Pietro Frassica, professor of French and Italian, leads the class "Topics in Contemporary Italian Civilization -- Italy: The Land of Slow Food," which explores the art of cookery in relation to people's environment and history. Frassica, an authority on Italian literature, offered his first course exploring the importance of food in literature in 1992. (Photo: Brian Wilson)
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Class snapshot: 'Italy: The Land of Slow Food'
By Eric Quiñones · Posted November 23, 2009; 04:00 p.m.
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.
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Holiday outreach initiatives planned
By Staff · Posted November 25, 2009; 09:30 a.m.
Members of the University community will have the opportunity to share the holiday spirit through a series of community service initiatives and special events planned for December and January.
Princeton senior Henry Barmeier wins Rhodes Scholarship--UPDATED
By Jennifer Greenstein Altmann · Posted November 22, 2009; 08:35 a.m.
Princeton senior Henry Barmeier has been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship for graduate study at the University of Oxford.
'Connect' encourages black alumni to become more involved with Princeton
By Staff · Posted November 20, 2009; 11:23 a.m.
A new alumni-led enterprise will involve black graduates more deeply in the life of Princeton University as leaders, volunteers and donors.
Perspective on: The fall of the Berlin Wall and communism
By Staff · Posted November 19, 2009; 12:04 p.m.
Stephen Kotkin, the Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History and professor of history and international affairs, discusses the watershed events of 1989: the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism.
Ominsky named director of public safety
By Cass Cliatt · Posted November 18, 2009; 11:00 a.m.
Paul Ominsky, director of public safety at Mount Holyoke College, Smith College and Hampshire College, has been named director of public safety at Princeton University.
Beyond genomics, biologists and engineers decode the next frontier
By Chandra Shekhar · Posted November 18, 2009; 09:00 a.m.
A team of Princeton biologists and engineers has dramatically improved the speed and accuracy of measuring an enigmatic set of proteins that influences almost every aspect of how cells and tissues function. The new method offers a long-sought tool for studying stem cells, cancer and other problems of fundamental importance to biology and medicine.
Amazon's Bezos selected as Baccalaureate speaker
By Ruth Stevens · Posted November 17, 2009; 03:10 p.m.
Princeton alumnus Jeff Bezos, the founder and chief executive officer of Amazon.com, has been selected as the speaker for this year's Baccalaureate ceremony. The interfaith worship service that is one of Princeton's oldest traditions is scheduled for 2 p.m. Sunday, May 30, in the University Chapel.
Arts advocates look to each other for ideas, hope in difficult economy
By Cass Cliatt and Marguerite d'Aprile-Smith · Posted November 16, 2009; 04:08 p.m.
Participants in "The Arts and the Economic Crisis" symposium Nov. 14 were asked to consider a sobering statistic -- that the $59 billion the federal government spent on elementary and secondary education is only marginally greater than the $50 billion that commercial firms spent in 2008 on junk mail. Panelists at the symposium used the examples to demonstrate the lack of resources dedicated to the arts for the audience of nearly 300 arts administrators, advocates, policymakers, artists, academics, students and community members who convened in McCosh 10 and a simulcast site to explore strategies for sustaining a fundamental commitment to the arts, despite the economic recession.
Center for African American Studies launches civic internship program
By Emily Aronson · Posted November 16, 2009; 06:35 p.m.
The Center for African American Studies at Princeton University will launch a summer internship program to further research in race and public policy, allowing Princeton students to work with national organizations to confront issues of disparity in urban education.
Princeton takes significant steps toward achieving sustainability goals
By Ruth Stevens · Posted November 11, 2009; 10:00 a.m.
In its first report since adopting a Sustainability Plan in February 2008, Princeton University states that on-campus greenhouse gas emissions have decreased for the first time since the University's energy-efficient cogeneration plant was installed in 1996. While the decrease in carbon dioxide from July 2008 to July 2009 has been modest at nearly 1 percent, "it is a significant step in the right direction," according to the report, considering that the University added nearly 164,000 square feet to its physical plant during the same time period.
Nominations for Journey Award due Dec. 4
By Staff · Posted November 13, 2009; 12:22 p.m.
Nominations for the MLK Day Journey Award will be accepted until Friday, Dec. 4. The award recognizes a member of the Princeton faculty, staff or student body who best represents the continued journey of Martin Luther King Jr.
Car wins IEEE Fernbach Award
By Kitta MacPherson · Posted November 12, 2009; 03:40 p.m.
Roberto Car, the Ralph W. Dornte *31 Professor in Chemistry at Princeton and a faculty fellow of the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, has been named a winner of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society 2009 Sidney Fernbach Award.
Groves wins Fischer Career Award in Porphyrin Chemistry
By Kitta MacPherson · Posted November 13, 2009; 10:00 a.m.
John Groves, the Hugh Stott Taylor Chair of Chemistry, has been selected to receive the 2010 Hans Fischer Career Award in Porphyrin Chemistry by the Society of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines.
Students 'break out' from campus to learn about civic action
By Eric Quiñones · Posted November 23, 2009; 04:00 p.m.
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.
Creating opportunity: Engineering course empowers Princeton's social entrepreneurs
By Hilary Parker · Posted November 19, 2009; 06:00 p.m.
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.
Ceremony notes reopening of architectural landmark
By Ushma Patel · Posted November 16, 2009; 06:00 p.m.
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.
Perspective on: Freud and Mexico, via Vienna
By Karin Dienst · Posted November 9, 2009; 06:00 p.m.
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.
Open house welcomes employees to 701 Carnegie Center
By Eric Quiñones · Posted October 31, 2009; 12:51 p.m.
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.
650 attend largest gathering of black alumni in University history
By Shani Hilton · Posted October 29, 2009; 06:00 p.m.
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."
ACC continues efforts to address high-risk drinking
By Ruth Stevens · Posted October 27, 2009; 11:20 a.m.
The University's Alcohol Coalition Committee (ACC) is continuing its work to address high-risk drinking among undergraduates.
TigerTransit adds environmentally friendly buses, new routes
By Ruth Stevens · Posted October 27, 2009; 10:54 a.m.
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.
NCI awards $15.2 million to create Princeton Physical Sciences-Oncology Center
By Hilary Parker · Posted October 26, 2009; 08:00 a.m.
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.
Study: Accounting error undermines climate change laws
By Staff · Posted October 22, 2009; 02:00 p.m.
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.
Princeton awarded more than $21 million in Recovery Act funding
By Hilary Parker · Posted October 9, 2009; 02:20 p.m.
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.