“Sociology 207: Poverty in America,” an undergraduate course at Princeton, is examining the central aspects of poverty, spanning joblessness, housing and neighborhoods, crime and punishment, and survival and protest. The class is co-led by sociologists and poverty experts Matthew Desmond and Kathryn Edin.

United States Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey has been selected to deliver the keynote address at the University’s Class Day ceremony on Monday, June 4.

In a panel discussion held at Princeton, two “big chiefs” of New Orleans’ Black Indian groups explored the complex artisanship and deep-seated community of the Black Masking tradition of “dressing.” This process of creating elaborate ceremonial suits and aprons originated by African Americans almost 200 years ago.

Over spring break, more than 100 Princeton students explored critical social issues in communities across the U.S. and on campus through Breakout Princeton and Breakout Local with the Pace Center for Civic Engagement.

A daylong conference at Princeton on April 7, “Defending Democracy: Civilian and Military Responses to Weaponized Information,” brought together leaders from military, government and academic backgrounds to discuss information warfare and how to protect against its corrosive effects on democracy.

The Julis Romo Rabinowitz and Louis A. Simpson International buildings at Princeton University have won a 2018 Design Excellence Award from the Ontario Association of Architects.

Do smart kids make more friends? If others see their cleverness paying off, then yes — at least, that seems to be true for our primate cousins, ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta), report a team of Princeton University researchers.

David P. Billington, whose scholarship found elegance and beauty in practical works of engineering, died in Los Angeles on March 25. He was 90.

Princeton University seniors Lavinia Liang, Katie Tyler and Erika Ward have been awarded the Henry Richardson Labouisse ’26 Prize to pursue international civic engagement projects for one year following graduation.

Six Princeton staff members were recognized for their commitment to excellence and exceptional performance during the University’s annual Service Recognition Luncheon on March 16 in Jadwin Gymnasium. In addition, two staff members were honored for their leadership potential.

Princeton has offered admission to 1,941 students, or 5.5 percent of the record 35,370 applicants for the Class of 2022, in what is the University’s most selective admission process to date. Last year, the University’s admission rate was 6.1 percent. The class size is expected to be 1,296 students for the Class of 2022.

Physicist William Tang has won a highly competitive $100,000 Global Impact Award from NVIDIA Corp., the leading producer of graphics processing units (GPUs), for carrying out artificial intelligence (AI) computing. This award was one of two presented at the NVIDIA national GPU technology conference held March 26-29 in San Jose, California.

Princeton and 30 other colleges and universities filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday, March 30, in support of the State of Hawaii’s challenge to a Trump administration proclamation on immigration.

The Princeton Peer Nightline was started last year by Class of 2018 members Shana Salomon, Julie Newman and Christin Park. The nightline is an anonymous peer listening service run by undergraduates. It is among various resources that support student mental health on campus.

In the Princeton course “The Vikings: History and Archaeology,” guest Nancy Troske, a Princeton-based jewelry artist, leads students in a lesson that allows them to create personal items similar to those found in Viking culture.

Despite the threat of a global antibiotic-resistance crisis, the worldwide use of antibiotics in humans soared 39 percent between 2000 and 2015, fueled by dramatic increases in low-income and middle-income countries, according to a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters will award the Abel Prize for 2018 to Robert Langlands for work he did while an associate professor at Princeton University.

Michael Hvasta gripped the podium at the Keller Center’s Innovation Forum at Princeton University on Wednesday evening, looked over a standing-room crowd and delivered his opening.

A 2-billion-year-old chunk of sea salt provides new evidence for the transformation of Earth’s atmosphere into an oxygenated environment capable of supporting life as we know it.

The Princeton men’s hockey team will play Ohio State in the NCAA Midwest Regional tournament in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, March 24. The game, beginning at 3:30 p.m., will be televised on the ESPNU network.