Princeton University has offered admission to 785 students from a pool of 4,229 candidates who applied through single-choice early action for the Class of 2020. The pool was the largest in the last five years, representing a 9.8 percent increase over last year’s early applicant pool.

As everyday items from cars to watches increasingly use computers and communications to operate, the demand on networks that connect devices is expected to balloon. In response, engineers are working to harness the devices’ own computing, sensing and storage power to form networks that meet most of the demand.

In a wide-ranging conversation Monday, Dec. 14, Princeton University President Christopher L. Eisgruber updated Princeton town officials on the University’s strategic and campus planning efforts and discussed ways the University and community may continue to collaborate on areas of mutual interest.

We think of chitchat and small talk as the things people say to pass the time or kill an awkward silence. New research suggests, however, that these idle conversations could be a social-bonding tool passed down from primates.

As part of its Campus Guide series, Princeton Architectural Press has published the second edition of “Princeton University and Neighboring Institutions,” by Robert Spencer Barnett.

Since joining the Princeton faculty in 2011, Valenzuela has investigated American electoral politics and political behavior with a focus on Latino public opinion and voter turnout, religion, race and ethnicity, and the politics of identity in the United States. 

We discussed the “epidemic” of gun violence as it relates to public health with Heather Howard, director of the State Health Reform Assistance Network and lecturer in public affairs at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Randall Kennedy, a Princeton alumnus, former trustee, and the Michael R. Klein Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, has been selected as the speaker for the University’s 2016 Baccalaureate ceremony.

A special trustee committee that has been formed to consider the legacy of Woodrow Wilson at Princeton University has created a website to collect observations and opinions about Wilson and his legacy. The committee has also invited scholars and biographers with relevant expertise to share their understandings of Wilson and his legacy for posting on the website. 

President Christopher L. Eisgruber sends message Sunday, Nov. 22, to Princeton University students, faculty, staff and alumni.

Princeton University senior Nicholas Barton has been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship for graduate study at the University of Oxford.

Columns of workers penetrate the forest, furiously gathering as much food and supplies as they can. They are a massive army that living things know to avoid, and that few natural obstacles can waylay. So determined are these legions that should a chasm or gap disrupt the most direct path to their spoils they simply build a new path — out of themselves.

In the summer of 2014, two Princeton University students learned firsthand about the struggles of Syrian refugees in Jordan. With a $10,000 grant from the Projects for Peace, Wardah Bari and Farah Amjad created a project that provided community outreach to Syrian refugees living in the Jordanian border town of Zarqa.

The strategic planning process at Princeton University is on schedule to publish in early 2016 a framework plan to guide University priority-setting and decision-making, President Christopher L. Eisgruber told the Council of the Princeton University Community.