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The Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library is the institutional archives of Princeton University and is part of the Princeton University Library's department of special collections. The Mudd Library houses two major collection areas: the history of Princeton and the history of twentieth century public policy.
Gest explored selling the collection to Harvard or Yale universities, but finally turned to the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research for help in purchasing the collection back from McGill, and then donating it to the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study [18] The institute, however, had no expertise in the area and the university had no program in Chinese studies.
This is a list of the residential colleges of Princeton University.Each contains a "cluster of dormitories, a dining hall, lounges, seminar and study rooms, a library, computing facilities, game and television rooms, and, in some cases, theaters and other spaces for the creative and performing arts."
The Honorary Debate Panel (WCHDP) sponsors and promotes prize debates at Princeton University. [27] Annually-held debates and oratory contests include the Lynde Prize Debate, the Class of 1876 Memorial Prize for Debate in Politics, the Maclean Prize and Junior Orator Awards, the Walter E. Hope Prizes in Speaking and Debating, the Spencer Trask ...
Major General, heir, and eugenicist Frederick H. Osborn, a graduate of Princeton University, laid the foundation for the Office of Population Research in 1936. [7] The founding director of OPR was Frank W. Notestein, who was a demographer at the Milbank Memorial Fund, a leading peer-reviewed healthcare journal.
New College West is the sixth residential college at Princeton University. [1] The construction of New College West helped to increase the undergraduate student body population by 10 percent, or 500 students. It aims to be LEED Gold certified. [2] Deborah Berke Partners are the architects of the new buildings. [3]
Anthony Grafton is noted for his studies of the classical tradition from the Renaissance to the eighteenth century, and in the history of historical scholarship.His many books include a study of the scholarship and chronology of Renaissance scholar Joseph Scaliger (2 vols, 1983–1993), and, more recently, studies of Girolamo Cardano as an astrologer (1999) and Leon Battista Alberti (2000).
All types of affiliations, namely alumni and faculty members, count equally in the following table and throughout the whole page. [c]In the following list, the number following a person's name is the year they received the prize; in particular, a number with asterisk (*) means the person received the award while they were working at Princeton University (including emeritus staff).