About 2,600 students are enrolled in master’s and doctoral programs at Princeton’s Graduate School, studying closely with faculty in 42 academic departments and programs. Each of these students experiences campus differently.

Emily A. Carter, a Princeton faculty member since 2004 and founding director of the University’s Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, has been selected as the next dean of theSchool of Engineering and Applied Science. Her appointment is effective July 1.

Fifteen years ago, Princeton University created a center focused on supporting student service and civic engagement. Today, the Pace Center for Civic Engagement is thriving, helping Princeton students learn how to do service well and have a positive impact in the community. 

Princeton University has offered admission to 1,894 students, or 6.46 percent of the 29,303 applicants for the Class of 2020, in what is the University’s most selective admission process to date. Last year, the University’s admission rate was 6.99 percent. The class size is expected to be 1,308 students for the Class of 2020.

Princeton University’s trustees have adopted the University’s operating budget for 2016-17, which includes a 6.6 percent increase to $147.4 million in the undergraduate financial aid budget to continue to ensure that a Princeton education is genuinely affordable for every admitted student.

The Princeton University Board of Trustees has called for an expanded and more vigorous commitment to diversity and inclusion at Princeton, with concerted efforts not only to implement a broad range of existing initiatives, but to take additional actions, including those proposed by a special trustee committee (committee vice chair, Brent Henry at left) that was appointed last fall to consider the legacy of Woodrow Wilson at Princeton. 

Princeton University students are showcasing their many opportunities to experience life abroad through “International Eye,” an exhibition of photographs taken while participating in international study, internships, service and research.

Founded in 2004, the Princeton EWB is one of the oldest in the country. After launching their first program in Peru, the organization was approached to help build a library in Ghana and later to create a borehole — a type of well — in Sierra Leone.

Best-selling novelist and Princeton alumna Jodi Picoult has been selected to deliver the keynote address at the University’s Class Day ceremony on Monday, May 30, 2016.

Princeton Researchers are joining with colleagues at a Brazilian university to help the operator of Brazil’s electric grid and the country’s major utilities develop a system to better manage their electric system when hydropower dries up.

President Christopher L. Eisgruber traveled to India this week, meeting with Princeton alumni, Indian policy makers and leaders in business and higher education.

Princeton University has launched an interactive virtual tour that allows visitors from around the world to explore the campus remotely. The tour is available in four languages (English, Korean, Mandarin and Spanish) and comprises 23 stops highlighting iconic buildings, academic centers, and student and recreational facilities.

As an undergraduate, Rob Pike first read Brian Kernighan’s book on the C programming language while home sick from classes at the University of Toronto. Thirty years later, Pike and colleagues at Google have written a new computer language called Go; and Kernighan, now a professor of computer science at Princeton, has co-written the book on it — “The Go Programming Language.”

Big Bang neutrinos are believed to be everywhere in the universe but have never been seen. As the oldest known witnesses or relics of the early universe, these subatomic particles could shed new light on the birth of the cosmos if scientists could pin them down.

People in the workplace may adjust their behavior to break stereotypes about themselves or match stereotypes of others — even if it means playing dumb or giving the cold shoulder, a Princeton University study finds.

John Higgins, a Princeton University assistant professor of geosciences, led a team of researchers who reported in 2015 the recovery of a 1-million-year-old ice core from the remote Allan Hills of Antarctica, the oldest ice ever recorded by scientists.

Princeton University seniors Pelin Asa (at right) and Sean Treacy have been awarded the Henry Richardson Labouisse ’26 Prize to spend one year pursuing international civic engagement projects following graduation.

Nathan Arrington, an assistant professor of art and archaeology at Princeton University, sometimes visits the cemetery near campus to think. He is an expert on another burial ground, thousands of miles away and 2,500 years in the past, in Athens, Greece, where a fledgling democracy, perhaps the world’s first, was fighting for survival.

From icy Lake Carnegie in winter to the super-charged fusion facilities of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, the Princeton campus has many temperature variations.

The 11th annual event, sponsored by the Keller Center and the University’s Office of Technology Licensing, took place before a large audience of students, professors and industry professionals in Maeder Hall of the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment.