http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/The latest News Releases from Princeton University.en-usPrinceton University 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=newsreleasesnewsreleasesthe Office of Communications2013-05-17T09:55-05:00 A temporary traffic signal is being installed at the intersection of College Road and University Place for use over the next year when construction detours are in effect for Princeton University's Arts and Transit Project.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S36/84/62C20/index.xml?section=newsreleasesnewsreleasesthe Office of Communications2013-05-13T12:30-05:00 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=newsreleasesnewsreleasesOffice of the Dean of Undergraduate Students2013-05-08T13:30-05:00 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=newsreleasesnewsreleasesMorgan Kelly, Office of Communications2013-05-06T12:00-05:00 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=newsreleasesnewsreleasesCatherine Zandonella, Office of the Dean for Research2013-04-26T13:00-05:00 Christopher L. Eisgruber, Princeton's provost for the past nine years, has been named the University's 20th president, effective July 1. He succeeds Shirley M. Tilghman, who last fall announced her intention to step down at the end of this academic year after completing 12 years in office. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S36/65/54C75/index.xml?section=newsreleasesnewsreleasesthe Office of Communications2013-04-21T12:30-05:00 Princeton University researchers have found that bad decisions might be the fault of faulty information, rather than errors in the brain's decision-making process.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S36/56/16S65/index.xml?section=newsreleasesnewsreleasesCatherine Zandonella, Office of the Dean for Research2013-04-15T12:30-05:00 Princeton University researchers found that the brain breaks experiences into the "events," or related groups that help us mentally organize the day's many situations, using subconscious mental categories it creates. These categories are based on how the considers people, objects and actions are related in terms of how they tend to — or tend not to — pop up near one another at specific times.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S36/56/09E19/index.xml?section=newsreleasesnewsreleasesMorgan Kelly, Office of Communications2013-04-10T12:08-05:00 Changes in the academic calendar that set the first day of fall semester classes on the second Wednesday of September were approved at the April 1 faculty meeting. The change in the first day of classes, which was previously scheduled on the second Thursday, also means that the Thanksgiving break has been extended by one day and will begin the day before Thanksgiving.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S36/54/37Q89/index.xml?section=newsreleasesnewsreleasesOffice of Communications2013-04-09T09:00-05:00 Princeton University has appointed as dean for research Pablo Debenedetti, a longtime Princeton engineering professor and vice dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science. Debenedetti, the Class of 1950 Professor in Engineering and Applied Science and professor of chemical and biological engineering, will begin his new role on July 1.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S36/53/49G54/index.xml?section=newsreleasesnewsreleasesMorgan Kelly, Office of Communications2013-04-08T10:00-05:00 Alumnus David Remnick, editor of the The New Yorker, has been selected to deliver the keynote address at the University's Class Day ceremony on Monday, June 3. Class Day, which takes place the day before Princeton's Commencement, is being organized by members of the graduating class.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S33/31/33G26/index.xml?section=newsreleasesnewsreleasesMartin Mbugua, Office of Communications2013-04-04T16:00-05:00 More useful projections of sea level are possible despite substantial uncertainty about the future behavior of massive ice sheets. In two recent papers, Princeton University researchers present an approach that provides a consistent means to integrate the potential contribution of continental ice sheets such as Greenland and Antarctica into sea-level rise projections.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S36/50/04K42/index.xml?section=newsreleasesnewsreleasesMorgan Kelly, Office of Communications2013-04-03T12:30-05:00 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=newsreleasesnewsreleasesMike Caddell, Office of Communications2013-03-28T10:00-05:00 Princeton University researchers contributed extensively to the Planck space mission that on March 21 released the most accurate and detailed map ever made of the oldest light in the universe, revealing new information about its age, contents and origins.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S36/38/99C85/index.xml?section=newsreleasesnewsreleasesOffice of Communications2013-03-21T17:00-05:00 Princeton University researchers developed a model that can help determine the future range of nearly any disease-causing parasite under climate change, even if little is known about the organism. Their method calculates how the projected temperature change for an area would alter the creature's metabolism and life cycle.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S36/12/94E59/index.xml?section=newsreleasesnewsreleasesMorgan Kelly, Office of Communications2013-02-25T09:00-05:00 Despite years of research, the genetic factors behind many human diseases and characteristics remain unknown, and has been called the "missing heritability" problem. A new study by Princeton University researchers, however, suggests that heritability in humans may be hidden due only to the limitations of modern research tools, but could be discovered if scientists know where (and how) to look.  http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S36/13/86G93/index.xml?section=newsreleasesnewsreleasesCatherine Zandonella, Office of the Dean for Research2013-02-22T09:00-05:00 From a first-hand account of Colonial life in Jamestown to a wanted poster for John Wilkes Booth following President Abraham Lincoln's assassination, a Princeton University Library exhibition opening Friday, Feb. 22, will trace the American experience from 1607 to 1865. Several items from Princeton's collections will be on display for the first time. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S36/02/72O20/index.xml?section=newsreleasesnewsreleasesEmily Aronson, Office of Communications2013-02-14T12:00-05:00 International scholars and performers dedicated to honoring the life and works of Baroque composer George Frideric Handel will gather at the University for the American Handel Society conference on Thursday through Saturday, Feb. 21-23. This is the second time the American Handel Society has held its biennial festival at Princeton; the first was in 2007.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S36/07/70A65/index.xml?section=newsreleasesnewsreleasesJamie Saxon, Office of Communications2013-02-13T11:00-05:00 UPDATE: Tickets to this event are now sold out. People without tickets may wait on line outside Richardson Auditorium before the event on Friday afternoon for seating in any unfilled seats. Seating for people on the wait line is not guaranteed. Princeton University President Shirley M. Tilghman and Anne-Marie Slaughter, Princeton's Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs, will discuss ideas related to women and leadership at 4:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 22, in Alexander Hall, Richardson Auditorium, on the Princeton University Campus. Tickets for the University community will be available starting at noon Wednesday, Feb. 13 at the University Ticketing office in Frist Campus Center. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S36/05/96G24/index.xml?section=newsreleasesnewsreleasesStaff2013-02-11T10:35-05:00 Princeton University researchers developed a mathematical framework that strips away the differences between scientific laws and theories to reveal how the ideas are compatible. In a recent report in the journal Physical Review Letters, the authors explain how the mathematical model finds common ground between the famously at-odds physics equations that govern classical and quantum mechanics.  http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S35/94/19I59/index.xml?section=newsreleasesnewsreleasesMorgan Kelly, Office of Communications2013-01-30T12:00-05:00