ByLiz Fuller-Wright, Office of Communicationson May 27, 2026, 1:21 p.m.
Simon Levin, Princeton University’s James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, has been elected as a fellow of the United Kingdom’s Royal Society, a scholarly academy dedicated to “promoting excellence in…
The Ecological Society of America is pleased to announce the winners of its 2026 awards, which recognize outstanding contributions to ecology in new discoveries, teaching, sustainability, diversity and lifelong commitment to the profession.
Johns Hopkins to recognize six distinguished individuals with honorary degrees
The degrees will be conferred during the universitywide Commencement ceremony on May 21 at Homewood Field.
The 2026 SIAM Industry Prize is awarded to Nandi Leslie for advancing the frontiers of cybersecurity and network resilience. Her innovations represent non standard, mathematically sophisticated frameworks with real operational relevance. This prize will be awarded at…
Princeton-led study examines the complexities of translating natural resource wealth into economic prosperity; higher social and human capital and institutional safeguards are critical in avoiding the “resource curse” that comes along with extraction.
Natural resources - such as fossil fuels, water, and minerals - are materials…
What do financial markets, pandemics, and ecosystems management have in common? They are all complex systems that can be described by mathematical principles, as demonstrated in the research of Simon A. Levin, the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Director of the Center for…
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. – Sigma Xi is pleased to announce that Princeton University’s Simon A. Levin and Harvard University’s Jennifer A. Lewis have been named as 2025 Gold Key Award recipients. As the Society's highest honor,…
Ecologist Harman Jaggi first visited India’s cold desert Trans-Himalaya mountains to study snow leopards. But while climbing the steep, rocky slopes above the tree line, something else caught her attention: the black pea and barley powder that local hosts offered her to mix into tea. “It would sustain us for hours,” recalls Jaggi. Years later,…
We’re absolutely delighted to share that our former lab member, Jude Kong, has been elected to join the Class of 2025 of the College of New Scholars of the Royal Society of Canada. This is a huge honor and a wonderful recognition of the incredible work Dr. Kong has done in the field of epidemiological research. Those who had the chance to work…
The Canadian Association for Graduate Studies Announces Winners of 2025 CAGS-ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award