The University of Maryland defeated Princeton University 85-70 on Monday evening in the second round of the NCAA women’s basketball tournament. The defeat was the first of the year for Coach Courtney Banghart and the Tigers, who finished the season 31-1.

Michael Graves, the Robert Schirmer Professor of Architecture Emeritus at Princeton University and a renowned architect and designer, died of natural causes on March 12 at his home in Princeton, New Jersey. He was 80.

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Princeton University and Johns Hopkins University researchers report that the African countries most affected by the 2014 Ebola outbreak could now be highly susceptible to measles epidemics due to severe disruptions in routine health care such as vaccinations.

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With the global population rising, analysts and policymakers have targeted Africa’s vast wet savannas as a place to produce staple foods and bioenergy groups at low environmental costs. But a new study led by Princeton researchers finds that converting Africa’s wet savannas into farmland would come at a high environmental cost and fail to meet some existing standards for renewable fuels.

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Princeton geosciences professor Jeroen Tromp and his team have embarked on an ambitious project to use earthquakes to map the Earth’s entire mantle, the semisolid rock that stretches to a depth of 1,800 miles, about halfway down to the planet’s center and about 300 times deeper than humans have drilled.

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The undefeated Princeton University women’s basketball team will face the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay in the first round of the NCAA basketball tournament.

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The Princeton women’s basketball team defeated Pennsylvania 55-42 on Tuesday evening, closing out the regular season with a historic 30-0 record. Princeton finished with the best regular season record ever for any Ivy League men’s or women’s basketball team.

On Jan. 30, Ruha Benjamin, an assistant professor in the Center for African American Studies, blended a sociologist’s observational skills and an actor’s sense of storytelling in 21-minute TedX Baltimore talk “From the Park Bench to the Lab Bench: What Kind of Future Are We Designing?” — which gives viewers a backstage tour of what she calls “discriminatory design.”

Internationally renowned singer-songwriter Paul Simon visited Princeton University on Tuesday, March 3, talking about his career in a discussion facilitated by Paul Muldoon, the Howard G. B. Clark ’21 University Professor in the Humanities and a professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts. The Grammy Award-winning artist also offered an impromptu performance to a capacity audience of over 800, made up of mostly students joined by faculty and staff at Richardson Auditorium. The event was presented by the Lewis Center’s Performance Central.

David Tank, the Henry L. Hillman Professor in Molecular Biology at Princeton, has been named one of four winners of the Brain Prize, an honor that recognizes scientists who have made outstanding contributions to brain research.

The Innovation Forum, an annual presentation of technology developed by the University’s professors, graduate students and researchers, is sponsored by the Keller Center and the Office of Technology Licensing. Now celebrating its 10th year, the forum has helped launch a wide range of projects from new biomedical devices to high-tech imagers and cameras.

The Cotsen Children’s Library, which serves children and scholars, contains children’s books, manuscripts, original artwork, toys and prints spanning the 15th century to the present day. 

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The 3-D printing scene, a growing favorite of do-it-yourselfers, has spread to the study of plasma physics. With a series of experiments, researchers at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have found that 3-D printers can be an important tool in laboratory environments.

At the Keller Center’s 10th annual Innovation Forum on Feb. 25, Mark Esposito, a Princeton University graduate student in molecular biology took the top prize with his pitch for a method to stop the spread of cancer.

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A $10 million gift from Louis Simpson, an alumnus of Princeton’s Graduate School, has established the Louis A. Simpson Center for the Study of Macroeconomics in the University’s Department of Economics.

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Valerie Smith, Princeton University’s dean of the college, has been named the next president of Swarthmore College. Swarthmore’s Board of Managers approved her appointment Feb. 21. Smith, who is also the Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature and a professor of English and African American studies, will remain at Princeton through June 30, the end of the academic year. On July 1, she will assume office at Swarthmore, a top-ranked liberal arts college near Philadelphia.

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More than 1,000 Princeton University alumni, students, faculty and friends marked the 100th anniversary of Alumni Day on Feb. 20-21, recognizing alumni achievements and celebrating the centennial with academic, arts and other events across campus.

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A new video series features the work of Princeton University graduate students and a postdoctoral researcher working in Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park, one of the world’s most biologically rich habitats. The videos show how the park provides researchers with invaluable and unforgettable field experience, as well as an opportunity to revive a vast wilderness in critical need of help.

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Musician, musicologist, bibliophile and philanthropist William H. Scheide, a 1936 Princeton University alumnus who died in November at age 100, has left his extraordinary collection of some 2,500 rare printed books and manuscripts to Princeton University. With an expected appraised value of nearly $300 million, it is the largest gift in the University’s history.

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At Princeton’s Bendheim Center for Finance, researchers are strengthening connections between the often separate disciplines of finance, economics, engineering and public policy — an inclusive approach that helps bring clarity to today’s rapidly evolving economy.

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