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Princeton celebrates 25 years of research and teaching at Mpala, Kenya

Princeton is celebrating 25 years at the Mpala Research Centre in Kenya, while looking toward deepening engagement for the future.

Achieving climate goals requires setting a price on carbon, experts say at Andlinger Center meeting.

Cutting carbon emissions quickly requires a price on carbon, experts from industry, government and academia said at the annual meeting of the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton. A carbon fee would provide a dual benefit: offer direct incentives to cut emissions, and also create a new market for firms that can monetize carbon dioxide as a resource by transforming the gas into products and fuels.

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U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments on Princeton, Microsoft challenge to DACA termination.

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday on cases challenging the federal government’s termination of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, including a complaint filed by Princeton University, Microsoft and Princeton graduate María Perales Sánchez.

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Boosting wind farmers, global winds reverse decades of slowing and pick up speed

Schmidt DataX Fund supports research projects that harness data science to speed up discovery

President Eisgruber honored as innovation leader in New Jersey

Researchers find nature’s backup plan for converting nitrogen into plant nutrients

How to make better biofuels? Convince yeast it's not starving

Sustainability Action Plan's efforts to reduce water usage by 26% are underway

Fighting to protect Dreamers: Why Microsoft and Princeton University are taking their case to the Supreme Court.

An op-ed by Princeton President Christopher L. Eisgruber and Microsoft Corp. President Brad Smith on why Microsoft and Princeton University are taking their case to the Supreme Court to protect Dreamers was published in a TIME Ideas column this week. On Nov. 12, the Supreme Court hears cases related to DACA.

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University releases Title IX reports and announces next steps to strengthen process.

Princeton University released two new reports and announced next steps to further strengthen its policies, resources and communications related to sexual misconduct on campus. In a letter to the campus community, Provost Deborah Prentice underscored the University’s commitment to supporting all members of the Princeton community.

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"On Display: The Public Lives of 20th-Century American Women," a Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library exhibition

Nov 19

9:00 a.m.

At the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, a new exhibition examines the Library’s Public Policy Papers collection as it relates to 20th-century American women…

Exhibitions

"Gutenberg & After: Europe's First Printers 1450-1470," a Milberg Gallery exhibition

Nov 19

Firestone Library

12:00 p.m.

“Gutenberg & After: Europe’s First Printers 1450-1470,” a new exhibition in the Ellen and Leonard Milberg Gallery, showcases the rare collection of early…

Exhibitions

Adjoint structural optimization of flexible pressurized dams using shape parametrization based on inflated geometry

Nov 19

Engineering QUAD

12:30 p.m.

Seminar Series: MMS Brown Bag Seminar Speaker: Olek Niewiarowski, Graduate Student, Civil and Environmental Engineering Pneumatic membrane structures have…

Civil and Environmental Engineering, MMS Brown Bag Seminar

PEI Faculty Seminar/Geosciences Department Seminar

Nov 19

12:30 p.m.

PEI Faculty Seminars are September 17, October 1, November 5 & December 3 and the other dates are Geosciences Department Seminars.

Academics

Workshop - Grey Literature

Nov 19

Lewis Library

1:00 p.m.

This workshop will introduce sources and types of grey literature, as well as how to find published and unpublished materials that may be unindexed and…

Education, Workshops

Lecture: “The Arts of Land and Water Defense”

Nov 19

Burr Hall

4:30 p.m.

Macarena Gómez-Barris examines solidarities outside the material and symbolic infrastructures of racial and extractive capitalism.

Talks, Lectures

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