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Office of Innovation Annual Impact Report
The Office of Innovation presents its annual impact report. The Office of Innovation's mission is to encourage, facilitate and promote innovation, entrepreneurship, and partnerships that will enhance the quality and impact of research and teaching at Princeton University. The Office of Innovation aims to enhance and support humanity through a well-integrated and nurtured innovation ecosystem that serves to improve the quality of life for all. Read the report on innovation.princeton.edu.
Learn more about the Office of Innovation at Celebrate Princeton Innovation on October 21 from 5:00 to 7:30 PM in Frick Chemistry Atrium. This annual public event features faculty innovators and discoveries that have the potential to become everyday innovations that improve life, benefit the planet and grow the economy. Register to attend on innovation.princeton.edu.
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Promising Advances in Breast Cancer Research and the Quest to Fund Them
In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the Princeton Pulse Podcast highlights exciting advancements in the fight against breast cancer and the research that makes them possible. Host Heather Howard, a professor at Princeton University and former New Jersey Commissioner of Health and Senior Services, delves into some of these promising innovations with Princeton professor and molecular biologist Yibin Kang, whose groundbreaking discoveries have increased our understanding of how breast cancer spreads and have led to more effective treatments. Kang is also a co-founder of the Princeton branch of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research and two biotechnology companies focused on novel cancer therapeutics. Also joining the show is Dr. Kenneth Adler, a hematologic oncologist and current chair of the New Jersey Commission on Cancer Research, who is advocating for the state of New Jersey to allocate $10 million annually from its tobacco tax revenue to cancer research. The proposed, bipartisan legislation would create a stable funding stream for New Jersey-based researchers.
Listen on chw.princeton.edu
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Princeton Engineering grants could help build a moon base, block foodborne illness, and map the brain
NASA’s new plans for a permanent moon base emphasize using lunar resources for construction and operations. Bringing these plans to fruition in the coming decade will require foundational knowledge of the moon’s materials and how to optimize them for our needs, said Claire White, a professor of civil and environmental engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment.
Read on princeton.edu
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How Printmaking Changed the Way Jean-Michel Basquiat Painted
Jean-Michel Basquiat once offered a wonderfully concise explanation of his practice: “I collage my own hand.” That line could serve as the motto for “Basquiat, the Blue Ribbon Paintings, and the Art of Reproduction,” a new exhibition at New Jersey’s Princeton University Art Museum centered on 11 paintings Basquiat made in 1984, shown alongside other works by the artist.
Read on ARTnews.com
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Celebrate Princeton Innovation
Celebrate Princeton Innovation, an annual event hosted by Princeton University’s Office of Innovation, honors faculty researchers and their teams who are making a difference through their discoveries and entrepreneurial spirit. Meet with Princeton research leaders and network with attendees from across the entrepreneurial, investment, and corporate innovation communities.
Register on innovation.princeton.edu/cpi.
Wednesday, October 21
5:00 -7:30 PM
Frick Chemistry Atrium
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Life Science Women's Network
Princeton Innovation Center BioLabs is delighted to sponsor and accommodate the Life Science Women's Network gathering on Thursday, October 22.
This event is open to all professionals, including founders, investors, researchers, executives, entrepreneurs, students, and anyone working in or around biotech, pharma, medical devices, diagnostics, healthcare and the broader life sciences ecosystem. Welcome to all biotech professionals, regardless of gender.
Register on luma.com.
Thursday, October 22
5:00 to 8:00 PM
Princeton Innovation Center BioLabs
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McCarter Theatre
A Beat of Our Own
18 Actors. 10 Musicians. McCarter’s Biggest Musical—Ever.
From the Tony Award-winning producers of Hadestown comes A Beat of Our Own — a brand-new musical comedy that pulls you straight into the pulsating rhythms, kaleidoscopic colors and raw energy of competitive bhangra dance.
After leading their college team to victory at the Michigan State Championships, teammates Mary and Preeti find themselves bound for Nationals.
But when they clash over Mary’s plan to fuse multiple Indian styles into their routine, Mary breaks off and forms her own squad. There’s only one problem: aside from her chaotic roommate Sunita, none of the new recruits have ever danced before. Armed with a new sense of purpose — and a little help from a former Bollywood star — Mary sets out to mold a ragtag group of lovable misfits into title-worthy contenders. But do they stand a chance against Preeti and her team of bhangra all-stars?
Purchase tickets on mccarter.org.
Performances through October 25
McCarter Theatre Center
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Women+ on the Edge of Democracy, New Play Readings
A reading of new, short plays by women playwrights as part of the nationwide initiative, Women+ On the Edge of Democracy. A mix of professional and non-professional actors, directors and producers will share readings of 10-minute plays by such women playwrights as Lynn Nottage, Heidi Schreck, and Lauren Gunderson, among others. Organized by Lecturer in Theater Vivia Font. The work presented as part of this event was commissioned and originally produced by The Flynn Center for the Performing Arts in Burlington, Vermont, Jay Wahl, Executive Director, in partnership with the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.
Free and open to the public.
Monday, October 26
6:30 PM
Kerr Studio at Lewis Arts Complex
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Princeton Day of the Dead
Join members of the Princeton community, featured guest poet and Mexican Aztec dance troupe Atl Tlachinolli for a community altar building event, live poetry reading, dancing and food and refreshments to follow.
All are welcome to bring offerings, photos of deceased family and friends, poetry, or any other thing to share.
Tuesday, October 27
4:30 PM
East Pyne Lobby and Courtyard
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Reading by Jamel Brinkley and Creative Writing Seniors
Multi-award-winning writer Jamel Brinkley, winner of the Maya Angelou Book Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and O. Henry Prize and finalist for the National Book Award and Joyce Carol Oates Prize, reads from his work along with several creative writing seniors. The C.K. Williams Reading Series showcases senior thesis students of the Program in Creative Writing with established writers as special guests. Brinkley’s books will be available to purchase and have signed.
Free and open to the public.
Tuesday, October 27
6:00 PM
Labyrinth Books
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Princeton University Concerts and the Department of English present Ema Nikolovska, Mezzo-Soprano and Sean Shibe, Guitar
The duo makes their Princeton University Concerts debuts with Orlando, an imaginative hybrid of concert and theater inspired by Virginia Woolf's iconic protagonist. Traversing centuries of music, the program weaves together Schubert, Dowland, Bob Dylan, Laurie Anderson, and new commissions in a playful, ever-changing collage of love, identity, and reinvention. No prior knowledge of the novel required, just a sense of curiosity and a willingness to be surprised.
Purchase tickets on concerts.princeton.edu.
Pre-Concert LGBTQIA+ Allies Halloween Mingle
B-sharp, B-natural, Be YOU—in costume! Open to all, this event invites fellow music lovers to mingle for Halloween-themed pre-concert fun before experiencing Ema Nikolovska and Sean Shibe's Orlando (see above). Costumes encouraged, prizes awarded!
Purchase tickets on concerts.princeton.edu.
Mingle: Tuesday, October 27 at 6:30
Concert: Tuesday, October 27at 8:30 PM
Maclean House
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Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
2026 Annual Meeting
Recent geopolitical shocks are putting energy security in sharp focus from disruptions following the Russian invasion of Ukraine to renewed instability in the Gulf. At the same time, intensifying strategic competition between major powers, including the United States, China, and Europe, is reshaping trade, technology access, and supply chains for energy and critical materials. Together, these dynamics signal a deeper structural reality: energy systems are being transformed not only by decarbonization, but by recurring disruptions and growing fragmentation of the global economy and geopolitics.
Join leaders from academia, industry, finance, and policy for a full day of insight into the forces reshaping energy security. Attendees will come away with a sharper understanding of the geopolitical, technological, infrastructure, and regional shifts influencing the energy transition — and what those changes mean for innovation, investment, policy, and long-term strategy.
Register on acee.princeton.edu.
Thursday, October 29
8:30 AM to 6:00 PM
Maeder Hall
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Museum After Dark
The Museum comes alive after dark for an evening of festive fun!
Kick off your Halloween weekend with a late night at the Museum. Join us for an evening of free-to-all fun, featuring a silent disco, art making, and the return of our Collections Costume Contest, with categories for kids and adults!
Thursday, October 29
7:00 PM
Princeton University Art Museum
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Fund for Irish Studies: Conversation with Yiyun Li — Music Against the Night
Yiyun Li, Pulitzer Prize winner and Princeton Professor of Creative Writing, launches her new novel, Music Against the Night, a historical saga tracing the life of Irish composer and pianist John Field (1782–1837). Known as the inventor of the nocturne, Field is portrayed from his musical upbringing in Dublin to his success in Russia. The story follows his artistic development, personal struggles, and legacy. Li will read briefly from the novel and be in conversation with Princeton Professor of Music Donnacha M. Dennehy, and pianist Cristina Altamura will play a John Field nocturne and an early Chopin nocturne, composed when Chopin was seventeen and heavily influenced by Field. Cosponsored by Labyrinth Books.
Reserve free tickets on tickets.princeton.edu.
Friday, October 30
4:30 PM
Fine Hall, Taplin Auditorium
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Game Day Lecture: ‘How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms’
In the Game Day Lecture “How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms,” Matthew L. Jones will discuss how understanding where data has been and where it may be headed empowers us to shape its use with intention, guiding it toward outcomes that reflect our shared values and aspirations.
Jones is the Smith Family Professor of History. He focuses on the history of recent information technologies and intelligence as well as the history of science and technology in early modern Europe. He received his A.B. and Ph.D. from Harvard and an M.Phil. from Cambridge, after which he taught at Columbia for 23 years. Along with Chris Wiggins *98, he is the author of “How Data Happened, a History of the Science, Politics and Power of Data, Statistics and Machine Learning from the 1800s to the Present” (W. W. Norton, 2023). He has published two books previously, “The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution: Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz and the Cultivation of Virtue” and “Reckoning with Matter: Calculating, Innovation, and Thinking about Thinking from Pascal to Babbage”(both with Chicago). He has received fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Sloan Foundation and the National Science Foundation, and is currently a CIFAR fellow in the Future Flourishing project.
Register on alumni.princeton.edu.
Saturday, October 31
9:00 AM
McDonnell Hall, Room A01
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Art for Families: Calligraphy
Saturdays are for young makers in the Creativity Labs!
Inspired by calligraphy on view in the galleries of Asian art, young makers can explore brushstrokes and writing using watercolors. We provide the materials, you bring the creativity!
Visit us any time between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. to explore a work of art, play with different materials, and exercise your imagination. No tickets or registration required—just drop in as your schedule allows! All ages are welcome; children must be accompanied by an adult.
Saturday, October 17
10:00 AM to 1:00 PM
Princeton University Art Museum
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Images
Moon Base - Photo by Tori Repp/Fotobuddy
Jean-Michel Basquiat - Jean-Michel Basquiat, Blue Ribbon II, 1984. Private collection. Artwork: © Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Licensed by Artestar, New York
Jamel Brinkley - Photo by Daniele Molajoli
Yiyun Li - Photo by Hannah Yoon
Art for Families - Huang Tingjian 黃庭堅, Northern Song dynasty (960–1127), Scroll for Zhang Datong (Zeng Zhang Datong guwen ti ji 贈張大同古文題記), 1100. Princeton University Art Museum. Gift of John B. Elliott, Class of 1951
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