The Board of Trustees has referred two campus spaces — West College (above) and the atrium of Robertson Hall — to a new Committee on Naming that was established at the Sep. 26 meeting of the Council of the Princeton University Community (CPUC).

At a dinner reception held at the Friend Center on Tuesday, Sept. 20, Dale Trevino, associate dean for diversity and inclusion in the Office of the Dean of the Graduate School at Princeton University set a tone of conviviality as he welcomed new and returning graduate students.

The Great Grévy’s Rally is intended to find out precisely how many Grévy’s zebras remain in the wild. Supported by Princeton and numerous Kenyan and American institutions, the initiative is among the first campaigns to use data collected by “citizen scientists” — members of the general public with little or no scientific training — to establish the population and range of an endangered mammal species.

Grévy’s zebra

The annual Community and Staff Day featured a Family Fun Fest at Princeton Stadium. Several local nonprofits and University departments set up booths with crafts, music, face painting, bounce houses and games throughout the stadium concourse. University student-athletes hosted a youth sports clinic on Weaver Track next to the stadium. The fun concluded with the Princeton football team’s home opener against Lafayette College, to which 12,000 area residents received free tickets. After the game — which Princeton won, 35 to 31 — fireworks lit up the sky.

A system that can compare physical objects while potentially protecting sensitive information about the objects themselves has been demonstrated experimentally at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL). This work, by researchers at Princeton University and PPPL, marks an initial confirmation of the application of a powerful cryptographic technique in the physical world.

Representatives of Princeton University gave a status report Monday, Sept. 19, to town of Princeton residents, council members and planning committee members on the 2026 Campus Plan that is being developed.

Princeton University faculty member Elaine Pagels, an authority on the religions of late antiquity and the author of “The Gnostic Gospels” and “Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas,” has been named a recipient of the 2015 National Humanities Medal. The announcement was made today by the White House. The medal will be conferred by President Barack Obama at a ceremony at the White House on Sept. 22, which will be webcast live.

Stressing a theme of community, Princeton President Christopher L. Eisgruber welcomed the Class of 2020 to the University on Sunday, Sept. 11, during Opening Exercises marking the start of the academic year.

This summer, 30 students worked at 19 early-stage startup companies in New York City as part of the Keller Center’s new Princeton Start-Up Immersion Program (PSIP). Participants lived as a group in University-sponsored housing at the Princeton Club of New York, and participated in programs — including speakers, workshops and visits to other companies — aimed at broadening their understanding of entrepreneurship.

Scientists from Princeton University and the Mayo Clinic Cancer Center have found that, in breast cancer, tumor hardness and hypoxia trigger a biological switch that causes certain cells to embark on a cancer-promoting program. This biological switch is critical to a tumors’ ability to invade other tissue, a process called metastasis — and could offer a promising treatment target.

Princeton University has taken steps to carry out recommendations of the Trustee committee on Woodrow Wilson’s legacy that are intended to bring greater diversity to the naming of campus buildings and spaces and to diversify the art and iconography on the campus.

Princeton University recognized the accomplishments of its students with the awarding of four undergraduate prizes at Opening Exercises on Sunday, Sept. 11.

Human­-caused climate warming increased the chances of the torrential rains that unleashed devastating floods in south Louisiana in mid-August by at least 40 percent, according to a team of scientists from Princeton University and partner institutions with the international research network World Weather Attribution (WWA). The research team, which conducted a rapid assessment of the role of climate on the historic heavy-rain event, also found that climate change boosted the chance of rain volume by 10 percent.

New research led by Princeton University finds that China’s Grain-for-Green Program overwhelmingly plants monoculture forests and falls short of restoring the biodiversity of China’s native forests, which contain many tree species. In its current form, the program fails to benefit, protect and promote biodiversity.

The University is welcoming the Class of 2020 to campus this week to officially begin the first chapter of its Princeton story.

People who experience job loss, divorce, death of a loved one or any number of life’s upheavals often adopt coping mechanisms to make the situation less traumatic. While these strategies manifest as behaviors, a Princeton University and National Institutes of Health study suggests that our response to stressful situations originates from structural changes in our brain that allow us to adapt to turmoil.

Daniel Marlow, Princeton’s Evans Crawford 1911 Professor of Physics, was one of two Princeton University scientists who set out four years ago to restore a Cold War-era radio satellite near the Jersey Shore. Now, the fully functional satellite is open to Princeton students, amateur radio enthusiasts and the public.

For the past two years, the student organization Princeton Racing Electric has been designing and building an all-electric, high-performance vehicle to compete in the international Formula Hybrid competition. Watch their journey to qualify for the event in New Hampshire.

LEDA is an independent nonprofit dedicated to developing the academic and leadership potential of exceptional public high school students from low-income backgrounds. One hundred high school juniors from across the country recently spent seven weeks on Princeton’s campus for LEDA’s Aspects of Leadership Summer Institute.

Princeton University researchers have developed a new computer chip that promises to boost the performance of data centers that lie at the core of numerous online services such as email and social media.