Douglas Massey first learned about the fight over a proposed affordable-housing development in Mount Laurel, N.J., when he was a graduate student at Princeton University in the mid-1970s. Mount Laurel, a small town about 40 miles south of the Princeton campus, was in the midst of being transformed into a wealthy ...

From community service projects and discussion groups to potluck dinners and bowling nights, Princeton University's Employee Resource Groups (ERG) provide opportunities for employees with shared backgrounds and interests to build communities across campus. The University's eight ERGs —the Chinese Community at Princeton; International Employee Group at Princeton; Latino Princetonians; Lesbian, Gay, ...

Princeton University President Christopher L. Eisgruber departs this weekend for Asia and a series of visits to alumni and education leaders in Japan, South Korea and China. Eisgruber will begin his tour in Tokyo on Tuesday, where he will meet with President Junichi Hamada and other officials from the University of ...

Enhanced growth of Earth's leafy greens during the 20th century has significantly slowed the planet's transition to being red-hot, according to the first study to specify the extent to which plants have prevented climate change since pre-industrial times. Researchers based at Princeton University found that land ecosystems have kept the ...

The insights into the way cells organize their transport systems that earned James Rothman the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Oct. 7 were built through a career that included advances made during three years on the faculty at Princeton. Rothman, a professor and chair of the Department of ...

A substantial bequest from industrialist and philanthropist William S. Dietrich II, a member of Princeton University's Class of 1960, will endow the University's Economic Theory Center, which has been renamed in his honor. His gift will also support undergraduate and graduate student financial aid by establishing a fund for the William ...

Princeton University is planning to open an administrative center on the campus of Tsinghua University in Beijing to support faculty, students and staff studying and conducting research in China. The Princeton Center at Tsinghua is expected to open in early 2014 once preparations to operate a University office in China ...

Medical tourism is one of the growing trends across the world. Due to high increase in the cost of health care facility, individual as well as companies are providing incentives to travel across the countries to get the surgeries they need. While travelling other countries for the medical tourists not ...

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. – A dual-degree program combining a doctorate in pharmacy with a medical degree has been developed by Rutgers University’s Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy. The schools, part of the new Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, will launch the new PharmD/MD program within ...

Gary D. Walters, the Ford Family Director of Athletics under whose leadership Princeton University student-athletes have won 214 Ivy League championships and 48 national team or individual titles since 1994, will step down at the end of June. Walters, who was a standout basketball player for the Tigers as an undergraduate ...

Somewhere, deep in the sawgrass blazing green under the summer sun, a killer lurked. Moments before, school teachers Michelle Hill and Amber Koney crunched ashore a salt-marsh island in New Jersey's Barnegat Bay in a fiberglass skiff with a handful of other educators-turned-summer researchers. They toted stakes and a wire cage, ...

The Princeton University campus is undergoing transformative changes this year with numerous construction, renovation and maintenance projects, including the beginning of the Arts and Transit Project and the completion this fall of the neuroscience and psychology complex. The projects reflect the University's 10-year Campus Plan and its investment in historic buildings ...

Stunning images of the Andromeda Galaxy are among the first to emerge from a new wide-field camera installed on the enormous Subaru Telescope atop the Hawaiian mountain Mauna Kea. The camera, called the Hyper-Suprime Cam (HSC), is the result of an international collaboration between Princeton University astrophysicists and Japanese and ...

Mike Dolan, a young businessman with a wealth of experience in finance and marketing, visited the School of Management recently to talk to students about how they can set about building successful careers. Dolan spoke to students in Financial Markets and Institutions, a summer class taught by Enzo DiCostanzo, an adjunct ...

Two Princeton University postdoctoral researchers are recipients of 2013 L’Oréal USA Fellowships For Women in Science. Awarded by L'Oréal USA, the fellows program each year recognizes five outstanding U.S.-based women researchers at the start of their careers. Recipients receive up to $60,000 towards their postdoctoral research. Luisa Whittaker-Brooks, a postdoctoral research ...

Small towns are home to about 10 percent of the U.S. population but continue to play an outsize role in American culture, according to Princeton sociologist Robert Wuthnow. The nation's 15,000 small towns are sometimes portrayed as idyllic places that are "the real America" and sometimes as dying communities to be ...

Rubby Sherr Princeton University nuclear physicist Rubby Sherr, whose work on the Manhattan Project helped usher in the Atomic Age and whose academic publications span nearly 80 years, died July 8 of natural causes at the Quadrangle independent-living community in Haverford, Pa. He was 99. Colleagues and family describe Sherr — ...

Former Princeton University President William G. Bowen, whose career in higher education has spanned more than half a century, was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama on July 10 at a White House ceremony. The medal honors those whose work has deepened the nation's understanding of and engagement ...