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Ten graduate students honored as outstanding educators
May 16, 2025

The Graduate School has presented its annual Teaching Awards to 10 Princeton graduate students, recognizing their exceptional skill, dedication, and impact as instructors.

Adriana Dropulic (Physics) was honored with the Quin Morton Graduate Teaching Award for instructors in the Princeton Writing Program, and Kelly Carlton (Religion)…

Princeton faculty recognized for their impact as outstanding mentors of graduate students
May 15, 2025

Four Princeton University faculty members have been selected as recipients of the 2025 Graduate Mentoring Awards. 

Co-sponsored by the Graduate School and the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning, this honor is awarded to Princeton faculty members who serve as exemplary…

Introducing TigerData: A Comprehensive Data Management Service for the Princeton Research Community
May 8, 2025

A powerful new data management service is about to become available to the Princeton research community. Known as TigerData in an homage to Princeton’s mascot, the service enables researchers to work with their data in better and easier ways.

“We are proud…

Four graduate alums receive Guggenheim Fellowships
April 21, 2025

Four graduate alums are among the nine Princetonians who have received 2025 Guggenheim Fellowships. The Guggenheims support scholars in the creative arts, social sciences, natural sciences and humanities. 

This year’s graduate alumni recipients are:

Angela Esterhammer, a 1990 graduate alumna, for English literature;Kellen Funk, a…
Graduate student Theo Gibbs named a 2025 Schmidt Science Fellow
April 10, 2025

The Schmidt Science Fellows announced April 2 that Theo Gibbs, a sixth-year graduate student in Princeton’s Program in Quantitative and Computational Biology (QCB), is one of 32 early-career researchers awarded fellowships to pursue innovative interdisciplinary science. Founded in 2017, the fellowships support a one- or two-year…

Celebrating 2025 Graduate Student Appreciation Week, April 7-11
March 28, 2025

Join us in celebrating Princeton graduate students during Graduate Student Appreciation Week, April 7-11, 2025.

Throughout the year, the Graduate School offers a nonstop calendar of events to support graduate students. But during Graduate Student Appreciation Week, we step it up a notch with even more fun.

All events below are open…

iThenticate, new tool to verify authenticity of academic writing, now available
Feb. 18, 2025

Today, Dean of the Graduate School Rodney Priestley notified all regularly enrolled graduate students that they have access to a new tool to verify the authenticity of their work. Below is the email from Dean Priestley about how to access and use iThenticate under the Princeton University license. 

To: Regularly enrolled Graduate…

President Eisgruber's State of the University Letter, 2025
Jan. 30, 2025

Princeton University President Christopher L. Eisgruber on Wednesday, Jan. 29, sent his annual State of the University letter to faculty, students and staff, highlighting the completion of significant projects on campus — including the Meadows Graduate Student Housing complex — and a commitment to transparency as the University works to ensure…

#GradAlums: Six Princeton graduate alumni win early-career presidential science awards
Jan. 22, 2025

Two current Princetonians and at least four researchers who are 2024 recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) are Princeton graduate alumni. The scientists received their awards on January 14 from President Biden. PECASE is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on science and…

In campus talk, Eric Schmidt '76 urges students to tackle AI opportunities, challenges
Nov. 26, 2024

Former Google chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt ’76, whose Princeton education prepared him to help guide the information technology revolution, urged Princeton undergraduates and graduate students from a wide range of academic disciplines to tackle the “inconceivably large” opportunities and challenges that artificial intelligence now presents.