Judy Jarvis, who served as director of Vassar College’s LGBTQ Center and Women’s Center, has been selected to lead Princeton University’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Center.

In 1928, The Daily Princetonian’s editorial board wondered if scheduling a formal study time between classes and final exams — a Reading Period — would be valuable. “Would undergraduates be scattered all the way from White Springs to Quebec, or would they really stay in Princeton to study?” the student newspaper wrote March 22, 1928.

Princeton University honored Martin Luther King Jr. during a Jan. 18 ceremony featuring reflections on the civil rights leader’s legacy, remarks on the continued quest for racial justice in the United States, musical performances, and a recognition of community and campus service efforts.

New work from Princeton University researchers shows that the effectiveness of bacteria’s ability to keep in touch is influenced by the physical characteristics and flow of fluid in the environments they’re invading. The findings provide a better understanding of where and when in a system scientists can interfere with bacterial communication to help prevent infections and blockages.

Fine Hall on the Princeton University campus is home to the Department of Mathematics. With a tradition of excellence, the math department is known for its innovative thinkers and teachers of future generations of mathematicians.

On the second floor of Lewis Thomas Lab at Princeton University, researchers are working to better understand the complex interactions between environmental conditions and human DNA.

Princeton seniors Ella Cheng (at right) and Tyler Rudolph and alumni Lucas Briger, Anastasya Lloyd-Damnjanovic and Yung Yung (Rosy) Yang have been named inaugural Schwarzman Scholars. The Schwarzman Scholarship covers the cost of graduate study and living toward a one-year master’s program at Tsinghua University in Beijing.

In musings drawn from an interview, Eddie Glaude Jr., the William S. Tod Professor of Religion and African American Studies and chair of the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University, reflects on his Southern childhood, race and identity, politics, teaching at Princeton, student protests, courage, democracy and more.

Among the most feared events in space physics are solar eruptions, massive explosions that hurl millions of tons of plasma gas and radiation into space. Now researchers at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory have identified a mechanism that may halt eruptions before they leave the sun.

Princeton University researchers have captured among the first recordings of neural activity in nearly the entire brain of a free-moving animal. The three-dimensional recordings could provide scientists with a better understanding of how neurons coordinate action and perception in animals.

Tim Vasen, a lecturer in theater and the Lewis Center for the Arts, and director of the Program in Theater at Princeton, died Dec. 28 following an accident in Brooklyn, New York. He was 51.

Curbing school bullying has been a focal point for educators, administrators, policymakers and parents, but the answer may not lie within rules set by adults, according to new research led by Princeton University researchers. 

Princeton University has offered admission to 785 students from a pool of 4,229 candidates who applied through single-choice early action for the Class of 2020. The pool was the largest in the last five years, representing a 9.8 percent increase over last year’s early applicant pool.

As everyday items from cars to watches increasingly use computers and communications to operate, the demand on networks that connect devices is expected to balloon. In response, engineers are working to harness the devices’ own computing, sensing and storage power to form networks that meet most of the demand.

In a wide-ranging conversation Monday, Dec. 14, Princeton University President Christopher L. Eisgruber updated Princeton town officials on the University’s strategic and campus planning efforts and discussed ways the University and community may continue to collaborate on areas of mutual interest.

We think of chitchat and small talk as the things people say to pass the time or kill an awkward silence. New research suggests, however, that these idle conversations could be a social-bonding tool passed down from primates.

As part of its Campus Guide series, Princeton Architectural Press has published the second edition of “Princeton University and Neighboring Institutions,” by Robert Spencer Barnett.

Since joining the Princeton faculty in 2011, Valenzuela has investigated American electoral politics and political behavior with a focus on Latino public opinion and voter turnout, religion, race and ethnicity, and the politics of identity in the United States. 

We discussed the “epidemic” of gun violence as it relates to public health with Heather Howard, director of the State Health Reform Assistance Network and lecturer in public affairs at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Randall Kennedy, a Princeton alumnus, former trustee, and the Michael R. Klein Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, has been selected as the speaker for the University’s 2016 Baccalaureate ceremony.