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Look up: Renovated cupola and roof crown Princeton’s Nassau Hall

Nassau Hall’s cupola has been repainted, repaired and covered in penny-colored copper, and its roof replaced with 21,000 new slate tiles.

Princeton University’s new biodigester makes food scraps sustainable .

Approximately 50 staff, faculty, students and local officials gathered on Jan. 8 to mark the installation of a new biodigester on Princeton's campus. Come spring, compost produced by the biodigester will be tested as a natural soil improvement on University lawns.

Campus Life

MLK Day program to be held at Arts Council of Princeton.

Princeton University will join with community organizations on Monday, Jan. 21, to support the Arts Council of Princeton’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day community event. The free program includes live music, interactive workshops and discussions relating to King’s life, teachings and civic engagement. Tracy K. Smith, U.S. poet laureate and Princeton faculty member, and Rev. Lukata Mjumbe will speak.

Diversity & Inclusion

University News

Ethics course explores risk and responsibility in engineering

Herman Ermolaev, ‘one of the foremost scholars of Soviet literature,’ dies at 94

Sewers could help clean the atmosphere

Machine learning could reduce testing, improve treatment for intensive care patients

Going quantum to unlock plants' secrets

Patricia Falcone talks about women in science on ‘She Roars’ podcast

Andlinger Center Speaks: U.S. carbon dioxide emissions rise by 3.4 percent.

Increased electricity demand and economic growth are among the contributing factors to the rise in carbon emissions of 3.4 percent in the past year. Experts Judi Greenwald, Eric Larson and Michael Oppenheimer at Princeton's Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment discussed the trend.

Research

In 'The Environmental Nexus,' students explore the many paths to saving the planet.

In the "Environmental Nexus" course, undergraduates approached the environmental crisis from four distinct perspectives — science, ethics, politics and economics, and arts and literature.

Academics

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"Redefining Old Nassau: Women and the Shaping of Modern Princeton," a Mudd Manuscript Library exhibition

Jan 18

Mudd Library

9:00 a.m.

I am certain that he expected me to nod in agreement and accept my responsibility for having destroyed his alma mater. I should leave him alone in his paradise…

Special Events, Athletics

Jummah

Jan 18

Dodge Hall

1:00 p.m.

Join us for Jummah Prayer in Murray-Dodge Hall each Friday throughout the year at 1pm. Qur’anic Recitation at 1pm. First Adhan, Sunnah at 1:15pm. Khutbah…

Special Events, Religious

New Jersey Symphony Orchestra Zhang and Upshaw

Jan 18

Alexander Hall

7:00 p.m.

Arts

Original Student Compositions

Jan 18

7:30 p.m.

Princeton University students in the course MUS310: Advanced Composition Workshop present performances of their original compositions in this public…

Music

Hot science topics for cold winter days: The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory’s Science on Saturday lecture series begins Jan. 12 and continues through March 16

Jan 19

9:30 a.m.

The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory’s (PPPL) 2019 Ronald E. Hatcher Science on Saturday Lecture Series begins Jan. 12 at 9:30 a.m. at PPPL, 100 Stellarator…

Lectures

Martin Luther King, Jr., Service of Recommitment

Jan 20

11:00 a.m.

In the chapel service today, we celebrate and remember the life and legacy of the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr. Guest preaching today is Alisha Lola…

Special Events, Religious

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