We are concluding our EarthWeek coverage with a Q&A on a collab between the Weichman Lab and MAE’s Deike Lab, on yet another way scientists are using fundamental research to mine solutions for the future.

Tianyi Zhang, a fourth-year graduate student in the Paul Chirik Group, has been named a 2026-27 Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellow, acknowledging outstanding performance and professional promise through one of Princeton University’s highest honorifics.

Greg Scholes offers a Perspective on the incipient field of quantum biology in PNAS. The field seeks to answer broad questions about the role of quantum mechanics in biological systems.

A 2024 Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation Quantitative Biology Fellow, Owen investigates how chromatin remodelers recognize their target sites. Enjoy the first story in a new series on our postdocs.

NIH-funded research published by the Hammes-Schiffer Group and the Subotnik Group lays out the biophysics behind a radical-pair mechanism and its role in night migration.

In partnership with the DOD, the Weichman Lab will investigate polaritons and how to use visible light as a “control knob” to one day direct molecular behavior.

Photoredox catalysis–research funded by the NIH–has spurred a throng of new drug therapies, fine chemicals, agrobusiness products, and fragrance applications throughout the U.S. and the world.