The Princeton University Board of Trustees has approved the appointment of 22 faculty members, including five full professors, one associate professor and 16 assistant professors.

“FlyWire,” a Princeton-led team of scientists and citizen scientists, has now made a massive step toward understanding the human brain by building a neuron-by-neuron and synapse-by-synapse roadmap — scientifically speaking, a “connectome” — through the brain of an adult fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster).