The Institute for Advanced Study, one of the
world’s foremost centers for curiosity-driven basic research, will
be recognized by the American Physical Society
(APS) and the European Physical Society (EPS) as
their first Joint Historic Physics Site...
The Association for Slavic Studies, East European, and Eurasian
Studies and the Stanford University Center for Russian and East
European Studies, have honored Michael Kunichika, Member
(2015–16) in the School of Historical Studies, with the...
The University of Wisconsin Law School has awarded its 2016
Association for Women Lawyer's Award for Mentoring Excellence to
Elizabeth Mertz, Visitor in
the School of Social Science.
The American Historical Association has awarded the 2016 George
Louis Beer Prize to Vanessa
Ogle, Member (2013–14) in the School of Social Science, for her
book The
Global Transformation of Time, 1870–1950 (Harvard
University Press, 2015), which she...
Institute Trustee Eric Schmidt will receive one of Princeton
University's top honors for alumni, the Woodrow Wilson Award, and
deliver an address on Saturday, February 25. The University bestows
the Woodrow Wilson Award annually upon an...
James D. Wolfensohn, Chair
Emeritus of the Institute’s Board of Trustees and its
longest-serving Chair from 1986–2007, will receive the National
Committee on American Foreign Policy’s (NCAFP) George F. Kennan
Award for Public Service for his...
Quantum physicist Carl M.
Bender, Member (1969–70) in the School of Natural Sciences, has
been awarded the 2017 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical
Physics, one of the highest distinctions available to scientific
investigators in that field. In...
A trio of British-born researchers working in the U.S. won the Nobel Prize in Physics Tuesday for what one of them called a curious mathematical “toy” that to his surprise revolutionized the study of exotic matter suitable for quantum computers, new superconductors, and advanced designer materials.
Jay M. Pasachoff, Member
(1989–1990) in the School of Natural Sciences and Field Memorial
Professor of Astronomy at Williams College, has received the
Richtmyer Memorial Lecture Award from the American Association of Physics Teachers.
Pasachoff is...
Subhash Khot, Silver Professor of Computer Science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University and former Member (2003–04) in the School of Mathematics, has been named a 2016 Fellow of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
