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(01/24/22 4:15am)
Olympic gold medalist Allyson Felix gave the “Beyond the Resume” keynote speech at Princeton’s second annual Wintersession on Saturday, Jan. 22. She spoke in conversation with Athletic Director John Mack ’00 at the event, which was co-sponsored by Princeton Athletics.
(01/24/22 4:07am)
Princeton’s eating clubs will offer bickerees a variety of in-person and virtual options for this spring’s Street Week amid a return to campus marked by developing regulations due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
(01/15/22 5:19pm)
Restrictions on domestic travel outside of Mercer County and Plainsboro Township have been lifted for undergraduate students, and students in compliance with University vaccination policies are now permitted to travel anywhere in the United States, effective immediately.
(01/15/22 8:45pm)
At a Wednesday, Jan. 12 town hall about COVID-19 policies for graduate students, University administrators explained plans for the start of the semester. During the virtual event, several graduate students expressed concerns about how the University plans to handle a predicted increase in COVID-19 cases.
(01/13/22 3:55am)
Due to a recent spike in COVID-19 cases on campus amid the national omicron surge, Princeton dining halls began a staggered reopening on Jan. 9, accompanied by new changes in dining policies. Most notably, the changes include the closure of eating spaces within dining halls and all food distributed in a grab-and-go format, resembling the dining policies of the Spring 2021 semester.
(01/06/22 3:33am)
On Jan. 5, Undergraduate Student Government (USG) hosted a virtual Town Hall with Dean of the College Jill Dolan, Vice President for Campus Life Rochelle Calhoun, and other campus administrators to discuss the beginning of the Spring 2022 semester, student return-to-campus, and new COVID-19 protocols. Students submitted questions, either through a Google Form before the event or through a Zoom chat during the event.
(01/06/22 2:08am)
Just weeks before students begin returning to campus on Jan. 14, the University is seeing an increase in COVID-19 cases among staff and faculty. During the week of Dec. 25 to Dec. 31, there were 170 positive cases, 131 of them from staff and faculty members, according to Princeton’s COVID-19 Dashboard.
(12/27/21 11:52pm)
In this Daybreak special series, we’ve taken you through the last few weeks of Princeton’s fall 2021 semester. In the final installment of the series, we’re talking you through the University’s plans for the Spring 2022 term.
(12/24/21 4:07am)
Amina Ahmad ’22, Justin Curl ’22, and Katie Dykstra ’22, as well as alumni Edric Huang ’18 and Nick Keeley ’16, have been awarded the Schwarzman Scholarship, which will fund their graduate study at Tsinghua University in Beijing in 2022.
(12/27/21 8:11pm)
On this Daybreak special series, we’re taking you through the last few weeks of Princeton’s Fall 2021 semester. On this episode, State of Play, we recap the aftermath of Dean Dolan’s email that announced that finals would be online starting Thursday, December 16th.
(12/27/21 12:32pm)
On this Daybreak special series, we’re taking you through the last few weeks of Princeton’s Fall 2021 semester. On this episode, International Email(s) and Isolation, we spoke with members of Princeton’s international student community about how the University’s emails about winter break policy impacted them. We also sat down with students in isolation housing to ask them about the experience.
(12/26/21 6:36pm)
On this Daybreak special series, we’re taking you through the last few weeks of Princeton’s Fall 2021 semester. In Episode 1: Recalled to Reality, we retell the story of the pre-Thanksgiving uptick in campus COVID-19 cases, Dean Dolan’s email, and the return to campus. When you’re finished with this episode, check out Episode 2: International Emails and Isolation Housing.
(12/24/21 2:58am)
Julia Chaffers ’22 is one of 41 winners of the 2022 Marshall Scholarship, which will allow her to pursue two years of graduate study in the United Kingdom. She was selected from a pool of close to 1,000 applicants from colleges and universities across the country.
(12/24/21 3:51am)
On Dec. 14, the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) announced that 14 students have been selected to join the Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative (SINSI), now in its 15th year. The initiative funds undergraduate summer internships and graduate fellowships in various branches of the federal government.
(12/24/21 3:44am)
In the early hours of Nov. 7, 2021, Ellen Su ’23 walked up to Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge. Music blared in the background, announcers yelled encouragement into microphones. Su remembers taking in those final moments before her run, realizing she was a member of a community of runners all focused on the same goal. Then, to the tune of Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York,” the race began.
(12/17/21 4:51am)
Study abroad trips set to take place in Czechia, Denmark, France, Ireland, Israel, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom have all been canceled for spring 2022 due to concerns surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, per an email obtained by The Daily Princetonian sent to students in those programs on Friday.
(12/11/21 2:34am)
Abigail Shrier, the author of “Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters,” spoke to University students on Wednesday, Dec. 8, in an event hosted by The Princeton Tory and the Princeton Open Campus Coalition (POCC) with support from The Witherspoon Institute and the Tikvah Fund.
(12/08/21 5:50am)
During the week of Nov. 27–Dec. 3, isolation housing on campus for COVID-19 reached its peak at 98.3 percent during the week. This number included 86 undergraduates and 15 graduate students. As is reflected on the dashboard, this total reflects students isolating both on and off-campus.
(12/09/21 1:00pm)
In episode 8 of The Orange Table, co-hosts Omar Farah and Aishah Balogun sit down with Toru Obunge ’24 and Nica Evans ’24 to discuss their experiences at Lawnparties this October. Many people will remember that the event was unruly, but few really understand the extent of the brutality that a group of Black students say they faced at the front of that crowd. There is a lesson in this story for everyone in our community from how gender and race play into our experiences of public space, to the University's crowd control policies, to our values as a social community.
(12/08/21 2:42am)
At the start of the fall 2021 semester, campus dining halls were understaffed, leading to high demand for employees. While staffing issues persist, the return of student workers and redistribution of professional staff reduced some of the challenges.