Students' military service brings valued perspective to Princeton SPIA classrooms
Their on-the-ground experience illuminates policy discussions at Princeton's School of Public and International Affairs, adding nuance to conversations about the world’s most pressing problems.
In this engineering and humanities ‘mashup’ course, students learn new ways of thinking from builders of the ancient world. Even Galileo weighs in.
The team-taught “Historical Structures” offers an opportunity "to look for the ways that the humanities and the applied sciences inform one another,” says one of the co-instructors.
Spotlight on Princeton’s transfer students
Princeton’s growing community of transfer students brings a wealth of experiences and perspectives to campus. Many come from first-generation, lower-income, community college and U.S. military veteran backgrounds. Academic and extracurricular programs — enabled by the University’s endowment and donors’ generosity — support the success of transfer students while at Princeton and beyond. Meet some of our transfer students and learn more about transfer programs as this series rolls out on Princeton’s social media.
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Princeton continues to expand commitments to support and promote mental health and well-being
The opening of the new Frist Health Center, lower copays for counseling, and expanded TigerWell programs are among recent well-being initiatives that support students to thrive and engage fully in learning, research and service.
Princeton senior Joshua Yang awarded Gates Cambridge Scholarship
The awards give outstanding students from outside the United Kingdom the opportunity to pursue postgraduate study at the University of Cambridge. Yang is a philosophy major with a minor in journalism and plans to pursue an MPhil in Modern South Asian Studies.
Bill Browder, influential and inspiring figure in mathematics, dies at 91
William “Bill” Browder, an emeritus professor of mathematics, died in early February at the age of 91.
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Mapping an entire (fly) brain to understand our own brains
For many heartbreaking diseases of the brain — dementia, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and others — doctors can only treat the symptoms. It’s difficult to cure what we don’t understand, and the human brain is almost hopelessly complex.
Now, the vast FlyWire team led by Princeton’s Mala Murthy and Sebastian Seung has made a major step forward by mapping a fruit fly brain. With NIH support, they have opened a pathway for detailed maps of the human brain “and the tailored treatments that could follow.”
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