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(02/18/14 3:52pm)
Palestinians should continue to pursue self-empowerment, legal justice and peaceful resistance in their ongoing territorial conflict with Israel, international law professor emeritus Richard Falk said during the 11thannual Edward W. Said ’57 Memorial Lecture.
(02/18/14 3:47pm)
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and University trustee A. Scott Berg ’71 gave a lecture on Tuesday on the life of Woodrow Wilson, Class of 1879, depicting Wilson as a president deeply influenced by his regional and religious background and reluctant to take a stand against racism and women’s suffrage.
(02/10/14 9:42am)
Author and creative writing professor Jeffrey Eugenides participated in an informal discussion Monday on the inspiration behind his stories, his ever-changing writing style and how his works reflect his inner nature as an author. The discussion was moderated by Professor of English and Comparative Literature Michael Wood.
(02/09/14 9:45am)
Former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Paul Volcker ’49 criticized the current state of democracy in America in a Wilson School lecture on Friday.
(02/06/14 12:59pm)
Imagine a middle school student uses the word “terrorism” in an essay, and thisessay’s transcript is stored indefinitely via a third-party vendor. Data mining flags the essay, and this resultsin an investigation of the student and the student's family.
(02/06/14 12:58pm)
Film director Ethan Coen ’79 discussed various elements of his latest film as well as his experience in making movies in a dialogue with poet and creative writing professor Paul Muldoon on Thursday, following a screening of the Coen brothers’ film “Inside Llewyn Davis."
(02/05/14 5:28pm)
Most students look forward to applying what they’ve learned at Princeton to their developing careers post-graduation, but by the time Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri ’01 graduated from the University, she was already in what she called "the full-fledged middle of [her] career.” She was a fashion model and photographer.
(02/04/14 1:19pm)
Jared Cohen, director of Google Ideas, spoke Tuesday afternoon about the new and complex challenges facing technology users and developers in the near future. Cohen began by exploring how technology shapes individual lives today and then delved into how new geopolitical issues will soon arise when an even larger portion of the world’s population attains greater access to the Internet.
(02/04/14 1:49am)
Of the 39 active members of the University’s Board of Trustees, the only contributor to either of Gov. Chris Christie’s gubernatorial campaigns has been Chris Christie himself, according to a search of public records through the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission website. Christie donated a total of $14,400 to his campaigns spread over four separate occasions.
(01/12/14 9:30pm)
Established by the Wilson School in 2006, the Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative has sent students across the globe for public policy fellowships in a variety of locales, from the Tanzanian Ministry of Health to the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. Its alumni network stretches from Washington, D.C., to Doctors Without Borders to Twitter. With its 10th cohort selected this year, SINSI has established a reputation as a prestigious opportunity for undergraduates who want to work in the federal government.
(01/12/14 9:20pm)
William H. Scheide ’36 turned 100 on Jan. 6, 2014. In the century since his birth, Scheide has established himself as an international leader in the music community and has spread his passion for music, particularly that of Johann Sebastian Bach, philanthropy and scholarship all over the world.
(01/12/14 8:33pm)
“Wilson,” a recent biography of former University president Woodrow Wilson, Class of 1879, has drawn attention from Hollywood for its characterization of the late president as a passionate lover. The film rights to the book have been optioned by Appian Way, the production company owned by Leonardo DiCaprio.
(01/09/14 11:01am)
A series of controversialtext messages and emailsbetween top staff members of Gov. Chris Christie’s office discussing the closing of two lanes on the George Washington Bridge, a major artery for commuters in Fort Lee, N.J., surfaced last week, providing support for the accusation that Christie's office caused the four-day gridlock as retribution against the town’s mayor.
(01/07/14 2:51pm)
When Ben Klaber ’06 first asked professor Alain Kornhauser GS ’71 to help him sponsor University participation in an autonomous car race in 2004, the popular operations research and financial engineering professor answered with a characteristically humorous reply.
(01/05/14 4:16pm)
The value of the digital currency Bitcoin has soared in recent months, but can the technology also help make predictions? A research team led by Princeton faculty is designing a prediction market — in which parties predict the likelihood of future events — underpinned by Bitcoin transactions.
(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.
(01/03/14 9:07pm)
The first winter storm of 2014, dubbed “Hercules” by national media, caused the University to close campus to non-essential employees on Friday morning and afternoon. A 5:50 a.m. update on the University website announced the closure.
(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.
(12/22/13 11:57pm)
Bryan Bunch’09 was found dead Dec. 18 in Cobb County, Ga., in an apparent murder-suicide,The Marietta Daily Journalreported. Bunch allegedly used a handgun to shoot Sherrie Newton, 43, multiple times before committing suicide.
(12/12/13 10:08pm)
“There is a bumper sticker that goes around Princeton that says ‘My Congressman is a rocket scientist’. I’ve always felt kind of proud to be able to say that we have someone representing us in Congress with Rush Holt’s intelligence and his scientific background,” former University President Shirley Tilghman said in a November interview, reflecting on Holt’s popularity among Princeton constituents.