http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/The latest news and events stories from Princeton University.en-usPrinceton University Fourteen members of Princeton's graduating Class of 2013, eight graduate students and three recent alumni were awarded Fulbright grants in the spring to study or teach abroad for the 2013-14 academic year.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S36/91/48O21/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredKarin Dienst, Office of Communications2013-05-22T09:00-05:00 A Princeton University student who traveled to his home state Sunday is receiving treatment in a hospital there after he was diagnosed with meningitis Monday morning. University Health Services and the Office of Environmental Health and Safety are encouraging members of the University community to pay increased attention to personal hygienic practices.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S36/90/80O27/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredOffice of Communications2013-05-20T16:00-05:00 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 3, on Cannon Green.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S36/90/61S55/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredMichael Hotchkiss, Office of Communications2013-05-20T13:50-05:00 The Princeton University Department of Public Safety and the Princeton Police Department have updated an agreement on operating procedures that also outlines best practices and processes for enhancing collaboration between the departments to best serve the entire Princeton community.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S36/87/98O06/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredthe Office of Communications2013-05-17T09:55-05:00 Former U.S. Special Envoy for Middle East Peace George Mitchell urged patience for the region at a Princeton Colloquium on Public and International Affairs held recently at Princeton University. U.S. policy in the Middle East was the focus of the colloquium, which was sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs as part of its Graduate Alumni Weekend.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S36/82/08O20/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredJesse Jacobs, Wilson School Office of Public and External Affairs2013-05-10T14:00-05:00 Treby Williams, who has worked in Princeton University's Office of the Executive Vice President since 2007, has been named acting executive vice president. The appointment by President Shirley M. Tilghman is effective June 8, a day after Executive Vice President Mark Burstein departs to become president of Lawrence University.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S36/81/32C54/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredthe Office of Communications 2013-05-10T10:00-05:00 Nine students have been named winners of the 2013 Spirit of Princeton Award, which honors undergraduates at Princeton University for their positive contributions to campus life. The award recognizes students who have demonstrated a strong commitment to the undergraduate experience through dedicated efforts with student organizations, athletics, community service, religious life, residential life and the arts. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S36/80/21C45/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredOffice of the Dean of Undergraduate Students2013-05-08T13:30-05:00 Using 3-D printing tools, scientists at Princeton University have created a functional ear that can "hear" radio frequencies far beyond the range of normal human capability.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S36/80/19M40/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredJohn Sullivan, Office of Engineering Communications2013-05-08T13:30-05:00 Researchers based at Princeton University, the California Institute of Technology and Ashima Research suggest that Mars' roughly 3.5-mile high Mount Sharp most likely emerged as strong winds carried dust and sand into Gale Crater where the mound sits. If correct, the research could dilute expectations that the mound is the remnant of a massive lake, which would have important implications for understanding Mars' past habitability.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S36/75/92A05/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredMorgan Kelly, Office of Communications2013-05-06T12:00-05:00 Princeton professors Scott Burnham and Peter Schäfer have received the University's Howard T. Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S36/68/97I25/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredKarin Dienst, Office of Communications2013-05-06T09:30-05:00 The U.S. electric utility industry faces a critical juncture as new technology and declining prices allow a more "distributed" system of small-scale generators, renewable energy installations and energy efficiency strategies, according to a group of high-level energy industry executives and regulators who met at Princeton University recently.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S36/75/21C50/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredSteven Schultz, Office of Engineering Communications 2013-05-03T13:30-05:00 Incoming freshmen and their families can find important information about attending Princeton, as well as interact with University staff and students, via the welcome website Your Path to Princeton. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S36/74/18C44/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredStaff2013-05-01T13:00-05:00 Princeton University's Council for International Teaching and Research has selected faculty proposals to create global networks to allow scholars to focus on interdisciplinary research in the humanities and experimental methods in political economy.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S36/74/20C08/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredMichael Hotchkiss, Office of Communications2013-05-01T11:20-05:00 Three Princeton University students with diverse interests in computer networks, machine learning and the basic physical processes of the brain were among 15 recipients of this year's Hertz Fellowship for graduate studies in the sciences.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S36/74/14S87/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredJohn Sullivan, Office of Engineering Communications2013-05-01T10:00-05:00 Aman Sinha, a mechanical and aerospace engineering major from Ivyland, Pa., has been selected as valedictorian of Princeton University's Class of 2013. Amelia Bensch-Schaus, a classics major from Swarthmore, Pa., has been named the Latin salutatorian.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S36/72/64O25/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredKarin Dienst, Office of Communications2013-04-29T16:40-05:00 A multi-institutional study including researchers from Princeton University's Physical Sciences-Oncology Center found that cancer cells that can break out of a tumor and invade other organs are more aggressive and nimble than nonmalignant cells.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S36/69/93E64/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredCatherine Zandonella, Office of the Dean for Research2013-04-26T13:00-05:00 Two Princeton University research projects — a new tool for visualizing drug therapy in the brain and a method for aiding the search for planets outside our solar system — have been selected to receive grants from Princeton's Eric and Wendy Schmidt Transformative Technology Fund.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S36/67/31K32/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredCatherine Zandonella, Office of the Dean for Research2013-04-24T11:30-05:00 Scientists at Princeton University and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) are developing a unique process to verify that nuclear weapons to be dismantled or removed from deployment contain true warheads. The system would do so without measuring classified information that could lead to nuclear proliferation if the data were to be leaked.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S36/67/35Q61/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredJohn Greenwald, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory2013-04-23T13:15-05:00 Princeton University neuroscientists are poised to play a leading role in revolutionizing our understanding of the human brain as outlined in President Barack Obama's BRAIN Initiative.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S36/62/91C75/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredCatherine Zandonella, Office of the Dean for Research2013-04-18T14:45-05:00 Anne-Marie Slaughter, the Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University and former dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, has been selected to serve as the next president of the New America Foundation.  http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S36/50/05Q05/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredMichael Hotchkiss, Office of Communications2013-04-04T09:00-05:00 Princeton University has offered admission to 1,931 students, or 7.29 percent of the near-record 26,498 applicants for the Class of 2017 in what is expected to be the most selective admission process in the University's history. This compares with Princeton's admission rate of a record-low 7.86 percent last year.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S36/44/74C02/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredMike Caddell, Office of Communications2013-03-28T10:00-05:00 The Princeton University men's and women's fencing team claimed its first joint National Collegiate Athletic Association title on March 24. Eliza Stone, Class of 2013, won an individual championship in the sabre.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S36/42/26A79/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredOffice of Communications2013-03-25T11:44-05:00 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 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 senior Sofia Quinodoz took on two theses that pertain to an unseen and not fully understood action that is nonetheless felt by those it afflicts, be it in the form of an infection or the void of a loved one suddenly erased.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S36/84/75C93/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredMorgan Kelly, Office of Communications2013-05-20T12:00-05:00 This spring, 23 Princeton students mined their own experiences with joy, fear, loneliness and a host of other emotions to write original songs. Using the workshopping style of the performing arts, they met in the Whitman College Class of 1970 Theater each week for the course "How to Write a Song."http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S36/85/37C48/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredJamie Saxon, Office of Communications2013-05-17T12:00-05:00 The freshman seminar "The Dreamkeepers: Education Reform and the Urban Teaching Experience" is designed to help students develop an understanding of the social and political context of urban education and examine trends in urban education reform — all while focusing on the experience of the urban teacher.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S36/64/02A36/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredMichael Hotchkiss, Office of Communications2013-05-15T12:00-05:00 A journey to explore the complex identity of southern Spain gave Princeton senior Rund Abdelfatah new insights into an overwhelmingly Catholic region that has an uneasy relationship with its Muslim past. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S36/80/26C86/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredMichael Hotchkiss, Office of Communications2013-05-13T13:00-05:00 A group of Princeton University Ph.D. students have been involved in a research project led by Professor of Architecture Beatriz Colomina that looks at the influence of architecture on Playboy Magazine from 1953 to 1979, and the magazine's impact on architecture and design culture in the United States through its vision of a desirable contemporary lifestyle. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S36/79/53S11/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredDanielle Alio, Office of Communications2013-05-10T12:00-05:00 Through improvisational techniques influenced by sound, gestures, rhythm, poetry/spoken word and visual arts, 20 Princeton students in the new course "The Improvising Ensemble" are pushing the boundaries of their own concepts of what music is and can be.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S36/75/24C27/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredJamie Saxon, Office of Communications2013-05-08T12:00-05:00