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We are pleased to announce the 2024 Anthony B. Evnin Lecture where Janna Levin will speak on ideas from black holes, to creativity, to the union of art and science, and show the audience just how far our understanding of the universe has come—and where it’s headed. Janna Levin is a gifted author, cosmologist, and Guggenheim Fellow whose latest book, Black Hole Survival Guide, offers a glimpse into “one of the oddest and most intriguing topics in astrophysics”(Kirkus Reviews). Levin is a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Barnard College of Columbia University, the author of Black Ho...

A new view of biology January 26, 2021Princeton Cliff Brangwynne was seeing cells in the sidewalk again. It was another long day in the lab at Harvard Medical School, where Brangwynne would often work late nights, staring at cells. Sometimes he spent so much time staring at cells through the microscope that the cells would follow him home, their shapes imprinted on his vision. Walking late at night, he’d see them dancing over the buildings and the empty streets and sidewalks. Though Brangwynne was in his college years, he wasn’t a student — in fact, some would call him a dropout. He�...

Cliff Brangwynne upends tradition to establish a new view of biology Jerimiah Oetting, for the Office of the Dean for Research Jan. 25, 2021 9 a.m. Clifford Brangwynne, the June K. Wu ’92 Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and inaugural director of the Princeton Bioengineering Initiative, sees similarities between living cells and salad dressing, in which oil and vinegar separate according to the laws of physics. The idea has caught on, and now many scientists are exploring how such physical processes can drive the formation of the cell’s structures and play ...