Princeton University has been recognized in national and international rankings for its academic excellence, best value and least student debt. The University was ranked No. 1 overall in the Best National Universities category in the “U.S. News 2016 America’s Best Colleges” by U.S. News & World Report. The publication also ranked the University first for best value and lowest student debt at graduation. Princeton also ranked No. 1 in Kiplinger’s Personal Finance list for “Best College Values.”
Princeton University President Christopher L. Eisgruber welcomed the incoming Class of 2019 at Opening Exercises on Sept. 13, noting that while many students already may have met through social media, they will really get to know each other in person.
Princeton University celebrated the accomplishments of its students with the awarding of four undergraduate prizes at Opening Exercises on Sunday, Sept. 13.
Before they arrive on campus, Princeton freshmen are asked to complete their first assignment — reading the Princeton Pre-read, a book chosen each year by Princeton’s president as an introduction to the University’s intellectual life. The 1,300-plus members of the Class of 2019 have just finished “Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do” by social psychologist Claude Steele, a meditation on identity that President Christopher L. Eisgruber calls “some of the most important social science work done in the last quarter-century.”
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In Princeton’s typography studio, students are using their hands and raw materials such as ink, metal and wood to learn an old-fashioned art that is trending again: letterpress printing.
Princeton faculty member and author Jhumpa Lahiri, whose novels and short stories explore the immigrant experience, family, love, language and cultural identity, has been named a recipient of the 2014 National Humanities Medal. The announcement was made on Sept. 3 by the White House. The medal will conferred by President Barack Obama at a ceremony at the White House at 3 p.m. on Sept. 10, which will be webcast live.
This summer’s cohort of interns was part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship (SULI) program. Launched in 2004, the SULI program is sponsored and managed by the DOE Office of Science’s Office of Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists, which partners with DOE laboratories across the country to encourage undergraduate students to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Visitors to Princeton University’s Prospect Gardens may be familiar with the cheerful orange marigolds, pops of pink petunias and bunches of begonias blooming around the lush grounds. What they may not know is that most flowers planted there and in other campus gardens get their start just down the road in the University’s greenhouses.
Researchers have found an automated way to identify and eliminate those stray soda cans, roaming cars and photobombing strangers that can send favorite photos to the recycle bin. Called distractors, they are elements that take away from the central focus of the photo.
Understanding the role of government and politics before, during and after health emergencies is one step toward improving preparedness, response efforts, and saving lives, according to Princeton University researchers who will discuss “The Politics of Plagues” at the Princeton-Fung Global Forum. The forum, an annual international conference sponsored by the University, will address “Modern Plagues: Lessons Learned From the Ebola Crisis” on Nov. 2-3 in Dublin.
Founded by Richard Just, Michael Koike, Gregory Mancini and Rich Tucker of Princeton’s Class of 2001, the Princeton Summer Journalism Program — now in its 14th year — brings a group of high-achieving high school seniors from low-income backgrounds to Princeton every summer for a rigorous workshop on journalism and college admissions.
Along with co-researchers from across the University, Claire White, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, is exploring ways to manufacture cement with a much lower contribution to global warming. Some of these cement substitutes completely eliminate the need to burn limestone at high temperature, a critical step in standard cement production that accounts for much of the CO2 emissions.
Tracking mobile phone data is often associated with privacy issues, but these vast datasets could be the key to understanding how infectious diseases are spread seasonally, according to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
FSI is a seven-week summer program that allows a cohort of entering students the chance to experience the intellectual, co-curricular, and social life at Princeton prior to the beginning of the fall semester. During the program, our Freshman Scholars have the opportunity to immerse themselves in the intellectually vibrant culture at Princeton through seminar-style courses and/or laboratory research experiences, to engage with their fellow scholars in a variety of co-curricular, community-building activities, and to work closely with faculty members from a range of academic disciplines and fields.
This was the fourth year that the Keller Center has held its Demo Day, the culmination of the center’s eLab student startup accelerator. The summer-long program provides work space, instruction and support for student teams who compete for admission. The program also provides up to $20,000 in funding without taking any equity in the fledgling ventures. Team members are matched with veteran entrepreneurs who serve as mentors, and they attend workshops and coaching sessions that concentrate on different aspects of launching a startup.
Yu Xie, the Bert G. Kerstetter ’66 University Professor of Sociology and the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS), has been named the inaugural director of the Center on Contemporary China at Princeton University.
John Storey, Princeton University’s William R. Harman ’63 and Mary-Love Harman Professor in Genomics and professor in the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, has received the 2015 COPSS Presidents’ Award, which recognizes outstanding contributions to statistics by a researcher aged 40 or younger. Presented by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS), the award is one of the most prestigious in the field.
The Princeton University Preparatory Program (PUPP), a tuition-free academic and cultural enrichment program, has been helping prepare high-achieving, low-income high school students for college success for nearly 15 years.
Princeton University researchers will join 14 academic institutions and partners nationwide on a $12 million project to address the challenges that threaten urban water systems in the United States and globally. Funded by the National Science Foundation and led by Colorado State University, the collaboration will establish the Urban Water Innovation Network (UWIN), which will create technological, institutional and management solutions that help communities increase the resilience of their water systems and better respond to water crises.
