Mung Chiang, a noted researcher in communications networks who also is an entrepreneur and a leader in online education, has been appointed director of the Keller Center, effective March 31.

Read more about Chiang and the Keller Center

Junior Cody O’Neil traveled to Chile to practice astrophotography with the support of the Martin A. Dale ’53 Summer Award, a stipend given to a handful of students to pursue an independent project not connected to academic coursework.

Watch the “Capturing the Cosmos” video feature

Along with eggs, soup and rubber toys, the list of the chicken’s most lasting legacies may eventually include the first known biological occurrence of a potentially new state of matter known as “disordered hyperuniformity.”

Learn more about the disordered hyperuniformity found in chicken eyes

Lectures, workshops, family activities, award presentations and addresses by Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor and Association of American Universities President Hunter R. Rawlings III were all part of the Alumni Day celebration on Saturday, Feb. 22.

Read more about Alumni Day

Learn how a collaboration with the Royal College of Music offers students the opportunity to focus on rigorous professional training at the prestigious conservatory during a semester abroad, and pursue performance opportunities after they return.

Read more about the partnership with Royal College of Music

Seniors Joe Barrett and Izzy Kasdin have been named co-winners of the University’s 2014 Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, the highest general distinction conferred on an undergraduate.

Learn more about the Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize

Former Vice President Al Gore has been selected to deliver the keynote address at the University’s Class Day ceremony on Monday, June 2. The event is organized and presented by members of the graduating class.

Read more about the 2014 Class Day

Seniors Sacha Finn and Harriet Kristin Wilson have been awarded 2014 fellowships from ReachOut 56-81-06, an alumni-funded effort that supports yearlong public service projects after graduation.

Learn more about the public service projects Finn and Wilson will pursue

President Christopher L. Eisgruber announced at the Feb. 10 meeting of the Council of the Princeton University Community that the University has begun a strategic planning process focusing on identifying the University’s evolving needs and challenges, and creating a framework for allocating resources and assessing new initiatives.

Read more about the strategic planning process

Seniors David Abugaber, Izzy Kasdin and Simone Sasse, as well as alumnae Madeline McMahon and Elizabeth Presser, have been awarded Gates Cambridge Scholarships, and will have the opportunity to pursue postgraduate study at the University of Cambridge.

Learn more about the Gates Cambridge Scholarship

Karl Kusserow, the John Wilmerding Curator of American Art at the Art Museum, explains the unique history of a pair of portraits of U.S. President George Washington held in the museum’s collection, as well as a befitting casualty of the Battle of Princeton.

Watch the “Portraits of a President” video feature

David Dobkin, who has served as dean of the faculty at Princeton University since 2003, has announced that he will step down from this position and will return to the faculty.

Read more about Dobkin’s time as dean of faculty

Senior Katherine Pogrebniak, a computer science major who intends to pursue a career in medicine and medical research, has been selected as a Churchill Scholar and will spend a year studying at the University of Cambridge.

Learn more about the Churchill Scholarship

This interactive feature explores the stories of 28 of the more than 1,300 undergraduate and graduate students who traveled throughout the United States and to 90 countries around the globe last summer for academic study, independent research, internships and civic engagement projects.

Explore the interactive global study feature