http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/The latest news and events stories from Princeton University.en-usPrinceton Universitydaily22005-01-01T12:00+00:00 Princeton senior Connor Diemand-Yauman has been named the winner of the University's 2010 Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, the highest general distinction conferred on an undergraduate.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/56/83K09/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredRuth Stevens2010-02-09T07:00-05:00 Three Princeton scientists working at the frontiers of physics have been notified they will receive awards under a new program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy that is designed to boost the American economy.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/56/32O35/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredStaff2010-02-08T10:00-05:00 A major hurdle in the ambitious quest to design and construct a radically new kind of quantum computer has been finding a way to manipulate the single electrons that very likely will constitute the new machines' processing components or "qubits." http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/53/89C28/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredKitta MacPherson2010-02-05T12:14-05:00 Just as the heartbeats of today's electronic devices depend on the ability to switch the flow of electricity in semiconductors on and off with lightning speed, the viability of the "spintronic" devices of the future -- technologies that manipulate both the flow and magnetic "spin" of electrons -- will require similarly precise control over semiconductor magnetism.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/53/83G94/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredHilary Parker2010-02-05T10:34-05:00 Power-generating rubber films developed by Princeton University engineers could harness natural body movements such as breathing and walking to power pacemakers, mobile phones and other electronic devices.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/47/03A23/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredChris Emery2010-01-28T13:27-05:00 New South, the location of administrative offices over the past 40 years, will be renovated in 2010 to also become the home of some academic functions associated with the Lewis Center for the Arts. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/46/92I90/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredRuth Stevens2010-01-28T10:40-05:00 Princeton University trustees Jan. 23 approved one of the lowest percentage increases in undergraduate tuition and fees since 1966 -- 3.3 percent -- while also endorsing a 9.6 percent increase in the financial aid budget. The authorizations came as the University is in the midst of a two-year plan to reduce its operating budget by $170 million. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/44/29Q45/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredRuth Stevens2010-01-25T10:00-05:00 An exhibition commemorating the 20th anniversary of the end of apartheid in South Africa and Nelson Mandela's release from prison will open at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 9, in the Fields Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding, 58 Prospect Ave. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/56/33A49/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredStaff2010-02-08T07:48-05:00 The winter season brings a subdued beauty to Princeton's campus. As the fall foliage fades, Princeton's evergreens take on a more prominent role in coloring the landscape and adding vitality to the grounds. According to Jim Consolloy, who retired Feb. 1 after nearly 21 years as grounds manager, some of the University's most well-traveled spaces are spectacular in winter as well as summer. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/53/05E86/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredUshma Patel2010-02-04T13:04-05:00 On a warm Thursday night in September, crowds of students, staff and community members filled the Princeton University Art Museum. In all 2,400 people visited the museum that evening to celebrate the new extended hours on Thursdays, delighting James Steward, the new director of the museum.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/50/32A87/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredJennifer Greenstein Altmann2010-02-01T08:51-05:00 As a graduate student a few years ago, Jacob Shapiro worked with a colleague to get internal documents from al-Qaida released from a U.S. government database. The files didn't reveal national security secrets -- but they did portray the terrorist organization as a bureaucracy with plenty of red tape. This data- and document-driven approach exemplifies Shapiro's work on the organization of terrorist groups and counterterrorism.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/46/99M53/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredUshma Patel2010-01-28T12:29-05:00 A new exhibition has filled Firestone Library's main gallery with 100 portraits of poets, novelists and essayists, pulled from the holdings of the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/44/32K51/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredStaff2010-01-25T10:20-05:00 At age 89, Bonner, the George M. Moffett Professor Emeritus of Biology, is one of the world's leading experts on cellular slime molds, found in soils the world over. He has led the way in making "Dictyostellum discoideum" a model organism central to examining some of the major questions in experimental biology. Science magazine describes him as "the current patriarch of the slime mold community." http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/40/89S11/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredKitta MacPherson2010-01-21T10:55-05:00 Princeton University plans to build a facility to house its high-performance computing research systems on the Forrestal Campus in Plainsboro about three miles north of the main campus.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/39/58I51/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredRuth Stevens2010-01-20T09:00-05:00 Stanley Kelley Jr., a Princeton political scientist who left an indelible mark on the University after chairing a key committee on governance in the late 1960s, died Sunday, Jan. 17, in Princeton from complications of Alzheimer's disease. He was 83.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/39/19S61/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredRuth Stevens2010-01-19T11:43-05:00 In the wake of last week's tragic earthquake in Haiti, Martin Luther King Jr.'s messages of hope and justice resonate powerfully amid the global response to aid the devastated nation, speakers told the audience at Princeton University's annual King Day ceremony Jan. 18. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/38/52K83/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredEric Quiñones2010-01-18T17:11-05:00 Janet Dickerson, Princeton's vice president for campus life for the past 10 years, received the University's MLK Day Journey Award, which recognizes efforts to continue the journey to achieve Martin Luther King Jr.'s vision for America. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/38/24Q09/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredEric Quiñones2010-01-18T14:00-05:00 Deborah Berlo has been selected for the newly created position of director of Print and Mail Services at Princeton University. Her appointment was effective Jan. 4. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/34/93A24/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredRuth Stevens2010-01-14T13:21-05:00 With the gift of a new dormitory in Princeton's Butler College, John (Jack) C. Bogle, a 1951 graduate of the University and the founder of the Vanguard Mutual Fund Group, has added his name to the campus vocabulary. Students now eat, sleep, study and socialize in Bogle Hall, and some even monitor sustainability experiments on its green roof. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/34/92O24/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredStaff2010-01-14T13:14-05:00 Thomas Espenshade, author of "No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal: Race and Class in Elite College Admission and Campus Life," discusses affirmative action and the racial achievement gap. He is a professor of sociology and faculty associate of the Office of Population Research.  http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/34/81K42/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredCass Cliatt2010-01-14T10:16-05:00 Michael Graves, Princeton's Robert Schirmer Professor of Architecture Emeritus, has been named the recipient of the Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education. The medal, from the American Institute of Architects and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, honors an individual who has made outstanding contributions to architectural education for a decade or more.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/34/11A38/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredJennifer Greenstein Altmann2010-01-13T14:32-05:00 Since childhood, junior Jason Baum has been aware of environmental issues, switching off lights when leaving a room and turning off the water while brushing his teeth. After a year of planning with the Program in Environmental Studies and lecturer and entrepreneur Gregory van der Vink, Baum was among the 22 students taking the seminar "Environmental Entrepreneurship" this past fall.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/34/08E29/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredUshma Patel2010-01-13T14:04-05:00 You have to see it to understand it. That was the lesson a group of Princeton students learned when they visited Sicily over fall break to gain a firsthand appreciation of the ancient cultures of that Mediterranean island. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/32/28A66/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredKarin Dienst2010-01-11T11:44-05:00 Trained as a historian and working in religion, Wallace Best fits the interdisciplinary nature of the Center for African American Studies. Since arriving at Princeton in 2007 from Harvard Divinity School, he has taught courses on spiritual narratives by black women, religions of the Americas and African American religious history, among others. He also has organized a lecture series on black gospel music. This semester he is teaching a course on the Nation of Islam and serving as the director of graduate studies in the religion department, as well as advising undergraduates. In addition, he is writing a book on the religious writings and thought of Langston Hughes.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/28/74K20/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredUshma Patel2010-01-07T09:36-05:00 Princeton University will present its top honors for alumni to James Leach, a longtime U.S. congressman and current chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus, who oversees the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as commander of the U.S. Central Command. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/28/06K01/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredEric Quiñones2010-01-06T14:38-05:00 The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs has selected five students to be the 2010 undergraduate cohort of the Scholars in the Nation's Service Initiative (SINSI), a scholarship program designed to encourage and prepare exceptional students for careers in the U.S. government. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/27/13I98/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredStaff2010-01-05T13:11-05:00 Harriet Flower, professor of classics, has been named master of Mathey College, and Michael Hecht, professor of chemistry, has been named master of Forbes College. Both will begin their four-year terms in the residential colleges on July 1, 2010. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/27/12C37/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredStaff2010-01-05T12:40-05:00 Edward Felten and Stephen Schultze use computers as flashlights. The Princeton computer scientists recently oversaw the launch of two Web-based technologies to illuminate the workings of government by making court records and the federal government's "newspaper," the Federal Register, easily accessible online. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/26/29G42/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredChris Emery2010-01-04T13:33-05:00 On the morning of Oct. 7, the Princeton Fire Department sent out a call -- firefighters were needed to respond to an alarm at 1 Monument Drive. Four University employees -- Bob Allen, Michael Christensen, Michael Kervan and Chris Machusak -- rushed to a University building on Alexander Road to pull on their fire jackets, fire pants, boots and helmets. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/15/75I28/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredJennifer Greenstein Altmann2009-12-28T18:00-05:00 A scientist from Princeton University, working with researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and Northwestern University, has discovered that common bacteria can turn microgears when suspended in a solution, providing insights for design of bio-inspired dynamically adaptive materials for energy. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/15/81K10/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredArgonne National Laboratory2009-12-23T10:23-05:00