http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/The latest news and events stories from Princeton University.en-usPrinceton Universitydaily22005-01-01T12:00+00:00 Six new postdoctoral scholars have joined the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts this year. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/73/44G55/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredUshma Patel2009-11-04T09:34-05:00 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 The University has informed faculty, students and staff of plans to offer limited quantities of the H1N1 flu vaccine to selected groups on campus starting next week, with further shipments of the vaccine expected to be received from the state in limited quantities throughout the fall and winter.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/68/51G91/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredStaff2009-10-29T17:32-05:00 Princeton University has completed efforts to achieve the staff reductions necessary to help meet an overall goal of decreasing the operating budget by $170 million over two years. The staff reduction target of $15 million has been achieved through a combination of vacancy and overtime savings, voluntary retirements, voluntary and involuntary reductions in duty time, and layoffs. A total of 43 positions have been eliminated and an additional 18 positions have been involuntarily reduced in hours.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/68/42K41/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredStaff2009-10-29T17:00-05:00 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 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 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 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 The gate on the Nassau Street entrance to campus for vehicles now will be closed and the guard booth will not be staffed starting at 6 instead of 8 each weekday evening as a cost-savings measure. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/65/16O43/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredStaff2009-10-25T20:21-05:00 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 Some people fight global warming by driving fuel-efficient cars. Others weatherproof their houses or plant trees. Princeton's René Carmona does math. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/60/48E35/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredChris Emery2009-10-20T10:31-05:00 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 When the more than 100 students who completed internships this summer through the Princeton Environmental Institute and the Grand Challenges Program returned to campus, they had at least one more commitment. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/56/13C37/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredCarol Heher Peters2009-10-15T09:44-05:00 Princeton University researchers have come up with a new twist on the mysterious visual phenomenon experienced by humans known as the "uncanny valley." The scientists have found that monkeys sense it too. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/53/99A37/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredKitta MacPherson2009-10-13T11:00-05:00 Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife, Wendy, have created a $25 million endowment fund at Princeton University for the invention, development and utilization of cutting-edge technology that has the capacity to transform research in the natural sciences and engineering. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/54/00M94/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredStaff2009-10-13T10:00-05:00 Princeton's Center for African American Studies is launching an aggressive effort to become the leading resource for the public's understanding of race in America, coming at a time when the center's scholars say they are seeing an upward trend in racial issues igniting the country in a series of "brush fires." http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/53/53G77/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredCass Cliatt2009-10-12T09:49-05:00 As part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), Princeton University has received more than $21 million in research funding from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/51/11A84/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredHilary Parker2009-10-09T14:20-05:00 An explosion of color greets students at the main entrance to Butler College's new dormitories, where a mural of bright fractal shapes spans two floors and seven walls. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/50/10Q21/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredNicola Knipe2009-10-08T09:59-05:00 Architectural historian Beatriz Colomina pushes her students to explore every possible avenue as they conduct research on modern architecture. They have gone to small villages in the French countryside to interview magazine editors, searched personal collections of publications in Vienna and Maastricht, visited archives in Montreal and Tokyo   — and even studied the photos in Playboy magazine.   http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/47/49K71/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredJennifer Greenstein Altmann2009-10-05T09:38-05:00 "Gifts From the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait," a major exhibition that brings to light the artistry and life practices of the hunters who worked across two millennia in what are now the American and Russian sides of the Bering Strait, opens Saturday, Oct. 3, at the Princeton University Art Museum.  http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/44/17C83/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredStaff2009-10-01T13:42-05:00 With the opening of the new Butler College facilities this fall, the final pieces in the reshaping of Princeton's residential college program are now in place. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/41/48A68/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredEric Quiñones2009-09-28T10:35-05:00 Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan pushed his counterparts around the world to pursue a "new global order" based on peace and trust rather than conflict in an address Wednesday, Sept. 23, at Princeton University. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/37/95Q29/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredEric Quiñones2009-09-24T08:39-05:00 Sixty-eight linear feet of business files, correspondence, preliminary sketches, drawing books, photographs and other materials from the late artist George Segal have been donated to the Princeton University Library.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/35/43A85/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredRuth Stevens2009-09-21T18:07-05:00 When establishing their new home at 58 Prospect Ave., Princeton University's Fields Center and Community House staff decided to make it a beacon for multicultural education and social opportunities within the University campus and local community. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/33/00C33/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredEmily Aronson2009-09-18T15:20-05:00 Inspired by comedian and television host David Letterman, Princeton President Shirley M. Tilghman offered freshmen at Opening Exercises Sunday (Sept. 13) her Top Ten list of "things I hope you do before you march proudly out the FitzRandolph Gates" at Commencement. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/28/78K02/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredRuth Stevens2009-09-13T17:50-05:00 In the fall of 1969, two young children walked into a converted storefront on Witherspoon Street looking for a place to hang out after school and took the first steps into what would become a fruitful collaboration between Princeton University students and the local community. Four decades after Community House began as an off-campus center where University students worked with area children, it has expanded to connect undergraduate volunteers with disadvantaged minority youth through several partnerships with local schools and organizations. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/25/93O76/index.xml?section=topstories,featuredtopstories,featuredEric Quiñones2009-09-10T10:44-05:00