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.
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Juniors Elektra Alivisatos, Danielle Kutasov and Matthew Vengalil have been selected as the first three U.S. Health Policy Scholars. The scholars will receive financial support for travel and research to pursue internships and thesis research that relates to U.S. health policy.
Learn more about the U.S. Health Policy Scholarship
Professors Julian Zelizer, Emily A. Carter and Jeff Nunokawa discuss their experiences working with students at Princeton.
Watch the ‘Three Professors’ video feature
The University received 26,505 applications for admission to the Class of 2017, the third-largest applicant pool in Princeton’s history
Read more about application figures for the Class of 2017
Four students traveled to Koidu, Sierra Leone in search of a community to partner with for an Engineers Without Borders project.
The 1973 Oscar-winning short documentary “Princeton: A Search for Answers” will be one of the films featured at the Museum of Modern Art’s annual Oscar film series on Sunday, Feb. 3, in New York City.
Learn the story behind “Princeton: A Search for Answers”
A 4.6 percent increase in undergraduate financial aid in the operating budget was approved for 2013-14, which includes a 3.9 percent increase in tuition.
Learn more about the 2013-14 budget
Senior Aman Sinha, an engineering student who has pursued research into computational and statistical modeling techniques, has been selected as one of this year’s Churchill Scholars and will spend a year studying at Churchill College at the University of Cambridge.
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Martin Gilens offers a detailed picture of how the affluent have significantly more influence over federal government policy than do low-income or middle-class Americans.
This year’s King Day celebration included a keynote address by Professor Anne Chang, the presentation of the MLK Day Journey Award for Special Achievement to Karen Jackson-Weaver, musical selections from the Arts High School Gospel choir and more.
Read more about the King Day Celebration.
Princeton University has established a strategic partnership with Humboldt University in Berlin that will support research and teaching collaboration spanning the disciplines.
Learn more about the strategic partnership with Humboldt University.
Professor Joa͂o Biehl and his research team are using a multidisciplinary approach to explore how Brazil’s constitutional right to health has played out in the courts and in patients’ lives.
Learn more about Biehl’s work in Brazil.
The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University is pleased to announce Sean Andrew Chen, Alexandra Kasdin, Kristen Kruger, Elizabeth J. Martin and Alisa Tiwari have been chosen for the 2014 cohort of the Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative.
Learn more about the Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative.
When the local fire department responded to Princeton University’s Frick Chemistry Laboratory last spring, they found Michael Kervan, senior maintenance mechanic and University volunteer firefighter on scene ready to help.
Learn more about University volunteer firefighters
Building on the University’s success in increasing the socioeconomic diversity of undergraduates and reducing financial obstacles for students, the Trustee Ad Hoc Committee on College Access will begin meeting this month to examine strategies to help low-income students overcome barriers to college readiness and access.
Read more about the Trusted Ad Hoc Committee on College Access
Understanding the Southern Ocean that rings Antarctica is critical to understanding the climate of the whole world, according to Jorge Sarmiento, Princeton’s George J. Magee Professor of Geoscience and Geological Engineering and associated faculty member of the Princeton Environmental Institute.
Watch the “Unlocking the Mysteries of the Southern Ocean” video feature
Anne Treisman, Princeton’s James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Psychology Emeritus, has been selected to receive the prestigious National Medal of Science, the highest scientific honor awarded in the United States.
Learn more about the National Medal of Science
Having successfully booked virtuoso Christian Tetzlaff to replace Julia Fischer for a recital at Richardson Auditorium on January 23, Director of Princeton University Concerts Marna Seltzer reflects on the challenges—and rewards—of replacing talented performers.
Read more about Marna’s experiences
While much of the campus was empty for winter break, nearly 175 chess players from across North America gathered in Frick Chemistry Laboratory Dec. 27-30 to compete in the 2012 Pan American Intercollegiate Chess Championship — known as the World Series of college chess.
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has joined forces with researchers in South Korea to develop a conceptual design for a pioneering fusion facility in that Asian nation.