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The GradFUTURES Forum, March 27-April 1
March 21, 2023
2023 Theme: Advancing Innovation, Equity, and Inclusion via Professional Development

With dozens of engaging speakers, skill-building workshops, alumni panels, and networking sessions, the GradFUTURES Forum prepares you for multiple futures through sessions that have real-time relevance to your success in graduate school and provide a…

Exploring the Origins of the Universe Through Engineering
March 20, 2023

The sun never sets in the Antarctic summer, which is quite convenient for solar powered science. Susan Redmond, who has spent the last three months helping to launch a solar powered balloon the size of a hockey arena into space, is one of those scientists relying on the endless sunshine of the southernmost continent.

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Meet (some of) the Women of Chemistry
March 20, 2023

The Department of Chemistry honors the cultural, political, and scholarly achievements of women around the globe celebrated on International Women’s Day on March 8.

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Program for Research on Inequality (PRI) awards research grants to six Princeton students
March 20, 2023

The Program for Research on Inequality (PRI) at Princeton has awarded new research grants to six Princeton graduate students pursuing innovative, exciting work on the topic of inequality. 

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Four win Jacobus Fellowship, Princeton's top graduate student honor
Feb. 21, 2023

Lila Rodgers, Mira Nencheva, Binyamin "Benny" Kleinman and Jason Molesky (from left, with Dean of the Graduate School Rodney Priestley) have been named winners of the fellowship, awarded to one Ph.D. student in each division  — humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and engineering  — whose work has exhibited the highest…

Princeton graduate student Maura Coursey dies
Feb. 3, 2023

Maura Coursey, 28, a graduate student, died on Jan. 26 at her off-campus residence.

Spotlight on three former UCHV graduate prize fellows
Feb. 2, 2023

The University Center for Human Values (UCHV) has been welcoming students to its Laurance S. Rockefeller Graduate Prize Fellowship (GPF) Program since 1991.  The GPF Program "recognizes and supports post-generals graduate students with…

New biophysics graduate program draws leading faculty from across the University
Oct. 17, 2022

The program encompasses the full range of biophysics research at Princeton, from molecules to ecosystems, including both experimental and theoretical work.

T. Leslie Shear Jr., classical archaeologist, ‘rigorous scholar’ and ‘inspiring teacher,’ dies at 84
Oct. 7, 2022

T. Leslie Shear Jr., professor of classical archaeology, emeritus, died Sept. 28 at Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center after a brief illness. He was 88.

Princeton University Graduate School Partners with Colgate-Palmolive on Ph.D. Experiential Learning Program
Oct. 6, 2022

The GradFUTURES Professional Development team at Princeton University’s Graduate School is delighted to announce a new industry immersion and experiential learning program in partnership with Colgate-Palmolive Company’s Experiential Learning Opportunities (ELO) program.