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Undergraduate Research Publishing Opportunity
April 28, 2025

Discussions, the Undergraduate Research Journal at Case Western Reserve University, is now accepting submissions until August 25, 2025.

Discussions is committed to broadening the undergraduate research experience through helping students experience the review and publication process. In this light, there is no submission…

PRD in Local News: Still time to submit (Apr. 30)
April 23, 2025

Donald Gilpin, writer for Princeton's community newsletter Town Topics, recently spoke with OUR Director and Princeton Research Day leader Dr. Pascale Poussart about why the community should view PRD videos and attend the May 8 event. Read the story to learn more about what you'll gain from participating!

Two Princeton graduates receive Soros Fellowships for New Americans
April 14, 2025

Princeton alumni Max Gotts, Class of 2024, and Dora Zhao, Class of 2021, were awarded the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, a merit-based graduate school program for immigrants and children of immigrants.

Soros fellows receive funding to support their graduate studies at institutions across the country and…

Bird Safe: Undergraduate researchers work to make Princeton a safe home for birds
April 10, 2025

From the Office of Sustainability: 

Hundreds of millions of birds die each year in the United States after crashing into buildings. A small group of Princeton University students witnessed this problem on their own campus. Then they got to work figuring out a solution, and convincing the university’s administration to adopt it. This…

Workshop | Wout yo: Dynamics of Haitian Migration Through the Americas
April 2, 2025

Join PLAS on Saturday, April 19, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Aaron Burr Hall 219 for a critical discussion on Haitian migration across the Americas. This event will bring together academics, activists, and community organizers from Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and the United States to examine Haitian migration pathways, identify key…

OUR Hiring Graduate Student Administrative Fellow for HUM/SOC Development
March 17, 2025

Attention HUM/SOC Grad Students

University Administrative Fellow Job Opening

The Office of Undergraduate Research invites applications from post-generals graduate students from any area of study for an administrative position supporting outreach and recruitment, mentoring, and program development for undergraduate research in the…

Sachs Scholarship awarded to two Princeton seniors, one Oxford student
Feb. 26, 2025

Princeton seniors Noah James and Ethan Sample and University of Oxford student Farzana Salik have been named recipients of the Daniel M. Sachs Class of 1960 Graduating Scholarship, one of Princeton University’s highest awards.


Read more about the winners…

Princeton senior Joshua Yang awarded Gates Cambridge Scholarship
Feb. 26, 2025

Princeton University senior Joshua Yang has been awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. The awards recognize U.S. students for ”outstanding academic achievement” and “social leadership,” and cover the full cost of a postgraduate degree…

Princeton Undergraduate Research Journal Presents: Research Panel
Feb. 24, 2025

PURJ has put together an amazing panel this Friday (February 28) on getting involved in research. You can learn about the research process firsthand from professors that are both very accomplished researchers and wonderful research mentors. There is no registration for the event - come on by!

Pyne Prize awarded to Princeton Class of 2025 members Jennifer Nwokeji and Avi Attar
Feb. 19, 2025

Princeton University seniors Avi Attar and Jennifer Nwokeji are the recipients of the 2025 Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, the highest general distinction conferred on an undergraduate.

Nwokeji joined the Jimah Lab, which analyzes the structural biology of parasitic and human cells, as a first-year student through the Office of…

Douglass Day Transcribe-a-thon (Feb. 14)
Feb. 14, 2025

Douglass Day celebrates the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass and Black history with a community transcription event focused on making materials in Black archives more accessible. We are partnering with CDH, the Princeton Public Library and Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum (SSAAM) to host two transcribe-a-thon locations: one in…

2024 ReMatch+ Intern Yash (Jan) Iyer earns presentation award
Feb. 13, 2025

2024 ReMatch+ intern Yash (Jan) Iyer, mentored by postdoctoral fellow Xia Li under faculty adviser Professor Leo Donner, recently presented his work at the 2025 American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting in New Orleans. He earned second place for his oral…

Anherutowa Calvo: Building a toolbox of skills, in energy and bioengineering
Jan. 27, 2025

Anherutowa Calvo is a sophomore studying chemical and biological engineering who grew up on Guam, where energy and environmental issues (such as pollution and water security) were always top of mind. 

Over the summer, Calvo worked with Jonathan Conway (CBE) to bioengineer microorganisms for biofuels production. Like…

Derian Summer 2025 Internship in Community-Engaged Scholarship
Jan. 27, 2025

Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship (ProCES) is now accepting applications for the 2025 Derian Summer Internship program. Derian interns support Princeton faculty pursuing scholarly projects, including research and teaching, in…

Three Princeton seniors named Schwarzman Scholars
Jan. 17, 2025

Three seniors from the Class of 2025 have been named Schwarzman Scholars. Diya Kraybill, Issa Mudashiru and James Zhang will attend a one-year, fully funded master’s degree program in global affairs at Tsinghua University in Beijing. The Schwarzman Scholar Class of 2025-26 was selected from a pool of nearly 5,000 candidates worldwide. Read…

University of Utah Summer Program for Undergraduate Research Call for Applications
Jan. 14, 2025

Every summer, the University of Utah’s Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR) offers a Summer Program for Undergraduate Research (SPUR). We are currently accepting applications for summer 2025!   

 Our summer programming brings over 200 undergraduate researchers to the University of…

Announcing the Launch of Princeton in Leipzig
Jan. 9, 2025

The Princeton Music Department is excited to announce the launch of Princeton in Leipzig, a summer study abroad program organized in conjunction with the Princeton German Department. Students selected to participate in the program will engage with Leipzig’s rich musical heritage through seminars taught by…

Pace Center Summer Internship Application due this Wednesday, January 8
Jan. 6, 2025

This is a friendly reminder about the upcoming deadline for Pace Center's Summer Service Internships for summer 2025. Applications are open through 11:59 PM on Wednesday January 8, 2025, and through…

Garden State Fellowship offered by Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs
Dec. 6, 2024

Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs' Garden State Fellowship (GSF) is conceived to simultaneously launch young practitioners into public policy careers and enhance capacity in New Jersey’s public interest sector to address critical systemic issues.

GSF is a post-graduate opportunity…

Winter funding for health-related, community-engaged projects – apply by Dec.2
Nov. 26, 2024

Dear Students,

Are you interested in a paid, health-related, community-engaged project this winter? If so, apply for funding from the New Jersey Alliance for Clinical and Translational Science (NJ ACTS)!  NJ ACTS is working in partnership with the Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship (

Columbia University Undergraduate Science Journal Request for Submissions
Nov. 25, 2024

Submissions are now open for the Columbia Undergraduate Science Journal, Columbia University’s undergraduate-run, open-access science journal focused on publishing noteworthy scientific research and analysis. It is dedicated as a premier publication for original scientific research to…

Call for Papers: Macksey Symposium
Nov. 22, 2024

The Macksey Symposium brings together undergraduate students from colleges and universities across the country to present their humanities research to a national audience. This year’s symposium will be held from March 20-22, 2025, on the Johns Hopkins Homewood campus in Baltimore,…

Summer 2025 Paid Internship: Green Teams
Nov. 21, 2024

The PSEG Institute for Sustainability Studies is pleased to announce that undergraduate student applications are now open for our summer 2025 Green Teams Internship Program running from May 27th, 2025 - August 6th, 2025

Students from all majors needed and…

Trenton Youth Theater Documentary by Michelle Tang '26
Nov. 17, 2024

Last spring, Michelle Tang '26 directed a documentary about Trenton Youth Theater for her Documentary Filmmaking II course, taught by visual arts lecturer BJ Perlmutt. In Michelle’s own words:

“This is a condensed version of my 30-minute observational documentary ‘Trenton…

Discover Science: Applications Open for Summer 2025 Undergraduate Internships
Nov. 16, 2024

As the nation continues to build a diverse, clean-energy workforce, the Department of Energy (DOE) today announced that applications are being accepted for the Summer 2025 term of two undergraduate internship programs.

The Office of Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (SULI) program and the Community College Internships (CCI)…

2024 ReMatch+ and OURSIP Interns Publish Visualization with Mentor
Nov. 8, 2024

2024 ReMatch+ intern Dash Pai ‘26 (SOC), OURSIP intern Yan Zhen Zhu ’27, and their mentor graduate student Christina Pao (SOC) recently published their visualization developed over the course of summer 2024. “

Two Dale Fellowship recipients pursue original projects after graduation
Nov. 6, 2024

Class of 2024 members Juliette Carbonnier and Collin Riggins are the latest recipients of the Martin A. Dale ’53 Fellowship, which funds yearlong independent projects for members of each senior class in the year following their graduation. The two students began their work this summer.…

Ten Princeton undergraduates awarded Research Film Studio travel grants
Oct. 29, 2024

The UCHV Research Film Studio offers an opportunity for Princeton University students (Campus Productions) and faculty (Local Spirit Initiative) to develop their research ideas through short films as…

Applications open for ICFNJ scholarships
Oct. 18, 2024

Scholarship opportunities are available through the Independent College Fund of New Jersey for the 2024-2025 academic year. Student recipients of one of the scholarship below may use funds to assist with the purchase of educational technology in accordance with Princeton’s…

Internet researchers reach beyond academia to close major security loophole
Oct. 15, 2024

For years a potential disaster lurked in the internet’s encryption system, threatening the security of organizations and individuals worldwide. Princeton engineers have now squelched that threat, working with industry leaders to transform their research into a universal security standard that was adopted by global organizations in August and…

Senior Thesis Highlight: Reforesting with Robots
Oct. 15, 2024

In celebration of Hispanic heritage Month, Princeton Engineering is highlightingSimón Andres Gotera ’25, a senior in electrical and computer engineering, who is working on a reforestation robot for his senior thesis, and serves as co-president of Princeton’s chapter of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers. Read more…

Harvard Business School PhD Program Applications are Open!
Oct. 3, 2024

Applications for Harvard Business School's PhD program are now open. They have free virtual opportunities for  students to connect with doctoral staff to learn more about our PhD programs:

October 1 from 12pm – 1pm EST. Register…

Princeton SPIA and LISD Students Take “intellectual adventure” on Global Research Trip
Sept. 23, 2024

Before returning to campus for the fall semester, 12 students had the unique opportunity to travel to Liechtenstein, Austria, and Germany to present original research on democracy and security. The trip was initiated, arranged for, and led by Wolfgang Danspeckgruber, founding director of the…

Undergraduate students contribute to sustainability and the future of fusion through summer internship programs
Sept. 12, 2024

Undergraduate students across many disciplines, ranging from engineering to physics to sustainability, wrapped up a 10-week internship program this summer at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Bridging Philosophy and Space: Ethan Magistro's Princeton Thesis
Sept. 6, 2024

Ethan Magistro’s senior thesis connects philosophy and space policy, using the concept of eternalism to explore ethical decision-making for the future.  His passion for both fields has shaped his academic journey, which he will continue this fall in Princeton's Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative (SINSI).

Submissions for the Tulane Journal of Policy & Political Economy are Open!
Sept. 4, 2024

The Tulane Journal of Policy & Political Economy is currently accepting article submissions for their next edition. Submissions may be strong papers written in or out of classindependent studies, and honors theses.

The Tulane Journal is an internationally…

Global Health Exchange Program Fosters Academic Fellowship and Unity
Sept. 4, 2024

In a world divided by conflict, academic collaboration remains a beacon of unity and hope. Nowhere is this more evident, perhaps, than the field of global health, where researchers share such goals as curing disease, addressing climate change, and promoting a healthier future for even the most vulnerable populations. That cooperative spirit…

ReMatch+ Intern Ram Narayanan Receives Freshman First Honor Prize
Sept. 3, 2024

"Ram Narayanan received the Freshman First Honor Prize, awarded each year in recognition of exceptional academic achievement as a first-year student.

Narayanan, of Scarsdale, New York, attended Horace Mann School in the Bronx. A member of New College West, he is considering majoring in physics and pursuing minors in…

Princeton's Computational Biology Research Gateway to STEM Intern Profile
July 8, 2024

Princeton's Computational Biology Research: Gateway to STEM, led by Professor Bridgett vonHoldt (Associate Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) and administratively supported by the Community College Engagement Program and Prison Teaching Initiative (McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning) helps students gain research experience in…

Unpacking Conventional Wisdom in International Relations
July 8, 2024

Natalia Lalin, from Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, delves into China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in her senior thesis, focusing on its impact on Sri Lanka and the concept of 'debt trap diplomacy'. Initially interested in neuroscience, Lalin’s passion for service led her to public policy. 

(Story by Tom…

Fernando Avilés-García: Merging AI and Dante’s "Divine Comedy"
July 8, 2024

With a passion for solving coding puzzles and a love for the Italian language, Fernando Avilés-García develops an AI tool to analyze Dante's "Divine Comedy" for his senior thesis. 

“It takes a village”: Princeton celebrates the second year of the Summer Research and Learning Village
June 17, 2024

Once again, Princeton University is hosting undergraduates from Princeton and other universities in the second year of its Summer Research and Learning Village, a program that enables students to live, learn, and socialize in a proximate community on campus.

In 2023, the program’s inaugural year, the Village, which was…

Accessible Satellite Tech in the Princeton TigerSats Lab
June 10, 2024

Now on the engineering site is a story about students and recent grads in Princeton's TigerSats lab, who have designed and built novel satellite systems involving sensing, communications, flight mechanics, and ground testing. Story by Molly Sharlach; photography by Tori Repp. 

 

Senior Amélie Lemay Researches Forever Chemicals
June 10, 2024

For her senior thesis, Amélie Lemay worked with Ian Bourg, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and the High Meadows Environmental Institute. She developed complex simulations of how PFAS molecules, a critical class of environmental contaminants, move and interact at the interface of water and air (Photo by Sameer Khan)…

Princeton Research Day Recap!
May 14, 2024

Want to relive the fun from PRD on May 9? Missed the event but would like to see what it was all about? Check out this recap article authored by Alaina O'Regan, which includes an incredible reel from the event created by Bumper DeJesus! 

Dance student Storm Stokes ’24 premieres choreographic project supported by Alex Adam ’07 Award
May 6, 2024

As a recipient of the Alex Adam ’07 Award, dance senior Storm Stokes spent the summer of 2023 pursuing movement research in L.A. and at international dance festivals in Italy, Germany, and Austria. Returning to campus, Stokes…

Art and artificial intelligence find their intersection in the work of Audrey Zhang
May 6, 2024

Art and Archaeology junior Audrey Zhang is pursuing a minor in Statistics and Machine Learning – and intersecting the worlds of art and AI in the process. For her independent work, Zhang fine-tuned a Stable Diffusion model using her own original artwork and found the neural network was surprisingly good at generating outputs…

Senior Shane Patrick receives Barry Scholarship for study at Oxford
April 19, 2024

Congratulations to senior Shane Patrick, who has been awarded the John and Daria Barry Scholarship for study at the University of Oxford!

Read more about his accomplishments here

 

Genrietta Churbanova selected as Princeton valedictorian, John Freeman named salutatorian
April 15, 2024

Genrietta Churbanova, an anthropology major from Little Rock, Arkansas, has been named the Princeton Class of 2024 valedictorian. John Freeman, a classics major from Chicago, has been selected as the salutatorian. 

Churbanova is deeply engaged in scholarship related to Chinese and Russian relations. In addition to her anthropology…

Ella Weber awarded Truman Scholarship for public service
April 12, 2024

Class of 2025 member and SPIA major Ella Weber has been awarded a Truman Scholarship for public service. Weber is from Crookston, Minnesota, and is a member of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara (MHA) Nation. She plans to use the Truman Scholarship to earn a J.D. with a certificate in Indian and Tribal Law from the University of North Dakota…