Comprised of students with diverse dance backgrounds, the Princeton HighSteppers perform on campus, host an annual step competition with other colleges and have even been featured on “The Today Show.”

Watch the “Princeton HighSteppers” video feature

Researchers have discovered that bacteria prevent layabouts from enjoying the fruit of others’ hard work by keeping food generated by the community’s productive members away from those microbes that attempt to live on others’ leftovers.

Learn more about bacteria’s sense of justice

Dissatisfied with common explanations for the causes behind conflict, sociologist Andreas Wimmer and his colleagues amassed and analyzed a database of all 464 major wars fought around the world from 1816 to 2001, identifying an overlooked common thread in conflicts.

Learn more about Wimmer’s research and explore the interactive conflict database

The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory uses dramatic and beautiful images and thought-provoking interviews in its new informational video to explain magnetic fusion and to highlight the importance of the laboratory’s research.

Watch the “Star Power” video feature

Princeton has offered admission to 714 students from a pool of 3,854 candidates who applied through single-choice early action for the Class of 2018. Notification letters were sent to students Dec. 16, and the decisions were available to applicants via secure online access on the same day.

Learn more about early-action admission for the Class of 2018

Through stories and art, the University’s annual research magazine,”Discovery: Research at Princeton” reports on how faculty members, staff researchers and students are producing knowledge in areas such as cancer research, health care policy, environmental science, the arts and more.

Learn more about “Discovery: Research at Princeton“

More than 70 faculty, staff, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students and alumni volunteer to teach classes in English, mathematics, science and other subjects spanning the liberal arts to inmates at three New Jersey correctional facilities.

Learn more about the Prison Teaching Initiative

Seniors Katie Dubbs and Anastasya Lloyd-Damnjanovic have been named recipients of the Daniel M. Sachs Class of 1960 Graduating Scholarship, one of the highest awards given to Princeton undergraduates.

Read more about the Sachs Scholarship

The University began providing the first dose of the meningitis B vaccine to recommended campus groups on Monday, Dec. 9, with 1,959 individuals vaccinated by the end of the first day. As of Wednesday night, the number vaccinated was X,XXX.

Learn more about the vaccine clinics on campus

President Eisgruber and town officials engaged in a broad public discussion on Monday, Dec. 2, that covered topics including campus development, supporting a diverse community, building on existing town-gown partnerships and fostering positive communication to strengthen the relationship between the town and the University.

Read more about President Eisgruber’s discussions with town officials

Senior Adam Mastroianni and Class of 2013 graduate Timothy McGinnis are among the 32 American recipients of the prestigious Rhodes Scholarships, which fund two to three years of graduate study at Oxford.

Learn more about the Rhodes Scholarships

Senior Dixon Li has been named a 2014 Marshall Scholar, and will receive a scholarship covering the cost of graduate study and living at a British university of the recipient’s choice for up to two years. Li, an English major from Sandy, Utah, plans to study at Queen Mary University of London and the University of Cambridge.

Read more about the Marshall scholarship

Cristina Domnisoru, Sonika Johri, James Pickett and Emily Vasiliauskas have been named co-winners of the Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship, the top honor for graduate students whose work has exhibited the highest scholarly excellence.

Learn more about the Jacobus Fellowship

Treby Williams, who has helped lead efforts at Princeton University to enhance campus life, modernize operations, strengthen safety planning and coordination, and augment campus services, has been named Princeton’s executive vice president. Her appointment is effective Nov. 18.

Read more about Williams’ appointment

In a freshmen seminar taught by President Emeritus Harold Shapiro, students examine the social issues and broader questions raised by scientific developments like human cloning, climate change, particle physics and more.

Read more about the “Science, Technology and Public Policy” freshman seminar

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is preparing to recommend that all undergraduate students (those who live in dormitories or off campus), graduate students who live in dormitories and members of the University community with certain medical conditions receive a vaccine that helps protect against meningococcal disease caused by serogroup B.

Learn more about the Meningitis B vaccine being considered

Professor Doug Massey explains how an affordable-housing development in an upscale suburb of Philadelphia and may provide the blueprint for future developments.

Learn more about Massey’s research on affordable housing

Three students who have either completed a program or who are working toward a degree provide an inside look at the School of Architecture and interdisciplinary education.

Watch the ‘Princeton University School of Architecture’ video feature

Pulin Sanghvi has been named executive director of Career Services effective Dec. 1, and will help broaden career exploration and opportunities for all students, and establish new relationships with employers and organizations representing a wide range of interests and fields.

Learn more about Sanghvi’s role in Career Services

Princeton  will present its top honors for alumni to Sonia Sotomayor, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, and Hunter R. Rawlings III, president of the Association of American Universities.

Learn more about the alumni awards