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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.

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The Emma Bloomberg Center for Access and Opportunity established at Princeton through major gift from Bloomberg Philanthropies

The new center will bring together the University’s current access and opportunity initiatives, and help strengthen similar efforts at universities across the country.

UPDATED: Princeton voices: Speaking out about police violence in the nation.

At the close of the Derek Chauvin trial, Princeton scholars, experts and alumni are speaking to the moment across a range of platforms.

University News

Princeton’s first Muslim Chaplain Imam Sohaib Sultan dies.

Sultan, an inspirational leader for the Islamic community at the University and within New Jersey, died April 16 of cancer. Faculty, staff and students from across religious affiliations, academic departments and administrative offices remembered Sultan for his warmth, compassion, dedication, humility and, in true Princeton spirit, his service to humanity.

People

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

‘A.I. Nation,’ Episode 4, ‘Biased Intelligence,’ examines technology and policing, now available to download.

In the fourth episode of A.I. Nation, a new podcast by Princeton University and Philadelphia public radio station WHYY, computer science professor Ed Felten and WHYY reporter Malcolm Burnley investigate the ways that AI can be biased, how these biases can harm people of color, and what we can do to make the technology more accurate and equitable.

Innovation

University News

GradFUTURES Forum to highlight professional development for graduate students

Five faculty elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Princeton employees honored for special achievement, service and management leadership

Himelhoch, Lambert and Wayner awarded Truman Scholarship for public service

The Derek Chauvin trial: Resources and support for the University community

Documentary featuring Princeton visionary physicist Gerard O’Neill premieres Saturday, April 17

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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A Passage in Relief

Apr 26

1:30 p.m.

Princeton University’s Program in Theater partners with Fordham University, Purchase College, and University of Massachusetts-Amherst to create a virtual…

Daily Meditation with Dean Matthew Weiner - Virtual Event

Apr 26

4:00 p.m.

All are welcome to join us for a ten minute mediation each day lead by Dean Matt Weiner, Associate Dean of Religious Life. Please remember to make sure your…

Special Events, Wellness

RBWG & CDH Spring Workshop Series: Cataloguing Roundtable

Apr 26

4:30 p.m.

Join the Rare Book Working Group for a bonus round of spring workshopping! This session invites PUL cataloguers and scholars in the humanities to consider…

Community

Department of Mathematics Horizons Lectures PACM Colloquium

Apr 26

4:30 p.m.

Research Coilloquium: Turning cancer discoveries into effective treatments with the aid of mathematical modeling The Horizons Lectures consists of two events…

A Conversation on Derrida and Post-Phenomenology

Apr 27

12:00 p.m.

The IHUM reading group “Derrida and Post-Phenomenology” invites you to a conversation with dr. Johan de Jong from Leiden University on April 27, 12pm. Led and…

Discussions, Cultural Event

Shanti in Place with Vineet Chander, Hindu Chaplain - VIrtual Event

Apr 27

12:00 p.m.

This is a weekly virtual Sanga to help one another stay grounded, navigate our anxiety, and maintain perspective. We begin with a short guided meditation, and…

Special Events, Religious

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