The Princeton College Board of Trustees has authorised the appointment of those six college members, together with two full professors and 4 assistant professors.

Professor

Christopher Chang, in chemistry, makes a speciality of chemical biology. His appointment to be the Edward and Virginia Taylor Professor of Bioorganic Chemistry is efficient July 1, 2024.

Chang involves Princeton from the College of California-Berkeley, the place he has taught since 2004, most lately because the Class of 1942 Chair Professor within the Departments of Chemistry and Molecular and Cell Biology. He’s additionally a college scientist at Lawrence Berkeley Nationwide Laboratory.

He has revealed greater than 200 papers and holds 15 patents, and he’s a founding senior editor at ACS Central Science, the brand new American Chemical Society flagship journal for open-access publishing. His many awards embody the 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship, the 2015 Blavatnik Nationwide Award in Chemistry, the 2013 Noyce Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Educating, and a 2006 NSF CAREER Award. He’s additionally a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and he was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator from 2008 to 2019.

Chang earned a Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Know-how and an M.S. and a B.S. in chemistry from the California Institute of Know-how.

Michelle Chang, in chemistry, makes a speciality of biochemistry, chemical biology and artificial biology. She joins the Princeton college from her professorship on the College of California-Berkeley, the place she has taught since 2007, most lately as a professor of chemistry and a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering. She is going to start at Princeton because the A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Chemistry, efficient Jan. 1, 2024.

Chang has revealed greater than 50 peer-reviewed journal articles, holds six patents, and has given some 200 invited talks and symposia. She is the recipient of quite a few prizes, together with the 2022 Centenary Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry, a 2013 Camille Dreyfus Instructor-Scholar Award and a 2011 New Innovator Award from the Nationwide Institutes of Well being.

Chang holds a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Know-how and a B.A. and B.S. from the College of California-San Diego. 

Assistant professor

Joshua Atkinson, in civil and environmental engineering and the Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute, joins the school in January 2024. She makes a speciality of bioengineering and holds a Ph.D. from Rice College and a B.S. from the College of Michigan.

Peter Henderson, in laptop science and the College of Public and Worldwide Affairs, joins the school in January 2024. He makes a speciality of pure language processing and holds a Ph.D. from Stanford College and an M.Sc. and B.Eng. from McGill College.

Mae Milano, in laptop science, joins the school in January 2024. A specialist in programming languages and distributed programs, she holds a Ph.D. from Cornell College and a B.S. from Brown College.

Tiago Simões, in ecology and evolutionary biology, makes a speciality of zoology. He joins the school in January 2024 and holds a Ph.D. from the College of Alberta and an M.S. and a B.S. from the Federal College of Rio de Janeiro.