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A Princeton University-led research team has discovered that protein competition over an important enzyme provides a mechanism to integrate different signals that direct early embryonic development. The work suggests that these signals are combined long before they interact with the organism’s DNA, as was previously believed, and also may inform new therapeutic strategies to fight cancer.

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Scott Arcenas, a member of Princeton’s class of 2009, has been awarded a 2010 Gates Cambridge Scholarship, which gives outstanding students from outside the United Kingdom an opportunity to pursue postgraduate study at the University of Cambridge.

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Due to the snow storm, Princeton University is closed for non-critical employees. Critical and essential employees should report to work at their normal duty times. Academic classes will proceed as scheduled.

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Princeton engineers have made a breakthrough in an 80-year-old quandary in quantum physics, paving the way for the development of new materials that could make electronic devices smaller and cars more energy efficient.

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The University is operating on normal business hours and academic schedule Thursday, Feb. 25. With a winter storm warning still in effect, students, faculty and staff are advised to check the Princeton home page for weather-related updates.

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Van Jones, former adviser at the White House Council on Environmental Quality, has been appointed distinguished visiting fellow in the Center for African American Studies and in the Program in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.

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Seven Princeton scientists have been selected to receive 2010 Sloan Research Fellowships, highly competitive grants given to outstanding scholars who are conducting research at the frontiers of their fields.

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Elizabeth Boluch Wood, assistant vice president of development for capital giving and a major architect of the University’s $1.75 billion Aspire Campaign, has been named Princeton University’s vice president for development, effective March 1. She succeeds Brian J. McDonald, who has led the University’s fundraising efforts since 2002.  

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Managers of Princeton University’s semester-long pilot of the Amazon KindleDX electronic reader are calling the project a success, with results showing that student participants reduced the amount of paper they used to print course readings by almost 50 percent. However, e-readers must be significantly improved to have the same value in a teaching environment as traditional paper texts, participants said.

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Princeton University recognized the winners of the highest honors it awards to students at Alumni Day ceremonies Saturday, Feb. 20.

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