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None of us had put together that we happened to visit Morrison Dining on Toni Morrison’s birthday, but it led us down a conversation of the names on buildings and how they came to be there. There has been plenty of discussion around how buildings are named, and even more articles about their origins, but the most important conclusion we landed on was that the names of buildings matter. While nowhere close to a nuclear physicist myself, I know more about Hans Bethe than I do about any other scientist after living in his namesake dorm for the past two years. ILR’s founding dean Irving Ives, ...

The suite encompassess our personalized touches around a small knee-high table stacked with green to-go containers and plastic cups. Our small area compiles an assortment of a small couch, an armchair, an ottoman, a couple of home-brought chairs and our suite mascot, Steven the Reptile (we still dispute whether he is an alligator or crocodile). Nonetheless, we dine in our home-sweet-home dining room. But at the head of the table sits our most regular guests at dinner: Guy Fieri and Gordon Ramsey.

Morrison Dining Hall, which officially opened on Jan. 18, features 11 food platforms, four hydration stations, 1,000 seats and a new teaching kitchen.

Princeton University is cancelling events and moving finals online amid a spike in COVID cases, following similar moves by Cornell as the omicron variant...

The Cornell "Alert Level Red" with "very substantial" Omicron cases among the fully vaxxed and boosted confirms Omicron's contagiousness.