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• Princeton selected as home for NSF center on sensor technology
• Communiversity 2006
Inside
• Four honored for their work mentoring graduate students
• Diversity rises in Graduate School applications
• Albright, Breyer share experiences
• Q&A with Robert Wuthnow
People
• Through images and words, Dale winner will explore Old West
• Sophomores win Dale Summer Awards
• Spotlight, briefs
Almanac
• Nassau notes
• Calendar of events
• By the numbers
Princeton selected as home for NSF center on sensor technology
The National Science Foundation has funded a large, multi-institutional engineering research center based at Princeton that is expected to revolutionize sensor technology, yielding devices that have a unique ability to detect minute amounts of chemicals found in the atmosphere, emitted from factories or exhaled in human breath.
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Communiversity 2006
Sunshine and warm temperatures on Saturday, April 29, attracted a large crowd to the 2006 Communiversity celebration, which annually brings the town and University together for a day of performances, food, games and more.
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Four honored for their work mentoring graduate students
Four Princeton faculty members have been named the recipients of Graduate Mentoring Awards by the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning and will be honored during the Graduate School’s hooding ceremony on Monday, June 5.
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Diversity rises in Graduate School applications
The University’s Graduate School admitted 1,122 of the 8,614 applicants who applied for the 2006-07 academic year, and 23 percent of those admitted were underrepresented minorities and women applying to the fields of science and engineering.
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Albright, Breyer share experiences
The University recently hosted visits by former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.
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Myths distort true picture of the American dream
Q&A with Robert Wuthnow: The image of the “land of opportunity,” built on the hard work of enterprising immigrants, is a cornerstone of American history as taught in classrooms and as handed down from generation to generation. Yet throughout its history, American society has been divided by questions of equal opportunity, from slavery to the women’s rights and civil rights movements to the recent debates about immigration laws.
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Through images and words, Dale winner will explore Old West
Although it was the mid-1990s when Mimi Chubb’s family moved from Brooklyn to California’s Orange County, the pioneer spirit of the Old West was still alive and well.
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Sophomores win Dale Summer Awards
Eight sophomores are winners of this year’s Dale Summer Awards, which provide a $4,000 stipend to pursue a summer project not connected to their academic coursework.
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