The University’s e-reader pilot program, which experimented with the use of the Kindle DX in three courses last semester, reduced the amount of paper students printed for their respective classes by nearly 50 percent, the University plans to announce today.

But in spite of the cost savings, some students and professors said they found the technology limiting.

The University awarded Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowships to graduate students Vaneet Aggarwal, Melinda Baldwin, Charles Conroy and Joseph Moshenska on Saturday.

Google announced last Tuesday that it will award five Princeton professors combined grants of $500,000 for their promising research on Internet energy efficiency and privacy.

While many students scrounge and scramble for summer internships and jobs, this year’s eight Adel Mahmoud Global Health Scholars already have research grants lined up.

Mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Michael McAlpine and his team developed a new type of energy-generating device that can be powered by the human body. Their rubber films, made of silicone and a ceramic material known as lead zirconate titanate (PZT), capture mechanical energy from body movements and convert it to an electric current.

Over a four-day period last May, Carlos Roque ’10 trekked across campus from “Scully, to Bloomberg, then all the way to Holder,” collecting more than $15,000 worth of textbooks. Roque wasn’t hoping to start a library, but rather to make some cash.

Roque, a buyer for third-party vendor Belltower Books, made $1,000 last spring by purchasing students’ used textbooks with money provided by Belltower and then shipping them to the distributor.

It is common knowledge that most Internet file sharing is illegal, but Sauhard Sahi ’10 has proof. Analyzing a random sample of 1,021 files available on a variant of the file-sharing application BitTorrent, Sahi found that 85 to 99 percent of files were shared in violation of copyright law.

Princeton students fall victim to the “stereotype threat,” according to a study led by Adam Alter GS ’09. The “stereotype threat” is the phenomenon in which reminding people of negative stereotypes associated with their group identity can encourage the fulfillment of those stereotypes.

Unlike other universities’, Princeton’s architecture school is unaccredited. While many architecture programs concentrate on building regulations and construction, Princeton takes the unconventional approach of focusing on both liberal arts and architectural curricula.

For students locked out of popular courses, their enrollment prospects are determined at the discretion of individual professors — one of the few areas of academic life not regulated by official University policy.

 University students can take courses at Westminster Choir College (WCC) and at Princeton Theological Seminary (PTS), a Presbyterian institution unaffiliated with Princeton University, to supplement their regular University courses. But while both schools are open to Princeton students, the logistical hurdles and accreditation policies involved vastly differ.