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"Woodrow Wilson" (Knopf, 704 pages, $35), By John Milton Cooper Jr.: Soon after he was elected president in 1912, Woodrow Wilson told a former colleague at Princeton University that all of his preparation for office was in the domestic sphere and it would be "an irony of fate" if his administration were to be consumed by concerns over foreign policy.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife have given $25 million to start an endowment fund at Princeton University.
Watch out: If you’re not careful with money during your college years, you could find yourself living under your parents’ roof again before you know it. 10 Tips columnist Laura T. Coffey offers advice to help freshmen graduate to a new level of financial responsibility.
A husband-and-wife team of biologists from Princeton University are among the winners of this year's Kyoto Prizes for their decades of research on evolution in the Galapagos Islands and will share an award of $515,000.
Police say a gun scare at Princeton University began when four teen boys found a toy gun on campus.
A Princeton University professor with a wide range of expertise will be the next president of the American center of PEN, the writers organization.
Princeton University will pay out nearly $100 million but maintain control of a much-larger endowment that supports its prestigious school of public affairs, under a settlement announced Tuesday between the Ivy League school and the disgruntled heirs of a major donor.
David Wang is a young man who's clearly going places. The Princeton University sophomore is gifted with a brilliant mind, a movie-star smile and an understated self-confidence.
Paul Krugman, whose relentless criticism of the Bush administration includes opposition to the $700 billion financial bailout, won the Nobel prize in economics Monday for his work on international trade patterns.
A microbiologist claims she was stalked for decades by Bruce Ivins, the suspect in the deadly anthrax mailings of 2001 who, according to court documents, was obsessed with the sorority she joined in college.
The U.S. Education Department has broadened a review into whether Princeton University discriminates against applicants of Asian descent.
In a June 3 story about Stephen Colbert speaking at Princeton University's Class Day, The Associated Press, relying on an estimate from the university, reported erroneously that Colbert spoke to 2,611 graduating students. The university now says there were about 1,100 graduating students at the event.
Stephen Colbert, the host of his own Comedy Central show, Emmy winner, faux presidential candidate and best-selling author, added to that esteemed collection an award from Princeton University: "The Great Princeton Class of 2008 Understandable Vanity Award."
Robert Fagles, a professor emeritus at Princeton University whose bold, flowing translations of Homer and Virgil made him an esteemed and best-selling classical scholar, has died. He was 74.
Alan Stahl has a lot of change on his hands — and not the kind you can cash in at any bank. The curator of Princeton University's numismatic collection is in charge of protecting and displaying tens of thousands of coins, tokens, medals, and pieces of paper money.
The newly released Polish edition of a book by a Princeton University professor has dredged up painful memories here, forcing the country to confront a difficult chapter in its history: the deaths of Jews at the hands of Poles in the aftermath of World War II.
A Princeton University student who argued that his conservative views were not accepted on the campus confessed to fabricating an assault and sending threatening e-mail messages to himself and some friends who shared his views, authorities said Monday.
The extrasensory perception lab at Princeton University will be shuttered at the end of the month. Maybe you already knew that.
An article in the annual joke issue of Princeton University's student newspaper has left some readers accusing its staff of racism.
Princeton University has joined a growing list of colleges that have deals to allow students to download music free — and legally.
A Princeton University computer science professor added new fuel Wednesday to claims that electronic voting machines used across much of the country are vulnerable to hacking that could alter vote totals or disable machines.
Black holes: Powerhouses of the universeWhile black holes themselves are invisible, the regions around them are reigned by powerful magnetic and gravitational forces that create some of the most luminous radiation ever seen.
Military Researches Role of Hunches & Emotion in Detecting DangerEveryone has hunches — about friends' motives, about the stock market, about when to fold a hand of poker and when to hold it.
How To: Patenting Human GenesHere's a little-known fact: Under current law, it's possible to hold a patent on a piece of human DNA, otherwise known as a gene. More Articles
Why do kids kill? Book investigatesShortly after the massacre at Columbine High School, a question popped into Peter Langman's mind: What would possess a child to pick up a gun, take it to school and mow down his classmates?
Writers welcome a literary U.S. president-electFor Toni Morrison and other authors, the election of Barack Obama matters not because he will be the first black president, or because most writers vote Democratic. Writers are welcoming Obama as a peer, a thinker, a man of words - his own words.
Jian Li graduated Livingston High School in 2006. He had a perfect SAT score and was ranked in the top 1% in his high school class. He also had countless honors in connection with his extra curricular activities.
Researchers: Disk Encryption Not Secure Researchers with Princeton University and the Electronic Frontier Foundation have found a flaw that renders disk encryption systems useless if an intruder has physical access to your computer -- say in the case of a stolen laptop or when a computer is left unattended on a desktop …
Applications to Colleges Are Breaking RecordsWith numbers of college applications reaching new heights this year, promising another season of high rejection rates and dashed hopes for many more students.
Applications to Colleges Are Breaking RecordsWith numbers of college applications reaching new heights this year, promising another season of high rejection rates and dashed hopes for many more students.
U.S. on the Sidelines of Global Trends?Last week I heard the Singaporean Foreign Minister, a very impressive man named George Yeo, give a twenty-minute address about the rise of Asia and Asia-EU relations in which he did not mention the United States once. Not once.
To determine election outcomes, study says snap judgments are sufficientA split-second glance at two candidates' faces is often enough to determine which one will win an election, according to a Princeton University study.
Giant Wave Experiment Reveals Poorly Understood Behavior Of Tsunamis— With the goal of saving lives and preventing environmental and structural damage during real tsunamis, Princeton Engineering researchers created experimental mini-tsunamis in Oregon this summer.
"We got more information out of a German general with a game of chess or Ping-Pong than they do today, with their torture"For six decades, they held their silence. The group of World War II veterans kept a military code and the decorum of their generation, telling virtually no one of their top-secret work interrogating Nazi prisoners of war at Fort Hunt.
Parallel Universes ExistThe parallel universe theory, first proposed in 1950 by the US physicist Hugh Everett, helps explain mysteries of quantum mechanics that have baffled scientists for decades, it is claimed.
Parallel universe proof boosts time travel hopesScience fiction looks closer to becoming science fact, reports Roger Highfield Parallel universes really do exist, according to a mathematical discovery by Oxford scientists that sweeps away one of the key objections to the mind boggling and controversial idea.
West attacks Harvard University on music, race 'legacy' Five years after leaving Harvard University following a rift with its former president, Princeton University professor and noted African-American scholar Cornel West blasted the Cambridge institution this week, claiming it has white supremacist, male supremacist, anti-Semitic and …
The Stanley Cup lands at PrincetonGeorge Porros plays hockey for the Anaheim Ducks. As has become tradition, each member of the Stanley Cup-winning team gets to have personal possession of the cup for one day.
The Great Ivy League Nude Posture Photo Scandal ONE AFTERNOON IN THE LATE 1970's, deep in the labyrinthine interior of a massive Gothic tower in New Haven, an unsuspecting employee of Yale University opened a long-locked room in the Payne Whitney Gymnasium and stumbled upon something shocking and disturbing.
15 Answers to Creationist NonsenseWhen Charles Darwin introduced the theory of evolution through natural selection 143 years ago, the scientists of the day argued over it fiercely, but the massing evidence from paleontology, genetics, zoology, molecular biology and other fields gradually established evolution's …
Obama and Racial Preferences Put yourself in the shoes of a college admissions officer in another decade or so. You come across an application with a familiar name. It's one of Barack Obama's daughters.
15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense: Scientific AmericanA great reference to read and remember
A Princeton Lab on ESP Plans to Close Its DoorsThe lab made headlines around the world with its efforts to prove that thoughts can alter the course of events.
No sleep means no new brain cellsMissing out on sleep may cause the brain to stop producing new cells, a study has suggested. The work on rats, by a team from Princeton University found a lack of sleep affected the hippocampus, a brain region involved in forming memories.
Step on the gas -- New fuel cell design adds control, reduces complexityWhen Princeton University engineers want to increase the power output of their new fuel cell, they just give it a little more gas – hydrogen gas, to be exact.
Scientists find potential 'off-switch' for HIV virusWhile there is no cure for lingering viral infections such as HIV and herpes, a recent study at Princeton University suggests it may be possible to deactivate such viruses indefinitely with the flick of a genetic switch.
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