Eight students have been named winners of the 2016 Spirit of Princeton Award, honoring Princeton University undergraduates for positive contributions to campus life. The award recognizes those who have demonstrated a strong commitment to the undergraduate experience through dedicated efforts in student organizations, athletics, community service, religious life, residential life and the arts.

Twenty-two faculty proposals to develop new classes or redesign existing courses have received funding this year through Princeton University’s 250th Anniversary Fund for Innovation in Undergraduate Education.

Every year citizens flee their homelands to escape political instability, violent conflicts, environmental degradation and grinding poverty. Over the past few months, students in a Princeton University undergraduate policy task force have been studying the challenges EU leaders face in dealing with the migrant influx — and developing potential solutions.

Princeton University has made significant progress during the past year to foster a more inclusive campus climate, and continues to implement new programs and practices related to issues of diversity, equity and inclusion.

Frist Campus Center was the center of Princeton University’s research universe Thursday afternoon as more than 150 undergraduates, graduate students and postdoctoral researchers presented their work at the first Princeton Research Day.

Scientists from Princeton University and NASA have confirmed that 1,284 objects observed outside Earth’s solar system by NASA’s Kepler spacecraft are indeed planets. Reported in The Astrophysical Journal on May 10, it is the largest single announcement of new planets to date and more than doubles the number of confirmed planets discovered by Kepler so far to more than 2,300.

With their senior theses turned in and graduation around the corner, Princeton’s senior class made some time to celebrate with a prom — and with dates five times their age.

Before arriving for Orientation in September, members of Princeton’s Class of 2020 will read “Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in the Defense of Equality” by political philosopher Danielle Allen.  

The negative effects of climate change on the world’s children and possible responses brought together two Princeton researchers from very different fields to contribute to the new issue of The Future of Children, a journal that promotes effective policies and programs for children.

Thirty high school students from around the United States have been named recipients of the 2016 Princeton Prize in Race Relations. The students were honored April 29-30 during the annual Princeton Prize Symposium on Race held on the Princeton University campus.

An enlarged photograph of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson throwing out the first pitch at a baseball game will be removed from the wall of a dining hall at Wilson College, one of the residential colleges at Princeton University.

The rapid escalation of border enforcement over the past three decades has backfired as a strategy to control undocumented immigration between Mexico and the United States, according to new research that suggests further militarization of the border is a waste of money.

Tackling complex topics and exploring solutions as a group is a key feature of “Capitalism, Utopia and Social Justice,” the Freshman Seminar in Human Values being offered this semester.

Scientists from Princeton University and Uppsala University in Sweden have identified a specific gene that within a year helped spur a permanent physical change in a finch species in response to a drought-induced food shortage. The findings provide a genetic basis for natural selection that, when combined with observational data, could serve as a comprehensive model of evolution.

Cameron Platt (at right), an English major from Santa Barbara, California, has been selected as valedictorian of Princeton’s Class of 2016. Esther Kim, an English major from Marietta, Georgia, has been named the Latin salutatorian. 

Researchers have found that the “Great Firewall” technology that controls internet traffic entering and leaving China is not merely an apparatus that statically blocks traffic. It also actively sends probes to other machines that are connected to the internet, preemptively searching for internet infrastructure and services that seek to circumvent its defenses.

Communiversity, an annual celebration that brings Princeton University and the town of Princeton together for a day of performances, food, games and fun, drew tens of thousands.

A century after small Friday night dinners marked the earliest expressions of Jewish life on campus, Princeton University alumni spanning eight decades returned to campus for a three-day conference, “L’Chaim! To Life: Celebrating 100 Years of Jewish Life at Princeton.“

Princeton University has decided to discontinue its sprint football program, effective this spring. Princeton is one of only three Ivy League schools that offer the program, and sprint football is its only varsity team (out of 38) that plays in a league that is not associated either with the Ivy League or with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).

The persistence of the massive, explosive fissures on the surface of Saturn’s sixth-largest moon, Enceladus have remained a mystery for 11 years. Researchers from Princeton University and the University of Chicago show, however, that the fissures could be kept active by the sloshing of water in the vast ocean that scientists suppose is beneath the moon’s thick ice shell. The findings could help provide a clear objective for future satellite missions to Enceladus, which scientists suspect could host life.