The paradox of a veteran Republican addressing a university audience on a conservative plan to mitigate the effects of climate change was not lost on James A. Baker III as he spoke to a full audience in Princeton University’s McCosh Hall last week.

Shirley M. Tilghman, president of the University, emeritus, and a professor of molecular biology and public affairs, has created a new freshman seminar, “What Makes a Great Experiment?” Each week, first-year students in this Richard L. Smith ’70 Freshman Seminar examine studies Tilghman has selected for being thoughtfully and creatively designed and written for publication.

Warren’s 2016 book, “New England Bound,” explores the lived experience of chattel bondage — enslaved people held as property — in 17th-century New England. The book was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize this year and won the Organization of American Historians’ 2017 Merle Curti Social History Prize.

From Aristotle explained through the lens of a soccer match to a technique for measuring a human’s heart rate by using a webcam, the second annual Princeton Research Day served up a day full of intriguing findings from across the University.

Members of the University’s communications and technical staffs are readying the new design of the main Princeton website for launch as scheduled on Thursday, May 18.

A new University initiative is bringing together researchers and administrators to apply insights from behavioral science to tackle campus challenges and advance research in that field.

Senior Edwin Rosales, a first-generation college student who emigrated from Guatemala with his parents when he was a child, drew on his own family stories and extensive research to write not one but two senior theses.

The same technology that adds fizz to soda can now be used to remove particles from dirty water. Researchers at Princeton University have found a technique for using carbon dioxide in a low-cost water treatment system that eliminates the need for costly and complex filters.

Students in two humanities courses this spring are examining the idea of evil through close reading and discussion of literary and philosophical texts from Plato to Flannery O’Connor.

Stressing that college is a “difference maker” in people’s lives, Princeton University President Christopher L. Eisgruber focused on ways to improve college access and success for low-income and first-generation students during a visit to the Bay Area last week.

Before the Class of 2021 arrives on campus in the fall, Princeton’s newest students will be asked to examine a timely topic — populism — and prepare to discuss it with their peers.

China’s smog has created a public health crisis that has led the Chinese government to declare a war on air pollution. In addition, as part of the Paris climate agreements, China has committed to peaking its CO2 emissions by 2030 or sooner. A new study led by researchers at Princeton University analyzes a conflict between these goals in China’s plans to use synthetic natural gas.

More than 300 members of the Princeton University and local communities joined together last week for Celebrating Service at Princeton. This inaugural event was organized by the University’s Service and Civic Engagement Steering Committee to honor the service and civic engagement endeavors of Princeton faculty, undergraduate students, graduate students, staff and community partners.

Thousands of people from the University and local communities enjoyed activities, performances, food and more at the 47th annual Communiversity Artsfest celebration last weekend.

A photo of a lone white rhinoceros is projected onto a screen behind Jacob Dlamini, a Princeton University assistant professor of history, as his students argue the justification of using violence against the poachers and criminal syndicates who illegally hunt the animal for its iconic horn.

Academy Award-nominated film director, screenwriter and producer Baz Luhrmann has been selected to deliver the keynote address at the University’s Class Day ceremony on Monday, June 5.

Princeton and the 30 other colleges and universities who filed a friend-of-the-court brief last month supporting a legal challenge to the Trump administration’s March 6 revised executive order on immigration filed a similar brief Thursday, April 20, in another challenge to the order.

Princeton University has made public a preview version of a new design for its main website, www.princeton.edu, and is seeking comment from the University community and other visitors to the site. The preview site is at beta.princeton.edu.

Campus Dining exposes students to new cuisines and cultures, reflecting the different tastes of students who come to Princeton from all over the country and the world.

Princeton University’s trustees have approved recommendations to name West College, a prominent and central campus building, for the Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, an emeritus faculty member at Princeton, and to name the major auditorium in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs for Sir Arthur Lewis, a Nobel laureate in Economics, who served on the school’s faculty from 1963 to 1983.