'Frogs + Forms'

By Evelyn Tu on April 12, 2012, noon

Jaewon Choi created a large-scale painting for her visual arts senior thesis show. Meanwhile, her physics thesis explores light emitted at the beginning of the universe.

Jaewon Choi's visual arts senior thesis project explores the boundaries of painting on a very large scale. Meanwhile, her physics thesis project examines the origins of light on the largest scale imaginable. A video documenting Choi's first solo art exhibition, "Frogs + Forms," follows her process in creating a monumental 16-foot-wide by 8-foot-high painting.

Video feature: Creating 'Chrysalid,' a senior thesis .

In a studio at Princeton University, senior Maura O'Brien is once again navigating the woods of northern Minnesota — this time through art. This video captures some of that journey as O'Brien creates her senior thesis project.

Video: 'Extreme Visions' .

The documentary "Extreme Visions" explores the vision, planning and construction of two signature additions to the Princeton University campus with contrasting styles: the modernist Lewis Library, designed by Frank Gehry, and the Collegiate Gothic-inspired Whitman College, designed by Demetri Porphyrios.

The ultimate programmable calculator — the brain .

Princeton professor Carlos Brody is seeking to understand the mechanisms that control brain cells involved in short-term memory and decision-making.

'Prison Teaching Initiative at Princeton University' .

Participants in Princeton's Prison Teaching Initiative talk about why they got involved.

Music theater program combines collaboration and creativity .

Princeton's new Program in Music Theater, established in collaboration with the Program in Theater, the Program in Dance and the Department of Music, will support and develop students' engagement with music theater as both an artistic practice and a field of scholarly study. In addition to their major, students can earn a certificate in music theater, culminating in a senior thesis project, or they can just take one class or more.

Devising a 'silver bullet' for measuring water use by plants .

Princeton civil and environmental engineering major Ida Posner's senior thesis project focuses on the development of a filter to allow scientists to quickly measure water use by plants, which is critical for understanding how ecosystems are affected by drought, development or climate change.