March 18, 2021
A rendering of the grothermail-exchange tanks and building, as viewed from the University Now Nursery School.
The Princeton Planning Board is expected to make a decision as early as tonight on a controversial proposal to build a geothermal-exchange building called “Princeton TIGER” and two 45 to 38-foot-high, 2.25-million-gallon storage tanks, two electrical transformers, and a site generator. The tanks will store water that will be used to heat and cool a portion of the campus, providing the school with a more sustainable source of energy at the university works towards its goal of being carbon neutral by 2046.
Plans for the project are opposed by some of the school’s own faculty members, who are in favor of environmentally friendly energy sources and the project in general, but not the location of the project next to a nursery school and the residential neighborhood where many of them live. Their main concern about the project is noise.
Yoshiaki Shimizu, distinguished scholar who ‘transformed the study of Japanese art’ and Princeton graduate alumnus, dies at 84
Jamie Saxon, Office of Communications
Feb. 12, 2021 12:45 p.m.
Yoshiaki Shimizu, the Marquand Professor of Art and Archaeology, Emeritus, and a renowned scholar of Japanese art history, curator and Princeton graduate alumnus, died on Jan. 20, 2021, of lung cancer at home in Portland, Oregon. He was 84.
Yoshiaki Shimizu
Denise Applewhite, Office of Communications
His research interests in Japanese art included Japanese ink painting of the medieval period, the arts of Zen Buddhism, Heian and Kamakura narrative painting, Sino-Japanese cultural history of the 12th through the 16th century, Chinese and Japanese calligraphy, and Kamakura Buddhism and its art.