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(03/24/23 1:57am)
Two years after the program’s inception, this semester marks the first time that students have been able to fulfill the University’s language requirement using the American Sign Language (ASL) sequence. The sequence, which starts with ASL 101 and finishes with ASL 107, allows students to learn ASL while being exposed to Deaf culture and studies.
(02/24/23 4:27am)
Long-spreading rumors that the University may be planning to eliminate the computer science (COS) Bachelor of Science and Engineering (B.S.E.) major have apparently made their way into tours of the engineering school. Administrators are eager to clarify that the rumor has no basis in fact.
(02/03/23 6:10am)
“In our conversations around [Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion], the same topics, understandably, often bubble up to the top,” Laura Murray, assistant director for learning programs at the McGraw Center, said to a group of 20 undergraduates, graduate students, and staff. “But there are many other identities that we need to include in those conversations, one of which is neurodiversity.”
(01/19/23 4:26am)
When Edward Tian ’23 first heard about ChatGPT, a new chatbot software, he asked it to write raps. Then, during winter break, Tian, a computer science concentrator who is writing his thesis on artificial intelligence (AI) detection, spent a few days sitting in a local coffee shop in Toronto coding a software now named GPTZero that detects writing produced by AI.
(12/20/22 4:34pm)
At a campus event hosted by The Princeton Tory this month, panelist Mariam Memarsadeghi, an Iranian activist advocating for regime change in Iran, accused Chair and Professor of Near Eastern Studies Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi of being “very close to the Iranian regime” — accusations that Ghamari-Tabrizi rejected in an interview with The Daily Princetonian.
(12/12/22 4:10am)
On Thursday, Dec. 8, students received an email from their residential college dean which included an announcement of a new pilot policy that allows professors to give 24-hour extensions on Dean’s Date assignments.
(11/29/22 4:24am)
As registration for spring courses begins, the University plans to offer nearly 200 new undergraduate courses in the upcoming semester.
(11/04/22 3:09am)
On Oct. 31, the Supreme Court heard arguments in two cases that could determine the future of race-based affirmative action in college admissions across the country. After the proceedings, The New York Times reported that “the court’s conservative majority seems ready to throw out affirmative action programs.”
(10/14/22 2:38am)
On Sept. 30, Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened the possible use of nuclear weapons in the Russo-Ukrainian War, which enters its eighth month after Putin’s invasion on Feb. 24. The Daily Princetonian interviewed several Princeton University faculty members regarding their insights on Putin’s threat as well as the responsibilities of the University community amid the war.
(09/30/22 4:03am)
Princeton scientist Clifford P. Brangwynne, the June K. Wu ’92 Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, was awarded the 2023 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, one of the highest honors awarded to scientists conducting groundbreaking research in the biological sciences.
(09/16/22 3:00am)
Leah Platt Boustan ’00 is an economic historian and has been a professor of economics at Princeton University since 2017. Boustan’s most recent book, co-authored with Ran Abramitzky of Stanford University and published in May, is titled “Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success.” Her research addresses over a century of American immigration and attempts to answer questions on American upward economic mobility, assimilation of immigrants, and the effects of immigrants on the American economy.
(08/03/22 1:16am)
Professor of History Kevin M. Kruse was accused of several instances of plagiarism by conservative historian Phillip Magness in an article published in “Reason” in June.
(06/08/22 1:31am)
On Sept. 11, 2021, Alejandro Zaera-Polo uploaded the first installment of a seven-part video series, titled “A Gonzo Ethnography of Academic Authority.” Over the course of nearly five hours, Zaera-Polo speaks to the camera, navigating viewers through myriad documents, screenshots, and images, all sourced from a 856-page file he authored.
(05/23/22 10:30pm)
On Monday, May 23, the University Board of Trustees voted to dismiss classics professor Joshua Katz from his tenured faculty position at Princeton, effective immediately, according to a University statement to The Daily Princetonian.
(05/20/22 11:19am)
President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 has recommended that classics professor Joshua Katz be fired from his tenured professorship after an internal investigation found Katz in violation of University rules, according to reports in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.
(05/16/22 2:16am)
The University launched an internal investigation of Princeton Gerrymandering Project (PGP) Director and neuroscience professor Sam Wang for research misconduct and toxic workplace issues, the New Jersey Globe first reported on April 28.
(05/06/22 1:20am)
Princeton announced a new research initiative dedicated to promoting innovative collaboration between Princeton researchers and their peers at Historically Black Universities and Colleges (HBCUs) on Wednesday, May 4.
(05/02/22 1:19am)
The University announced the winners of the 2022 President’s Achievement Award (PAA), which honors staff members for their “commitment to excellence and exceptional performance.” The six University employee recipients, announced in early April, were Vincent Cuomo, Karla Ewalt, Julie Groeninger, Marty Krzywicki, Mary O’Connor, and Grace K. Penn ’99.
(04/27/22 2:29am)
Four University professors, two of which are Princeton University Press (PUP) authors, have been awarded the 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship for their scholarship in their respective fields of study. Six other PUP authors were also recipients. In total, 180 Fellows received the award for their past, present, and future work in the social sciences, humanities, creative arts, and natural sciences.
(04/11/22 3:21am)