Frederik Simons, an associate professor of geosciences at Princeton University, fastens a rope around a six-foot-tall white cylinder affixed with solar panels and various wires suspended in a metal frame. The instrument, named Son-O-Mermaid, will detect and record waves, but not the kind that are rolling under the research vessel and making Simons seasick. Son-O-Mermaid measures sound waves created by the quaking of the earth far beneath the ocean surface.
FreeB is a free, municipal shuttle service available for anyone to ride. It stops at Princeton Station (Dinky), Palmer Square, the Princeton Shopping Center and other locations in town. The University helped support the launch of the service in 2008 and provided $90,000 to the town for the new 21-passenger bus.
A new study in zebrafish suggests that irregular fluid flow through the spinal column brought on by gene mutations is linked to a type of scoliosis that can affect humans during adolescence. Found in humans and zebrafish, these mutated genes damage the cilia—tiny hair-like projections that line the spinal canal and help move the fluid — and lead to a curvature of the spine.
Princeton University study finds youth who are between ages 10 and 14 when a household member goes to prison are at a 41 percent greater risk for giving birth to their first child before marriage. This risk is especially pronounced when the father or an extended household member who is not a parent — such as a cousin, aunt, uncle or friend — is imprisoned.
To curb the destructive illegal ivory trade, the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) announced in 2008 that it would suspend its ban on the international trade in ivory to allow a one-time legal sale of 108 metric tons of stockpiled ivory to China and Japan from four African nations. This partial-legalization was intended to flood the Asian market with legal ivory, driving black-market purveyors and the poachers who supply them out of business.
Louis A. Simpson, a 1960 alumnus of Princeton’s Graduate School, and his wife, Kimberly K. Querrey, have given $20 million to fund the Louis A. Simpson *60 International Building. The building, expected to be completed this summer, will be the home of the University’s many international initiatives.
Imagine you’re struggling with anxiety or depression that’s affecting your quality of life. You’re not sleeping well. Your work and family life are suffering. You decide to reach out for help and leave a message with a psychotherapist covered by your health insurance, asking for an appointment. You think you’re on the road to help. But new research by a Princeton sociologist suggests that your chance of securing an appointment varies greatly depending on your sex, race and class.
In the early 2000s, Christopher Achen wandered into a bookstore across from campus where he spotted two books about shark attacks along the New Jersey coast that killed four people over 12 days and sparked a panic in 1916. Those books gave Achen an idea, a way to test a theory he and colleague Larry Bartels had been batting around as part of a broader conversation about the way American democracy does — and doesn’t — work.
The center opened in 2006 as the Princeton Center for Theoretical Physics with significant funding from a Princeton alumnus. In 2008, it was renamed the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science to reflect the center’s reach beyond physics. The center moved into its current space, a renovated wing on the fourth floor of Jadwin Hall, in 2008.
In his Baccalaureate address, Randall Kennedy, a member of the Class of 1977, former Princeton trustee, and the Michael R. Klein Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, called on members of the senior class to serve as ambassadors for higher education, “embracing opportunities to advance the best versions of collegiate and university life.”
Princeton University awarded honorary degrees during Commencement exercises Tuesday, May 31, to six individuals for their contributions to the humanities, economics, journalism, law, medicine, history and public service.
At Princeton’s Class Day ceremony Monday, May 30, best-selling novelist and 1987 alumna Jodi Picoult encouraged seniors to raise “questions most people would rather not hear, much less discuss.”
Princeton University alumni are arriving on campus by plane, train, car, foot and even float — P-rade float that is — for Reunions 2016. Approximately 25,000 alumni and friends are expected to attend the celebration Thursday, May 26, through Sunday, May 29.
Princeton University awarded degrees to 1,291 undergraduates in the Class of 2016, five from former classes and 906 graduate students at its 269th Commencement Tuesday, May 31.
25,000 alumni and guests are expected to return to campus Thursday through Sunday, May 26-29. Highlights of Reunions 2016 will include: the P-rade throughout campus beginning at 2 p.m., May 28; the University Orchestra lawn concert at 8 p.m. and fireworks at 9:15 p.m., May 28, on Finney and Campbell fields; and Alumni-Faculty Forums and performances by student groups throughout the weekend.
Seventeen speakers presented their innovative ideas at the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment Building Opening Celebration and Symposium May 18-20. The symposium featured the center’s jointly appointed faculty highlighting their research in sustainable energy, as well as industry and government leaders outlining their visions for the future of energy and the environment.
Princeton University will honor four outstanding New Jersey secondary school teachers at its 2016 Commencement on Tuesday, May 31. This year’s honorees are Ronald Duncan Jr. of Saint Anthony High School in Jersey City, Barbara Fasano of High Point Regional High School in Sussex, Matthew Morone of Pascack Valley High School in Hillsdale and Richard Wertz of Verona High School in Verona.
In a towering building just outside of Princeton, scientists, policymakers and Princeton University administrators walked among twisting pipes, countless valves, massive control panels and lofty catwalks to see the newest “star on Earth” — an enhanced fusion energy device that produces plasma at temperatures that exceed those of Earth’s sun.
Yueh-Lin (Lynn) Loo, the Theodora D. ’78 and William H. Walton III ’74 Professor in Engineering and professor of chemical and biological engineering at Princeton University, has been appointed director of the Andlinger Center of Energy and the Environment, effective July 1. Looends her term as acting vice dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science and she succeeds founding director Emily Carter, who has been appointed dean of engineering.
Princeton University researchers will have an integral role in the Simons Observatory, a new astronomy facility in South America recently established with a $38.4 million grant from the Simons Foundation. The observatory will investigate cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation to better understand the physics of the Big Bang, the nature of dark energy and dark matter, the properties of neutrinos, and the formation of structure in the universe.
