Albert Einstein House & Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States, North America
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. It is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution. Princeton provides undergraduate and graduate instruction in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering. Princeton does not have schools of medicine, law, divinity, or business, but it does offer professional degrees through the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, the Princeton University School of Engineering and Applied Science, and the School of Architecture. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, as the College of New Jersey, the university moved to Newark in 1747, then to Princeton in 1756 and was renamed Princeton University in 1896. The present-day College of New Jersey in nearby Ewing Township, New Jersey, is an unrelated institution. Princeton was the fourth chartered institution of higher education in the American colonies. Princeton had close ties to the Presbyterian Church, but has never been affiliated with any denomination and today imposes no religious requirements on its students. The university has ties with the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Theological Seminary, and the Westminster Choir College of Rider University. Princeton has been associated with 35 Nobel Laureates, 17 National Medal of Science winners, and three National Humanities Medal winners. On a per-student basis, Princeton has the largest university endowment in the world. The main campus sits on about 500 acres (2.0 km2) in Princeton. The James Forrestal Campus is split between nearby Plainsboro and South Brunswick. The University also owns some property in West Windsor Township. The campuses are situated about one hour from both New York City and Philadelphia. The first building on campus was Nassau Hall, completed in 1756, and situated on the northern edge of campus facing Nassau Street. The campus expanded steadily around Nassau Hall during the early and middle 19th century. The McCosh presidency (1868--88) saw the construction of a number of buildings in the High Victorian Gothic and Romanesque Revival styles; many of them are now gone, leaving the remaining few to appear out of place. At the end of the 19th century Princeton adopted the Collegiate Gothic style for which it is known today. Implemented initially by William Appleton Potter and later enforced by the University's supervising architect, Ralph Adams Cram, the Collegiate Gothic style remained the standard for all new building on the Princeton campus through 1960. A flurry of construction in the 1960s produced a number of new buildings on the south side of the main campus, many of which have been poorly received. Several prominent architects have contributed some more recent additions, including Frank Gehry (Lewis Library), I.M. Pei (Spelman Halls), Demetri Porphyrios (Whitman College, a Collegiate Gothic project), Robert Venturi (Frist Campus Center, among several others), and Rafael Viñoly (Carl Icahn Laboratory). A group of 20th-century sculptures scattered throughout the campus forms the Putnam Collection of Sculpture. It includes works by Alexander Calder (Five Disks: One Empty), Jacob Epstein (Albert Einstein), Henry Moore (Oval With Points), Isamu Noguchi (White Sun), and Pablo Picasso (Head of a Woman). Richard Serra's The Hedgehog and The Fox is located between Peyton and Fine halls next to Princeton Stadium and the Lewis Library. At the southern edge of the campus is Lake Carnegie, a man-made lake named for Andrew Carnegie. Carnegie financed the lake's construction in 1906 at the behest of a friend who was a Princeton alumnus. Carnegie hoped the opportunity to take up rowing would inspire Princeton students to forsake football, which he considered not gentlemanly.
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It’s not just a town. It’s an experience. OK, that line comes from The Princeton Convention and Visitors Bureau, but it describes Princeton to a T. From the beautiful and storied campus of Princeton University, to the shopping and dining of Palmer Square, to the imaginative exhibitions, events and performances at the Arts Council of Princeton and Princeton University Art Museum, the Princeton Public Library and McCarter Theater, there is truly something for everyone here. Take a look at this community profile video and find out why we love Princeton. Better yet, come visit and experience our wonderful town!
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02 Law.Gov Princeton
02 Law.Gov Princeton - Princeton - 2010-01-22 - Princeton University Center for Information Technology Policy, Open Government: Defining, Designing, and Sustaining Transparency A Two-Day Workshop at Princeton, January 21-22, 2010, Law.gov Session: (9:00am-10:30am, 1/22/2010) Access to primary legal materials in the United States is the subject of this session. We'll discuss current provision of these materials by the Federal and State governments through government systems (such as the GPO's FDSys and the Judiciary's PACER system), through commercial providers such as Lexis and West, and various alternatives that have sprung up in both the private sector and from nongovernmental organizations such as Public.Resource, Altlaw, and the RECAP project. In addition to examining the current situation for access to materials, this session will include discussion of the Law.Gov effort, a year-long effort to document detailed specifications that would enable the Federal and then state and local governments to provide a distributed, open source, authenticated registry and repository for primary legal materials. Similar in spirit to the Data.Gov system recently launched, the Law.Gov effort includes a series of workshops at ten major law schools in early 2010. Panelists: + Tom Bruce (Cornell) + John Joergensen (Rutgers) + Carl Malamud (public.resource.org), Chair + Stephen Schultze (Princeton)
Prospect House - Princeton University
Prospect House, an Italianate Victorian mansion designed by John Notman served as home of Princeton University's presidents beginning in 1879. James McCosh was its first resident. In 1904 Woodrow Wilson, then University President and Prospect resident, erected an iron fence enclosing five acres. Mrs. Wilson expanded the gardens. Since 1968 the mansion has been converted to a Faculty Club and is available for private events and receptions. Prospect garden is open to the public.
princeton university campus
Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton was the fourth chartered institution of higher education in the Thirteen Colonies[6][a] and thus one of the nine Colonial Colleges established before the American Revolution. The institution moved to Newark in 1747, then to the current site nine years later, where it was renamed Princeton University in 1896.[11]
Princeton provides undergraduate and graduate instruction in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering.[12] It offers professional degrees through the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, the School of Architecture and the Bendheim Center for Finance. The University has ties with the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Theological Seminary, and the Westminster Choir College of Rider University.[b] Princeton has the largest endowment per student in the United States.[13]
The University has graduated many notable alumni. It has been associated with 41 Nobel laureates, 17 National Medal of Science winners, the most Abel Prize winners and Fields Medalists of any university (four and eight, respectively), ten Turing Award laureates, five National Humanities Medal recipients, 209 Rhodes Scholars, and 126 Marshall Scholars.[14] Two U.S. Presidents, 12 U.S. Supreme Court Justices (three of whom currently serve on the court), and numerous living billionaires and foreign heads of state are all counted among Princeton's alumni.[quantify] Princeton has also graduated many prominent members of the U.S. Congress and the U.S. Cabinet, including eight Secretaries of State, three Secretaries of Defense, and two of the past four Chairs of the Federal Reserve. It is consistently ranked as one of the top universities in the world.[1
Albert Einstein House,112 Mercer Street in Princeton, Mercer County, New Jersey
The Albert Einstein House at 112 Mercer Street in Princeton, Mercer County, New Jersey, United States[4] was the home of Albert Einstein from 1935 until his death in 1955.[5] His wife Elsa Einstein died in 1936 while living in this house.
The house was built sometime before 1876, as it originally stood on Alexander Street where Stuart Hall of the Princeton Theological Seminary was built in that year, also displacing the house now at 108 Mercer.[6] The home is a simple pattern-book cottage and not in itself of unusual significance.[7]:2 Elsa Einstein purchased the home from Mary Clark Marden on July 24, 1935 for an undisclosed sum according to the deed which was recorded by the Mercer County Clerk's Office on August 1, 1935.
Albert Einstein reportedly requested that this house not be made a museum, and the family did not want it to be recognized as such. Nonetheless it was added to the National Register of Historic Places and further designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 1976.[2][3][7]
Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister and Indira Gandhi (future PM) meeting Einstein at his home in Princeton, 1949
After him, the house was owned by his sculptor step-daughter Margot Einstein until 86.[8]
The house was previously owned by Eric Maskin and his family until 2012.[9] He was the Albert O. Hirschman Professor in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton until 2011, and the 2007 Nobel Prize winner with two others. He is currently a Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Previously it was occupied by 2004 Nobel prize winner physicist Frank Wilczek when he was a professor in IAS between 1989 and 2001. Reportedly he requested the house from the IAS as his condition to move to Princeton, and he had been holding evening seminars in the house for graduate students.
It is a private residence even though it is owned by IAS, and is not open to public. There is no marker, however strategically placed plaques state Private Residence.
(2103) New Revelations on the Battle of Princeton fought on January 3, 1777 Part 2
This is the second of two parts which features Part 1 features Kip Cherry and archeologist Wade Catts. Part 2 will feature Historian Dr. Robert Selig.
The Battle for Princeton lecture was held at the Princeton, NJ Public Library on May 16, 2013. This project has been funded in part by a grant from the Battlefield Preservation Fund of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.Special thanks also to the National Trust for Historical Preservation for naming the Princeton Battlefield as one of the 11 Most Endangered Historic Sites in the United States in 2012.
The lecture featured Historian Dr. Robert Selig and Archaeologist Wade Catts, with an introduction by Kip Cherry, 1st VP, Princeton Battlefield Society. Dr. Selig and Wade Catts were the authors of a major study on the Battle of Princeton financed by the American Battlefield Protection Program, U.S. Department of the Interior entitled: Battle of Princeton Mapping Project: Report of Military Terrain Analysis and Battle Narrative, Princeton, New Jersey. The study developed a new interpretation of the sequence of the Battle of Princeton using GIS/GPS to map the physical evidence in 130 original accounts of the Battle. Dr. Selig and Mr. Catts will discuss not only the findings of that study but also subsequent revelations and questions that still remain. Ms. Cherry provided a quick review of Princeton as a British Garrison before the Battle and the months following the Battle, a critical turning point of the American Revolution, and will be giving a peek at the pension application of a soldier named Jebez Flint
New Revelations on the Battle of Princeton fought on January 3, 1777 Part 1
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This is the first of two parts which features Part 1 features Kip Cherry and archeologist Wade Catts. Part 2 will feature Historian Dr. Robert Selig.
The Battle for Princeton lecture was held at the Princeton, NJ Public Library on May 16, 2013. This project has been funded in part by a grant from the Battlefield Preservation Fund of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.Special thanks also to the National Trust for Historical Preservation for naming the Princeton Battlefield as one of the 11 Most Endangered Historic Sites in the United States in 2012.
The lecture featured Historian Dr. Robert Selig and Archaeologist Wade Catts, with an introduction by Kip Cherry, 1st VP, Princeton Battlefield Society. Dr. Selig and Wade Catts were the authors of a major study on the Battle of Princeton financed by the American Battlefield Protection Program, U.S. Department of the Interior entitled: Battle of Princeton Mapping Project: Report of Military Terrain Analysis and Battle Narrative, Princeton, New Jersey. The study developed a new interpretation of the sequence of the Battle of Princeton using GIS/GPS to map the physical evidence in 130 original accounts of the Battle. Dr. Selig and Mr. Catts will discuss not only the findings of that study but also subsequent revelations and questions that still remain. Ms. Cherry provided a quick review of Princeton as a British Garrison before the Battle and the months following the Battle, a critical turning point of the American Revolution, and will be giving a peek at the pension application of a soldier named Jebez Flint
Albert Einstein House,112 Mercer Street in Princeton, Mercer County, New Jersey
Albert Einstein House,112 Mercer Street in Princeton, Mercer County, New Jersey
New Construction in Princeton NJ
Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Robertson Hall designed by Minoru Yamasaki of Twin Towers of World Trade Center fame.
The touch of an Art & Architecture Conservator at Princeton
John Scott, Conservator of Art and Architecture for Princeton University adds cosmetic touches to the sculptor Ai WeiWei Zodiac Sculptures seen at Robertson Hall at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He has been maintaining outdoor sculptures at Princeton since 1985. Video and painting of the Fountain of Freedom on a Spring night at the end by artist Robert Hummel
Princeton Station Opening Celebration
The new Princeton Station was celebrated with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on November 25, 2014. This video highlights the new station and ceremony. Video by Danielle Alio and Amaris Hardy.
A Taste of Princeton University's - `Taste of Nassau Streeet'
Terra Momo Restaurant Group appreciates the chance to be part of Princeton University's Taste of Nassau Street. And special thanks to The Princeton Nassoons. Students, don't forget to redeem your coupon at Dispensa - in Princeton Borough's Public Library.
Welcome to the Princeton University Art Museum
Director James Steward offers a brief introduction to the Princeton University Art Museum and its collections.
Princeton Environmental Institute | Wikipedia audio article
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00:02:09 1 History
00:07:23 1.1 Coeducation at Princeton University
00:09:44 1.2 Princeton and Slavery
00:11:22 2 Campus
00:14:11 2.1 Cannon Green
00:15:40 2.2 Buildings
00:15:48 2.2.1 Nassau Hall
00:16:47 2.2.2 Residential colleges
00:21:27 2.2.3 McCarter Theatre
00:22:00 2.2.4 Art Museum
00:23:52 2.2.5 University Chapel
00:25:26 2.2.6 Murray-Dodge Hall
00:25:59 2.2.7 Apartment facilities
00:26:19 2.3 Sustainability
00:27:28 3 Demographics
00:29:04 4 Organization
00:30:22 5 Academics
00:31:20 5.1 Undergraduate
00:33:38 5.1.1 Admissions and financial aid
00:35:34 5.1.2 Grade deflation policy
00:37:46 5.2 Graduate
00:38:59 5.3 Libraries
00:40:10 5.4 Rankings
00:42:41 5.5 Institutes
00:43:50 6 Student life and culture
00:46:37 6.1 Traditions
00:52:10 7 Athletics
00:53:04 7.1 Varsity
00:55:45 7.2 Club and intramural
00:56:24 8 Songs
00:57:05 8.1 Old Nassau
00:58:26 9 Notable alumni and faculty
01:01:39 10 See also
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Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. The institution moved to Newark in 1747, then to the current site nine years later, and renamed itself Princeton University in 1896.Princeton provides undergraduate and graduate instruction in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering. It offers professional degrees through the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, the School of Architecture and the Bendheim Center for Finance. The university has ties with the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Theological Seminary and the Westminster Choir College of Rider University. Princeton has the largest endowment per student in the United States. From 2001 to 2018, Princeton University was ranked either first or second among national universities by U.S. News & World Report, holding the top spot for 16 of those 18 years.As of October 2018, 65 Nobel laureates, 15 Fields Medalists and 13 Turing Award laureates have been affiliated with Princeton University as alumni, faculty members or researchers. In addition, Princeton has been associated with 21 National Medal of Science winners, 5 Abel Prize winners, 5 National Humanities Medal recipients, 209 Rhodes Scholars, 139 Gates Cambridge Scholars and 126 Marshall Scholars. Two U.S. Presidents, twelve U.S. Supreme Court Justices (three of whom currently serve on the court) and numerous living billionaires and foreign heads of state are all counted among Princeton's alumni body. Princeton has also graduated many prominent members of the U.S. Congress and the U.S. Cabinet, including eight Secretaries of State, three Secretaries of Defense and three of the past five Chairs of the Federal Reserve.
Tigers Mangle Yale Ivy Hope, 1955
From the Princeton University Archives: newsreel covering the Princeton-Yale football game at Palmer Stadium, in which Princeton beat Yale 13-0, preventing Yale's Ivy League championship. Watching the game are Robert B. Meyner, governor of New Jersey, and Margaret Truman, daughter of the former president (0:36). The game is preceded by footage of visitors picnicking outside the stadium.
This film is discussed in the audiovisual blog of the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, which holds the archives of Princeton University. For more information or to comment on this film visit .
Top Universities In The World In 2020
tudents from Harvard Kennedy School cheer as they receive their degrees during the 360th Commencement Exercises at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.REUTERS/Brian Snyder
Today, U.S. News & World Report released its sixth annual Best Global Universities ranking. Universities in the United States earned eight of the top 10 spots, further solidifying America’s reputation as home to some of the strongest schools in the world.
For their 2020 list, U.S. News evaluated 1,500 schools — an increase from the 1,250 schools evaluated last year — across 81 countries.
The ranking takes 13 different variables that measure academic research into consideration, including academic reputation, international collaboration, publications and citations. In order to gather information in these categories, U.S. News partnered with Clarivate Analytics to survey 26,810 professors, researchers, senior administrators, students and university employees from across the globe.
You can read more about U.S. News’ methodology here.
Here are the 10 best global universities, according to U.S. News:
10. University of Washington, Seattle
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University of WashingtonNikko Hellstern | Getty Images
Location: Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Total enrollment: 45,476
International students: 7,313
9. University of Cambridge
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Students walk through Cambridge University in Cambridge, east of England, on March 14, 2018.TOLGA AKMEN | AFP | Getty Images
Location: Cambridge, England, U.K.
Total enrollment: ~19,000
International students: ~3,000
8. Princeton University
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Location: Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.
Total enrollment: 7,996
International students: 1,950
7. Columbia University
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Location: New York, New York, U.S.
Total enrollment: 26,586
International students: 9,745
6. California Institute of Technology
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Location: Pasadena, California, U.S.
Total enrollment: 2,233
International students: 681
5. University of Oxford
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Location: Oxford, England, U.K.
Total enrollment: 24,299
International students: 6,772
4. University of California, Berkeley
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Location: Berkeley, California, U.S.
Total enrollment: 36,468
International students: 6,375
3. Stanford University
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Location: Stanford, California, U.S.
Total enrollment: 15,878
International students: 3,608
2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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A man walks through Killian Court at MIT in Cambridge.REUTERS/Brian Snyder
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Total enrollment: 11,231
International students: 3,848
1. Harvard University
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Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Total enrollment: 20,595
International students: 5,353
Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, earned the top spot on U.S. News’ ranking of global universities.
Founded in 1636, Harvard is the oldest college in the United States. The Ivy League school is known for its historic legacy, famous alumni and generous financial aid, which the university is able to provide in part because of an endowment worth roughly $40 billion.
Columbia University and Princeton University are the only other Ivy League schools to crack the top 10. Two public universities — UC Berkeley and the University of Washington, Seattle — managed to make it into the top tier as well thanks to their strong regional and global research reputations.
The University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom were the only two schools located outside of the United States to make the top 10 list.
Tom Fleming: The Quest for Justice in the American Revolution
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Thomas Fleming spoke at the Princeton Public Library in Princeton, NJ on September 26, 2014. Tom Fleming first spoke for 32 minutes in a prepared lecture: “The Quest for Justice in the American Revolution”. That was followed by very specific questions regarding aspects of the American Revolution during a 19 minute question and answer period from those who attended the event. This lecture is a part of the Princeton-Area Historic Sites’ NJ 350th Celebration that runs through September 26 – 28, 2014
Tom Fleming is one of the foremost historians of the American Revolution writing today. He has a genius for recreating the perilous tensions of the times. In 2010 the American History Press published a 50th anniversary edition of his first book, Now We are Enemies, the Story of Bunker Hill. This book vaulted Mr. Fleming into the top echelon of American historians. Mr. Fleming has won many awards and is a frequent guest on C-Span, the History Channel and PBS. He contributes regularly to American Heritage, Military History and Journal of Military History. He has been a consultant for many award-winning television series, such as “Liberty! The American Revolution and he has also served as a senior scholar of threat the American Revolution Center. The lecture is being co-sponsored by the Princeton Public Library and the Princeton-Area Historic Sites and was made possible by a grant from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, a state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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