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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.

Ning Lin with a hurricane superimposed behind her

Tempest in a laptop

Princeton University's Ning Lin uses synthetic storm models to help planners brace for the next big hurricane.

Princeton astrophysicists re-imagine world map, designing a less distorted, 'radically different' way to see the world.

Princeton Professors J. Richard Gott and Robert Vanderbei, in collaboration with David Goldberg of Drexel University, have designed a two-sided disk that minimizes the flaws of traditional flat maps.

Innovation

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

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

Four seniors awarded Labouisse Prize for international civic engagement projects

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

Not JUST Data

Laugh, cry, click, share: Princeton virtual theater experience aims to disrupt stigma around mental illness

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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Daily Meditation with Dean Matthew Weiner - Virtual Event

Mar 8

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

Register for Princeton Research Day 2021

Mar 8

5:00 p.m.

Princeton Research Day is back in an all-online format! Undergrads, grad students, postdocs and early career researchers can submit 3-minute videos of their…

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

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