News for Neighbors

When the University is developing programs that may have an impact on the surrounding area, it strives to include the community in an open, engaged way. The community can follow some projects, such as the updating of the campus plan and the creation of a new arts and transit neighborhood, on related websites, while also checking the University websites below for news and information on other matters.

Recent News

2024 Campus Backpack Drive Benefits Children
Aug. 23, 2024

For the eighth year, Princeton University employees donated backpacks to the Princeton Human Services School Supplies Drive through a program coordinated by the Office of Community and Regional Affairs in partnership with W.B. Mason.

Staff from the Whiting-Turner Contracting Company who are working

on campus construction projects…

Princeton alumnus Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and professor Jane Cox win Tony Awards for ‘Appropriate’
June 17, 2024

Princeton alumnus Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and Jane Cox, a professor at the University’s Lewis Center for the Arts, have both won Tony Awards for the play “Appropriate.”

Jacobs-Jenkins, who wrote “Appropriate,” won the Tony for Best Revival of a Play at Sunday’s 77th Annual Tony Awards.

Cox won the Tony for Best Lighting Design of a…

Summer Carillon 2024
June 13, 2024

Celebrating over 30 years of community recitals, the Princeton University Carillon at the Graduate College located at 88 College Road West, Princeton, NJ 08544 will again host a season of summer concerts for the surrounding community.  All concerts start at 1:00PM every Sunday July 7 through Labor Day Sunday and are held rain…

Four outstanding N.J. secondary school teachers to be honored at Princeton Commencement
May 16, 2024

Princeton University has announced the names of the four outstanding New Jersey secondary school teachers chosen to be honored at its 2024 Commencement on Tuesday, May 28.

‘I love seeing this enthusiasm in science’ Second 'Spring Into Science' draws 700 students
May 3, 2024

Whether it was learning about a supercomputer, earthquakes or how clouds form, students and families – through hands-on activities – experienced different areas of science at the second annual “Spring Into Science.”

Porchfest 2024: University and Town Come Together for Community Music Festival
April 30, 2024

The third annual Princeton Porchfest brought together the University and local community on Saturday, April 27, to enjoy the talents of local musicians and singers. The free festival was presented by the Arts Council of Princeton with support from Princeton University.

‘We are all Mercer County’: Bridging the constructed divide between Trenton and Princeton
April 26, 2024

The bridge that joins Trenton, NJ with Morrisville, PA, crossing over the Delaware River, reads in big block letters: Trenton Makes The World Takes

Matthew Desmond’s Princeton course ‘Poverty in America’ field-tests promising solutions in collaboration with community partners
April 22, 2024

“Why is there so much poverty in America, and what can we do about?”

Last spring, Matthew Desmond, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City,” retooled a large lecture course he had been teaching, to coincide with the publication of his latest book, “Poverty, by America.” The new seminar was capped at 15 students. Desmond’s goal: Have students tackle questions about American poverty head-on from multiple angles — and field-test real solutions with community partner organizations. He’s teaching it again this semester.

NJ AI summit spotlights an ‘extraordinary opportunity’ to lead in AI technology and its responsible development
April 15, 2024

The New Jersey AI Summit brought together 600 leaders from academia, business and government at Princeton University on April 11 to explore the rapidly evolving possibilities and challenges of artificial intelligence and to begin charting a course for New Jersey’s role in the future of AI.

The event featured rapid-fire presentations…