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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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Dance, reimagined: Connecting through creativity while physically apart

Choreographers and students reimagined what it means to create and present dance remotely in the run-up to the annual Princeton Dance Festival.

Life expectancy falling for adults without a bachelor’s degree.

People without a college degree have experienced a rise in mortality since 2010, according to a new study by Princeton's Anne Case and Sir Angus Deaton.

Research

University plans to host outdoor Commencement at Princeton Stadium on May 16.

The Commencement ceremony would be held in compliance with public health and social distancing protocols.

University News

By the numbers: University raises funds for United Way

From lab to everyday life: Princeton accelerator fund supports promising innovations

Four seniors awarded Labouisse Prize for international civic engagement projects

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How we can use psychological principles to foster collaboration in the fight against COVID-19

Sixth annual Princeton Research Day goes virtual to celebrate research and creative work

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

Upcoming Virtual Events

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

Mar 9

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

Geosciences Lecture Series "Time-variation of the magnetic fields of Jupiter and Saturn"

Mar 9

12:30 p.m.

Caltech Postdoc Kimberly Moore will discuss why Magnetic fields can provide important constraints on a planet’s interior structure and dynamics. Dr. Kimberly…

CITP Seminar - Dreams of (Black) Tech Futures Past

Mar 9

12:30 p.m.

This is what could have been. If the computer geeks at MIT in 1960 had just held on just a little while longer with the Mississippi freedom riders. If…

Princeton School of Public and International Affairs

Indigeneity, Development, and the State in 20th-Century Mexico and Peru

Mar 9

5:00 p.m.

This event will explore changing conceptions of indigeneity and development in mid-20th-century Mexico and Peru. How did divergent framings of the “indigenous…

Social, Talks

Women and Gender in the Qur'an with Dr. Celene Ibrahim

Mar 9

6:30 p.m.

Join us for a virtual book talk (and student responses) with Dr. Celene Ibrahim as she explores the complex cast of female figures in the Qur'an, probing…

Special Events, Religious

Princeton-Rutgers ReproducibiliTea

Mar 10

3:00 p.m.

ReproducibiliTea is a journal club that was started at Oxford University and explores literature related to research transparency and reproducibility. Week 5…

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