Princeton wants to shake up how graduate students learn the basic tools and principles of writing good code for computationally intensive scientific research, and Gabe Perez-Giz is emphatically on board.

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In the Princeton course “Musical Instruments, Sound, Perception and Creativity,” cross-listed in the Council on Science and Technology and the Department of Music, students learned about sound by studying traditional instruments, learning about the history of tuning and temperament, and experimenting with electronic and virtual instruments.

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The National Academy of Sciences announced today that Thomas Griffiths has received one of the two Troland Research Awards issued this year “for his research into how people and machines make decisions.” The Troland awards recognize unusual achievement by young investigators (defined as no older than 40) working within the broad spectrum of experimental psychology.

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After 60 years without a new roof or significant repairs to the decorative cupola, the crown of Nassau Hall had lost some luster. So last June, University Facilities began a meticulous restoration. The goal was to refresh and improve, while also preserving historic character.

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To Paul Nadal, a postdoctoral research associate in the Program in American Studies who taught the fall 2018 course “The Asian American Family,” the connection between race and kinship that the class set out to explore suggested that students’ investigations might produce more than seminar papers could contain.

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Vertical farms in post-industrial America, origami-based noise-pollution barriers and cement made from burned waste make up the latest round of projects funded by the Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI) Urban Grand Challenges program. Totaling $509,000, the new awards are active through September 2020 and are described below.

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President Christopher L. Eisgruber and three Princeton faculty members are participating in the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, from Jan. 20-25. The delegation will be focused on diversity and inclusion across higher education as well as Princeton’s leading role in bioengineering, data science and artificial intelligence.

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Sewage treatment could offer a cost-effective way to combat climate change by flushing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.

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Senior Ryan Chen is one of 16 American students who will be studying at the University of Cambridge next year with a Churchill Scholarship.

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As deputy director of science and technology for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Patricia Falcone, Class of 1974, has been at the forefront of women in science since her pioneering days as a female undergraduate on campus and one of the first Princeton women to major in engineering.

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The year 2018 represented a pivotal point in the development of an innovation ecosystem in the heart of New Jersey as Princeton University established significant new collaborations with pioneering members of industry — all with the aim of bolstering the resources available to researchers and scientists in their quest to make new discoveries in the service of society.

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Alumnus Norman R. Augustine and his wife, Margareta “Meg” Engman Augustine, have made a gift to Princeton University to endow three professorships in the School of Engineering and Applied Science.

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“We are deeply saddened that Xiyue will be spending this birthday, as he has spent his last two birthdays, arbitrarily and unjustly detained in Iran’s Evin prison. For no defensible reason, he remains separated from his wife and young son, and Princeton University stands firmly with them and his other friends, family and colleagues in calling for his immediate release.”

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Jim Matteo, associate vice president and treasurer at the University of Virginia and an accomplished financial management executive with expertise in strategy and operations, has been named vice president for finance and treasurer at Princeton.

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