Lectures, workshops, family activities, award presentations and addresses by Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor and Association of American Universities President Hunter R. Rawlings III were all part of the Alumni Day celebration on Saturday, Feb. 22.
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Learn how a collaboration with the Royal College of Music offers students the opportunity to focus on rigorous professional training at the prestigious conservatory during a semester abroad, and pursue performance opportunities after they return.
Read more about the partnership with Royal College of Music
Seniors Joe Barrett and Izzy Kasdin have been named co-winners of the University’s 2014 Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, the highest general distinction conferred on an undergraduate.
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Former Vice President Al Gore has been selected to deliver the keynote address at the University’s Class Day ceremony on Monday, June 2. The event is organized and presented by members of the graduating class.
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Seniors Sacha Finn and Harriet Kristin Wilson have been awarded 2014 fellowships from ReachOut 56-81-06, an alumni-funded effort that supports yearlong public service projects after graduation.
Learn more about the public service projects Finn and Wilson will pursue
President Christopher L. Eisgruber announced at the Feb. 10 meeting of the Council of the Princeton University Community that the University has begun a strategic planning process focusing on identifying the University’s evolving needs and challenges, and creating a framework for allocating resources and assessing new initiatives.
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Seniors David Abugaber, Izzy Kasdin and Simone Sasse, as well as alumnae Madeline McMahon and Elizabeth Presser, have been awarded Gates Cambridge Scholarships, and will have the opportunity to pursue postgraduate study at the University of Cambridge.
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Karl Kusserow, the John Wilmerding Curator of American Art at the Art Museum, explains the unique history of a pair of portraits of U.S. President George Washington held in the museum’s collection, as well as a befitting casualty of the Battle of Princeton.
Watch the “Portraits of a President” video feature
David Dobkin, who has served as dean of the faculty at Princeton University since 2003, has announced that he will step down from this position and will return to the faculty.
Read more about Dobkin’s time as dean of faculty
Senior Katherine Pogrebniak, a computer science major who intends to pursue a career in medicine and medical research, has been selected as a Churchill Scholar and will spend a year studying at the University of Cambridge.
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This interactive feature explores the stories of 28 of the more than 1,300 undergraduate and graduate students who traveled throughout the United States and to 90 countries around the globe last summer for academic study, independent research, internships and civic engagement projects.
Explore the interactive global study feature
Princeton University trustees Jan. 25 approved an 8.5 percent increase in undergraduate financial aid to $131.6 million in adopting the operating budget for 2014-15.
Learn more about the 2014-2015 operating budget
The University received 26,607 applications for admission to the Class of 2018, the third-largest applicant pool in Princeton’s history.
Read more about the application figures for the Class of 2018
Sanjeev Kulkarni, professor of electrical engineering and director of the Keller Center, has been appointed as the next dean of the Graduate School, effective March 31.
Learn more about Kulkarni’s appointment
Enhanced cybersecurity, non-scarring tattoo removal, 3-D photography and a laser-scanning device are projects selected for the Intellectual Property Accelerator Fund, which supports discoveries that have significant potential for further development into products or services.
Read more about the projects selected for the Intellectual Property Accelerator Fund
Princeton researchers are leading an experiment in Italy called DarkSide-50 that aims to find dark matter, a mysterious substance that makes up nearly a quarter of the universe but has never been seen.
Learn more about the search for dark matter
The annual celebration at the University included a keynote address by Omar Wasow, the presentation of the MLK Day Journey Award to Larry Spruill, music by the Princeton Studio Band from Princeton High School and more.
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President Christopher L. Eisgruber is in Washington, D.C., today, attending a White House event on increasing college opportunity for low-income and disadvantaged students. As part of the summit, Eisgruber submitted a statement outlining initiatives the University may launch and build upon to further increase the number of low-income students enrolled at and graduating from Princeton
Learn more about Princeton’s commitment to socioeconomic diversity
Brimming with activity throughout the day, you can see another side of campus at night as it glows and moves in different ways after the sun goes down.
Watch the ‘Princeton at Night’ slideshow
Psychology professor Michael Graziano has developed a new theory of consciousness he calls the “attention schema theory” that can be explained in part by an orangutan puppet named Kevin.
Learn more about Graziano’s attention schema theory