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Freshman Scholars Institute .

The Freshman Scholars Institute (FSI) is an academically rigorous, summer program for incoming Princeton students. FSI provides invited students with an early opportunity to experience Princeton's curriculum, work closely with members of our faculty from a range of academic disciplines and fields, and engage in a vibrant community of highly motivated peers. In this video, FSI alumni who are current Princeton students explain why they loved their FSI experience.

Tilghman covers range of topics in town hall meeting .

President Shirley M. Tilghman discussed her travels on behalf of the University along with matters that are never far from her thoughts during a "town hall" meeting Monday, Feb. 11, in the School of Architecture's Betts Auditorium.

Seeing culture through technology and technology through culture .

It was 7:30 on a recent Wednesday evening and nine freshmen were taking their seats in Room 121 of Forbes College while Szymon Rusinkiewicz, assistant professor of computer science, displayed their art projects for the week on a wide screen. The students’ inspirations may have been great painters like Braque, Dali and Hockney, but their canvas was a computer and their palette Photoshop, version 8.0.

Reversing climate change, one plate at a time .

Professor Peter Singer and Smitha Haneef, assistant vice president of Campus Dining, discuss the intersection of food, the environment and innovation. 

$3 million in federal funds to enhance climate science, education .

The Cooperative Institute for Climate Science (CICS) at Princeton University recently received more than $3 million in new federal funding intended to support climate science and education.

Bassler receives 2015 Shaw Prize in life science and medicine .

Bonnie Bassler, Princeton University's Squibb Professor in Molecular Biology and chair of the Department of Molecular Biology, was named a 2015 Shaw Prize Laureate in life science and medicine June 1. Bassler will share the $1 million prize for her well-known work in quorum sensing, a widespread process that bacteria use for cell-to-cell communication.

Video: Odita discusses his mural, 'Up and Away' .

Artist Odili Donald Odita discusses the many-hued mural commissioned for Butler College as part of Princeton’s public art initiative. Read more.