Featured Stories Archive – August, 2005
Architecture school builds reputation on academic, practical training
By Eric Quiñones · Posted August 29, 2005; 02:37 p.m.
Princeton's School of Architecture engages students in contemporary and emerging issues in architecture through teaching and research in design, history and theory.
Networks of Princeton alumni span the globe
By Eric Quiñones · Posted August 25, 2005; 03:06 p.m.
With the Princeton student body taking on an increasingly international flavor over the years, networks of Princeton alumni around the globe have expanded significantly.
Engineering enthusiasm: Workshops add variety to summer research experience
By Mark Devlin · Posted August 22, 2005; 11:19 a.m.
As a student in mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton, Phillip Kang has been captivated by the modern technologies of hypersonic flight and robotics. But when offered the chance to spend part of his summer working on an 80-year-old car w...
Psychology department provides window to the brain
By Dana Crum · Posted August 18, 2005; 01:28 p.m.
At both the undergraduate and graduate levels, Princeton's Department of Psychology offers students an array of innovative courses as well as ample opportunities for research. To ensure undergraduate majors understand the main trends in contemporar...
Student journalists grow with program
By Cass Cliatt · Posted August 15, 2005; 04:17 p.m.
A once-fledgling summer journalism camp has grown up. Born in the summer of 2002, the Daily Princetonian Class of 2001 Summer Journalism Program has diversified and matured into a working partnership between its founders and the former high school ...
Materials camp lets science teachers bring real-world lessons to students
By Eric Quiñones · Posted August 11, 2005; 12:49 p.m.
Teachers in a new program at Princeton are learning about the fundamentals of materials science through experiments with some fundamental items: pennies, paper clips and sand.
Undergraduates get a jump on graduate school
By Ruth Stevens · Posted August 4, 2005; 02:38 p.m.
Eleven undergraduates from around the country have been selected to spend this summer on Princeton University's campus in a program intended to give them a taste of life as a graduate student. Each student works with a Princeton faculty member, either as a research assistant in a laboratory project in the sciences and engineering or as an advisee in editing and writing research papers in the humanities and social sciences.
Princeton program puts high school students on pathway to college
By Eric Quiñones · Posted August 4, 2005; 01:57 p.m.
From intensive lab work to SAT training to a tour of the United Nations, students in the Princeton University Preparation Program (PUPP) are on an excursion of learning that will help lead them to a college education.
Princeton is home to significant archive of medieval art
By Ruth Stevens · Posted August 1, 2005; 03:07 p.m.
The Index of Christian Art, which makes its home at Princeton University, is one of the most important archives of medieval art in existence and the most specialized resource for the iconographer.