Can Princeton's soil serve as a zero-carbon building material? Can a person's Twitter feed offer clues to depression? Can updates to Shakespeare's "Macbeth" make it more accessible to modern audiences?

Those are just a few of the questions student and early career researchers at Princeton University will explore at the first Princeton Research Day on Thursday, May 5. The event will feature more than 150 researchers offering talks, poster presentations, performances, art exhibitions, demonstrations and digital presentations designed with the general public in mind.

Several students and one staff member from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of International and Public Affairs will participate. The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held from 1 to 4 p.m. in Frist Campus Center. No registration is required.

Princeton Research Day will highlight the research and creative endeavors of Princeton undergraduates, graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in fields including the natural sciences, social sciences, engineering, humanities and the arts. The event is a collaborative initiative between the offices of the dean of the college, dean of the faculty, dean of the Graduate School and dean for research. 

From the Wilson School, Evan Kratzer ’16, Lawrence Liu ’16 and Ph.D. candidates Ayesha Mahmud and DJ Rasmussen will present posters. Ryan Dukeman ’17 will present a 10-minute talk. Mark Massoud, visiting associate research scholar in the Program in Law and Public Affairs, will share three creative nonfiction pieces he wrote while conducting fieldwork on Islamic law in Somalia and Sudan.

For more information, visit the Princeton Research Day website.