Animal care under scrutiny by USDA, activist groups

Published in the Jan. 18, 2012, issue

The University’s treatment of laboratory animals has drawn attention from the federal government and from ­animal-rights activists. In the last two years, Princeton’s animal labs have been cited for 21 instances of non-compliance with the federal Animal...Read more

A big year for women in Rhodes, Marshall awards

Published in the Jan. 18, 2012, issue

The University’s efforts to address the recent gender imbalance in the winners of prominent scholarships have paid off: Seven of Princeton’s nine Rhodes and Marshall scholars this year were female. Deirdre Moloney, the University’s director of fellowship...Read more

‘Turning campus red’

Published in the Jan. 18, 2012, issue

The lights on Clio Hall, above, and Robertson Hall took on a different hue from Nov. 27 to Dec. 3 as the Student Global AIDS Campaign (SGAC) marked World AIDS Week. The group sponsored speakers, student-led discussions, and fundraisers with a theme of...Read more

University wins key approvals for arts and transit center plans

Published in the Jan. 18, 2012, issue

After a long and often contentious battle, the University has received local zoning approvals required to move ahead with the arts and transit project planned for the area south of McCarter Theatre. “It’s a shame that it took five years to get to this...Read more

Heard on campus

Published in the Jan. 18, 2012, issue

In a nine-day period, these celebrated figures gave public lectures:Read more

Kahneman sums up a lifetime spent probing how we think

Published in the Jan. 18, 2012, issue

Daniel Kahneman, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology emeritus at Princeton, shared the Nobel Prize in economics in 2002 for his pioneering work on decision-making. Retired since 2008, Kahneman has spent the past five years working on Thinking, Fast...Read more

Excerpts from Thinking, Fast and Slow

Published in the Jan. 18, 2012, issue

“The attentive System 2 is who we think we are. System 2 articulates judgments and makes choices, but it often endorses or rationalizes ideas and feelings that were generated by System 1. You may not know that you are optimistic about a project because...Read more

Pratt sets tempo for 35 years as musical performance thrives

Published in the Jan. 18, 2012, issue

When Michael Pratt became the conductor of the Princeton University Orchestra in 1977, performance wasn’t considered an integral part of music studies — an attitude that was not unique to the University. “Serious” academic work at that time, he said,...Read more

Digital sales up for PUP titles

Published in the Jan. 18, 2012, issue

In 2008, the Princeton University Press first released a book formatted for a wireless e-reader. Today, about 90 percent of the 240 books that the Press releases each year are available for consumers to read on their Kindles, iPads, Nooks, and other...Read more

FYI: Findings

Published in the Jan. 18, 2012, issue

Wild weather If you can’t keep up with the swings in the weather lately — sunny one day, thunderstorms the next — it’s because those shifts have become more dramatic. Princeton researchers have found that day-to-day weather has grown increasingly erratic...Read more

An end-of-the-world premiere

Published in the Jan. 18, 2012, issue

The Apocalypse is the theme, and these Mayan maidens are ready to strut their stuff as the ­Triangle Club prepares to take its latest production, “Doomsdays of Our Lives,” on tour. Performances are scheduled Jan. 29 in Washington, D.C.; Jan. 30 in...Read more

In memoriam: Robert A. Koch *49 *54

Published in the Jan. 18, 2012, issue

In memoriam: ROBERT A. KOCH *49 *54, a member of the faculty for 35 years and a specialist in Northern Renaissance art, died Nov. 10 in Raleigh, N.C. He was 92. During World War II Koch was a member of the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Section, a group...Read more

In Brief

Published in the Jan. 18, 2012, issue

Amazon founder and CEO JEFF BEZOS ’86 and his wife, MACKENZIE BEZOS ’92, have made a $15 million gift to the University to create a center that will study how the brain works. The Bezos Center for Neural Circuit Dynamics, part of the Princeton Neuroscience...Read more

From Princeton’s vault

In the pocket of Hobey Baker

Published in the Jan. 18, 2012, issue

What: A century ago, Hobey Baker 1914 burst onto the American sports scene, the “blond Adonis of the gridiron.” This cigarette case was given to him by Percy Pyne 1903, his wealthy friend and admirer. After Baker graduated, the dapper bachelor Pyne –...Read more

Princeton researchers uncover the beauty in their work

Published in the Jan. 18, 2012, issue

“Intelligent design” was the theme of this year’s Art of Science competition, in which members of the ­University community were invited to submit images ­created during research projects. “In the broadest sense, beautiful objects, both natural...Read more