Robert K. Durkee, Princeton University’s vice president for public affairs since 1978, will step down from that role next fall while remaining in the position of vice president and secretary that he has held since 2004.

Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden today announced the appointment of Princeton University professor Tracy K. Smith as the Library’s 22nd Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, for 2017-18. Smith is the Roger S. Berlind ’52 Professor in the Humanities and a professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts.

They came from as far away as Thailand, India, Greece, New Zealand and Serbia — to don their beloved class jackets (and anything else orange and black), reunite with friends and enjoy the festivities. Approximately 26,000 Princeton alumni and guests were on campus for Reunions 2017, which ran Thursday through Sunday, June 1-4.

Sanjeev Kulkarni, dean of the Princeton University Graduate School and a professor of electrical engineering, has been appointed dean of the faculty effective July 1.

At the University’s 270th Commencement on Tuesday, June 6, President Christopher L. Eisgruber gave a tribute to former Princeton President William G. Bowen and urged graduates to learn from Bowen’s trust in institutions to address the needs of society.

At Princeton’s Class Day ceremony Monday, June 5, film director Baz Luhrmann encouraged seniors to recognize their true selves and write the script of their lives.

Princeton’s Class of 2017 kicked off graduation events Sunday, June 4, at the University’s 270th Baccalaureate, an interfaith service that offers seniors a moment of reflection between the weekend’s revelry of Reunions and the upcoming celebrations of Class Day and Commencement.

Princeton welcomed and continues to support the action that was taken in Paris in December 2015 under the auspices of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and it reaffirms the commitments it made in its 2015 statement.

In a column Tuesday, New York Times columnist David Leonhardt reported on the efforts Princeton has made and the gains it has made in enrolling and graduating first-generation and low-income students.

A baby’s babbles start to sound like speech more quickly if they get frequent vocal feedback from adults. Princeton University researchers have found the same type of feedback speeds the vocal development of infant marmoset monkeys, in the first evidence of such learning in nonhuman primates.

It was Grant Storey’s love of languages that drew him to computer programming in middle school and Latin in high school. But it was his time at Princeton that allowed him to examine the intersections between these two seemingly unrelated fields — computer science and classics.

Sanjeev Kulkarni, dean of the Princeton University Graduate School and a professor of electrical engineering, has been appointed dean of the faculty effective July 1.

When campus tour groups and international visitors make their way to Nassau Street, many stop in awe and pull out their cameras to capture the view that is distinctly Princeton University. While Nassau Hall might be the main attraction, the iconic building is framed by FitzRandolph Gate.

Grant Storey’s time at Princeton allowed him to examine the intersections between these two seemingly unrelated fields — computer science and classics.

Starting with the decision to attend college halfway around the world from her native Hong Kong, Jin Yun Chow’s journey at Princeton has been shaped by purposeful choices that have taken her into unfamiliar spaces to feed her curiosity about the world.

Reunions weekend attracts nearly 25,000 alumni, family and friends for walks, talks, community service projects, Alumni-Faculty Forums, picnics, parties, concerts, dancing, meeting old friends, making new ones, and, of course, marching in the One and Only P-rade!

Several University activities for undergraduate and graduate degree candidates and their families are planned for June 4-6.

Princeton University has launched a redesigned main website that features improved search capabilities, streamlined navigation and greater emphasis on photos and videos. Its flexible format adjusts to screens of all sizes. The new design, which had been available in a public preview for the past month, went live last week.

An international team of researchers, including those from Princeton University, reported an increase in anthropogenic nitrogen deposition, or the deposition from the atmosphere of fixed nitrogen, resulting from human activities on Dongsha Atoll.

In the spring course “The Environment: Science and Policy,” Professor Michael Oppenheimer, one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change, teamed up with ecology expert David Wilcove to examine a number of environmental concerns — from warming seas to air pollution to deforestation to natural disasters — through a policy lens.