Roughly 80 percent of the world’s fresh water use is devoted to agriculture. As countries such as China stretch their water supplies, they turn to countries with more abundant water supplies for food. Ignacio Rodríguez-Iturbe, the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, is studying the effects of the globalization of water usage. Read more about Eating habits in China spur global shift in water use.

Historian Jeremy Adelman is spending this fall teaching “A History of the World since 1300” to more than 50 students at Princeton University — and 80,000 students across the globe. Adelman is among seven professors debuting classes on the educational website Coursera as the University explores online technology to enhance learning at Princeton and extend its educational resources beyond campus. Read more about Princeton extends learning through online Coursera classes.

Under a new $3 million grant from the Glenn Foundation for Medical Research, Princeton University researchers will study the biology of aging and healthspan. Read more about “Glenn Foundation grant launches Princeton lab for research on aging.”

On Oct. 2, Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, the Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities Emeritus, returned to Princeton, where she previously taught literature and writing for 17 years, as the Belknap Visitor in the Humanities. She read from her new novel, “Home,” and answered questions from the audience. Read Story

A faculty and staff blood drive that began Monday continues Tuesday from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Frist Campus Center multipurpose rooms.

Individuals may register in advance on the Red Cross website by using the sponsor code 022851. The blood drive is sponsored by University Health Services.

Renowned poet Laura Kasischke and playwright and actor Wallace Shawn will read from their works as part of the Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series of the Program in Creative Writing at the Lewis Center for the Arts.  The reading, beginning at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Berlind Theatre at the McCarter Theatre Center, is free and open to the public.

Michael Novogratz, a member of Princeton’s Class of 1987, and his wife, Sukey Caceres Novogratz of the Class of 1989, have given $4 million to establish a fund to support the University’s Bridge Year Program. The three-year-old initiative enables newly admitted freshmen to defer enrollment and spend nine months serving a local community in another country.

The Novogratz fund is helping to increase the number of students who can participate in this signature program by sponsoring at least one student annually in each of Bridge Year’s four service areas: China, India, Peru and Senegal.

Doorways have long been analogous with concepts such as transition, challenge, invitation, adventure and opportunity. At Princeton, there is no shortage of entryways, both literally and figuratively, through which University students, faculty, staff and alumni may travel.

Honoring those opportunities regularly found on campus, this video presents 20 distinctive doorways spanning more than 700 years of architectural styles. From the wooden entrances of Rockefeller College and glass portals of Frick Chemistry Laboratory, to FitzRandolph Gate, each Princeton doorway welcomes and leads individuals on a new journey.

A groundbreaking survey of Pakistanis has found stronger support for militant groups among the middle class than the poor. The finding by a team including Princeton researchers challenges the conventional wisdom about links between economic status and views on militants that has helped shaped American foreign-aid policies since 2001.

Read more about “Survey shifts spotlight away from poor as key supporters of militants in Pakistan“

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