Employees were honored for their hard work and dedication at the Service Recognition Luncheon, which included the presentation of the Griffin Management and President’s Achievement Awards.

Learn more about the Annual Service Recognition Luncheon

Katja Guenther, an assistant professor of history, interweaves her training as a physician, neuroscientist and historian to study the history of modern medicine and the mind sciences.

Read more about Guenther’s efforts to connect the sciences and humanities

Focusing on a range of topics including food, foreign affairs, and more, students from multiple disciplines are developing and honing writing and reporting skills this spring in courses taught by the Ferris McGraw Robbins Professors in Journalism.

Learn more about the journalism seminars being offered this spring

The University has offered admission to 1,939 students, or 7.28 percent of the near-record 26,641 applicants for the Class of 2018.

Learn more about the admission figures for the Class of 2018

The environmental cues that influence a male fruit fly’s mating songs may provide substantial insight into understanding rapid decision-making in more advanced beings such as humans.

Read more about what singing fruit flies can tell us about quick decisions

Juniors Krysta Dummit, a chemistry major, and Daniel Mossing, a physics major have been awarded Goldwater Scholarships, the premier award for outstanding undergraduates interested in careers in mathematics, the natural sciences and engineering.

Learn more about the Goldwater Scholarship

Go behind the camera with students through this video highlighting some of the winners of the sixth annual International Eye Photo Contest and the stories of their intriguing images.

Watch the International Eye student contest photos video

Two sculptures “Man” and “The Kite That Never Flew,” by American artist Alexander Calder are on display in front of the Princeton University Art Museum through June 15. In this video about the sculptures, James Steward, director of the Princeton University Art Museum, discusses Princeton’s campus art and Calder’s unique contributions to the form.

Watch the “Calder on Campus” video feature

Norman Augustine, former chairman and chief executive officer of Lockheed Martin Corp. will speak at the Hooding ceremony. Christopher P. Lu, former White House cabinet secretary and assistant to President Barack Obama, will speak at the Baccalaureate ceremony.

Read about the Hooding and Baccalaureate ceremonies

In the class “Ecology: Species Interactions, Biodiversity and Society,” taught by Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Robert Pringle, undergraduates study how wild organisms interact with each other, the environment and humans. The students’ final projects are animated videos that explain a local environmental issue.

Learn more about the students’ final projects

The ninth annual Innovation Forum, a competition that showcases University research with commercial potential, took place before an audience of nearly 200 people in the Carl A. Fields Center and featured entries ranging from advances in medicine to painless tattoo removal.

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Learn how Robert Vanderbei, a professor of operations research and financial engineering, uses photography as a way to mix the business of optimization research with the pleasure of art.

Watch the “Catching Snowflakes” video about Vanderbei’s work

Adriana Cherskov, a senior who hopes to advance treatments for complex disorders such as autism, has been awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. The award gives outstanding students from outside the United Kingdom the opportunity to pursue postgraduate study at the University of Cambridge.

Learn more about the Gates Cambridge Scholarship

Diane Jeon and Storm Portner have won the Henry Richardson Labouisse ’26 Prize to spend one year pursuing international civic engagement projects. The prize will support a project by Jeon in South Africa and Portner in Sierra Leone.

Learn more about the Labouisse Prize

Historian and Professor Angela Creager explains how knowledge and technology that grew out of the secret U.S.-led effort to build atomic bombs delivered on that promise — making possible important breakthroughs in medicine and biology.

Learn more about peaceful applications of atomic research

Seniors Vivienne Chen and Natasha Japanwala will explore representations of home and memory in the independent projects they will pursue in the coming year as Martin Dale Fellowship winners.

Read more about the Dale Fellowship

Faculty, students and an alumnus of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures discuss how the curriculum offers insights into art, literature, history, politics, economics and more.

Watch the  “Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures” video

“Neuron bridges,” biofuels, and ancient art and the Higgs boson are among the first group of projects that push the boundaries of research in the natural sciences that have been awarded with contributions from the first annual Dean for Research Innovation Funds.

Learn more about the Dean for Research Innovation Funds