2+ hour, 14+ min ago  (1022+ words) David Botstein, Princeton's Anthony B. Evnin "62 Professor of Genomics, Emeritus, and an emeritus professor of molecular biology and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, died on Feb. 27. Botstein came to Princeton from Stanford University, where he headed the medical school's genetics…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (538+ words) Dean of the Graduate School Rodney Priestley and engineer Z. Jason Ren Priestley, the Pomeroy and Betty Perry Smith Professor in the department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, was recognized for his "distinguished contributions expanding the understanding of polymer and soft…...

2+ day, 9+ min ago  (15+ words) Major gift names the Griffin-Cole Climate and Energy Grand Challenge Fund in HMEI'Princeton University...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (265+ words) The High Meadows Environmental Institute will host a lecture by Katharine Hayhoe, an atmospheric scientist, distinguished professor and endowed chair at Texas Tech University, and chief scientist at The Nature Conservancy. Hayhoe is speaking as part of the HMEI Taplin…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (1208+ words) From left: Dean for Research Peter Schiffer (left) moderated a panel discussion about NASA's IMAP (on screen) with Jamey Szalay, Jamie Rankin, Joe Westlake and David McComas. The'Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe Link is external, a Princeton-led NASA mission to…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (1359+ words) On December 26, 2004, an earthquake in the Indian Ocean triggered a global tsunami that left catastrophic damage in 17 countries and killed hundreds of thousands of people. As the water retreated, televised broadcasts of the devastation shocked the world. The disaster spurred…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (1718+ words) AI research projects across the humanities at Princeton are exploring (from left): premodern Chinese books; robotics in architecture; 13th-century Byzantine Greek texts; and music cognition (pictured: Amber Kao, a graduate student in music)." With the launch of the Princeton Laboratory…...

11+ mon, 4+ week ago  (465+ words) Real-world developments often spur new paradigms, research and movements. In the 1960s and early 70s, decolonization, new social movements, student protests and economic stagnation gave birth to postmodernism and critical theory. Today, we are entering a post-progressive era in which sixty years…...

4+ mon, 4+ week ago  (380+ words) Despite the widespread adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs), their remarkable capabilities remain limited to a few high-resource languages. In this talk, David Ifeoluwa Adelani will describe different approaches to scaling evaluation to several languages. He will describe simple strategies…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (303+ words) Mala Murthy and Sebastian Seung Murthy Link is external is the PNI director and Princeton's Karol and Marnie Marcin '96 Professor of Neuroscience. She combined her deep expertise in fruit fly neuroscience with Seung's expertise in neural networks and neuronal mapping,…...