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(04/16/14 5:16pm)
Complexity and decentralization are two of many factors that exacerbate the criminality and corruption in financial institutions, professor of politics in the Wilson School Nolan McCarty said in a lecture on Wednesday.
(03/31/14 8:28pm)
Following the University's decision to cancel overnight stays for Princeton Preview, theAlumni Association is scheduled to meet later this week for a "key meeting" that will discuss whether changes should be made to Reunions this year in light of the meningitis outbreak, according to Associate Director for Reunions Mibs Mara.
(02/25/14 8:50pm)
During a lecture on Tuesday, former Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Julie Gerberding discussed the challenge of developing vaccines to deal with the growing number of new infectious diseases that have limited antimicrobial treatments.
(02/24/14 3:50pm)
The University has investigated at least one serious medical case as a potential adverse reaction to the meningitis vaccine, although a link was deemed unlikely in that case.
(02/20/14 5:44pm)
Former President of the United Nations General Assembly Vuk Jeremic gave a lecture Thursday in which he argued that regional and national governments are facing a growing danger in continuing to misalign short-term priorities with long-term needs.
(02/20/14 4:22pm)
4,709 students received the second dose of the meningitis vaccine, according to University Spokesperson Martin Mbugua. Approximately 81 percent of the student body has received both doses, the maximum immunity currently available against meningitis, as of Feb. 20.
(02/18/14 10:18am)
Individuals who received the meningococcal disease vaccine were not originally eligible to donate blood because of the vaccine's unlicensed status in the United States. However, individuals are now eligible to donate blood, officials at the American Red Cross said.
(01/05/14 3:31pm)
In the wake of the vaccination campaign against meningitis B that began on campus last month, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is working to provide Bexsero, the meningococcal B vaccine, to students at the University of California, Santa Barbara, according to a CDC announcement on Dec. 31.
(01/02/14 6:31pm)
In response to the outbreak, the CDC has moved forward with an Investigational New Drug application, filed with the Food and Drug Administration, to execute the vaccination campaign.
(12/10/13 3:44pm)
As students receive the vaccine against meningitis B this week, its availability only to certain members of the community has evoked mixed feelings from those excluded. While some said they were confident in the University’s decision, others have expressed concerns about their health and safety, and have attempted unsuccessfully to persuade the University to provide them with the vaccine.
(12/08/13 11:44pm)
Since the first case of meningitis at Princeton was reported in March 2013,the University has faced seven additional cases of meningococcal disease. Following the seventh case, the University, working alongside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the N.J. Department of Health, agreed to allow students to receive Bexsero, a vaccine unlicensed in America. Approved earlier this year in Europe, the vaccine combats the strain of the disease that has affected Princeton's campus.This timeline outlines the precautionary actions the University has taken in relation to the eight cases reported so far.
(12/08/13 9:10pm)
Princeton’s dining facilities have reported numerous minor health violations, despite receiving overall “Satisfactory” ratings, according to a review of health records covering the past three years.
(11/18/13 9:06pm)
On May 6, Peter Carruth ’14 was admitted to the hospital for symptoms of meningococcal disease. Carruth was the third case in a meningitis outbreak that has seen seven people hospitalized with the disease since March. He was hospitalized at the University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro for five days before being transferred back to University Health Services at McCosh Health Center for a week and a half of treatment.
(11/12/13 3:46pm)
Juniors and seniors undertaking their junior papers and theses will now receive additional guidance from the Office of the Dean of the College’s newly published Guides to Independent Work, the University announced last week. These departmental resources establish guidelines for junior papers, senior theses and independent projects.
(11/07/13 5:25pm)
As Thanksgiving approaches and many students head home for the holiday, a group of their international peers will experience American culture firsthand through the Thanksgiving Host Family Program run by the Friends of Davis International Center.
(10/22/13 4:30pm)
With the end of his term as chairman of the Federal Reserve slated to expire in January, former professor and chair of the economics department Ben Bernanke’s plans for life after government are still unclear.
(10/08/13 8:24pm)
Latin America is improving and undergoing transformative democratization, Mario Vargas Llosa, a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, said in a conversation Tuesday with visiting lecturer in the Program in Latin American Studies Enrique Krauze Kleinbort. The two discussed the wide scope of culture and politics within Latin America.Vargas Llosa, who is also a visiting lecturer in the Lewis Center for the Arts, explained that comparing the Latin America of today with that of 20 or 30 years ago offers signs of these momentous changes within Latin American history.“Latin America is improving. We have more democracy; we have large consensus on what kind of economic policies we need to develop and become modern and successfully fight poverty,” Vargas Llosa said, adding that the transformation of most Latin American nations in recent years has been formidable. “Poverty has diminished; in statistical terms, the poverty level is still large, but the way which the middle classes have been grown in the country is fantastic.”Vargas Llosa cited Uruguay’s economic success as a model for the rest of Latin America. He said that the country has seen very liberal social reforms, including gay marriage and gay rights. “Not liberal in the American sense,” he added to the audience’s laughter.Despite the promising improvements in the last few years, both Vargas Llosa and Krauze acknowledged one of the largest obstacles to Latin America’s full democratization is corruption.“The tradition has a way of misunderstanding natural laws as ‘do whatever you wish,’ ” Vargas Llosa said.He added that Latin American intellectuals have had a substantial impact on the vulnerability of governments on the continent. This is because the general population relied on intellectuals to adopt governmental policies that best suited their interest, but when these policies failed the government was opened to corruption, he said.“Common people were trying to discover in their own way what would be the best way to bring about democratization … Intellectuals were influential, but they promoted the wrong [policies],” Vargas Llosa explained. Even critical thinkers, he said, could “fail miserably” in their fight.Krauze, however, downplayed the influence of intellectuals on the common people, saying that very few intellectuals spoke in favor of what the common people wanted.Vargas Llosa also pointed to Latin American attitudes toward the law as an obstacle in the development of the region. “We [Latin Americans] don’t feel the need or the moral obligation to respect the laws,” he explained. “We just follow the laws because of its mandate. It’s a tradition that is strong in Latin America.”The lecture, titled “Politics and Culture in Latin America,” was part of the Spencer Trask Lecture Series, which brings distinguished scholars to deliver public lectures at the University and was co-sponsored with the Program in Latin American Studies.