A technology to uncover how the infant brain learns language and a microscope that can image and manipulate the inner workings of a functioning cell have been awarded funding through the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Transformative Technology Fund.

Princeton University faculty members have been selected to lead the team of scientists responsible for a major NASA space observatory that will gauge the expansion of the cosmos and plumb the light of distant worlds.

The recipients of Princeton’s top alumni awards stressed the value of service and the power of public policy during the University’s annual Alumni Day on Saturday, Feb. 20.

On Tuesday, Feb. 10, world-renowned violinist Itzhak Perlman — winner of 16 Grammy Awards and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom — and his wife, fellow Juilliard graduate Toby Perlman, opened the Class of 2016’s Last Lectures series in Richardson Auditorium at Princeton with a talk titled “My Goal Is to Not Be Bored by What I Do.”

The announcement Feb. 11 of the detection of gravitational waves, predicted by Albert Einstein some 100 years ago, created a surge of excitement among physicists worldwide, including many with ties to Princeton University.

Princeton’s Global Health Program (GHP) serves as a hub for students interested in tackling some of the most pressing health-related issues of our time.

Tension mounted at the Lewis Center for the Arts‘ Lucas Gallery as Julia Wilcots, a civil and environmental engineering major at Princeton, hung small sandbags from the graceful wood bridge that spanned the gallery’s clean white walls.

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) physicists collaborating on the Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) stellarator fusion energy device in Greifswald, Germany, were on hand Feb. 3 when German Chancellor Angela Merkel pushed a button to produce the reactor’s first plasma of hydrogen-fueled superhot gas.

The special trustee committee that is considering Woodrow Wilson’s legacy at Princeton University has scheduled a public forum from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Feb. 19 at Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall.

In a letter to the editor of The Daily Princetonian student newspaper, President Christopher L. Eisgruber on Tuesday, Feb. 9, issued a statement on the weekend arrest of Imani Perry, a professor of African American studies. The statement is posted on the president’s website.

Princeton undergraduates in the course “The Arts of Urban Transition” have spent the past semester using texts and methods from history, theater and dance to examine artists and works of art as agents of change in New York City and Detroit.

Princeton University’s Board of Trustees has adopted a strategic planning framework that aims to enhance the University’s core commitments to excellence in teaching and research, and to such fundamental principles as affordability, diversity, inclusivity and service, while also strengthening its capacity to have “significant and lasting impact” at a time of transformative social and technological change.