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Tracy K. Smith, a poet and assistant professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts, is one of six international artists who has been selected for the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative, which pairs artists with leading figures in their fields for a year of individual mentoring and creative collaboration. Smith was chosen to be mentored by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, a provocative essayist who is often regarded as Germany’s most important contemporary poet.

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Imagine an exceedingly complex circuit board. Wires often split — seemingly at random — and connect in strange and unexpected ways. This is how Princeton University researchers developing a new method for studying brain connectivity see the brain.

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Princeton legal philosopher and constitutional scholar Robert George has been awarded the Canterbury Medal for outstanding achievement in the field of global religious freedom.

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An international team including scientists from Princeton University has detected subatomic particles deep within the Earth’s interior. The discovery could help geologists understand how reactions taking place in the planet’s interior affect events on the surface such as earthquakes and volcanoes. Someday, scientists may know enough about the sources and flow of heat in the Earth to predict events like the recent volcanic eruption in Iceland.

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Two members of the Princeton faculty and eight graduate students have been awarded fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, which funds humanistic research.

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Mark R. Cohen, Princeton’s Khedouri A. Zilkha Professor of Jewish Civilization in the Near East, has been awarded the first Goldziher Prize, which recognizes work promoting understanding across religious faiths.

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Students of all ages and teachers from New Jersey and beyond will be engaged in a summer of learning on the Princeton campus, taking part in outreach programs on subjects ranging from fusion energy to playwriting. Princeton students, faculty and staff will lead various programs designed to help elementary, secondary and college students build their academic skills and provide cutting-edge lessons that teachers can take back to their own classrooms.

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The University’s science neighborhood along Washington Road will continue to develop amid a series of construction projects taking place on campus this summer. As the Chemistry building and Streicker Bridge move closer to opening, work also has begun on the Neuroscience and Psychology buildings and on renovations of Jadwin Hall.

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Princeton faculty member Larry Bartels has been inducted into the American Academy of Political and Social Science as the Robert A. Dahl Fellow.

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Nine Princeton students spent the spring 2010 semester studying and living in a society that largely has been off-limits to Americans for the past 50 years. In Princeton’s first semester-long program in Cuba, students explored the island’s demography, arts and culture, with the country’s politics serving as a backdrop to their educational and personal encounters. The students, all juniors and majors in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, took four courses and participated in a task force.

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