A major walkway linking the Lewis Center for the Arts to the science buildings that house genomics, neuroscience and psychology has been named Tilghman Walk in honor of President Shirley M. Tilghman and her close connections with these major campus areas.
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More than 350 prospective scientists, mathematicians, and engineers from seventh to tenth grade spent the day immersed in science and technology March 22 at Princeton University.
Learn more about PPPL’s Young Women’s Conference
David Remnick, editor of the The New Yorker, has been selected to deliver the keynote address at the University’s Class Day ceremony on Monday, June 3.
Read more about Remnick’s selection as Class Day speaker
Pablo Debenedetti, the vice dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science and a longtime engineering professor, has been named the new dean for research.
Learn more about Debenedetti, the new dean for research
Studying engineering, playing basketball in the NCAA tournament, and traveling to Europe are just a few student experiences made possible by Princeton’s financial aid program.
More than 2,000 people are expected to visit campus April 11-13 and April 22-24 for Princeton Preview, giving newly admitted students and their families a chance to experience the University’s academic, residential and social offerings.
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A look at “Ethics and Public Health,” a class that examines the issues at the intersection of rights, policies and values in health care, with a focus on the tension between individual rights and the common good.
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As the long-term impact of the Arab Spring continues to take shape, researchers examine why people are hesitant to return to the streets to protest a new government that turns out to be just as bad or worse.
Read more about what makes protesters relent
The University has offered admission to 1,931 students, or 7.29 percent of the near-record 26,498 applicants for the Class of 2017.
Learn more about the admission figures for the Class of 2017
Winning a Martin A. Dale ’53 Summer Award gave junior Jackson Dobies the chance to fulfill a childhood dream of rafting down the Mississippi River with his older brother.
Watch the ‘A Princeton Story: Rafting down the Mississippi River’ video feature
Senior Flora Thomson-DeVeaux is the 2013 winner of the Martin Dale Fellowship, and will use the $30,000 grant to spend the year after graduation tracing butler and writer Santiago Badariotti Merlo’s footsteps across the Americas.
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The Terra Momo Restaurant Group has been selected by the University to serve as its partner in operating the café and restaurant that will be housed in the current Dinky station buildings in the Arts and Transit Project. To receive the latest news on the Arts and Transit Project, sign up for email alerts.
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The Office of Information Technology has launched an updated mobile website and app accessible across all platforms giving users access to interactive information about the University via smartphone, tablet or computer.
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Manjul Bhargava, Princeton’s Brandon Fradd, Class of 1983, Professor of Mathematics, designed the freshman seminar “The Mathematics of Magic Tricks and Games” to expose students to the “truly creative side” of mathematics.
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Since 2008, the University’s energy savings efforts have eliminated 13,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions – an amount equivalent to what is produced from powering and heating 607 homes for an entire year.
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Employees were recognized for their outstanding service the annual Service Recognition Luncheon, which included the presentation of the Griffin Management and President’s Achievement Awards.
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Three winning technologies were announced Tuesday, March 12 at the Innovation Forum, an event that offers University researchers the opportunity to compete for prize money aimed at moving laboratory discoveries into the product development stage.
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Jingwan “Cynthia” Lu, a fourth-year graduate student in computer science working to translate handmade artist brushstrokes into digital painting programs and a lover of Argentine tango.
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The East Coast Chamber Orchestra, a self-conducted ensemble made up of string players from leading conservatories, orchestras and music festivals across the country, performed at Princeton recently, inviting two students and 33 community members ranging in age from 13 to 70 to join them on stage.
Tracy K. Smith, an assistant professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts and winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, held a public conversation with United States Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey, exploring the relationship between public and personal history in poetry.
Learn more about Smith and Trethewey’s conversation