http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/The latest news and events stories from Princeton University.en-usPrinceton University Four Princeton University faculty members have been named recipients of the Graduate Mentoring Awards by the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning and will be honored during the Graduate School's hooding ceremony Monday, June 4, on Cannon Green.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S33/70/21G17/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredMichael Hotchkiss2012-05-14T15:10-05:00 Computer science is among the most forward-looking of disciplines, and in an address at Princeton University on Thursday evening, May 10, Eric Schmidt paid tribute to Alan Turing, one of the giants of the field, by looking ahead to an almost unimaginable future.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S33/67/65Q12/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredJohn Sullivan2012-05-11T15:41-05:00 Princeton University's Graduate School offered admission to 1,226 of the record 12,077 applicants who applied for the 2012-13 academic year, with the school's global reputation and strong financial aid program contributing to a continued increase in applications, particularly among international students.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S33/67/47O32/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredMartin Mbugua2012-05-11T10:51-05:00 Nicholas Katzenbach, a Princeton University alumnus and trustee emeritus who was a towering figure in U.S. civil rights history, died of natural causes Tuesday, May 8, at his home in Skillman, N.J. He was 90.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S33/66/02Q93/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredEric Quiñones2012-05-09T18:33-05:00 A nitrogen sensor that can monitor environmental change, a "no-frills" quantum computer and a laboratory small enough to fit inside a single cell are the three technologies selected to receive support this year at Princeton University from the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Transformative Technology Fund. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S33/61/70M72/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredCatherine Zandonella2012-05-08T10:00-05:00 Princeton professors Joyce Carol Oates and Elaine Pagels have received the University's Howard T. Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S33/64/24M36/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredStaff2012-05-07T17:06-05:00 In pursuing cancer treatment for her dog, Olga Troyanskaya, a computational biologist at Princeton University, started a research collaboration with canine oncologist Karin Sorenmoto with the potential to learn more about cancer, possibly leading to new treatments for dogs and humans as well.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S33/61/61S27/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredCatherine Zandonella2012-05-07T12:00-05:00 Princeton University's Council for International Teaching and Research has selected four faculty proposals to receive funding for the creation of global network initiatives.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S33/52/88G78/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredMichael Hotchkiss2012-05-03T09:00-05:00 Construction will begin this summer on the Lakeside graduate community, which will replace the Hibben and Magie apartments with new apartment buildings, townhomes, common areas and a parking structure that are designed to meet graduate students' needs and Princeton University's planning and sustainability goals.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S33/54/83G77/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredUshma Patel2012-05-02T12:00-05:00 Daniel Day, a veteran media executive and journalist who has significant experience in emerging and traditional forms of communications, has been appointed director of news and editorial services in the Office of Communications at Princeton University. His appointment is effective May 14.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S33/59/07G57/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredEric Quiñones2012-05-02T10:00-05:00 Incoming freshmen and their families can find important information about attending Princeton, as well as interact with University staff and students, via the new website Your Path to Princeton. The site enhances and replaces the previous welcome site for incoming freshman classes.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S33/58/92E04/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredEmily Aronson2012-05-01T13:21-05:00 Princeton University President Shirley M. Tilghman has adopted the recommendations of the Committee on Freshmen Rush Policy for administering and enforcing the prohibition on freshmen from affiliating with a fraternity or sorority during their freshman year, and on students soliciting the participation of freshmen in a fraternity or sorority. The new policy will take effect as of Sept. 1.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S33/58/77I11/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredStaff2012-05-01T10:00-05:00 A massive expansion of hydropower planned for the Mekong River Basin in Southeast Asia could have a catastrophic impact on the river's fishery and millions of people who depend on it, according to a new study by researchers including scientists from Princeton University.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S33/58/78C70/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredJohn Sullivan2012-04-30T12:07-05:00 Nathaniel Fleming, a psychology major from Eugene, Ore., has been selected as valedictorian of Princeton University's Class of 2012. Elizabeth Butterworth, a classics major from Auburn, Mass., has been named the Latin salutatorian.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S33/58/03M22/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredStaff2012-05-06T04:51-05:00 Toni Morrison, the renowned author and the Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities Emeritus at Princeton University, was named by President Barack Obama a 2012 recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S33/55/59O85/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredJamie Saxon2012-04-27T16:59-05:00 Converting a standard shipping container into a sustainable source of energy for remote or disaster-torn regions, a team of Princeton University students took top honors in an 18-month national competition that culminated April 21 and 22 on the Washington, D.C., Mall.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S33/55/56I53/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredSteven Schultz2012-04-27T16:07-05:00 Princeton University researchers have found that the expectation that life — from bacteria to sentient beings — has or will develop on other planets as on Earth might be based more on optimism than scientific evidence.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S33/52/89I01/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredMorgan Kelly2012-04-26T09:00-05:00 An initiative to add a project management component into one of Princeton's core engineering design courses aims not just to teach students better time-management skills but also to help keep them safe in their laboratory work.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S33/52/98M20/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredJeanne Jackson DeVoe2012-04-24T16:18-05:00 Princeton University researchers have observed a self-degradation response to the antidepressant Zoloft in yeast cells that could help provide new answers to lingering questions among scientists about how antidepressants work, as well as support the idea that depression is not solely linked to the neurotransmitter serotonin.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S33/52/72E11/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredMorgan Kelly2012-04-24T10:00-05:00 Physicists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory have discovered a possible solution to a mystery that has long baffled researchers working to harness fusion. If confirmed by experiment, the finding could help scientists eliminate a major impediment to the development of fusion as a clean and abundant source of energy for producing electric power.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S33/52/10O57/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredJohn Greenwald2012-04-23T17:00-05:00 Princeton University has submitted its Arts and Transit project to the Regional Planning Board of Princeton for the site plan approval that is necessary to begin construction. The University hopes to begin work on the $300 million project early in 2013.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S33/51/80O30/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredStaff2012-04-23T10:00-05:00 Princeton seniors Zachary Newick and Shivani Sud will explore minor league baseball in the United States and rural health clinics in India, respectively, over the next year as the 2012 winners of Princeton's Martin Dale Fellowship.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S33/48/65S23/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredLaura Donovan2012-04-20T09:00-05:00 As part of efforts to employ technology to enhance the Princeton academic experience and enable faculty to extend their teaching beyond the physical borders of the campus, the University will explore the development of online class materials via the new educational platform Coursera. According to Coursera, Princeton will join Stanford University, the University of Michigan and the University of Pennsylvania in developing Web-based course materials from a variety of academic fields. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S33/47/05O67/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredEmily Aronson2012-04-18T09:00-05:00 A.J. Stewart Smith, who has served as Princeton University's first dean for research since 2006, will assume a newly created position as vice president for the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) to serve as the University's primary liaison with DOE. Smith is expected to begin his new role on Jan. 1, 2013. A national search for his successor as dean for research will begin immediately.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S33/46/81K40/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredEric Quiñones2012-04-17T15:00-05:00 Princeton University professor Tracy K. Smith has been awarded the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for poetry for her collection "Life on Mars."http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S33/46/07Q45/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredJamie Saxon2012-04-16T19:45-05:00 This update to previous announcements about Princeton's campus safety following Hurricane Irene contains new information related the University closing on Monday, Aug. 29. Because of power outages and road closures in the wake of Hurricane Irene, Princeton University will be closed except for critical and essential staff on Monday, Aug. 29.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S31/45/74E87/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredStaff2011-08-28T19:59-05:00 Princeton University scholar Benjamin Elman has studied the history of East Asia for most of his intellectual life. Instead of getting easier, it has become more complicated — which for him is a good thing. Elman's ongoing interest is to re-examine our understanding of China and Japan by rethinking how the history of East Asia has been told, especially in the West, but also in China, Japan and Korea.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S33/66/67I31/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredKarin Dienst2012-05-14T12:00-05:00 Deborah and Frank Popper, who are both visiting professors of civil and environmental engineering and at the Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI) at Princeton University, are teaching the course "American Environmental History and Thought," which allows undergraduates to explore the links between environment and development in the United States.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S33/60/72C58/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredCarol Peters2012-05-10T12:00-05:00 Margot Canaday, an assistant professor of history who will be promoted to associate professor July 1, is a political and legal historian who studies gender and sexuality in modern America. In addition to her undergraduate course "Gender and Sexuality in Modern America," she regularly teaches a graduate seminar on the history of sexuality in America and courses on the American state, gender and work, and approaches to American history.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S33/59/76A73/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredUshma Patel2012-05-07T12:00-05:00 Four Princeton University faculty members are among the 84 new members recently elected to the National Academy of Sciences for noted and ongoing achievement in original research: William Bialek; Pablo Debenedetti; John Groves; and Nai Phuan Ong.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S33/60/56I51/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredStaff2012-05-07T10:30-05:00