Celebrated playwright and theater director Emily Mann was raised, if not born, to “make trouble.” In the latest episode of “She Roars,” Emily describes growing up on the South Side of Chicago during the height of the civil rights movement and how she decided that theater was her best tool for effecting change.
The Prison Teaching Initiative (PTI) at Princeton University is one of five organizations awarded a collaborative National Science Foundation grant to build a national alliance that will forge robust pathways to STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) careers for people who are, or were, incarcerated.
Members of the Faculty and Student Committee on Sexual Misconduct and the University Student Life Committee continued their work over the summer, meeting jointly on a weekly basis to consider student concerns related to the handling of sexual misconduct cases.
Climate change solutions aren’t free, but we know how much saving the planet will cost and we have the money, financial expert Marilyn Waite, a 2006 Princeton alumna, explains in the latest episode of “All for Earth.”
In independent studies, two Princeton University research teams recently identified surprisingly large sources of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, being leaked into the atmosphere. Pound for pound, methane causes a far greater warming effect in the atmosphere than does carbon dioxide — 86-fold more heating over 20 years, and 35-fold more over the course of a century.
Approaching Hurricane Dorian puts a spotlight in the media on research involving global warming and climate in relation to weather events such as hurricanes.
#PrincetonU prof. Gabriel Vecchi of @GeosciencesPU and @PrincetonPEI joins @jaketapper to discuss how #globalwarming contributes to the intensity of weather events like #HurricaneDorian.
More about Vecchi's research on the impact of #globalwarming: https://t.co/5bj1Y4tLiJ https://t.co/MEdCW2ViMT
— Princeton University (@Princeton) September 5, 2019
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‘100-year’ floods will happen every one to 30 years, according to new coastal flood prediction maps
Members of Princeton University’s Class of 2023 fanned out across New Jersey and along the East Coast during the first week of September to participate in three signature Orientation experiences — Community Action, Dialogue and Difference in Action, and Outdoor Action.
The International Balzan Foundation has awarded Michael Cook, the Class of 1943 University Professor of Near Eastern Studies, the 2019 Balzan Prize for Islamic Studies. The prize comes with an award of $760,000, half of which must be spent to finance research projects involving a new generation of young researchers.
Jennifer Caputo has been appointed executive director of Alumni Engagement within Princeton University Advancement.
Low-temperature plasma, a rapidly expanding source of innovation in fields ranging from electronics to health care to space exploration, is a highly complex state of matter. So complex that the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has teamed with Princeton University to become home to a collaborative facility open to researchers from across the country to advance the understanding and control of this dynamic physical state.
Morrison, a Nobel laureate, was Princeton’s Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus, “who had a very special role in this community for 30 years,” Eisgruber said to the students gathered in the University Chapel. He noted that two years ago, the University dedicated one of the oldest buildings on campus in her name, to “honor the marvelous author and teacher who contributed so much to Princeton and the world.”