In a column Tuesday, New York Times columnist David Leonhardt reported on the efforts Princeton has made and the gains it has made in enrolling and graduating first-generation and low-income students.
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Marmoset monkeys learn to call same way human infants learn to babble
A baby’s babbles start to sound like speech more quickly if they get frequent vocal feedback from adults. Princeton University researchers have found the same type of feedback speeds the vocal development of infant marmoset monkeys, in the first evidence of such learning in nonhuman primates.
Salutatorian Storey fuses computer science, classics
Kulkarni appointed dean of the faculty at Princeton University
Through the gates: The myth surrounding FitzRandolph Gate
Salutatorian Storey fuses computer science, classics
Valedictorian Chow finds connection, purpose in language and life at Princeton
Reunions 2017 information
2017 Commencement events
Princeton launches new main website, more improvements to come
Princeton University has launched a redesigned main website that features improved search capabilities, streamlined navigation and greater emphasis on photos and videos. Its flexible format adjusts to screens of all sizes. The new design, which had been available in a public preview for the past month, went live last week.
Nitrogen contained in coral provides evidence of human impact on the open ocean
‘A Bee, a Tree, What’s In It For Me?’ Class examines environmental policy
In the spring course “The Environment: Science and Policy,” Professor Michael Oppenheimer, one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change, teamed up with ecology expert David Wilcove to examine a number of environmental concerns — from warming seas to air pollution to deforestation to natural disasters — through a policy lens.
Baker, 61st U.S. Secretary of State, calls for conservative action on looming climate crisis
Beauty in science: The art and elegance of a great experiment
Shirley M. Tilghman, president of the University, emeritus, and a professor of molecular biology and public affairs, has created a new freshman seminar, “What Makes a Great Experiment?” Each week, first-year students in this Richard L. Smith ’70 Freshman Seminar examine studies Tilghman has selected for being thoughtfully and creatively designed and written for publication.
‘New England Bound’: Warren explores colonialism and slavery
Warren’s 2016 book, “New England Bound,” explores the lived experience of chattel bondage — enslaved people held as property — in 17th-century New England. The book was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize this year and won the Organization of American Historians’ 2017 Merle Curti Social History Prize.