Neuroscientists that work at Princeton University tried a new experiment that involves a mouse running through a virtual maze. In the video above, a mouse is running on a Styrofoam ball. The mouse is being held up securely by a metal helmet that has the sensors on it. The best part of the experiment is that the scientists created the virtual maze using a modified version of Quake II. I challenge the neuroscientists to get additional mice to play this one in Capture the Flag multi-player mode.

Google CEO and Chairman Eric Schmidt earned a BSEE in 1976 from Princeton University. Now he’s giving back a lot more to Princethan than he did in tuition money back in the 1970′s. Eric and his wife Wendy are donating $25 million to the Princeton in order to create an endowment fund for supporting technology research. The new endowment is called The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Transformative Technology Fund.

The Fund will give away awards for peer-reviewed competitions. “The Schmidt Fund will be used to support the invention or implementation of entirely new technologies that will have a major impact on a field of research or to acquire a piece of equipment or an enabling technology that will change the direction of research in a field,” stated Princeton in a press release.

Schmidt is on the board of trustees at Carnegie Mellon University and Princeton University. Schmidt was an advisor to Barack Obama during his presidential campaign.

Princeton University student Matthew Connor has received a $100,000 grant in order to write an iPhone that will help diabetics maintain their food consumption, blood sugar levels, and insulin intake.  Connor is currently a junior in operations research and financial engineering.

Connor is working his brother to build a website that communicates with the iPhone application.  Both will be building a website called the iAbetics Web 2.0 Diabetes Management System.  The iPhone app is called Islet.

Those who suffer from diabetes constantly have to track their blood glucose levels and insulin intake.  “You can hand write what you eat and your blood sugar numbers,” stated Connor. “But that gets pretty difficult if you’re on the go, and it’s hard to analyze without manually entering your handwritten notes into a computer.”

The grant was made by the Gelfand Family Charitable Trust.  The grant was given after Connor won second place at the Primary Healthcare competition from the Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology.