http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/The latest news and events stories from Princeton University.en-usPrinceton Universitydaily22005-01-01T12:00+00:00 Princeton's Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe, the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, will receive the 2009 William Bowie Medal, the highest honor awarded by the American Geophysical Union.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S24/65/60Q58/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredChris Emery2009-07-02T14:46-05:00 Weinan E, a professor of mathematics and applied and computational mathematics at Princeton, has been selected by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) to receive the Ralph E. Kleinman Prize for his work connecting mathematics with applications outside the field.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S24/64/78G40/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredStaff2009-07-01T16:09-05:00 Twenty Princeton students will defer the start of their freshman year at Princeton this fall to spend a tuition-free enrichment period abroad focused on public service as the first participants in the University's Bridge Year Program. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S24/60/49I38/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredRuth Stevens2009-06-29T09:00-05:00 A Princeton-led research team has revealed surprising information about how electron behavior influences the conduction of electricity in a class of high-temperature superconductors. An increased understanding of this mechanism could one day transform a number of technologies, including the transmission of electrical power. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S24/62/99S21/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredHilary Parker2009-06-29T14:18-05:00 William Brinkman, a senior research physicist in the Department of Physics at Princeton University, has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate as director of the Office of Science in the U.S. Department of Energy. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S24/57/72S51/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredKitta MacPherson2009-06-23T11:57-05:00 Robert Socolow, a Princeton professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, will receive the American Society of Mechanical Engineers' Frank Kreith Energy Award for his pioneering contributions in energy research. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S24/58/93S35/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredStaff2009-06-24T21:27-05:00 Princeton faculty member Alan Blinder has been inducted into the American Academy of Political and Social Science as the 2009 John Kenneth Galbraith Fellow. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S24/58/92G71/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredStaff2009-06-24T21:24-05:00 Two members of the Princeton faculty have been named members of the Royal Society of Chemistry, a learned society based in the United Kingdom. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S24/56/86K36/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredKitta MacPherson2009-06-22T12:05-05:00 Emad Atiq, a member of Princeton's class of 2009, has been awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship, which gives outstanding students from outside the United Kingdom an opportunity to pursue postgraduate study at the University of Cambridge. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S24/56/86Q95/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredEric Quiñones2009-06-22T12:00-05:00 The stories that Edgar Choueiri and Winston Soboyejo tell of their native countries and of their own careers are strangely similar. These two Princeton engineering professors came from societies where science blossomed for a time and then atrophied. Both left their native countries to earn their scientific credentials. And now both men find themselves drawn home again to give something back to the societies where they were first inspired. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S24/65/51G40/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredChris Emery2009-07-02T12:00-05:00 Jennifer Widner, a professor of politics and international affairs, has immersed herself and her students in African life through innovative programs that gather and analyze crucial information about building and operating institutions. Through these projects -- and in her teaching and scholarship -- Widner strives to see Africa up close, through the eyes of its own people.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S24/63/07C50/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredJennifer Greenstein Altmann2009-06-29T16:00-05:00 Coleen Murphy is no daydreamer. Yet, this practical-minded biologist possesses the boldest of visions, one she insists is rooted in solid science. It may be technologically possible, she believes, to someday stall aging sufficiently so that people can live in their adult prime bodies until they die. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S24/58/93M65/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredKitta MacPherson2009-06-24T21:36-05:00 The framework of the new pedestrian bridge spanning Washington Road will emerge as part of a series of summer construction projects that also includes continued progress on the new Chemistry Building and the completion of the Butler College renovation. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S24/56/75C63/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredEric Quiñones2009-06-22T09:18-05:00 Princeton Summer Theater will open its 2009 season on Thursday, June 18, with a production of "Urinetown," the Tony Award-winning satirical comedy about greed, corruption, love and revolution. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S24/53/29Q28/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredStaff2009-06-18T08:53-05:00 Makeba Clay's mission as director of the Fields Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding is to foster an inclusive environment for campus community members from all backgrounds. Her community-building efforts, however, extend far beyond the center's confines. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S24/50/77I98/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredEric Quiñones2009-06-15T11:11-05:00 Princeton researchers have created a Rosetta Stone for the human body, a website that offers clues to the role DNA plays in aging and disease by helping scientists make sense of the vast jumble of information emerging from genetics research.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S24/46/68K93/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredChris Emery2009-06-10T17:20-05:00 The psychological underpinnings of how different people relate to one another are important factors in better understanding major societal issues, ranging from race relations to international diplomacy. Two faculty members in the Department of Psychology, Stacey Sinclair and Emily Pronin, are conducting research that has advanced knowledge of how people react to and interact with others. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S24/44/01K59/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredEmily Aronson and Ushma Patel2009-06-07T15:21-05:00 With today's Princeton graduates stepping out of FitzRandolph Gates and into the nation's economic downturn, President Shirley M. Tilghman implored them to use their education to solve some of the world's most challenging problems. In her annual Commencement address June 2, she also encouraged them to be seekers of purpose and meaning through engagement with the arts.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S24/39/65G92/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredRuth Stevens2009-06-02T14:05-05:00 On the sun-dappled Cannon Green behind Nassau Hall, the members of Princeton's class of 2009 gathered to recognize their accomplishments and share some laughs at Princeton's Class Day ceremony Monday, June 1.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S24/38/83E78/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredJennifer Greenstein Altmann2009-06-01T15:27-05:00 One of the nation's top military leaders challenged Princeton University's graduating seniors May 31 to enter a life of public service, exhorting them to continue what is a proud university tradition and promising them that such a path is a meaningful way to live. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S24/38/10A46/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredKitta MacPherson2009-05-31T19:00-05:00 Alumni and their families have returned to campus through Sunday, May 31, for Reunions activities.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S24/36/26A65/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredStaff2009-05-29T15:44-05:00 On his first day of classes as a freshman, Holger Staude received an unexpected invitation. Florent Masse, the instructor of his advanced French course, took Staude aside after class and -- impressed with the German native's command of the language -- urged him to join the University's French theater workshop. Staude had never considered acting. Yet, just as he did in deciding to attend Princeton, he accepted the challenge and thrived. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S24/30/27K47/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredEric Quiñones2009-05-26T16:00-05:00 In a rehearsal room in the Woolworth Center of Musical Studies, students are blowing into their instruments, flicking hands over finger holes, shaking heads, and dipping chins up and down to create different sounds. Playing a few basic recitations absorbs all their concentration, as most in the class first picked up the instrument a few weeks prior and only a handful are experienced musicians. This immersion into new musical territory is the mission of the course "Masterworks for the Zen Flute: Music for Shakuhachi," in which students across disciplines have the opportunity to play the shakuhachi, a Japanese bamboo flute, and to study its history and culture. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S24/28/47Q36/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredEmily Aronson2009-05-20T15:24-05:00 In 1999, faced with the task of decommissioning the legendary Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR), officials at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) realized they needed something that didn't yet exist -- a way to detect exactly what "hot" elements were lacing the inner vessel of the doughnut-shaped reactor. So they asked a team from the lab to invent a device that would identify each element in the reactor and how much was there. Ten years later, the group not only has successfully tackled that challenge, but it has won national recognition for a system that offers practical applications for homeland security and deterring radiological terrorist attacks. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S24/26/53K30/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredKitta MacPherson2009-05-18T09:39-05:00 A panel of distinguished judges has selected the best pieces of art to come out of the University's research labs. Now it's everyone else's turn. Winners of the 2009 Art of Science competition were announced at a gallery opening in the Friend Center May 8. The show features 48 works chosen from more than 200 submissions and will be on display in the Friend Center atrium for a year. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S24/22/23C17/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredTeresa Riordan2009-05-13T10:21-05:00 In a back room at the Princeton University Art Museum, the students in professor Lawrence Rosen's new anthropology course received a firsthand lesson on the issues surrounding art, authenticity and ownership.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S24/20/53M21/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredUshma Patel2009-05-11T11:00-05:00 The American environmental movement needs to change and appeal to a broader audience if it is to make inroads into the set of problems facing the nation, according to Lisa Jackson, the administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S24/18/27S11/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredKitta MacPherson2009-05-08T20:00-05:00 Religion major Lily Cowles' senior thesis began with a sign.During the summer after her sophomore year, Cowles was volunteering in the southern African nation of Mozambique. En route to and from the orphanage where she was working, she noticed a sign announcing Mazione church services, and her curiosity was piqued. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S24/14/43G14/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredHilary Parker2009-05-04T10:10-05:00 As a high school student, Amira Karriem was keenly aware that she was the only African American student in her advanced classes. Now, as a Princeton senior, she is investigating the effects of the racial disparity at her own school and around the country. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S24/10/99A40/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredEric Quiñones2009-04-30T09:54-05:00 Since she was a child, senior Ragnhild Lunnan has been interested in astronomy -- scouring the crystalline heavens over her hometown in Norway to study stars that shine like diamonds in the clear alpine nights. Now, through her senior thesis, Lunnan is delving into one of the biggest mysteries of the universe.  http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S24/08/46C54/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredKitta MacPherson2009-04-27T11:53-05:00