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 ...

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 ...

Robert Mueller, who stepped down as FBI director on Sept. 4 after 12 years of service, has been appointed the university’s first distinguished executive-in-residence. “There are four areas that I’m interested in – national security, cyber security, organizations in transition and leadership,” says Director Mueller, who took office seven days before ...

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 ...

The onset of the Great Recession and, more generally, deteriorating economic conditions lead mothers to engage in harsh parenting, such as hitting or shouting at children, a team of researchers has found. But the effect is only found in mothers who carry a gene variation that makes them more likely ...

A survey by the Princeton Review has ranked Oklahoma State University as one of the 124 “Best in the West” colleges, based on several factors including academics and student responses. “We are delighted this survey confirms our academic offerings and student experience make OSU a leader in the region and a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Physical activity reorganizes the brain so that its response to stress is reduced and anxiety is less likely to interfere with normal brain function, according to a research team based at Princeton University. The researchers report in the Journal of Neuroscience that when mice allowed to exercise regularly experienced a stressor ...

Shirley M. Tilghman, who took office on June 15, 2001, will step down as president of Princeton University with the close of the academic year on Sunday. In this video, Tilghman looks back on her accomplishments over her 12 years as the 19th president of the University and looks ahead ...

In her final Commencement address June 4 as president of Princeton University, Shirley M. Tilghman reflected on the Princeton experience and urged graduates to lead lives of purpose and service. After serving at the helm of the University since 2001, Tilghman will return to the faculty at the end of this ...