Tilghman: Education provides path to good citizenship
by Ruth Stevens
In this presidential election year, President Tilghman appealed to Princeton’s newest students in her Opening Exercises address to become more engaged in the world around them. “In fact, I would like to issue a challenge to the class of 2012 to take as its first class project the goal of registering every single eligible voter and ensuring that he or she votes on Election Day,” she said in her speech on Sept. 7 in the University Chapel.
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Architect Gehry seeks to inspire with Lewis Library design
by Cass Cliatt
The curtain of aluminum-glazed windows falling from the curved steel roofline that frames the Lewis Library is a reflection of the architect’s homage to the beauty of the lines and curves he sees in everyday life. Sheer glass walls of two rising wings play with spatial boundaries that typically would separate the interior and exterior of the building. The windows allow the eye to travel in one glance from the inside of one part of the building, to the outside, to the inside, and to the outside.
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Community Action expands to support arts, environment
by Cass Cliatt
The helping hands that Princeton’s freshmen lend to surrounding communities before starting classes broadened their reach this year to include support for the environment and the arts. Members of the class of 2012 worked on organic farms, cleaned up rivers, and volunteered for artistic programs, in addition to performing the more traditional service of helping the homeless, working with teens in crisis and building affordable homes that serves as the basis of the University’s Community Action program.
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Seminar set on communicating science
A free, practical seminar intended to help bridge the communication gap between scientists and the public is planned for 4:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 23, in 101 Friend Center. The two-part event is titled “Crystals, Quarks, Biomes and Genomes: How to Make Complex Science Compelling.” Geared for students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty and staff, it is being sponsored by the Office of the Dean for Research and the Office of Communications.
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Exhibition illustrates Greek cultural history through books
Some of the Princeton University Library’s greatest treasures are on display in a fall exhibition that traces the long cultural history of the Greeks. “The Greek Book From Papyrus to Printing” focuses on the Greek book as a physical object and a repository of Western civilization over three millennia. The exhibition will be on view through Sunday, Dec. 7, in the Main Gallery of Firestone Library.
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