With wisdom, honesty and humor, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama urged young people to take action to make the world more peaceful through compassion and service during a visit to Princeton earlier this week.

Learn more about the Dalai Lama’s visit

Princeton has launched two new initiatives that aim to further increase the socioeconomic diversity of its student body and the range of students who major in fields related to science and technology.

Read more about the new initiatives to increase socioeconomic diversity

TigerHub, where undergraduate and graduate students plan and enroll in courses, access academic records and maintain personal information, will launch the first week of November and will replace the homepage of SCORE.

Learn more about TigerHub

Researchers from Princeton and the University of California-San Diego recently found that an immune-system protein called MHCI moonlights in the nervous system to help regulate the number of synapses, and could play an unexpected role in conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease, type II diabetes and autism.

Read more about MHCI’s role in regulating synapses

The papers of Nobel laureate Toni Morrison are now part of the permanent library collections of Princeton, where the renowned author served on the faculty for 17 years.

Learn more about the acquisition and Morrison’s legacy

Princeton alumni spanning six decades returned to campus for three days of discussions, lectures, tours and social events at the “Coming Back: Reconnecting Princeton’s Black Alumni” conference.

Read more about the ‘Coming Back’ conference

Princeton’s Jason Schwartz addresses a range of difficult questions raised by the recent Ebola outbreak, including how nations such as the United States should respond in Africa and whether to deploy unproven treatments.

Read the Q&A about the tough ethical questions raised by the Ebola outbreak

Junior Aisha Oxley takes us on a trip down memory lane to a moment that she fondly remembers in her rendition of her poem “Soul Music.”

Watch the “Soul Music” video feature

Get an inside look at the Program in Dar es Salaam summer study abroad program, which takes students to Tanzania for eight weeks of intensive instruction in Swahili and an immersion in the daily life of the nation’s commercial capital.

Watch the Program in Dar es Salaam video feature

University physicists built a powerful imaging device called a scanning-tunneling microscope and used it to capture an image of an elusive particle that behaves simultaneously like matter and antimatter.

Read more about the hunt for the Majorana fermion

An exhibition on display in the Main Gallery of Firestone Library titled “Nova Caesarea: A Cartographic Record of the Garden State, 1666-1888,” displays maps, engravings and photographs showing New Jersey’s evolution from the 17th century to the present.

Read more about the Nova Caesarea exhibition

The Princeton faculty on Monday, Oct. 6, approved changes to the University’s undergraduate grading policy that include removing numerical targets and replacing them with grading standards developed and articulated by each department.

Learn more about the changes to the grading policy

Several members of the Class of 2015 share their experiences during the summer of 2014, as they undertook senior thesis research in a wide variety of fascinating locales.

Learn more about students’ summers spent working on their senior thesis research

At this year’s Community and Staff Day, activities included a Princeton football game, fireworks, a youth sports clinic and an information fair with University and community organizations.

Read more about Community and Staff Day

Increasing the number of women in decision-making groups isn’t necessarily enough to give them greater power, according to researchers at Princeton University and Brigham Young University.

Learn more about the influence of women in decision-making groups

Ramona Romero, a lawyer who has held senior positions in government and the private sector and who has been general counsel of the U.S. Department of Agriculture since 2011, will become general counsel at Princeton University effective Dec. 1.

Read more about Ramona Romero

University researchers have developed a new method to increase the brightness, efficiency and clarity of LEDs, which are widely used on smartphones and portable electronics as well as becoming increasingly common in lighting.

Read more about the new nanoscale structure improving LEDs

Thirty middle school students went back to school this fall enthused about science and technology after spending the summer at Princeton Community House STEM Summer Camp.

Learn more about the Community House STEM Summer Camp

Each month, Peyton Observatory opens its doors to the public and for guided viewings of the night sky.

Learn more about the public viewings at Peyton Observatory