Spotlights

The Spotlight articles showcase events and activities related to the diverse programs and offices within the Office of the Dean of the College.

Important New FAQ's with Helpful Information from Vice President Calhoun and Dean Dolan

August 20, 2021

Dear Students of the Great Classes of 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025,

Dean's Date Postponed until May 10th

On April 30, the Faculty Committee on Examinations and Standing, with support from the Dean of the College, the Vice President for Campus Life, the Dean of the Faculty, the Provost, and the President, approved an extension of Dean’s Date for undergraduate students this semester, from Wednesday, May 5th, until Monday, May 10th.

Taishi Nakase selected as Princeton valedictorian, Lucy Wang named salutatorian

Taishi Nakase
Photo by Denise Applewhite, Office of Communications

Lucy Wang
Photo by Andrew Yang

Taishi Nakase, an operations research and financial engineering concentrator from Melbourne, Australia, has been selected as valedictorian of Princeton’s Class of 2021. Lucy Wang, a chemistry concentrator from Marietta, Georgia, was named salutatorian.

Commencement for the Class of 2021 will take place at Princeton Stadium on Sunday, May 16. Nakase and Wang are expected to give remarks at the ceremony.

Khristina Gonzalez will lead the center, photo my Sameer Khan

The Emma Bloomberg Center for Access and Opportunity established at Princeton through major gift from Bloomberg Philanthropies

Image: Khristina Gonzalez (center) will lead the Emma Bloomberg Center for Access and Opportunity at Princeton University.
Photo by: Sameer A. Khan/Fotobuddy

With the goal of enhancing and expanding Princeton University’s fundamental commitment to the college success of talented students from first-generation, lower-income and underrepresented backgrounds, Bloomberg Philanthropies has made a significant gift that will establish the Emma Bloomberg Center for Access and Opportunity. The Center will bring together the University’s nation-leading initiatives in college access and opportunity, serve as a hub for research and innovation in the field of college access and success, and inform and strengthen similar efforts at colleges and universities across the country.

Princeton Research Day 2021’s submissions portal is now LIVE!

Princeton Research Day is an exciting opportunity for Princeton researchers and scholars — from postdocs and non-tenured scholars to graduate students and undergraduates — to showcase their research and creative work for a broad audience.

250th Anniversary Fund grant used to redesign course around COVID-19 and systemic racism

“We had two pandemics converging: COVID-19 and the reckoning with racial injustice,” stated Center for Health and Wellbeing (CHW) affiliate and lecturer for the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) Heather Howard. “Students were hungry to bring these issues into the classroom. I thought it would be a shame not to seize the moment.” Thanks to a grant from Princeton’s 250th Anniversary Fund for Innovation in Undergraduate Education, she was able to do just that.

Professor Robert Pringle standing in lake teaching class

Professor Pringle gets inventive with online teaching

Students in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB) face the challenge of engaging in outdoor exploration during this online semester. But Professor Pringle is bringing the outdoors to his students; rain or shine, he delivers every EEB 321: Species Interactions, Biodiversity and Society lecture outside.

President Eisgruber's message about spring 2021 plans

Princeton will invite all enrolled undergraduates and graduate students to campus for the spring 2021 semester. Undergraduates are not required to live on campus, as the University will continue to support remote learning for anyone who chooses it. The University believes that its preparatory planning, policies, and testing capacity will enable us to mitigate the risk of the pandemic appropriately. However, the University will continue to monitor developments related to the pandemic and will update plans for the spring if necessary.

2019 - 2020 Shapiro Prize for Academic Excellence Recipients

Congratulations to the following students who were awarded the Shapiro Prize for Academic Excellence for the 2019-2020 academic year.

250th Fund: Summer 2020 awardees

The Office of the Dean of the College is pleased to announce awards from the special summer cycle of the 250th Anniversary Fund for Innovation in Undergraduate Education. We highlight below awards made with the generous support of the Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity and the Office of Information Technology. The first set of awards will support the development of courses that address systemic racism, racial injustice, and/or the history of civil rights or anti-racist movements. The second set supports the development of “Princeton Challenge” courses, which provide students with research-intensive, project-focused experiences that address COVID-19 or other community-focused problems.

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