http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/The latest featured stories from Princeton University.en-usPrinceton Universitydaily22005-01-01T12:00+00:00 Pietro Frassica, professor of French and Italian, and his students discuss "Topics in Contemporary Italian Civilization -- Italy: The Land of Slow Food," a class that combines an analysis of Italian literary texts with works of visual art to explore the art of cookery in relation to people's environment and history. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/87/47Q13/index.xml?section=featuredfeaturedEric Quiñones2009-11-23T16:00-05:00 In the wake of a tornado that leveled Greensburg, Kan., in May 2007, local residents forged an ambitious plan to rebuild the small agricultural town with a focus on sustainability. For a group of Princeton students who traveled there over fall break, this effort became an important lesson both in environmental awareness and civic engagement. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/86/49O89/index.xml?section=featuredfeaturedEric Quiñones2009-11-19T11:52-05:00 The laboratory course taking place in the basement of Princeton's Friend Center is not a traditional one -- in lieu of microscopes, there are discussions of microfinance, and students seek to create not chemical changes, but social ones. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/83/83K33/index.xml?section=featuredfeaturedHilary Parker2009-11-16T10:04-05:00 A ceremony celebrating the reopening of Whig Hall -- the home of the nation's oldest collegiate political, literary and debating society, the American Whig-Cliosophic Society -- is set for 11 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 14, at the building. Whig recently underwent a major overhaul to modernize the building, which had not been renovated in nearly 40 years.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/79/68S38/index.xml?section=featuredfeaturedUshma Patel2009-11-11T15:07-05:00 The Princeton University Art Museum is celebrating photographer and faculty member Emmet Gowin's legacy as an artist and educator with an exhibition titled "Emmet Gowin: A Collective Portrait," which is on view through Sunday, Feb. 21.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/77/86E37/index.xml?section=featuredfeaturedStaff2009-11-09T12:21-05:00 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=featuredfeaturedKarin 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=featuredfeaturedJennifer 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=featuredfeaturedUshma Patel2009-10-29T10:57-05:00 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=featuredfeaturedShani Hilton2009-10-26T16:00-05:00 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=featuredfeaturedEric Quiñones2009-10-22T10:03-05:00 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=featuredfeaturedMarguerite 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=featuredfeaturedCarol Heher Peters2009-10-15T09:44-05:00 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=featuredfeaturedCass Cliatt2009-10-12T09:49-05:00 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=featuredfeaturedNicola 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=featuredfeaturedJennifer 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=featuredfeaturedStaff2009-10-01T13:42-05:00 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=featuredfeaturedEric 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=featuredfeaturedEric 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=featuredfeaturedRuth 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=featuredfeaturedEmily Aronson2009-09-18T15:20-05:00