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Princeton University Art Museum opens today
The wait is over. Princeton University Art Museum is now yours.
The new Princeton University Art Museum opens to the public today with a 24-hour open house starting at 5:00 PM. Admission to the Museum is always free.
Open House festivities include a Halloween fair, costume contest, movie screenings, sky gazing, yoga, live performances, art making and much more. View the full schedule on artmuseum.princeton.edu.
Can't make it to the open house? The Museum is open seven days a week with late hours on Thursdays and Fridays. Plan your visit on artmuseum.princeton.edu.
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Founding partner Microsoft to bring new Discovery AI technology to NJ AI Hub
In an important step forward for the New Jersey Artificial Intelligence Hub (NJ AI Hub), founding partner Microsoft announced Thursday (10/30) that it will bring to the Hub its new Microsoft Discovery platform, an advanced Agentic AI and cloud technology that promises to help scientists and organizations accelerate research and solve complex problems more efficiently.
“Part of the mission of the New Jersey AI Hub is to bring the power of artificial intelligence to the people of New Jersey, for the benefit of the region and its economy,” said Liat Krawczyk, executive director of the NJ AI Hub. “We have here a real opportunity for researchers in academia and industry to have the kind of breakthroughs we’ve all been waiting for with AI.”
The NJ AI Hub, in partnership with Princeton University, will be one of only two ecosystems of its kind in the world where the Discovery platform will be available initially, along with TitletownTech in Wisconsin as part of a partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Read on princeton.edu
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Celebrate Princeton Innovation spotlights entrepreneurial researchers and their impact
A cross-section of New Jersey innovation leaders — faculty, researchers, students, inventors, entrepreneurs and investors —convened on campus last Wednesday for the annual Celebrate Princeton Innovation. The event is designed to spotlight University innovators, showcase ideas and forge new connections.
Craig Arnold, vice dean for innovation and University innovation officer, welcomed the crowd of about 400 attendees, noting the many accomplishments of the Office of Innovation as it marked its first anniversary.
The office engaged with more than 130 companies that are sponsoring and supporting research on campus, filed for 200 new patents for faculty researchers and helped faculty start seven new companies, said Arnold, who is also the Susan Dod Brown Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
Read on princeton.edu
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From Princeton Alumni Weekly:
A Million Miles Away: NASA’s new IMAP mission, developed at Princeton, aims to reveal more about the bubble that protects our solar system
Princeton is a physics town. The University’s faculty and former students have won the Nobel Prize in physics more than two dozen times, and the nearby Institute for Advanced Study has seen many Einstein-level geniuses, including the man himself. In Princeton, the terms “black hole,” “wormhole,” and “quantum foam” were coined, all by University professor John Archibald Wheeler.
That’s some heavy-duty theoretical physics. But it’s not the kind of physics that David McComas does.
“As an experimental physicist, I go and measure things,” he says.
McComas, a professor in Princeton’s Department of Astrophysical Sciences, is leading a NASA mission to measure a really big thing — the heliosphere. It’s the bubble of particles and magnetic fields generated by the sun. The heliosphere extends far beyond the orbits of the planets and largely shields our solar system from high-energy particles known as galactic cosmic rays. No one knows precisely how big the heliosphere is, its shape, or how it interacts with the local interstellar medium.
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A Moment of Silence by Mohammad Yaghoubi
A Moment of Silence is an award-winning play by celebrated Iranian playwright and director Mohammad Yaghoubi. Surreal, poetic, and unexpectedly humorous, the play offers a deeply human meditation on Iran’s turbulent modern history. Shiva, the protagonist, wakes up to find she has been asleep for three years—only to realize she has missed the Islamic Revolution. Over the next decade, she continues to slip in and out of sleep, awakening each time to a drastically altered world: the war with Iraq, the murders of dissident artists, and upheavals within her own family. Layered with absurdity and poignancy, the play also follows the increasingly perilous journey of the playwright shaping Shiva’s story, as anonymous threats begin to blur the boundary between art and reality. Directed by Nikoo Mamdoohi, an Iranian theater director based in Washington, DC; with dramaturgy by Q-mars Haeri, postdoctoral research associate in Princeton’s Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies; and Iranian designers Omid Akbari (set) and Afsaneh Aayani (costumes). Supported by the Princeton Humanities Initiative and the Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship (ProCES).
Purchase tickets to A Moment of Silence on mccarter.org.
October 31, November 1, 7, 8 at 8:00 PM
November 8 at 2:00 PM
McCarter Theatre Center
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Join us for an evening of devotional music & dance, worship, and spiritual reflection, in celebration of Diwali, Hinduism’s Festival of Lights. Featuring Globally Acclaimed Kirtan Singer, Visvambhar Sheth.
Free and open to the public.
Saturday, November 1
7:00 PM
Princeton University Chapel
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Please join the Department of Music for a performance by Princeton University’s top jazz small group opening for a return performance of the Princeton University faculty jazz sextet featuring Rudresh Mahanthappa (alto saxophone), Ted Chubb (trumpet), Michelle Lordi (voice), Elio Villafranca (piano) Matthew Parrish (bass), and Jerome Jennings (drums).
Purchase tickets to Jazz at Princeton on tickets.princeton.edu.
Saturday, November 1
8:00 PM
Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall
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Laure Resplandy, associate professor of geosciences and the High Meadows Environmental Institute, will present “Ocean Carbon: Facts, Fluxes and Fictions” in Briger Hall Auditorium, 11 Ivy Lane, or stream it live. Resplandy is the third speaker in the fall 2025 HMEI Faculty Seminar Series.
The ocean carbon cycle spans multiple scales and disciplines, which makes integration difficult and often fosters misconceptions or fragmented narratives in science and public discourse. We synthesize current understanding of ocean carbon stocks and fluxes – from blue carbon, to whales and plastics – disentangling well-supported insights from misconceptions. We discuss the role of marine ecosystems and caution against narratives that reduce their value to carbon sequestration—a framing that may draw attention but is not always robust, and should not be necessary since marine biodiversity is worth preserving regardless of its impact on carbon.
Free and open to the public. Attend in person or watch the livestream on environment.princeton.edu.
Tuesday, November 4
12:15 PM
Bridger Hall, 11 Ivy Lane
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How does interacting with artificial intelligence shape human understanding? Princeton psychology professor Tania Lombrozo will draw on insights from psychology, philosophy and cognitive science to consider risks that come with advances in AI, alongside sources of potential reassurance that reflect the resilience of human cognition. Lombrozo is the Arthur W. Marks ’19 Professor of Psychology, director of the Program in Cognitive Science and co-director of the Natural and Artificial Minds Initiative.
On the side of risk, interacting with AI systems can foster illusions of understanding in humans. On the reassuring side, some of the very same mechanisms that allow us to evaluate our own and other humans’ understanding can help us be more discerning in our interactions with AI.
Register on alumni.princeton.edu.
Wednesday, November 5
4:30 PM
Virtual Event
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After Noon Concert Series
The After Noon Concert Series is a weekly opportunity for the Princeton Community to enjoy performances at the Princeton University Chapel by various local, national, and international organists. These half-hour concerts showcase the flexibility of the magnificent Skinner/Mander Chapel organ. Each visiting organist rehearses and performs, bringing forth a different voice and character from the organ.
Free and open to the public.
Thursday, November 6
12:30 PM
Princeton University Chapel
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Slow Looking Art Activity
Slow things down on Sunday, November 9 at Princeton University Library’s Milberg Gallery and take a guided exploration of a select group of objects in the current exhibition “Forms & Function: The Splendors of Global Book Making.” Visitors will be given a variety of prompts and strategies for the activity. What do you see and learn when you focus your attention on a single object?
Register on libcal.princeton.edu.
Sunday, November 9
1:00 PM
Firestone Library, Ellen and Leonard Milberg Gallery
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Images
Discovery AI - Photo by Matthew Raspanti, Office of Communications
Celebrate Innovation - Photo by Sameer A. Khan/Fotobuddy
IMAP - Photo by Matthew Raspanti, Office of Communications
Slow Art Looking - Photo by Brandon Johnson, Princeton University Library
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