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21 years later, Will Venable, manager of the White Sox is putting his Princeton senior thesis to work as the team welcomes Munetaka Murakami: https://atmlb.com/49wePTQ
January 12, 2026 at 5:51 PM
By investigating how grasshoppers glide, an engineering team at Princeton has developed a model that could enable multimodal locomotion for tiny robots.

This could give engineers new options in the quest to extend flight time for insect-sized robots: https://bit.ly/4pECNCw
January 8, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Princeton researchers have cleared a major hurdle toward the advent of practical quantum computing by developing a new kind of superconducting qubit that improves quantum coherence time by 15 times that of industry standards: https://bit.ly/4pnJ05k
January 5, 2026 at 6:04 PM
On this day in 1777, General George Washington led the Continental Army to victory during the Battle of Princeton and rescued Nassau Hall from its occupation by British forces.
January 3, 2026 at 2:01 PM
In a new study, @princetonneuro.bsky.social scientists uncover one reason for the brain’s advantage over AI: it reuses the same cognitive “blocks” across many different tasks.

By combining and recombining these blocks, the brain can rapidly assemble new behaviors: https://bit.ly/481dpBe
December 22, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Researchers at Princeton and NJIT are building AI literacy and computational thinking in K-12 students with an experimental software and augmented reality: https://bit.ly/4p4X9Eq
December 19, 2025 at 10:15 PM
While we don’t know with any certainty which research will produce the next blockbuster result or scientific miracle, history tells us they are most likely to come from universities: https://bit.ly/3Yy8CBz
December 17, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The humanities provide a way to study different cultures around the world and how we should live as beings who are at once social and individual.

Learn more about the humanities at Princeton: https://bit.ly/3SPoHAg
December 16, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Princeton’s geoexchange system keeps campus buildings warm this winter from heat captured during the hottest days last summer: https://bit.ly/3zM78uy
December 15, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Princeton’s Elizabeth Ellis, a historian and citizen of the Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma, is a key player in an exhibition at the Palace of Versailles that brings to light the little-known diplomatic history of French-Native alliances: https://bit.ly/43R70Gn
December 15, 2025 at 8:30 PM
In her Nobel Prize speech, Mary Brunkow *91 touched on the "twists and turns" of her career, the scientific significance behind the team's discoveries around immune tolerance and the "powerful synergies between research efforts in academic labs and in the private sector": https://bit.ly/3KU611K
December 13, 2025 at 5:13 PM
"The humanities prepare students not just to get a job, but to keep it and excel while doing so."

In an op-ed for The Philadelphia Inquirer, Princeton's Dean of the Faculty Gene Jarrett makes the case for why a humanities degree is a smart investment: https://bit.ly/48ge5CZ
December 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
All of the Princeton University Art Museum's design choices — from having most of the art displayed without protective glass to cases with drawers that visitors can open to view more art — invite the experience of close looking.

Even if it’s just for 10 minutes: https://bit.ly/48aDaPv
December 11, 2025 at 9:15 PM
A Princeton and University of Chicago study finds that rainfall causes more than 8% of deaths in Mumbai during the monsoon season — a figure 10x higher than listed in official statistics: https://bit.ly/44kux2p
December 11, 2025 at 6:00 PM
New research led by Princeton's @griffinlabpaleo.bsky.social confirms the existence of a distinct Nanotyrannus species, the newest development in a decades-long dinosaur debate: https://bit.ly/3Mmvh13
December 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Seizing on an imaging technology that allows scientists to identify individual small molecules, new Princeton research contributes a significant step towards building a chemical and AI tech that captures the spatial metabolic organization of any organ: https://bit.ly/4iK2csh
December 8, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Intellectual connections sparked at Princeton inspired the creation of ImageNet, a comprehensive computer vision database that would lead to a paradigm shift in machine learning: https://bit.ly/49ngooF
December 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM
A new superconducting qubit developed at Princeton puts the path to practical quantum computing on the fast track: https://bit.ly/4p6Yo6W
December 5, 2025 at 5:10 PM
New findings from Princeton researchers are a step toward making hydrogen a practical pathway to decarbonize industries that are difficult to electrify, such as steel and fertilizer production: https://bit.ly/4r9UI62
December 3, 2025 at 6:05 PM
A team of researchers from University of Nebraska and Princeton "aims to discover how natural structures in bacterial gene networks could be leveraged for AI applications": https://bit.ly/47UYCb2
December 2, 2025 at 11:00 PM
A newly-discovered neuron-release enzyme has the potential to transform pain treatment while providing clues around memory and learning: https://bit.ly/3M5hThx
November 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Celebrating and supporting local shops on #SmallBusinessSaturday in Princeton, NJ.
November 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
New Princeton research gives important insight into human cognition and could help researchers build better artificial intelligence models: https://bit.ly/3Lp6J74
November 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Storied basketball player, coach and commentator Craig Robinson will be Princeton’s 2026 Baccalaureate speaker: https://bit.ly/3XjZrUV

Robinson is the executive director of the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC), a Class of 1983 graduate and a former finance executive.
November 25, 2025 at 6:06 PM
The new Princeton University Art Museum intentionally avoids a "prescribed path" and encourages visitors to "wander at will until you see something that captures you and then stop": https://bit.ly/4i8ujRO
November 24, 2025 at 4:17 PM