Focusing on a range of topics including food, foreign affairs, and more, students from multiple disciplines are developing and honing writing and reporting skills this spring in courses taught by the Ferris McGraw Robbins Professors in Journalism.
Learn more about the journalism seminars being offered this spring
The University has offered admission to 1,939 students, or 7.28 percent of the near-record 26,641 applicants for the Class of 2018.
Learn more about the admission figures for the Class of 2018
The environmental cues that influence a male fruit fly’s mating songs may provide substantial insight into understanding rapid decision-making in more advanced beings such as humans.
Read more about what singing fruit flies can tell us about quick decisions
Juniors Krysta Dummit, a chemistry major, and Daniel Mossing, a physics major have been awarded Goldwater Scholarships, the premier award for outstanding undergraduates interested in careers in mathematics, the natural sciences and engineering.
Learn more about the Goldwater Scholarship
Go behind the camera with students through this video highlighting some of the winners of the sixth annual International Eye Photo Contest and the stories of their intriguing images.
Two sculptures “Man” and “The Kite That Never Flew,” by American artist Alexander Calder are on display in front of the Princeton University Art Museum through June 15. In this video about the sculptures, James Steward, director of the Princeton University Art Museum, discusses Princeton’s campus art and Calder’s unique contributions to the form.
Watch the “Calder on Campus” video feature
Norman Augustine, former chairman and chief executive officer of Lockheed Martin Corp. will speak at the Hooding ceremony. Christopher P. Lu, former White House cabinet secretary and assistant to President Barack Obama, will speak at the Baccalaureate ceremony.
Read about the Hooding and Baccalaureate ceremonies
In the class “Ecology: Species Interactions, Biodiversity and Society,” taught by Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Robert Pringle, undergraduates study how wild organisms interact with each other, the environment and humans. The students’ final projects are animated videos that explain a local environmental issue.
Learn more about the students’ final projects
The ninth annual Innovation Forum, a competition that showcases University research with commercial potential, took place before an audience of nearly 200 people in the Carl A. Fields Center and featured entries ranging from advances in medicine to painless tattoo removal.
Read more about the Innovation Forum
Learn how Robert Vanderbei, a professor of operations research and financial engineering, uses photography as a way to mix the business of optimization research with the pleasure of art.
Watch the “Catching Snowflakes” video about Vanderbei’s work
Adriana Cherskov, a senior who hopes to advance treatments for complex disorders such as autism, has been awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. The award gives outstanding students from outside the United Kingdom the opportunity to pursue postgraduate study at the University of Cambridge.
Learn more about the Gates Cambridge Scholarship
Diane Jeon and Storm Portner have won the Henry Richardson Labouisse ’26 Prize to spend one year pursuing international civic engagement projects. The prize will support a project by Jeon in South Africa and Portner in Sierra Leone.
Learn more about the Labouisse Prize
Historian and Professor Angela Creager explains how knowledge and technology that grew out of the secret U.S.-led effort to build atomic bombs delivered on that promise — making possible important breakthroughs in medicine and biology.
Learn more about peaceful applications of atomic research
Seniors Vivienne Chen and Natasha Japanwala will explore representations of home and memory in the independent projects they will pursue in the coming year as Martin Dale Fellowship winners.
Read more about the Dale Fellowship
Faculty, students and an alumnus of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures discuss how the curriculum offers insights into art, literature, history, politics, economics and more.
Watch the “Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures” video
“Neuron bridges,” biofuels, and ancient art and the Higgs boson are among the first group of projects that push the boundaries of research in the natural sciences that have been awarded with contributions from the first annual Dean for Research Innovation Funds.
Learn more about the Dean for Research Innovation Funds
Mung Chiang, a noted researcher in communications networks who also is an entrepreneur and a leader in online education, has been appointed director of the Keller Center, effective March 31.
Read more about Chiang and the Keller Center
Junior Cody O’Neil traveled to Chile to practice astrophotography with the support of the Martin A. Dale ’53 Summer Award, a stipend given to a handful of students to pursue an independent project not connected to academic coursework.
Watch the “Capturing the Cosmos” video feature
Along with eggs, soup and rubber toys, the list of the chicken’s most lasting legacies may eventually include the first known biological occurrence of a potentially new state of matter known as “disordered hyperuniformity.”
Learn more about the disordered hyperuniformity found in chicken eyes
Lectures, workshops, family activities, award presentations and addresses by Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor and Association of American Universities President Hunter R. Rawlings III were all part of the Alumni Day celebration on Saturday, Feb. 22.
Read more about Alumni Day