News: Graduate

Biofuels specialist Montaño López wins Princeton’s top graduate student honor
Feb. 22, 2024

Montaño López was joined by fellow winners Geneva Smith, Pasquale Toscano and Ryan Unger. The Jacobus Fellows will be honored at Alumni Day ceremonies Saturday, Feb. 24.

The fellowships support the students’ final year of study at Princeton and are awarded to…

Researchers built a physical model to probe the creative destruction inside cells
Dec. 19, 2023

A new window into the nitty-gritty mechanical interactions between liquids and fibrous networks in cells should advance understanding on many biomedical fronts. In addition, the findings offer avenues for exploration in materials science toward “soft matter” substances with novel characteristics.

Designing yeasts to make cleaner fuels earns grad student an innovation award at COP28
Dec. 11, 2023

The event, part of the global climate conference COP28, featured 100 inventions that address environmental and social challenges. Five projects won awards in separate categories, including the Princeton team’s category: Energy, Efficiency and Waste.

While the first…

Grad student wins best poster for work on metal nanoparticles
Dec. 11, 2023

The American Vacuum Society’s (AVS) Plasma Science and Technology Division gave Hoffenberg the award for his work advancing the process to make these metal nanoparticles more sustainably and with higher purity. The 69th AVS Symposium was held in Portland, Ore. in November.

While metal nanoparticles are increasingly important for high…

'Creative, tenacious' work on soft robotics wins department's top dissertation award
June 19, 2023

Recent Ph.D. recipient Trevor Jones, whose work on soft robotics has been featured in several top journals, won the department’s Jui Dasgupta Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award. Graduate students Drew Carson and Evelyn Navarro-Salazar each won an Outstanding AI Award for their teaching.