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(03/25/22 3:39am)
Three officials from the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division spoke at the University on Tuesday, March 22 about their work investigating and combating system abuse in policing.
(03/04/22 3:24am)
On Tuesday, Feb. 22, the University announced that starting this fall, it will be expanding its transfer admissions program, increasing the number of transfer students accepted and enrolled. The University intends to enroll between 25 and 35 transfers each year for the next few years, with a target of approximately 100 transfers in total across all four undergraduate years.
(02/24/22 2:15am)
A puzzling dip in hurricane frequency and severity in the 1960s to 1980s has stumped climate scientists for decades. Now, a researcher at the University believes he may hold the explanation behind this curious anomaly, which has implications for future hurricane-modeling.
(02/22/22 3:31am)
On Feb. 9, Molecular Biology professor and department chair Bonnie Bassler was awarded the 2022 Wolf Prize in Chemistry.
(02/10/22 3:12am)
Shaffin Siddiqui ’22 was named as a recipient of the Gates Cambridge Scholarship, a post-graduate scholarship awarded annually to outstanding students to attend Cambridge University. He is one of 23 U.S. winners of the scholarship, and one of about 80 scholars chosen overall.
(02/04/22 5:46am)
Anne-Marie Slaughter ’80 is the President and CEO of the think tank New America. She served as director of policy planning for the Department of State from 2009–11 and Dean of the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) from 2002–09.
(02/04/22 4:33am)
“Recitatif,” Toni Morrison’s only short story, was published on Tuesday, Feb. 1, nearly three years after the novelist’s and University professor’s death. This is the first time it appears in print as a stand-alone work.
(01/28/22 4:43am)
Princeton faculty members involved with the Academic Freedom Alliance (AFA) have expressed support for law professor Amy Wax’s academic freedom, after the University of Pennsylvania announced it had initiated a review process that could sanction her for her anti-Asian remarks.
(01/26/22 3:38am)
Three University professors have been awarded National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) research grants for their innovative humanities projects.
(01/24/22 4:43am)
Dr. Keith Shaw, Princeton’s Director of Transfer, Veteran, and Non-Traditional Student Programs, was recognized in December with the Transfer Champion Rising Star Award by the National Institute for the Study of Transfer Students (NISTS).
(01/20/22 3:56am)
Responding to complaints by members of the Princeton Open Campus Coalition (POCC), University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 defended a memo sent by Dean of the School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) Amaney Jamal.
(12/10/21 2:11am)
Following last spring’s decision to establish a formal language sequence for American Sign Language (ASL), Princeton has expanded its ASL course offerings, hired an additional ASL professor, and added a new class on Deaf culture.
(11/23/21 6:38pm)
Tiffany King will join the American Studies Department as Anschutz Distinguished Fellow for the spring 2022 semester. King is currently an associate professor of women, gender, and sexuality studies (WGS) at the University of Virginia.
(11/22/21 2:17am)
On Nov. 10, Stanford University announced its decision to extend a test-optional application policy for prospective undergraduate students through the 2022–23 admissions cycle. Stanford made this decision in light of continued challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
(11/18/21 4:16am)
One hundred and ninety eight Princeton faculty demanded a stop to the United States Department of Justice’s (DOJ) China Initiative in an open letter, sent on Oct. 18 to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland. They claim that the policy disproportionately targets researchers of Asian and Chinese descent, creating a hostile environment that hampers the recruitment of students and postdoctoral scholars.
(11/05/21 3:50am)
Princeton is the latest university to acknowledge Native and Indigenous communities, both domestically and internationally, through curricula and initiatives, joining dozens of universities across the U.S.
(11/04/21 2:56am)
Every semester, in the wake of midterm’s stress, there’s always one day that feels just like Christmas: the day the Office of the Registrar releases the course offerings for the upcoming semester. For me, it feels like the academic equivalent of running down the stairs on Christmas morning to discover what magically appeared under the tree overnight. There’s an element of surprise, of possibility, of newness, and even a bit of discovery shared between the two days.
(11/08/21 3:04am)
Starring Sandra Oh of “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Killing Eve” fame, Netflix’s “The Chair,” is a witty and satirical campus drama consisting of six episodes that not only trace the challenges Oh’s character, Ji-Yoon Kim, faces as the new chair of a dwindling English department, but also highlights the importance of keeping humanistic areas of study alive.
(10/27/21 3:27am)
Over 4,000 attended a Zoom lecture by University of Chicago Associate Professor of Geophysical Sciences Dorian Abbot on “Climate and the Potential for Life on Other Planets” on Thursday, Oct. 21. The event was hosted by the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions (JMP) after it was canceled by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS).
(09/20/21 2:11am)
For the first time, Princeton is offering a course in Vietnamese this semester in partnership with Brown University.