But for centuries, we could offer only verbal ideas about how one part affects another. Through the contributions of many disciplines, we are now beginning to develop rigorous mathematical descriptions of how the brain works. Senior Janelle Wright will receive Princeton University's Labouisse Fellowship, awarded to support research by a graduating senior or first-year alumnus planning a career devoted to problems of development and modernization. More than 5,000 adults around the United States were surveyed by Princeton's Survey Research Center as part of a larger effort to assess the public role of religion, particularly that of the mainline Protestant denominations, which represent about 20 million people. They are not only focused on issues such as abortion or prayer in the schools.
Progressive issues do seem to be of enormous importance to people.
For the past decade astronomers have looked for vast quantities of hydrogen that was cooked up in the big bang but somehow managed to disappear into the empty blackness of space. Now, a team of scientists led by researchers at Princeton has used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to uncover this long-sought missing hydrogen. The confirmation of this missing hydrogen will shed new light on the large-scale structure of the universe. The detection also confirms fundamental models of how much hydrogen was manufactured in the first few minutes of the universe's birth in the Big Bang. He was one of 11 students who received the honor this year.