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June 20, 2019

A bumper crop of undergraduate students attends annual plasma workshop kicking off summer internship programs

The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) hosted its largest group of undergraduate students ever for the annual undergraduate plasma workshop June 10 to 14 with more than 60 physics and engineering students coming from as far away as South Dakota, Washington, and Puerto Rico for the intensi

April 8, 2019

Science Education staff testify about the importance of STEM programs to joint New Jersey Assembly committee

The New Jersey Assembly Science, Innovation and Technology Committee and the Assembly Education Committee met jointly at the College of New Jersey on March 20 to hear testimony from experts regarding the importance of science, technology, engineering and math

March 28, 2019

Young Women’s Conference in STEM seeks to change the statistics one girl at a time

Some 750 seventh- to 10th-grade girls spent the day learning about computer coding, plasma science, artificial intelligence, and other subjects through numerous hands-on activities at PPPL’s Young Women’s Conference in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) on March 22 at Prince

March 19, 2019

PPPL’s Young Women’s Conference offers girls fun and inspiration in STEM fields

Some 750 girls will operate robots, use goggles to get a 3-D view of the brain, learn about computer coding and talk to FBI forensics investigators at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory’s Young Women’s Conference in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) on Friday, March 22,

February 26, 2019

Ridge High School and Princeton Charter School teams will go to Washington D.C. for National Science Bowl® after winning challenging science competitions at PPPL

The Ridge High School team from Basking Ridge, New Jersey, will go to Washington, D.C., for the National Science Bowl® Finals after battling out a win against a previous champion, West Windsor-Plainsboro South, at the New Jersey Regional Science Bowl on Feb.

February 21, 2019

Two sets of rival teams among competitors in middle and high school math and science contest as PPPL hosts New Jersey Regional Science Bowl

PRINCETON, New Jersey (Feb. 19, 2019) - They have drilled and practiced after school and on weekends. They’ve learned the best strategies and they’ve listened to pep talks from their coaches. Now some of the best science and math students in the state are ready to compete in the U.S.

February 1, 2019

Steven Cowley, PPPL director, explains “the Magnetic Universe” at Science on Saturday

Steven Cowley, director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), has spent a lifetime working to develop fusion energy as a viable source of electricity. But in his spare time, he enjoys investigating the role of magnetism in the universe.

January 24, 2019

Engineering Undergraduate Internship application deadline EXTENDED!!

The Engineering Undergraduate Internship is a program for the summer of 2020. Applications are open through January 31!

January 22, 2019

Remote-control plasma physics experiment is named one of top Webcams of 2018

Want to create your own plasma? You can create and control a plasma from the comfort of your own device.

January 18, 2019

An intriguing combination: First Science on Saturday lecture combines heavy metal and quantum physics

No physics lecture at PPPL up until recently has included electric guitar riffs by the lecturer, snippets from heavy metal bands, and a video clip from the movie “This Is Spinal Tap.”