Princeton University News

Cases of a drug-resistant bacterial infection known as MRSA have risen by 90 percent since 1999, and they are increasingly being acquired outside hospitals, researchers reported on Tuesday.

A Stanford University student from Illinois and a Princeton University student from Saratoga are among 32 Americans who have won Rhodes Scholarships.

A senior Federal Reserve official said on Sunday the central bank should keep alive its mortgage-related assets purchase program beyond a planned end-date to give policy-makers more flexibility as they help the economy recover from a painful recession.

The first issue of Diamond magazine, described as Playboy for Harvard, will include a nude cover photo of a Princeton University student , according to a report in The Daily Princetonian.

THE global financial crisis is prompting huge government interventions to stimulate the economies of the United States and many other nations.

As school districts across the state struggle to meet the challenges of providing a quality education with fewer resources during the economic downturn, state subsidized small class sizes--with 20 students to 1 teacher in grades K-3--are in jeopardy.

A medical debate over breast-cancer screening that has turned political may set the tone for a battle over President Barack Obamaa s health-care overhaul that will resonate for years.

Such daily headlines chronicling the affects of the economy on the arts have become an all too familiar litany for the arts community.

Nov. 18 -- Uwe Reinhardt, a professor at Princeton University, talks with Bloomberg's Mark Crumpton about government plans to overhaul the U.S. health-care system.

Colgate University's Board of Trustees has unanimously approved the appointment of Dr.

Society as a whole will benefit after a huge boost in research funding from the federal stimulus to major universities, even if the jobs are only beginning to show up, scientists and congressional supporters said Tuesday.

Nov. 17 -- Alan Blinder, a former Fed vice chairman who is now an economics professor at Princeton University, talked with Bloomberg's Carol Massar and Matt Miller about ways to stimulate job growth in the U.S. Blinder said he supports a new-jobs tax credit and direct public-service employment programs that would encourage hiring in the U.S. "If ...

A new species of finch may have arisen in the Galapagos. Daniel Cressey This finch's odd beak and song make it unpopular with the locals.

Princeton graduates continue to be successful in gaining admission to the most selective law schools and medical schools, despite the University's grading policy, administrators said at the Monday meeting of the Council of the Princeton University Community .

First lady Michelle Obama doesn't put much stock in standardized tests. "Don't let those tests defeat you.

Colgate University has tapped the provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at Miami University in Ohio, Jeffrey Herbst, as its new president.

Nearly three-quarters of illegal immigrants' children were born in the USA and are citizens, according to a report released Tuesday.

The imam Khalid Latif talks about an auditorium in the NYU student centre that is a potential venue for an event for young Muslims.

A new study helps to answer the question raised in Thomas Nagel's 1974 philosophy essay What Is It Like to Be a Bat? A team of Chinese and British researchers focuses on an aspect of bat-ness that Nagel ignored: fellatio.

Lessons learned from the global economic crisis will be the topic of an address by Federal Reserve Bank of New York President William Dudley at Princeton University.