Access to data on births, deaths, insurance claims and other records are helping economist Janet Curie tackle big questions about child health.
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David S. Lee, professor of economics and public affairs and the director of the Industrial Relations Section at Princeton University, will become provost effective July 1.
Princeton University alumnus David Donoho, the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Humanities and Sciences and a professor of statistics at Stanford University, today was named the 2013 Shaw Laureate in mathematics.
Princeton professors Scott Burnham and Peter Schäfer have received the University's Howard T. Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities.
Events
Treasures of American history featured in Princeton exhibition
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, and running until August, 2013.
Exhibition examines the impact of the year 1913 on modernism
The exhibition "1913: The Year of Modernism" at the Princeton University Art Museum features prints, drawings, photographs, rare books and periodicals . The exhibition is running from March 23, to June 23. Museum hours are: 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. on Sunday. Closed Monday.
Exhibition celebrates, examines German thin-shell structures
The exhibition "Evolution of German Shells: Efficiency in Form," which celebrates and examines German thin-shell structural design, began on May 24, in the Friend Center Engineering Library. The exhibition continues through August and is open 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday.
Spotlights
A new facility, the Grinding Imaging and Reconstruction Instrument (GIRI) lab, automates the task of grinding and imaging materials such as stone and metal, allowing researchers to reconstruct 3D models of complex forms hidden in these materials.
Located at the center of campus, the Museum is free and open to the public and hosts a dozen temporary exhibitions each year, many motivated by the collections and coordinated with the University curriculum, but presented for the benefit of a broad public.
With a growing global population comes new challenges – ranging from access to health care to changing migration patterns. These are among the issues being addressed by researchers at the Office of Population Research (OPR) at Princeton University.