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• Ashenfelter devises inventive real-world tests to illuminate labor economics
• Dance festival to feature legendary French ballet
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• Hau unlocks secrets of tropical birds through field study on the Galápagos
• University offers new backup care program — for children through elderly
• Group continues efforts to improve child care
• Seldom seen art of Russia exhibited at art museum
• 1,200 expected to attend Alumni Day
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• Early career scientists earn awards from NSF for their research projects
• People, spotlight
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Ashenfelter devises inventive real-world tests to illuminate labor economics
To address the current debate about whether China’s and India’s growing economies will soon rival that of the United States, Princeton economist Orley Ashenfelter poses a simple question: What is the going rate for flipping burgers?
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University offers new backup care program — for children through elderly
Princeton is launching a new program that will provide faculty, staff and graduate students with a backup when they experience temporary disruptions in their child, adult and elder caregiving arrangements that would otherwise prevent them from fulfilling their work or study obligations.
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Group continues efforts to improve child care
The implementation of a backup care program is one of several efforts initiated by the University’s Child Care Working Group. Last fall, the group worked with the offices of human resources, community and state affairs, and public affairs to create a set of child care options for the early November school holidays and plans to offer similar information for spring break. ...
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Hau unlocks secrets of tropical birds through field study on the Galápagos
The Galápagos Islands hold a unique place in the history of science. It was here, in the 1830s, that Charles Darwin gathered the clues that led to his theory of evolution. It is here, today, that Princeton’s Michaela Hau continues Darwin’s intrepid scientific tradition. Her studies of tropical birds may shed light on the mysteries of human behavior and could lead to better models for ecosystem conservation.
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Seldom seen art of Russia exhibited at art museum
Artists of the Mir Iskusstva (“World of Art”) movement, which thrived in Russia around the turn of the 20th century, are represented in the exhibition “Mir Iskusstva: Russia’s Age of Elegance,” on view at the University Art Museum from Feb. 25 through June 11.
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1,200 expected to attend Alumni Day
More than 1,200 alumni and parents of current undergraduates are expected on campus for a day of lectures, ceremonies and other events Saturday, Feb. 25. The annual Alumni Day and Parents’ Program, coordinated by the Office of the Alumni Association, will begin at 9 a.m. with an alumni panel on careers and end with a 6:30 p.m. dinner honoring this year’s winner of the University’s James Madison Medal.
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Early career scientists earn awards from NSF for their research projects
The National Science Foundation has granted CAREER awards, its most prestigious grants for scientists early in their careers, to three Princeton faculty members, Craig Arnold, Benjamin Sudakov and Olga Troyanskaya.
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Dance festival to feature legendary French ballet
Alegendary French ballet by Vaslav Nijinsky — the choreography of which was lost for decades — will be performed by Princeton students Friday through Sunday, Feb. 24-26, at the Berlind Theatre. “L’Après-midi d’un Faune” or “The Afternoon of a Faun,” which was first performed in Paris in 1912, is one of only four ballets created by Nijinsky, a Russian choreographer who heralded a new era in dance.
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