The Bridge Year Program will offer a new site in Brazil for the 2013-14 academic year, bringing the tuition-free service program for incoming freshmen to five international locations.

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Senior Gene Merewether has been awarded the 2013 Luce Scholarship, giving him the opportunity to spend the next year in Asia studying the use of robots and electronic communication in monitoring and responding to disasters.

Read more about the Luce Scholarship

Meet music major and recording artist Tanya Ashleigh Tawengwa, the 2012 recipient of an Alex Adam ’07 Award from the Lewis Center for the Arts, and learn how she found her voice by embracing opportunities at Princeton and her native Zimbabwe.

Learn more about Tanya Tawengwa 

From Paris to the Samburu Heartland, with subjects ranging from cityscapes to the planthopper nymph, here are a collection of photos taken by students that showcase their opportunities to experience life abroad.

Watch the ‘International Eye’ slideshow video

Adam Clulow, Helder De Schutter, David Kiwuwa, Pritipuspa Mishra, Brigitte Rath and Ying Ying Tan, six exceptional early-career scholars from around the world, will come in the fall to begin a year of research, writing and collaboration as the first Fung Fellows.

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Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Board of Governors of the U.S. Federal Reserve and former chair of the economics department, has been selected as the speaker for the University’s 2013 Baccalaureate ceremony.

Read more about the 2013 Baccalaureate ceremony

In a conversation about women and leadership, President Tilghman and Anne-Marie Slaughter said there is still much that can be done in the workplace and in society to support equality for women.

Learn more about their views on the ‘next wave’ of women and leadership

While accepting the Woodrow Wilson Award, the highest undergraduate alumni honor, Mitch Daniels called on Princeton students and alumni to serve their nation in a time of great need. His speech was part of Alumni Day celebrations that included award presentations to top graduate and undergraduate students.

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The Office of the Dean of the College has introduced a new website with several additional features, including a resource library, highlights on special projects and a “Dean’s Corner.”

Explore the new Office of the Dean of College website

Angéle Christin, Jiaying Zhao, George Young and Laura Gandolfi have been named co-winners of the Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship, Princeton’s top honor for graduate students.

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Seniors Caroline Hanamirian and Jake Nebel and have been named co-winners of the University’s 2012 Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, the highest general distinction conferred on an undergraduate.

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Princeton University seniors Erica Cao and Kaitlin Stouffer, as well as Class of 2012 graduate David Kurz, have been awarded Gates Cambridge Scholarships. The awards give students the opportunity to pursue postgraduate study at the University of Cambridge.

Read more about the Gates Cambridge Scholarship winners

Meet Roxanne Zellin, the education outreach director for Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials.

Learn more about Roxanne Zellin.

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The latest highlights, construction maps, plans for design and phased schedule for the Arts and Transit Project were recently released.

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Silas Riener, an alumnus and a former member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, has returned to campus to work with students in the dance program at on two performance projects that celebrate the collaboration of dancer and choreographer Merce Cunningham and artist Robert Rauschenberg.

Watch the ‘Merce Cunningham and Robert Rauschenberg, revisited’ video feature

Nineteen Princeton faculty members from various fields joined professors and policymakers from other institutions around the globe to in the bustling megacity of Shanghai to share their research, identify challenges that cities face and begin a dialogue to find solutions.

Read more about the Princeton-Fung Global Forum

A new strategic partnership with the University of Tokyo has been established, supporting collaboration in research and teaching and boosting interdisciplinary scholarship.

Learn more about the new University of Tokyo partnership

What do Bruce Springsteen, the Gettysburg Address, Alfred Bierstadt & “Saturday Night Fever” all have in common? They are all included in the syllabus for America Then and Now, a new course in the Program in American Studies.

Read more about America Then and Now