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Spring 2021 Information

Please visit spring2021.princeton.edu and covid.princeton.edu for details and information about the spring semester 2021 and public health guidance.

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Big but affordable effort needed for America to reach net-zero emissions by 2050, Princeton study shows

The new “Net-Zero America” study maps out state-by-state, sector-by-sector, and decade-by-decade what it would take for the U.S. economy to be fully decarbonized, and provides a blueprint for action in the 2020s.

Forward Fest public conversation series with faculty experts and alumni continues as part of A Year of Forward Thinking.

Forward Fest Dec. 17 will focus on arts and humanities.

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Forecasting the next COVID-19.

In Princeton's 2020 Discovery magazine, C. Jessica Metcalf and fellow researchers ask whether a global disease-surveillance service could warn us of approaching pandemics. The answer, they believe, is yes.

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‘Magic’ angle graphene and the creation of unexpected topological quantum states

What caused the ice ages? Tiny ocean fossils offer key evidence

Senior Kiara Gilbert awarded Marshall Scholarship for graduate study in the UK

Theodore Ziolkowski, renowned scholar of German and European literature and ‘one of the true giants of the Princeton faculty’ dies at 88

In pandemic, Princeton graduate students and faculty raced to create innovative protections for hospital staff

Committee on Principles to Govern Renaming and Changes to Campus Iconography seeks community input

An update and overview of Princeton University’s ongoing efforts to combat systemic racism.

Princeton's continuing work to address racism includes scholarly and operational initiatives across the University.

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Spring 2021 update: All enrolled students invited to campus.

In a message to the University community, President Eisgruber writes that safety depends on vigilant compliance with public health guidance; most instruction will remain online.

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Upcoming Virtual Events

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Forward Fest: Performing Arts Showcase

Dec 17

8:00 p.m.

As part of December’s focus on arts and humanities, Forward Fest will present a special performing arts showcase of student and faculty work. Get a first-hand…

Whig-Cliosophic Society Presents James Madison Award for Distinguished Public Service to U.S. Representative Terri Sewell ’86

Dec 18

2:00 p.m.

Since 1960, the American Whig-Cliosophic Society has bestowed its highest honor, the James Madison Award for Distinguished Public Service (JMA), to an…

2020 James Madison Award Virtual Ceremony and Reception

Dec 18

2:00 p.m.

The American Whig-Cliosophic Society is honored to present the 2020 James Madison Award for Distinguished Public Service to U.S. Representative Terri Sewell '…

Race in the COVID Era: A Disparate Impact

Dec 18

4:00 p.m.

Join a conversation that will analyze and unpack how COVID-19 is disproportionately impacting and exacerbating health inequities within low-income, Native…

All Her Power: The 50th Anniversary of Undergraduate Coeducation Theater Project

Dec 18

7:00 p.m.

The first undergraduate co-ed class arrived at Princeton University in the fall of 1969. In celebration of this milestone in 2019, the Program in Theater…

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