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IMAGE: An artist s conception of coronal mass ejections and magnetic reconnection above photos of PPPL physicists, from left, Masaaki Yamada, Hantao Ji, and Jongsoo Yoo view more
Credit: (Astrophysical inages courtesy of NASA / headshots and collage courtesy of Elle Starkman)
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have received three awards from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) totaling over $2 million to conduct research that could help predict the potentially damaging effects of blasts of subatomic particles from the sun.
The three-year awards will fund research into a process known as magnetic reconnection, the coming together and explosive separation of magnetic field lines in plasma, that occurs throughout the universe. Scientists conjecture that magnetic reconnection helps cause the blasts, which produce vast amounts of electrically charged subatomic particles known as plasm
Common calendar, Packet papers, May 7
Common calendar, Packet papers, May 7
Ongoing
Look for signs on Route 206.
Volunteers are needed, age 18 and older, will clean both sides of Route 206 between New Amwell and Homestead Road.
Volunteers are asked to wear masks and socially distance from other volunteers.
Throughout May
The 2021 season of the Brook Arts Center in Bound Brook continues on May 8 with the return of “Winslow, An Evening of the Eagles.”
May 9 will be an afternoon of music to celebrate mothers with American’s Tenor Dominic Mantuano.
On May 22, Amani will perform jazz, blues, ballads and bop.
The Closet Carpenters will perform the songs of the duo Richard and Karen Carpenter on May 30 at 7 p.m.
An update on Princeton’s ongoing efforts to address systemic racism
Emily Aronson, Office of Communications
May 3, 2021 12:52 p.m.
Photo by
Denise Applewhite, Office of Communications
A professorship in Indigenous studies, grant programs for anti-racism research and new partnerships with Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) are some of the initiatives launched this academic year as part of Princeton’s campus-wide commitment to combat systemic racism.
Last summer, the University announced an initiative to address America’s record of structural inequality and racism as well as Princeton’s place in that history. Now, the University is providing an interim update on these ongoing efforts. An inaugural annual report charting the University’s progress will be released in the fall.
Common calendar, Packet papers, April 30
Common calendar, Packet papers, April 30
Mercer County Community College has opened registration for in-person summer Tomato Patch program, its dance, theater, vocal and visual arts programs at Kelsey Theatre.
McCarter Theatre Center’s Resident Producer Debbie Bisno presents “The Manic Monologues.”
This initiative brings to life true stories submitted by resilient people across the world living with mental health challenges, performed by a celebrated cast of actors and enhanced by interactive design and technology.
June 21-26: Studio art foundations, drawing, painting, sculpture
June 28 to July 2: masks, make believe
July 6-9: Magic of Monet
July 12-16: imagination drawing
Credit: Composite image by Elle Starkman / Solar image by NASA Goddard Media Studios
Every day, the sun ejects large amounts of a hot particle soup known as plasma toward Earth where it can disrupt telecommunications satellites and damage electrical grids. Now, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and Princeton University s Department of Astrophysical Sciences have made a discovery that could lead to better predictions of this space weather and help safeguard sensitive infrastructure.
The discovery comes from a new computer model that predicts the behavior of the plasma in the region above the surface of the sun known as the solar corona. The model was originally inspired by a similar model that describes the behavior of the plasma that fuels fusion reactions in doughnut-shaped fusion facilities known as tokamaks.