Art history professor Chika Okeke-Agulu has played a pivotal role in bringing contemporary African art to the global stage. Now, as director of Princeton’s Africa World Initiative, he is creating connections to help the continent realize its potential in the arts, sciences and technology.

To generations of Princetonians, service to humanity is not just an informal motto but a way of life. The Venture Forward campaign shines a light on collaboration and a shared mission to serve to help make the impossible possible. 

Leading multidisciplinary teams of chemists, physicists and materials scientists, chemistry professor Leslie Schoop guides the discovery of game-changing quantum materials.

As the Henry R. Luce Professor of Information Technology, Consciousness, and Culture of Psychology and Computer Science and the inaugural director of the AI Lab, Tom Griffiths is discovering ways to change how we think about thinking itself. It’s a perspective that could only come from someone who has spent decades walking between psychology and computer science and finding insight in the space between.

Andrew Houck ’00, the Anthony H.P. Lee ’79 P11 P14 Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and co-director of the Princeton Quantum Initiative, is researching how quantum science and engineering open a multiverse of possibilities.

English and African American studies professor Autumn Womack has honed her deep and longstanding interest in archival research to open up a world of deeper understanding: “It’s not just about what’s on the page, but what’s behind it.”

As the Franklin C. Cappon-Edward C. Green ’40 Head Coach of Men’s Basketball, Mitch Henderson ’98 defines his role and measures success far beyond his team’s performance on the court. “More so than ever, my role is to be crystal clear on the standards, hold them to account, and then just care, care, care,” he said.

In the third year since the public launch of Princeton University’s Venture Forward campaign, a new “Making Audacious Bets” video series focuses on faculty and alumni who blaze their own trails to move us from the present to the possible.

As a media artist and researcher whose work examines the effects of technology on culture and behavior, Mimi Onuoha ’11 is fascinated by the constant conversion of lives and lived experiences into data sets and how that information is represented — or misrepresented.

What began with Lou Chen ’19 and fellow undergraduates giving violin lessons to Trenton high school musicians has evolved into a comprehensive music and arts program that has united the Princeton and Trenton arts communities.

Princeton chemistry professor David MacMillan grew up in Scottish steel town where the opportunity for a college education was extremely rare. Now, after winning the Nobel Prize, he’s providing opportunities for students from all backgrounds because he knows “there are driven, smart, intelligent people everywhere.”

In the second year since the public launch of Princeton University’s Venture Forward campaign, a new video series, “Making Audacious Bets,” focuses on faculty and alumni who are asking big “what if?” questions and bringing the unknown within reach through imagination and collaboration.

At Princeton, Morgan Smith developed a sense of self through helping others. Today, she works for Chicago Volunteer Legal Services, a pro bono legal aid organization that represents the interests of children.

In Kenya and Mozambique, Professor Rob Pringle and his team are using a revolutionary technique called DNA metabarcoding to analyze animal diets so they can better understand complex ecosystems and how to help sustain them.

Mona Singh is a professor of computer science and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics. Her groundbreaking research into how proteins interact could have enormous ramifications for the study of diseases, in particular cancer. ​

After thriving as a first-generation student at Princeton, Kelton Chastulik ’21 is back in his hometown — Chambersburg, Pennsylvania — guiding high school students towards their own dreams.

With Venture Forward, Princeton University is embarking on a new engagement and fundraising campaign dedicated to sharing Princeton’s defining principles and their impact on the world.