http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/The latest News Releases from Princeton University.en-usPrinceton Universitydaily22005-01-01T12:00+00:00 Richard Murphy, former U.S. ambassador to Syria, will speak on the latest developments in Syria at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 7, in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall, at Princeton University. The event, "Up to the Minute: The Latest Political Developments in Syria," is free and open to the public, and presented by the Workshop on Arab Political Development.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S32/79/36A56/index.xml?section=newsreleasesnewsreleasesStaff2012-01-30T10:09-05:00 Princeton University has received 26,663 applications for admission to the Class of 2016, with many of them also applying for the University’s no-loan financial aid program.  http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S32/77/23O34/index.xml?section=newsreleasesnewsreleasesMartin Mbugua2012-01-30T10:00-05:00 Princeton University trustees Jan. 28 approved a 5.6 percent increase in undergraduate financial aid in adopting an operating budget for 2012-13 that includes a 4.5 percent increase in tuition, to $38,650. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S32/77/16S12/index.xml?section=newsreleasesnewsreleasesMartin Mbugua2012-01-28T12:00-05:00 Survey results published by Princeton University researchers in the journal PLoS ONE suggest that a family history of psychiatric conditions such as autism and depression could influence the subjects a person finds engaging. Although preliminary, the findings provide a new look at the oft-studied link between psychiatric conditions and aptitude in the arts or sciences.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S32/75/30O56/index.xml?section=newsreleasesnewsreleasesMorgan Kelly2012-01-26T17:00-05:00 The Princeton University Art Museum and Italian cultural authorities have completed the transfer of ownership of six works of art in the museum's collections.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S32/75/13K74/index.xml?section=newsreleasesnewsreleasesStaff2012-01-25T13:00-05:00 Survivors of Hurricane Katrina have struggled with poor mental health for years after the storm, according to a new study of low-income mothers in the New Orleans area. The study's lead author, Christina Paxson of Princeton University, and her collaborators were able to collect data on the participants before Katrina and nearly five years after the August 2005 storm, finding a persistence of poor mental health and gaining insights into how different types of hurricane-related stressors affect mental health.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S32/74/14C15/index.xml?section=newsreleasesnewsreleasesUshma Patel2012-01-24T09:47-05:00 Princeton University will commemorate the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. with its annual King Day celebration Monday, Jan. 16, in Richardson Auditorium of Alexander Hall. Doors open at 1 p.m. The keynote address will be delivered by civil rights leader and educator Bob Moses, a visiting fellow in Princeton's Center for African American Studies.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S32/60/84C85/index.xml?section=newsreleasesnewsreleasesStaff2012-01-09T10:00-05:00 Princeton University has offered admission to 726 students from a pool of 3,443 candidates who applied through single-choice early action for the Class of 2016.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S32/39/75S56/index.xml?section=newsreleasesnewsreleasesStaff2011-12-15T15:00-05:00 A Princeton University-based research team reports in Science that uninformed individuals — as in those with no prior knowledge or strong feelings on a situation's outcome — can actually be vital to achieving a democratic consensus. These individuals tend to side with and embolden the numerical majority and dilute the influence of powerful minority factions who would otherwise dominate everyone else. This finding — based on group decision-making experiments on fish, as well as mathematical models and computer simulations — challenges the common notion that an outspoken minority can manipulate uncommitted voters and can ultimately provide insights into humans' political behavior.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S32/37/23Q43/index.xml?section=newsreleasesnewsreleasesMorgan Kelly2011-12-15T14:00-05:00 Princeton University alumnus Jeff Bezos, the founder and chief executive officer of Amazon.com, and alumna MacKenzie Bezos, are donating $15 million to the University to create a center in the Princeton Neuroscience Institute. The gift will establish the Bezos Center for Neural Circuit Dynamics, which will be led by institute co-director David Tank.  http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S32/37/48S39/index.xml?section=newsreleasesnewsreleasesRuth Stevens2011-12-13T12:00-05:00 Princeton University-led researchers report in the journal Science that satellite images of nighttime lights normally used to spot where people live can help keep tabs on the diseases festering among them, too.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S32/32/09A95/index.xml?section=newsreleasesnewsreleasesMorgan Kelly2011-12-08T14:00-05:00 After several years of planning and more than a year of construction, Princeton University's High-Performance Computing Research Center opened its doors this week. Situated on the Forrestal campus, the facility gives researchers on campus new capacity to tackle some of the world's most complex scientific challenges.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S32/26/06E22/index.xml?section=newsreleasesnewsreleasesCatherine Zandonella2011-11-30T12:00-05:00 Scientists can now take that "a-ha" moment to go with a method Princeton University researchers developed — and successfully tested — to accomplish "accelerated serendipity" and speed up the chances of an unexpected yet groundbreaking chemical discovery.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S32/24/95A66/index.xml?section=newsreleasesnewsreleasesMorgan Kelly2011-11-28T11:00-05:00 Three Princeton University seniors — Christina Chang, Kyle Edwards and Emily Rutherford — and two alumni, Samuel Dorison and Alice Easton, are five of 36 American college students who have been awarded 2012 Marshall Scholarships.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S32/20/71C65/index.xml?section=newsreleasesnewsreleasesPaul Karr2011-11-23T13:45-05:00 Conventional wisdom would say that blocking a hole would prevent light from going through it, but Princeton University engineers have discovered the opposite to be true. A research team has found that placing a metal cap over a small hole in a metal film does not stop the light at all, but rather enhances its transmission.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S32/19/71M69/index.xml?section=newsreleasesnewsreleasesSteven Schultz2011-11-22T10:00-05:00 Three Princeton seniors — Elizabeth Butterworth, Miriam Rosenbaum and Astrid Stuth — and one Class of 2011 graduate, Mohit Agrawal, have been awarded Rhodes Scholarships for graduate study at the University of Oxford. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S32/18/32A63/index.xml?section=newsreleasesnewsreleasesPaul Karr2011-11-21T08:00-05:00 The significant feature of the special report, "Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation," released Nov. 18 by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is its focus on governmental responses to climate disasters including those related to climate change, according to Michael Oppenheimer, a Princeton University professor  and a coordinating lead author of the report.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S32/15/81G65/index.xml?section=newsreleasesnewsreleasesMorgan Kelly2011-11-18T18:00-05:00 A cosmic one-two punch of colossal volcanic eruptions and meteorite strikes likely caused the mass-extinction event at the end of the Cretaceous period that is famous for killing the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, according to two Princeton University reports that reject the prevailing theory that the extinction was caused by a single large meteorite.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S32/14/62G75/index.xml?section=newsreleasesnewsreleasesMorgan Kelly2011-11-17T09:00-05:00 Princeton University researchers report the first climate study to focus on variations in daily weather conditions, which found that day-to-day weather has grown increasingly erratic and extreme, with significant fluctuations in sunshine and rainfall affecting more than a third of the planet. These swings could have consequences for ecosystem stability and the control of pests and diseases; industries such as agriculture and solar-energy production; and could affect what scientists can expect to see as the Earth's climate changes.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S32/13/25I02/index.xml?section=newsreleasesnewsreleasesMorgan Kelly2011-11-15T15:00-05:00 A group of recently rediscovered watercolors by British painter Gwen John (1876–1939) are on exhibit in the 18th-Century Window of the Main Gallery at Firestone Library from Monday, Nov. 21, through Dec. 31, 2011.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S32/10/43E99/index.xml?section=newsreleasesnewsreleasesStaff2011-11-15T11:00-05:00