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Fall 2020 Information

Ongoing updates about the 2020-21 academic year are available on the University's Fall 2020 website.

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Angelo Campus electrifies the renewable energy business with BoxPower

Princeton University alumnus Angelo Campus brings dependable, portable and sustainable power to communities worldwide through his California-based company, BoxPower.

Alumni Kwanza Jones and José E. Feliciano make Princeton history with major gift.

Largest gift to the University by Black and Latino donors will name two dormitories and expand Princeton’s ability to attract and support talented students from all backgrounds

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Wallace Best leads the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies into a dynamic new era.

The program’s new director describes his commitment to broadening the understanding of the ways in which gender and sexuality shape human experiences

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Largest COVID-19 contact tracing study to date finds children key to spread, evidence of superspreaders

Undergraduate prizes awarded to seven students for academic achievement

Chemistry Ph.D. student Brooke Johnson shares her journey to Princeton

Princeton researchers join $1M NSF effort to model nation’s groundwater

Princeton researchers report high level of compliance with on-campus health and safety protocols

Mental illness treatment varies widely among American adolescents within and across ZIP codes

An update and overview of Princeton University’s ongoing efforts to combat systemic racism.

Continuing work to address racism includes scholarly and operational initiatives across the University

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Princeton implements new Title IX/sexual misconduct policies following new federal regulations for colleges and universities.

Princeton University has implemented new Title IX/sexual misconduct policies in response to new federal Title IX regulations. In May of 2020, the U.S. Department of Education issued new regulations mandating how colleges and universities must investigate and adjudicate sexual misconduct cases under Title IX, the federal law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex in educational programs or activities.

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Upcoming Virtual Events

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FluFest Vaccination Clinic

Oct 1

Jadwin Gym

8:00 a.m.

University Health Services invites you to FluFest 2020. Princeton University faculty, students, staff, faculty and retirees are invited to join us at Jadwin…

FluFest Vaccination Clinic

Oct 2

Jadwin Gym

8:00 a.m.

University Health Services invites you to FluFest 2020. Princeton University faculty, students, staff, faculty and retirees are invited to join us at Jadwin…

PEI Faculty Seminar: “Forever Chemicals No More: Harnessing the Novel Feammox Bacterium for PFAS Defluorination”

Oct 6

12:30 p.m.

Princeton professor Peter Jaffé will recount his research group’s discovery of a novel bacterium with the surprising ability to degrade the group of ubiquitous…

Combahee Experimental: Black Women’s Experimental Filmmaking — Filmmaking in Troubled Times

Oct 7

6:00 p.m.

The Program in Visual Arts presents a series of conversations and film screenings that celebrate the work of Black women filmmakers and their unique cinematic…

A Conversation with Selwyn Seyfu Hinds ’93

Oct 14

6:00 p.m.

Join us online for an informal talk and Q+A with award-winning author, editor, music scribe, producer and screenwriter Selwyn Seyfu Hinds ’93 (“Washington…

Takács String Quartet (Virtual Watch Party)

Oct 15

8:00 p.m.

A Princeton University Concerts series Virtual Watch Party, featuring a live Q&A with the quartet members following the streamed performance. PROGRAM…

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