Worldwide Study to Understand How Dogs Age

New Cancer Research Branch Examines Role of Diet in Treatment

Princeton is now home to the newest branch of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research

Long Ago and Far Away

Princeton astronomers say a new telescope could answer their deepest questions about the early universe

Psychiatrist Richard Waugaman ’70 Is Examining Shakespeare’s Multiple Personalities

Waugaman is a chief proponent of the theory that Shakespeare’s plays were secretly written by the Earl of Oxford