This issue of the Capital Connector highlights stories about Princeton University's collaborations to encourage civic engagement, a research grant for advancing the understanding of mental illness, an expansion of the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab apprenticeship program, and Princeton University students working with…

This issue of the Capital Connector highlights the return of students and several undergraduate prizes for New Jersey students, a wrap-up of summer programming that served students from New Jersey and beyond, a look at the Princeton University Library collaboration to bring Freedom Reads to New Jersey, and visits from several New Jersey legislators.

The Capital Connector highlights the enthusiasm surrounding the NJ AI Summit, four outstanding New Jersey secondary school teachers honored at this year's Commencement ceremony, and several campus visits by New Jersey officials to learn more about the University's significant investments to enhance opportunity and access in higher education and to upgrade Princeton's clean-energy infrastructure.