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WGRZ: Princeton ends 133-year no-proctor exam tradition amid AI cheating concerns. “Princeton’s honor system dates back to 1893, when students petitioned to eliminate proctors from exams and instead pledged not to cheat or assist others in cheating. Faculty formally banned exam proctoring that same year, creating one of the university’s most distinctive academic traditions. The newly […]

Backflips, boulders and dancing dogs: the images that shaped art photography – in pictures https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2026/may/06/princeton-art-photography-exhibition #Photography #Art #Exhibitions #ArtAndDesign #PrincetonUniversity #Culture #Museums #NewJersey #HigherEducation

Wie entsteht "Wissen"? Und wie verbreitet es sich? Das sind Kernfragen in unseren Subcluster #ROOTSofKnowledge.

Heute Abend hält Anthony T. Grafton von der #PrincetonUniversity einen öffentlichen Gastvortrag in Kiel, in dem er ein spannendes Fallbeispiel vorstellt: wie der Renaissance-Gelehrte Joseph Scaliger Wissen über die Antike schuf.

🚩 Seeburg, Düsternbrooker Weg 2
🕕 18:00
Der Eintritt ist frei, Anmeldungen sind nicht erforderlich.

Der Vortrag gehört zu dem von der EU geförderten Programm #sciencecomestotown

Alle Infos: https://www.kiel.de/de/_info/veranstaltungskalender.php#/de/kiel/default/detail/Event/e_101191971/ein-humanist-und-seine-objekte

#Kiel #Vortrag #Antike #Renaissance #Seeburg #sctt26

‘Absolutely transformative’: Willem de Kooning exhibition uncovers raw intensity of early work https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/mar/18/willem-de-kooning-breakthrough-years-exhibit #ArtAndDesign #Painting #PrincetonUniversity #Art #Culture #JacksonPollock #Exhibitions

Elektroden auf der Hirnrinde liefern den Beweis. Eine Studie in Nature Communications zeigt, dass das menschliche Gehirn Sprache hierarchisch wie Transformer verarbeitet. Aktivität im Broca-Areal korreliert mit tiefen KI-Schichten. Das validiert LLMs als Modell für medizinische Forschung bei Aphasie. #NatureCommunications #LLM #PrincetonUniversity
https://www.all-ai.de/news/news26/menschen-chatgpt-nature

Princeton University Data Breach Impacts Alumni, Students, Employees https://www.securityweek.com/princeton-university-data-breach-impacts-alumni-students-employees/ #PrincetonUniversity #DataBreaches #databreach

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Describes Her Fight Against Injustice | Princeton Alumni Weekly

On the Campus

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Describes Her Fight Against Injustice

In a talk on campus, Jackson discussed her new memoir and highlighted lessons from her mother.

Sameer A. Khan h’21 / SPIA / Princeton University

By Lia Opperman ’25, Published Sept. 29, 2025, 3 min read

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, speaking on campus Sept. 10, said that her parents — who grew up in the segregated South — gave her the confidence to fight injustice and navigate the challenges she has faced in her career.

“Part of my mother’s lesson was, you’re going to see the injustices, you may even face them, but you have to understand that focusing on them will end up, at times, taking you away from the work, which is really the most important thing,” she told Deborah Pearlstein, director of the Princeton Program in Law and Public Policy. She explained how her mother helped her learn to choose her battles.

Jackson spoke about her new memoir Lovely One, which describes her path to becoming the first Black woman to serve on the nation’s highest court.

One injustice she discussed in her talk happened during her sophomore year at Harvard, when someone in the main area of the quad where she lived put up a Confederate flag. “You have to remember that the very serious function of racism is distraction, that it keeps you from doing your work,” Jackson recalled her mother saying. She remembered repeating this at a Black Students Association meeting, which she said was helpful for the group to continue its advocacy despite the circumstances.

Later, as an assistant special counsel to the United States Sentencing Commission, she fought to bridge disparities between sentences for drug offenses related to crack and powder cocaine, despite knowing it could jeopardize her chances of becoming appointed as a judge. After Congress changed the mandatory minimum, she worked to have sentences revised for people who had been convicted under the previous guidelines, who were predominately Black. While the commission was bipartisan, she worried about being too forceful with her approach. She delivered a passionate speech on the topic, which she said may have contributed to her appointment as a U.S. district judge in 2012.

Jackson said among her most prized possessions is a copy of a petition filed to the Supreme Court by Clarence Gideon, a poor man who was charged with breaking and entering but was denied court-appointed counsel. He was convicted, but on appeal in 1963, the Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling that any criminal defendant who can’t afford a lawyer be provided one. Jackson said as a former public defender, she understood the significance of his case.

When asked about the Supreme Court’s emergency docket, used to address applications that seek immediate action, and the Trump administration’s frequent use of that process, Jackson said, “I think it’s hard to look at the emergency docket and glean anything right now … about the nature of the court.”

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#Fight #Injustice #JusticeKetanjiBrownJackson #Justices #PrincetonAlumniWeekly #PrincetonUniversity #ProfessorDeborahPearlstein #RichardsonAuditorium #SCOTUS #SupremeCourt #SupremeCourtOfTheUnitedStates #USSupremeCourt

I am very grateful for the time I got to spend in the United States as a postdoc at #PrincetonUniversity (in an era when Obama was president and when Princeton's own Sonia Sotomayor had just joined the Supreme Court).

It's sad to see what's currently happening to this country, and to think that many young researchers will not have the same opportunities I got to enjoy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/us/trump-visa-vetting-international-students.html?unlocked_article_code=1.nE8.BorG.bwSKvnHqVwKf&smid=url-share

Israeli-Russian graduate student freed after 903 days in Hezbollah captivity https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/09/israeli-russian-graduate-student-freed-after-903-days-in-hezbollah-captivity #MiddleEastandnorthAfrica #Trumpadministration #PrincetonUniversity #DonaldTrump #USpolitics #Hezbollah #USnews #Israel #Iraq

A.I. School Is in Session: Two Takes on the Future of Education - “I think that A.I. is going to help break, in a sense, the university model that has anyw... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/podcasts/hardfork-education-alpha-school.html #alphaschool(2hrlearninginc) #artificialintelligence #scienceandtechnology #princetonuniversity #education

Good Will Hunting in reverse: the real-life story of Peter Putnam, promising physicist turned janitor.

HT @cdarwin

https://nautil.us/finding-peter-putnam-1218035/

#PeterPutnam #GoodWillHunting #NautilusMagazine #AmandaGefter #TheoreticalNeuroscience #ScienceMastodon #ScienceStories #JohnArchibaldWheeler #GayHistory #NeuralModels #LongReads #PrincetonUniversity #RobertFuller #HistoryOfPhysics #HistoryOfScience

From Clocks to Chaos: The Rhythms of Life

https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691084961/from-clocks-to-chaos

#HackerNews #FromClocksToChaos #RhythmsOfLife #ScienceAndPhilosophy #ChaosTheory #PrincetonUniversity #BooksToRead

Over 100 US university presidents sign letter decrying Trump administration https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/21/us-university-presidents-trump-administration #Trumpadministration #PrincetonUniversity #HarvardUniversity #UScampusprotests #Highereducation #USuniversities #Israel-Gazawar #Antisemitism #USeducation #DonaldTrump #USpolitics #USnews

Trump administration cuts $4m to Princeton’s climate research funding https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/10/trump-administration-cuts-princeton-climate-research-funding #Trumpadministration #PrincetonUniversity #Highereducation #Climatecrisis #Environment #USpolitics #USnews

The AP’s win against Trump shows principles still have power in America | Margaret Sullivan https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/09/associated-press-trump-administration #USpressandpublishing #Trumpadministration #PrincetonUniversity #AssociatedPress #USimmigration #Newsagencies #DonaldTrump #USpolitics #NewYork #USnews #Media

‘A case study in groupthink’: were liberals wrong about the pandemic? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/05/covid-policies-lockdown-masks-liberals-book #Health,mindandbodybooks #PrincetonUniversity #Infectiousdiseases #Politicsbooks #Coronavirus #Republicans #USpolitics #Democrats #Science #USnews #Health #Books

Princeton University Associate Research Scholar Lauren A. Wright is a Right-wing gaslighter. WTF?!?

#LaurenWright #TheHill #PrincetonUniversity

US professors face discipline and investigations over Palestine support https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/24/university-professors-discipline-palestine-support #MIT-MassachusettsInstituteofTechnology #Palestinianterritories #PrincetonUniversity #UScampusprotests #Highereducation #USuniversities #Israel-Gazawar #USeducation #Education #Worldnews #USnews #Gaza

University of Toronto’s environment school cuts financial ties to fossil fuels https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/20/university-toronto-financially-dissociate-fossil-fuels #PrincetonUniversity #Highereducation #Fossilfuels #Environment #Worldnews #Toronto #USnews #Oil

University of Toronto’s environment school cuts financial ties to fossil fuels https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/20/university-toronto-financially-dissociate-fossil-fuels #PrincetonUniversity #Highereducation #Fossilfuels #Environment #Worldnews #Toronto #USnews #Oil

Princeton University's Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) is hosting a conference focused on the societal impact of technology. Attendees will explore tech policy, AI, social media, and cybersecurity, while learning from CITP alumni, affiliates, and scholars. Keynotes and panels will discuss the future of tech policy and diverse career paths.

https://citp.princeton.edu/event/tech-policy-the-next-ten-years/

#Policy #Technology #PrincetonUniversity #Infosec #CyberSecurity

https://youtube.com/watch?v=O9GYf3z8Qek
🇺🇸🇺🇦Princeton University to help Ukraine rebuild, reduce corruption risks (VoA News VIDEO) #Ukraine #Press #USA #PrincetonUniversity #US #UK #EU #NATO #News #UnitedStates #EuropeanUnion #UnitedKingdom #russiaUkraineWar #10yrInvasionofUkraine
#Article7 #Article7HungaryNow

Biologist Rosemary Grant: ‘Evolution happens much quicker than Darwin thought’ https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jul/21/rosemary-grant-peter-grant-charles-darwin-finches-evolutionary-biology-princeton-one-step-sideways-three-steps-forward-memoir #Autobiographyandmemoir #PrincetonUniversity #GalápagosIslands #CharlesDarwin #Universities #Environment #Evolution #Wildlife #Research #Science #Biology #Animals #Birds #Books

A real hero and almost a perfect role model. 👍 Oh, a magnificent storyteller, unmatched.

#PrincetonCS #PrincetonUniversity #UNIX #Luminary #ComputerScience

Princeton University :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kyne271QSkY

#MiddleEastEye #PeoplePower

#PrincetonUniversity alumni: 'What you guys are doing reminds me of so much of what we did in 1978'

#History #ApartheidIsrael #ApartheidSouthAfrica #DiscloseDivest #FreePalestine🇵🇸