http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/The latest news and events stories from Princeton University.en-usPrinceton Universitydaily22005-01-01T12:00+00:00 Members of the University community will have the opportunity to share the holiday spirit through a series of community service initiatives and special events planned for December and January. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/91/59Q11/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredStaff2009-11-25T09:30-05:00 Princeton senior Henry Barmeier has been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship for graduate study at the University of Oxford. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/88/96E38/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredJennifer Greenstein Altmann2009-11-22T08:35-05:00 A new alumni-led enterprise will involve black graduates more deeply in the life of Princeton University as leaders, volunteers and donors. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/87/33C02/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredStaff2009-11-20T11:23-05:00 Stephen Kotkin, the Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History and professor of history and international affairs, discusses the watershed events of 1989: the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/86/49I60/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredStaff2009-11-19T12:04-05:00 Paul Ominsky, director of public safety at Mount Holyoke College, Smith College and Hampshire College, has been named director of public safety at Princeton University. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/85/07M39/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredCass Cliatt2009-11-18T11:00-05:00 A team of Princeton biologists and engineers has dramatically improved the speed and accuracy of measuring an enigmatic set of proteins that influences almost every aspect of how cells and tissues function. The new method offers a long-sought tool for studying stem cells, cancer and other problems of fundamental importance to biology and medicine. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/84/98G62/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredChandra Shekhar2009-11-18T09:00-05:00 Princeton alumnus Jeff Bezos, the founder and chief executive officer of Amazon.com, has been selected as the speaker for this year's Baccalaureate ceremony. The interfaith worship service that is one of Princeton's oldest traditions is scheduled for 2 p.m. Sunday, May 30, in the University Chapel. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/84/84S48/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredRuth Stevens2009-11-17T15:10-05:00 Participants in "The Arts and the Economic Crisis" symposium Nov. 14 were asked to consider a sobering statistic -- that the $59 billion the federal government spent on elementary and secondary education is only marginally greater than the $50 billion that commercial firms spent in 2008 on junk mail. Panelists at the symposium used the examples to demonstrate the lack of resources dedicated to the arts for the audience of nearly 300 arts administrators, advocates, policymakers, artists, academics, students and community members who convened in McCosh 10 and a simulcast site to explore strategies for sustaining a fundamental commitment to the arts, despite the economic recession.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/84/04I79/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredCass Cliatt and Marguerite d'Aprile-Smith2009-11-16T16:08-05:00 The Center for African American Studies at Princeton University will launch a summer internship program to further research in race and public policy, allowing Princeton students to work with national organizations to confront issues of disparity in urban education.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/84/14O05/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredEmily Aronson2009-11-16T18:35-05:00 In its first report since adopting a Sustainability Plan in February 2008, Princeton University states that on-campus greenhouse gas emissions have decreased for the first time since the University's energy-efficient cogeneration plant was installed in 1996. While the decrease in carbon dioxide from July 2008 to July 2009 has been modest at nearly 1 percent, "it is a significant step in the right direction," according to the report, considering that the University added nearly 164,000 square feet to its physical plant during the same time period.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/78/85A72/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredRuth Stevens2009-11-11T10:00-05:00 The task force that recently was established to review relationships between Princeton University and the eating clubs has launched a website seeking observations and suggestions from students, alumni and others. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/78/63K56/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredStaff2009-11-10T09:34-05:00 Nominations for the MLK Day Journey Award will be accepted until Friday, Dec. 4. The award recognizes a member of the Princeton faculty, staff or student body who best represents the continued journey of Martin Luther King Jr.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/81/32G20/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredStaff2009-11-13T12:22-05:00 Roberto Car, the Ralph W. Dornte *31 Professor in Chemistry at Princeton and a faculty fellow   of the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, has been named a winner of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society 2009 Sidney Fernbach Award. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/80/58A71/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredKitta MacPherson2009-11-12T15:40-05:00 John Groves, the Hugh Stott Taylor Chair of Chemistry, has been selected to receive the 2010 Hans Fischer Career Award in Porphyrin Chemistry by the Society of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/81/24O00/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredKitta MacPherson2009-11-13T10:00-05:00 Pietro Frassica, professor of French and Italian, and his students discuss "Topics in Contemporary Italian Civilization -- Italy: The Land of Slow Food," a class that combines an analysis of Italian literary texts with works of visual art to explore the art of cookery in relation to people's environment and history. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/87/47Q13/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredEric Quiñones2009-11-23T16:00-05:00 In the wake of a tornado that leveled Greensburg, Kan., in May 2007, local residents forged an ambitious plan to rebuild the small agricultural town with a focus on sustainability. For a group of Princeton students who traveled there over fall break, this effort became an important lesson both in environmental awareness and civic engagement. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/86/49O89/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredEric Quiñones2009-11-19T11:52-05:00 The laboratory course taking place in the basement of Princeton's Friend Center is not a traditional one -- in lieu of microscopes, there are discussions of microfinance, and students seek to create not chemical changes, but social ones. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/83/83K33/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredHilary Parker2009-11-16T10:04-05:00 A ceremony celebrating the reopening of Whig Hall -- the home of the nation's oldest collegiate political, literary and debating society, the American Whig-Cliosophic Society -- is set for 11 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 14, at the building. Whig recently underwent a major overhaul to modernize the building, which had not been renovated in nearly 40 years.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/79/68S38/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredUshma Patel2009-11-11T15:07-05:00 The Princeton University Art Museum is celebrating photographer and faculty member Emmet Gowin's legacy as an artist and educator with an exhibition titled "Emmet Gowin: A Collective Portrait," which is on view through Sunday, Feb. 21.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/77/86E37/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredStaff2009-11-09T12:21-05:00 Rubén Gallo, a scholar of modern Spanish America who is spending the fall in Vienna as a guest of the Sigmund Freud Foundation, discusses the noted psychoanalyst's relationship to Mexico.  http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/73/46K31/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredKarin Dienst2009-11-04T10:05-05:00 In unearthing discoveries about how the human mind works, Princeton psychologist Danny Oppenheimer has mined insights into how people react to catchy stock-market symbols, overwritten essays and charitable donation choices. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/71/73S48/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredJennifer Greenstein Altmann2009-11-02T10:06-05:00 During an open house Friday, Oct. 30, members of the University community toured the new facility at 701 Carnegie Center, which will be the home of Princeton's finance and treasury operations and most information technology departments, during an open house on Friday, Oct. 30. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/70/07G76/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredEric Quiñones2009-10-31T12:51-05:00 Marta Tienda, the Maurice P. During Professor in Demographic Studies, professor of sociology and public affairs, and director of the Program in Latino Studies, discusses the University's new Program in Latino Studies and her two new research projects on immigration and migration as well as the immigration debate.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/68/27E00/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredUshma Patel2009-10-29T10:57-05:00 The University's Alcohol Coalition Committee (ACC) is continuing its work to address high-risk drinking among undergraduates.  http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/66/56I40/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredRuth Stevens2009-10-27T11:20-05:00 TigerTransit, Princeton University's shuttle system, this fall has launched 10 new buses that run on B20 diesel fuel. The shuttles also are traveling on new routes that include 701 Carnegie Center as well as shopping and dining venues. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/66/54G70/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredRuth Stevens2009-10-27T10:54-05:00 At the largest gathering of black alumni in the University's history last weekend, emotions overflowed as people talked about change -- Princeton's transformation from their time as students and the transformation they can bring about through continued engagement. "It's very obvious to me that the Princeton of 2009 is very different from the Princeton of 1983, and even the Princeton of 2006," said Ken Bruce, a member of the class of 1983 and a past president of the Association of Black Princeton Alumni. "For many of us, our Princeton experience is complex," he added. "We love it. We have less love for it in other respects. It has helped us in our careers. We enjoy the people, and, in some instances, we've enjoyed the experiences. In others, we have enjoyed the experiences a little less. So the thought process was that we might need a new type of engagement to bring us back as we all move forward."http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/65/89E74/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredShani Hilton2009-10-26T16:00-05:00 Princeton University physical scientists will partner with researchers at four other institutions to explore the driving forces behind the evolution of cancer under a five-year, $15.2 million award from the National Cancer Institute.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/64/22S75/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredHilary Parker2009-10-26T08:00-05:00 An important but fixable error in legal accounting rules used to measure compliance with carbon limits for bioenergy could undermine efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by encouraging deforestation, according to a new study by 13 prominent scientists and land use experts published in the Oct. 23 issue of the journal Science. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/62/29A56/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredStaff2009-10-22T14:00-05:00 More than 700 black Princeton alumni plan to return to campus for the "Coming Back and Moving Forward" conference Thursday through Saturday, Oct. 22-24. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/62/19M79/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredEric Quiñones2009-10-22T10:03-05:00 Distinguished writers affiliated with Princeton's internationally renowned Program in Creative Writing will be featured in a reading series celebrating the 70th anniversary of creative writing at the University this year. Maxine Kumin and Joyce Carol Oates will lead off the readings by current and former faculty, alumni, fellows and students in the program at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 21, in the Stewart Film Theater at the Lewis Center for the Arts, 185 Nassau St. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/59/59Q10/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredMarguerite d'Aprile-Smith2009-10-19T09:37-05:00