Briefs
• The latest U.S. News & World Report ranking of America's best colleges puts Princeton at the top of the list. While University officials were pleased with the recognition, they downplayed the significance of year-to-year fluctuations in the rankings and noted that the methodology in this report and similar surveys cannot capture the uniqueness of any institution or its appropriateness for any individual student.
• Princeton faculty member Joe Tsien, whose creation last year of a "smart mouse" was hailed as a breakthrough in neuroscience, has received a young investigator award that provides major new funding for his research.
The W.M. Keck Foundation of Los Angeles named Tsien, assistant professor of molecular biology, one of five Distinguished Young Scholars in Medical Research. The award provides about $1 million in funding over five years.
Tsien's research focuses on understanding the genetics behind age-related changes in learning and memory. His work gained public and scientific attention last year when he and colleagues in his lab published a study showing how the addition of a single gene could boost learning and memory in mice.
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look debuts for Bulletin • Many
work 'with one accord' to raise funds for
Princeton • Briefs • Rowers
go for the orange in Sydney • Berry
keynotes two-day event
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