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In this interdisciplinary course, professors pull from a variety of musical and scientific disciplines to teach students about instruments and the sounds they produce.

Student work: Camera stabilization senior thesis .

Zennen Clifton, class of 2008, profiles a camera stabilization platform developed by Engineering School classmates Taofik Kolade and Mike Wood for their senior thesis.

Experimenting with new ways to make music .

Pass by the basement rehearsal space in Woolworth on a Thursday afternoon and you may hear electronic raindrops, a fast-forward reading of Dr. Seuss or a deep moaning that seems to emanate from the bottom of the ocean. You may even hear something you recognize as music, like a rockabilly jazz melody.

Former trustee, alumnus William O. Baker dies at 90 .

William O. Baker, a Princeton graduate alumnus and former charter trustee who earned a national reputation as a presidential adviser on science, died Oct. 31 in Chatham, N.J., at age 90.

Cutting-edge firms join Princeton’s new startup immersion program in Shanghai .

Two alumni were able to apply knowledge from Princeton classrooms to China’s booming market. Now, they want to pass on their insights to a new generation of Princeton entrepreneurs.

Student work: Center for Information Technology Policy .

Mike Wood, class of 2008, profiles CITP, a cross-disciplinary academic group that is joining ORFE in a new home at Sherrerd Hall.

Six receive Guggenheim Fellowships .

Six Princeton faculty members are among the 180 artists, scholars and scientists selected from nearly 3,000 applicants for the 2009 Guggenheim Fellowships.