New Frontiers in Neuroscience and the Natural Sciences: Educating a New Generation of Scientists
Scientists at Princeton have unraveled some of humankind’s greatest mysteries, changed how people see and understand the world, and advanced the way scientific investigation is conducted in the 21st century.
Albert Einstein lectured on campus in 1921 because he believed the University had done more work related to his nascent theory of relativity than any other institution. Nobel laureate Eric Wieschaus discovered how genes control embryonic development. The Hubble Space Telescope was conceived by Professor Lyman Spitzer Jr. *38 at Princeton.
From genomes to the cosmos, Princeton is seeking answers to questions that have puzzled scientists for centuries, as well as others that have arisen just in this decade. All the while, the University is preparing a new cadre of theorists and experimentalists to continue Princeton’s extraordinary scientific legacy.
Faces of Aspire: Professor Carlos Brody
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Princeton Neuroscience Institute
The Princeton Neuroscience Institute is playing a leadership role in one of the most important new areas of scientific inquiry—the study of the brain. Building on the University’s strengths in molecular biology, psychology, and physics, scientists are developing new understandings about how the brain works, an essential prelude to finding treatments for neurological disorders.
Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics
The Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics is home to groundbreaking research exploring questions about the fundamental genetic nature of organisms that could not have been asked before genome sequencing. Scientists have developed significantly faster methods for detecting genome mutations and are analyzing the vast amounts of information revealed by these new methods. Their current research and early-stage investigations could lead to a greater understanding of cancer and other diseases.
Center for Theoretical Science
The newly established Center for Theoretical Science is dedicated to exploring theoretical ideas in the natural sciences, and promoting interaction among researchers. It is home to a corps of exceptional post-doctoral fellows chosen each year in an international search. Fellows work closely with faculty members and distinguished visitors on annual themes around boundary-crossing topics, from the seismology of the earth to the detection of dark matter.
Center for Computational Astrophysics and Cosmology
What is dark matter? What is dark energy? How did the universe begin? How did galaxies, stars, and planets emerge from the tiny fluctuations that we see in the early universe? To help answer these questions, Princeton is building on its tradition as a pioneer in space exploration and creating the Center for Computational Astrophysics and Cosmology. It will be the first center at any university to focus on numerical astrophysics and train scholars at the interface of computation, observation, and theory.
Additional funding from the Aspire campaign will support professorships, preceptorships, graduate fellowships, teaching laboratories, and undergraduate research—among other initiatives.
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