Chemist Car wins DOE funding for computational chemistry center
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced Wednesday, Sept. 19, that Roberto Car, Princeton’s Ralph W. *31 Dornte Professor in Chemistry and a professor with the Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials, was one of 10 researchers to win funding for computational chemistry. His proposal title was “Computational Chemical Science Center: Chemistry in Solution and at Interfaces.”
Princeton to lead new software institute to enable discoveries in high-energy physics
With the goal of creating next-generation computing power to support high-energy physics research, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced today that Princeton University will lead a new NSF-funded coalition of 17 research universities to be called the Institute for Research and Innovation in Software for High Energy Physics (IRIS-HEP).
Surprising hidden order unites prime numbers and crystal-like materials
The seemingly random digits known as prime numbers are not nearly as scattershot as previously thought. A new analysis by Princeton University researchers has uncovered patterns in primes that are similar to those found in the positions of atoms inside certain crystal-like materials.
Foam could offer greener option for petroleum drillers
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, provides critical energy for society, but also uses large amounts of fresh water while producing corresponding amounts of wastewater. Water-based foams, which use about 90 percent less water than fracking fluids, provide an alternative, but the mechanism for foam-driven fracture in such drilling is not well understood.
Princeton’s Phi Beta Kappa chapter presents teaching awards to Cunningham, Tarnita
The Princeton University chapter of Phi Beta Kappa will present its annual awards for excellence in undergraduate teaching to Nijah Cunningham, lecturer in the Humanities Council, African American studies and English, and Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows, and Corina Tarnita, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology.
2018 Undergraduate Certificate Program Award Winners Announced!
Congratulations to Enric Boix and Ifunanya Nwogbaga, our 2018 Undergraduate Certificate Program award winners!
Stone wins Brouwer Award for contributions to dynamical astronomy
James Stone, the Lyman Spitzer Jr., Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics, has won the Brouwer Award from the American Astronomical Society’s Division on Dynamical Astronomy (DDA) “for the impact he has had on developing computational fluid dynamics into the de facto
Assaf Naor wins Nemmers Prize in mathematics
Assaf Naor, a professor of mathematics at Princeton, has won the 2018 Frederick Esser Nemmers Prize in Mathematics from Northwestern University for his profound work on the
Graduate students Cabreros, Treuer selected for fellowships in science communications
The American Association for the Advancement of Science has selected Princeton graduate students Irineo Cabreros and Tim Treuer for their 2018 Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program.