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• Researchers develop faster, inexpensive way to sequence genes
• Warming weather alters campus
Inside
• Q&A: Book reveals influence of white philanthropy on founding and future of black studies
• Opportunities in Tibet open doors for novel doctoral seminar
• Study: Methane emission controls can save thousands of lives
• Self-invention is focus of course
People
• Playwright Edward Albee named first recipient of Princeton/McCarter fellowship
• Spotlight
Almanac
• Nassau notes
• Calendar of events
• By the numbers
Researchers develop faster, inexpensive way to sequence genes
While the ability to sequence genomes has revolutionized the way biologists conduct research, the work can be time-consuming and expensive. Princeton researchers have developed a new straightforward, cost-effective method that is providing key data in days rather than months.
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Greenhouse effect
With the onset of warmer weather, it’s only a matter of time before flowers begin appearing in campus gardens. University landscape crew members care for new plants in the University’s greenhouse facility on Harrison Street before they are transplanted.
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Self-invention is focus of course
“Born Again: Self-Invention and Imposture in America,” a six-week online study course that begins Monday, April 17, is being offered to members of the University community by the Alumni Association.
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Opportunities in Tibet open doors for novel doctoral seminar
The recent opening of Tibet, long inaccessible to scholars, offers unprecedented opportunities for researchers to explore its treasures and expand the study of Buddhism and Tibetan culture. To pursue these possibilities, a Princeton faculty member is leading an effort to create a novel on-site seminar for doctoral candidates in Tibet for the summer of 2007.
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Book reveals influence of white philanthropy on founding and future of black studies
Q&A with Noliwe Rooks: In 1969 following a student strike at San Francisco State College, the first black studies program was created at an American institution. Over the next four years, hundreds of such programs popped up at universities across the country.
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Playwright Edward Albee named first recipient of Princeton/McCarter fellowship
Award-winning playwright Edward Albee has been named the first recipient of the Princeton University/McCarter Theatre Playwriting Fellowship. The new theatrical initiative, funded by the Ford Foundation, will bring Albee to campus for several months beginning in fall 2007. While in residence, he will create a major new work that will be produced by McCarter. He also will teach in Princeton’s Program in Theater and Dance.
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Study: Methane emission controls can save thousands of lives
Reducing methane emissions from industrial operations and other human activities can help save thousands of lives over the next three decades by diminishing global air pollution, according to a study by Princeton researchers.
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