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(04/29/22 5:35am)
A dormitory in New College East will be named Mannion Hall following a “major gift” from Martin Mannion ’81 and his wife, Tristin Mannion, per a University announcement. The dorm will open in the fall of 2022, along with the rest of the new residential college.
(04/27/22 4:29am)
According to an email to Visual Arts students at 7:23 a.m. on Tuesday, April 26, there was a fire at 185 Nassau Street, which houses the Visual Arts (VIS) Program. Jeff Whetstone, the Director of the VIS Program, said in the email that no one was hurt and the “events scheduled in the building today should be able to proceed.”
(04/27/22 3:32pm)
A proposal submitted by the Faculty Committee on the Course of Study to allow for academic minors was approved by faculty on April 25, according to a University statement.
(04/27/22 3:34am)
Natalia Orlovsky ’22 was named as the valedictorian for the Class of 2022, and Frances Mangina ’22 was named the salutatorian, the University announced on Monday, April 25.
(04/25/22 3:14am)
Princeton University will not pursue any actions in response to Referendum No. 3, which calls for a boycott of Caterpillar Inc. due to alleged Palestinian human rights violations, according to an email from President Christopher L. Eisgruber ’83 to Undergraduate Student Government (USG) President Mayu Takeuchi ’23 and USG Secretary Charlotte Selover ’25 in the morning of Friday, April 22.
(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.
(04/20/22 3:25am)
Princeton’s Board of Trustees voted to extend the tenure of President Christopher L. Eisgruber ’83 for “at least five [more] years” on April 9. Eisgruber has served as President of the University since July 2013.
(04/20/22 1:10am)
For months, student organizers with the Princeton Pride Alliance said they’ve struggled to navigate the process for helping fellow queer students obtain gender-inclusive housing accommodations on campus.
(04/18/22 4:21am)
From April 14 to 15, Israel War Room (IWR), an organization with no affiliation to Princeton, spent $800-899 on a sponsored Facebook post declaring that the Undergraduate Student Government (USG) referendum to halt the use of Caterpillar machinery had been defeated. In fact, preliminary results showed that the referendum had passed, and results have yet to be certified by USG as of April 17.
(04/18/22 3:28am)
Following the publication of her recent memoir, “Lessons From the Edge,” former ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch ’80 spoke to the University community about her experience as a U.S. diplomat in Ukraine and the Eastern Bloc in a talk moderated by Professor of Sociology and International Affairs Kim Lane Scheppele.
(04/15/22 4:24am)
Following the public release of preliminary results from the Spring 2022 Undergraduate Student Government (USG) election on Wednesday, specifics of the USG Constitution’s language and election bylaws have sparked confusion over whether Referendum No. 3 has passed.
(04/14/22 6:45pm)
On Thursday afternoon, the University announced that it will be increasing its annual operating budget for the fiscal year 2022–2023, including a 6.6 percent increase in the total undergraduate financial aid budget, along with increases in support for graduate students. The total support for students will increase by more than $500 million.
(04/12/22 4:18am)
In the Undergraduate Student Government (USG) meeting on Sunday, April 10, the Senate heard updates from Associate Dean of the College Rebekah Peeples and Academics Chair Austin Davis ’23 on the subject of academic minors, as well as from Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion Tennille Haynes on the Black & LGBTQIA Student Experience Implementation Committee.
(04/13/22 1:35am)
Students, faculty, and community members gathered for an event on Thursday, April 7 titled “The Case Against BDS,” where panelists advocated against the Caterpillar referendum that appears on the Undergraduate Student Government (USG) referendum ballot.
(04/12/22 12:09pm)
On Friday, Member of Canadian Parliament Taleeb Noormohamed ’98 spoke at Princeton Canadians Club event, “Democracy in 2022: A Princeton education in the service of humanity”. The talk was moderated by visiting journalism lecturer Razia Iqbal, and touched on various topics of international affairs, such as Canada’s position in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and the Middle East.
(04/11/22 2:18am)
Following the Feb. 1 update to University COVID-19 policies, which saw a loosening of the restrictions on indoor event capacities and an expansion of the categories of approved visitors, eating clubs have adjusted their policies to allow students to bring guests for meals and club events.
(04/07/22 3:18am)
The Classes of 2020 and 2021 will be returning to campus for the first in-person Reunions since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and their respective graduations. As of an announcement on Wednesday, April 6, the University will be covering their cost of attendance.
(04/07/22 2:18am)
As Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine moves into its sixth week, a growing number of American colleges and universities have made moves to divest endowments from Russian holdings. The vast majority of Ivy League universities, including Princeton, have not announced similar plans.
(04/04/22 3:00am)
With the Senate Judiciary Committee set to vote on her confirmation on Monday, April 4, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court nomination process is nearing its completion. If endorsed by the Judiciary Committee, the full Senate will vote before its April 8 recess. If confirmed, Jackson would be the first African-American woman on the Court.
(04/01/22 4:00am)
A segment on classics professor Joshua Katz’s controversial statement calling a former Black student activist group a “terrorist organization” will remain on the University’s To Be Known and Heard website, President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 said in a statement on Thursday, responding to the Academic Freedom Alliance’s (AFA) request to “refrain from using its administrative resources to target” Katz.