Princeton University

2023 Global Economy Prize winner Wantchekon came of age as a pro-democracy student activist in Benin. 

Lee’s research on Congressional politics and policymaking helps the public and scholars understand and address pressing issues in American democracy.

Stone's fluid dynamics research connects engineering to chemistry, physics, and biology, with subjects including microdevices, swimming bacteria, flows of polymeric materials and respiratory virus transmission.

Bassler is a pioneer and global leader in discovering the astonishing ways that bacteria communicate. In January, she was awarded the National Medal of Science at a White House ceremony.

Adriaenssens is an engineering innovator, designing lightweight, elegant and resilient structures for sustainable buildings, bridges and other infrastructure.

Fuentes studies the behavior, biology, and cultures of humans, our evolutionary ancestors, and other species we interact with, offering integrative insights that counter more simplistic narratives of the human experience.

Benjamin’s scholarship explores the relationship between technological innovation and social equity. She is the author of 2022’s “Viral Justice” and 2024's “Imagination: A Manifesto.”

Cheng’s "Ornamentalism" advances a groundbreaking theory about Asiatic femininity in western culture and is an impetus for an upcoming exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum called Monstrous Beauty, opening March 2025.

Currie applies economics expertise to children’s health, development and well-being.

Narayanan studies the societal impact of artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Okeke-Agulu is a celebrated artist, critic, curator and historian of African and African Diaspora art. He is director of Princeton’s Africa World Initiative.

Rustow uses machine learning to decipher thousands of Arabic and Hebrew fragments preserved in a medieval Cairo synagogue. A new NEH grant supports an expansion of the project.