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  1. Veterans Day observance to be held at the Princeton University Chapel
  2. Philosophy professor and graduate alumna Lara Buchak receives Barry Prize for Distinguished Intellectual Achievement
  3. Michele Minter will retire as vice provost for institutional equity and diversity
  4. Celebrate Princeton Innovation showcases research discoveries with industry potential
  5. Twenty-five years of transformative financial aid
  6. Thirteen scholars named Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellows
  7. Beth Lew-Williams receives Cundill History Prize for 'innovative and consequential' book
  8. Princeton’s Campus Sustainability Framework builds on 20 years of action and progress
  9. Dale Fellowship recipients pursue original projects after graduation
  10. Sylvia Lavin named dean of Princeton’s School of Architecture
  11. Jose Roque named a 2026 Packard Fellow
  12. Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts welcomes new scholars
  13. Princeton Engineering grants could help build a moon base, block foodborne illness, and map the brain
  14. Luc Deike wins Experimental Physics Investigators Initiative award from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
  15. Nobel laureates Frances Arnold ’79 and Mary Brunkow *91 to receive top alumni awards
  16. Historian Thomas Conlan receives commendation from Japan’s Foreign Minister
  17. Princeton pre-meds pursue careers in pediatrics and family medicine through new national fellowship
  18. Board approves seven new faculty appointments
  19. Ellora Derenoncourt and Elizabeth Ellis awarded MacArthur ‘genius’ grants
  20. Two early-career researchers win Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career awards
  21. New mosaic in the Princeton University Chapel honors Native and Indigenous stories
  22. Ulrich Knoepflmacher, ‘towering scholar’ of Victorian fiction, poetry and children’s literature, dies at 95
  23. ‘What Is Missing?’: Stunning exhibition by Maya Lin opens new gallery at Briger Hall
  24. 'I'm here for you': Residential college heads are faculty who foster Princeton’s living-learning community
  25. Princeton engineers create an erasable semiconductor programmed with light
  26. In banner ACS year for chemistry department, MacMillan and Chirik receive awards
  27. W. Rochelle Calhoun to retire after more than a decade as vice president for campus life
  28. New graduate students welcomed to Princeton’s 'global community of scholars'
  29. Princeton welcomes Class of 2030 that reflects continuing commitment to socio-economic diversity
  30. Pre-read author Maryanne Wolf urges incoming class to read deeply, 'with courage and effort'
  31. Princeton strengthens its support for AI and data science scholarship through Data and Intelligent Systems initiative
  32. Undergraduate prizes awarded to seven students for academic achievement
  33. At Opening Exercises, President Eisgruber encourages new Princeton students to value ‘what you learn along the way’
  34. Incoming class hears call to embrace Princeton’s ‘bold and powerful commitment’ to free expression
  35. Bonnie Bassler receives top Royal Society honor for seminal research in quorum sensing
  36. Princeton summer programs help high school, community college, veteran, transfer and other students to thrive in college and beyond
  37. Antony Jameson, influential aerospace engineer and pioneer of the jet age, dies at 91
  38. Princeton to lead major federally funded institute to unlock quantum computing challenges
  39. DOE and Princeton University extend, strengthen partnership
  40. Roy Jackson, titan of fluid mechanics, dies at 94