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Spring 2021 Information

Please visit spring2021.princeton.edu and covid.princeton.edu for details and information about the spring semester 2021 and public health guidance.

Cover of book "Moving Up Without Losing Your Way: The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility" by Jennifer M. Morton and a portrait of Jennifer Morton

‘Moving Up Without Losing Your Way’ by Princeton graduate Jennifer M. Morton selected as Pre-read for incoming class

The book discusses the transformative power of higher education and how to better support first-generation, lower-income students. It is the first Princeton Pre-read selection by a Latinx author.

University will require all undergraduate and graduate students to receive COVID-19 vaccines.

All students enrolled or otherwise present on campus for the upcoming 2021-22 academic year will be required to receive, and to provide proof of having received, a COVID-19 vaccine authorized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

University News

Taishi Nakase selected as Princeton valedictorian, Lucy Wang named salutatorian.

Commencement for the Class of 2021 will take place at Princeton Stadium on Sunday, May 16. Nakase and Wang are expected to give remarks at the ceremony.

Award

Trustee-level ad hoc committee develops principles to govern decisions about naming, renaming and changing iconography .

The principles on naming and renaming will govern questions about when and under what circumstances it might be appropriate for the University to remove or contextualize the names and representations of individuals present on Princeton's campus.

Diversity & Inclusion

Now online: Videos display Princeton research and creative work at this year’s virtual Princeton Research Day.

Princeton Research Day, the University’s celebration of research, scholarship and creative work, will be held in a virtual format on May 6.

Research

University News

Two Princetonians awarded Gaither Fellowship to work at Carnegie Endowment

The meaning of music during a pandemic: Princeton University Concerts names winners of Creative Reactions Contest

Four win Jacobus Fellowship, Princeton’s top graduate student honor

Princeton undergraduate Kevin Chang dies in Michigan

‘A.I. Nation,’ Episode 5, ‘Echo Chambers,’ now available to download

#TellUsTigers: Alumna Satterthwaite on academic stress and ‘devoting 15 minutes a day to your happiness’

Big but affordable effort needed for America to reach net-zero emissions by 2050, Princeton study shows .

The new “Net-Zero America” study maps out state-by-state, sector-by-sector, and decade-by-decade what it would take for the U.S. economy to be fully decarbonized, and provides a blueprint for action in the 2020s.

Research

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Princeton Playbook public health campaign aims to limit spread of COVID-19 on campus.

The University's new public health campaign focuses on four principles or “plays”— Prepare, Protect, Participate and Persist — to help limit the spread of COVID-19 on campus and in the community.

University News

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Upcoming Virtual Events

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Clifton Boyd

Apr 30

4:30 p.m.

This event will take place via Zoom and an access link will be shared with all members of the Department the day of the event. Members of the wider university…

Music

Gilbert Lecture: A Conversation on Equity, Ethics and Technology

Apr 30

5:00 p.m.

Toni Townes-Whitley ’85 President, U.S. Regulated Industries, Microsoft and Ruha Benjamin Professor of African American Studies

Special Events, Talks

Special Event | Language and Migration: Experience and Memory

Apr 30

7:30 p.m.

Register Here: https://princeton.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GNf33xbFR1O9wdsn38Hk6Q Language is a vital, but underexplored, factor in the lives of migrants,…

Special Events, Discussions

Spring Dance Festival — April

Apr 30

8:00 p.m.

Princeton Dance seniors Sophie Blue, Liam Lynch and Enver Ramadani present an evening of filmed new dance works. Presented on Zoom webinar and hosted by Hearst…

Spring 2021 Worship Schedule - Virtual Events

May 1

8:00 a.m.

Here is the Spring Worship Service Schedule featuring, of course, Rev. Alison Boden, Ph.D., Dean of Religious Life and the Chapel, & Rev. Dr. Theresa…

Special Events, Religious

Special Event | Language and Migration: Experience and Memory

May 1

12:00 p.m.

Register Here: https://princeton.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GNf33xbFR1O9wdsn38Hk6Q Language is a vital, but underexplored, factor in the lives of migrants,…

Special Events, Discussions

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