Neuroscience

The University’s first-ever 10-year campus plan grouped buildings together by academic discipline in hopes of fostering collaboration. But bringing the sciences together moves them away from the rest of campus, raising fears that their connection to the rest of the University — and Princeton’s status as a unified, liberal arts-focused institution — will be lost.

Construction of the new neuroscience and psychology buildings will begin later this month, after financial concerns previously stalled the start of the projects, the University announced on Wednesday, March 17.

Co-director of the University’s Neuroscience Institute David Tank and University architect emeritus Jon Hlafter ’61 revealed plans for new neuroscience and psychology buildings, to be built south of Icahn Laboratory, at a meeting with community members last night at Princeton Township Hall. The two buildings, which will be designed by ...

Daniel Levitin is working to bridge advanced neuroscience and good old rock and roll.In a lecture titled “This is Your Brain on Music: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Musical Experience” yesterday afternoon in the James Stewart Theater at 185 Nassau, Levitin spoke to around 180 students and community members, addressing the ...