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Princeton has assembled a stunning collection of high-tech microscopes. Our research in the realm of the minuscule is making a giant impact.

He developed a wide variety of procedures and devices to reattach or replace vital body parts, including the first inflatable prosthetic penis.

A new study compares bureaucratic problems that beset private-sector hospitals to the more efficiently run Veterans Health Administration system. Also in the news: A major Brooklyn teaching hospital will shut; a medical helicopter crash kills three crew members in Oklahoma; and more.

Waters Corporation announced a multi-year research collaboration with Princeton University that will enable scientists, faculty, and students to work together to bring their diverse skills and backgrounds to solve complex challenges in biochemistry and materials science.

The Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute will promote new directions in research, education and innovation at the intersection of engineering and the life sciences. 

“Cliff Brangwynne has illuminated some of the most basic principles of life’s machinery,” said Princeton University President Christopher L. Eisgruber.

Princeton's valedictorian and salutatorian for 2022 are Natalia Orlovsky, a molecular biology concentrator from Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and Frances Mangina, a philosophy concentrator from Toronto.

Photo: © John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation — used with permission features The Toolmaker’s Mind Clifford Brangwynne marries engineering and biology in a quest to understand the inner workings of the cell Photo: © John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation — used with permission By Carmen Drahl *07 The best way to learn how intensely Princeton bioengineer Clifford P. Brangwynne approaches life is to catch him playing hockey at Baker Rink. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, he h...

Forward Fest public conversation series continues as part of A Year of Forward Thinking by the Office of Communications March 16, 2021 12:02 p.m. Forward Fest is a virtual public conversation series that aims to spark dialogue across the global Princeton community — students, faculty, staff, alumni and other interested thinkers — to engage with and explore big ideas and their infinite possibilities for shaping the future. The next Forward Fest takes place March 18 and focuses on P...

New organelle involved in cancer metastasis discovered 10 Mar 2021 Some of Princetons leading cancer researchers were startled to discover that what they thought was a straightforward investigation into how cancer spreads through the body - metastasis - turned up evidence of liquid-liquid phase separations: the new field of biology research that investigates how liquid blobs of living materials merge into each other, similar to the movements seen in a lava lamp or in liquid mer...