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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.

Two million-year-old ice cores provide first direct observations of an ancient climate.

Princeton University-led researchers have extracted 2 million-year-old ice cores from Antarctica that provide the first direct observations of Earth’s climate at a time when the furred early ancestors of modern humans still roamed. Gas bubbles trapped in the cores — which are the oldest yet recovered — contain pristine samples of carbon dioxide, methane and other gases that serve as “snapshots” of prehistoric atmospheric conditions and temperatures.

Research

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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Pioneering NASA engineer Darden shares her journey from ‘human computer’ to expert in supersonic flight

Statistics show: Vocal music really is universal

Foam offers way to manipulate light

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

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

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.

University News

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.

University News

The fountain in front of Roberson Hall and Corwin Hall froze one morning in November 2019

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Dan Trueman 'Songs That Are Hard To Sing'

Nov 22

10:00 p.m.

Sō Percussion celebrates the recording release of Dan Trueman’s Song That Are Hard To Sing by New Amsterdam Records. Come enjoy a performance by Sō Percussion …

Music

Painting Show

Nov 23

185 Nassau Street

9:00 a.m.

The Program in Visual Arts presents a group exhibition of recent work by students in the fall painting courses.

Arts, Exhibitions

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Nov 23

9:00 a.m.

Come to the EcoReps Clothing Swap in Frist B04 on November 23rd from 1pm-4pm! You do not have to donate clothes in order to come and get clothes!

Exhibitions

Reveal Party — Sound Installation by Jess Rowland

Nov 23

Wallace Dance & Theater

10:00 a.m.

Princeton Arts Fellow and sound artist Jess Rowland will present recent work for interactive sound objects.

Arts, Exhibitions

A Barbara Strozzi Symposium and Concert

Nov 23

10:00 a.m.

The most prolific Italian composer of vocal chamber music in the 17th century, Barbara Strozzi (1619–1677) published eight volumes of madrigals, motets, arias…

Music

Men's Swimming vs Penn & Cornell

Nov 23

11:00 a.m.

Ivy League Swim Meet against Penn & Cornell

Athletics

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