After stepping down as University president at the end of June, Shirley Tilghman won’t have to wait long before stepping into another presidential role, this time as president-elect of the American Society for Cell Biology. 

Assistant Vice President for Safety and Administrative Planning Treby Williams ’84 has been appointed acting executive vice president, the University announced Friday morning. She will begin work in her new role on June 8.

The yield for admitted students of the University’s Class of 2017 rose 2 percent from 66.7 to 68.7 percent in the second year since the University reinstated its early admission program, Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye said Thursday. 

The University student who contracted meningitis this Monday is listed as in stable condition and is recovering, a representative of the New Jersey Department of Health said. The student remained hospitalized as of Thursday afternoon.

Dr. Andrew Zwicker of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory presented a TEDx talk on the subject of “Future Utopias” this past March in which he envisioned a future powered by green energy. After he finished speaking, he was approached and admonished by a curious young student.

Michael Froman ’85 will be nominated as the next U.S. Trade Representative, President Obama announced in a press conference on Thursday.

Froman’s selection, along with the nomination of Commerce-secretary-to-be Penny Prtizker, will complete Obama’s second-term cabinet, according to CNN.

Relay for Life at Princeton — a cancer awareness group typically sponsored by the American Cancer Society — chose not to officially partner with the ACS for this year’s walkathon in April. The decision to restructure the Relay for Life event, shortening it from 12 hours to five hours, reflected an effort to reduce the costs of the fundraiser and to increase the underdeveloped student interest in the event at the University.


The USG Academics Committee’s proposal to create a policy allowing students to rescind a pass/D/fail election after viewing a final letter grade was unanimously voted down by the Faculty Committee on Examinations and Standing earlier this month.

The computer science department will implement a no-pass/D/fail policy for COS 126, 217 and 226 beginning in fall 2013. This policy change follows a dramatic increase in the number of computer science concentrators and rising enrollment in introductory courses.

On a Saturday night in October 2011, Michael Stockwell, a self-proclaimed open-air preacher and the cofounder of Cross Country Evangelism, stationed himself on a sidewalk on Prospect Avenue. Mounted on an amplifier in between Ivy and Cottage Clubs and surrounded by a dozen of his fellow evangelical ministers, Stockwell preached and handed out Gospel tracts for the span of one hour as students wandered past.

Just after his appointment as the 20th president of the University, Christopher Eisgruber ’83 will lead the search for another key administrator, Executive Vice President Mark Burstein’s successor. 

Burstein announced in December that he would leave Princeton to become the president at Lawrence University, a liberal arts college located in Appleton, Wis. 

A campus-wide test of the University's emergency notification system originally scheduled for Friday, April 19 has been postponed in light of recent tragic events in Boston, Environmental Health and Safety Director Robin Izzo explained in an email sent to the University community this morning.

As the administration of University Provost Christopher Eisgruber ’83 begins to work with the local town government, an item high on its agenda will be renegotiating the University’s monetary contribution to the town.

Following the announcement of the appointment of Christopher Eisgruber ’83 as the next University president, The Daily Princetonian sat down with Katie Hall ’80, the chair of the search committee and the University Board of Trustees, to discuss the details behind the election. Hall explained that she consulted with at least two former search committee members who were part of the selection process for current President Shirley Tilghman and that Eisgruber was offered the job last week.

The consolidation of the former Princeton Borough and Township has resulted in net savings of $750,000 from the consolidated municipality’s 2013 preliminary budget, according to a presentation of the budget on Tuesday evening. This figure, which is the first to take into account the transition costs of the merger, is significantly lower than the $3 million reported by several local news organizations.

Yale University’s medical center will now offer students health insurance coverage for gender-reassignment surgery, the Yale Daily News reported. The news was announced in an email sent by Yale Health, the nonprofit health plan that operates the center, to the student body on Thursday that contained a host of new coverage changes.

Eight members of the University faculty were among the 198 named as fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, according to a University press release. The Academy recognizes fellows for their contributions to scholarship, science, the arts and public affairs.

From the depths of the Amazon jungle comes an Amazon.com “Hot New Release” by Haley White ’12, titled “Receive tens-of-thousands of dollars to travel, volunteer, or go to grad school.” White, who is currently working as an English teaching assistant at the Universidade Federal do Oeste do Para in the Brazilian Amazon as part of a one-year Fulbright Scholarship, recently published an e-book geared toward students applying for postgraduate scholarships and fellowships.

Last week, the University concluded an aerial photography program to take pictures and videos of the campus for admissions purposes, University spokesperson Martin Mbugua said. The images, captured by a drone, will be used for various University publications, including the Viewbook and admissions brochures.

Two months ago, the University offered seven houses that it owns on Alexander Street free of charge to any buyer willing to incur the cost of transporting them to an alternate location by April 30. Since no one has yet taken them, the houses will be slated for demolition to make room for the construction of the new Arts and Transit Neighborhood. 

Terrace Club has begun planning for renovations to its clubhouse through the Terrace Future Campaign, which seeks to raise $3.5 million from about half of the 4,000 living alumni of the eating club.

University President Shirley Tilghman and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos ’86 were named two of the five hundred most powerful people on the planet by Foreign Policy magazine this month. 

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender alumni attendants at the recent Every Voice conference had the opportunity to record their personal narratives as part of an audio and visual oral history project organized by the Alumni Association of Princeton University and funded by the institutional equity and diversity efforts of the Office of the Provost. 

The American Whig-Cliosophic Society will announce on Monday the recipients of the society’s Summer Fellowship in Public Service, a grant of $3,500 given to three students to subsidize the cost of an unpaid internship this summer.

Assistant Vice President for Safety and Administrative Planning Treby Williams ’84 has been appointed acting executive vice president, the University announced Friday morning. She will begin work in her new role on June 8.

At least 15 graduating seniors — Sarah Chen, Courtney Crumpler, Chloe Ferguson, Charlie Brower, Grace Kim, Audrey Hall, Claudia Park, Molly Brean, Eric Silberman, Rebecca Khalandovsky, Clayton Greenberg, Monica Greco, Carolina Nunez, Lily Akerman and Sarah Furgatch — had been awarded Fulbright scholarships as of Monday afternoon. 

A member of the Harvard University community has tested positive for tuberculosis and some students and faculty members have also been asked to be tested, The Harvard Crimson reported.

In its final meeting of the semester, the USG Senate discussed the continuation of the Summer Storage Initiative, the addition of activities to Intersession and the large jump in freshman voting during the last USG Spring 2013 elections.

Three male juveniles were arrested, processed and issued a 90-day persona non grata last Friday evening after allegedly breaking into 20 Washington Road through an open window. Once inside, they allegedly discharged two dry chemical fire extinguishers prompting the fire alarm to go off, according to University Spokesperson Martin Mbugua. 

Outgoing University President Shirley Tilghman spoke to the senior class as part of the “Last Lecture” series on May 13 in McCosh 50. Her lecture was titled “Lessons Learned from Nassau Hall.” Below is a full transcript of the lecture in which she discussed a wide range of topics relating to her presidency.

President Shirley Tilghman gave a lecture this Monday sharing valuable lessons from her time as president. She touched on all topics, from the eating clubs to hiring staff and administrators to the realities of Career Services. Here are some of the highlights. 

University Provost and President-elect Christopher Eisgruber ’83 discussed American citizens' response to the polarization of elected officials and the possibility of a liberal arts education as an antidote in a lecture on Thursday night.

Electrical engineering professor Claire Gmachl will succeed chemical and biological engineering professor Pablo Debenedetti as vice dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, the University announced Wednesday. She will assume the position on July 1, when Debenedetti succeeds A.J. Stewart Smith as the dean for research.

Susan Patton ’77 spoke to the Women’s Network of the Princeton Club of Philadelphia Wednesday evening to discuss her letter published in The Daily Princetonian on March 29. The letter, which received national attention, encouraged female students to find a husband before they graduate from the University.

The University’s Department of Public Safety and the Princeton Police Department have reached a formal agreement on their operating procedures, which includes increased communication between the two departments, coordinated training efforts and clarified jurisdictions for each department.

“I joke in that Princeton talks a lot about coming back, but I’ve never come back because I haven’t left,” said Ramirez. At the end of the semester, Ramirez will leave the University to attend graduate school at the University of California, Los Angeles after spending almost a decade at the University, where he has been a student, an admission officer, a capital-giving officer in the Office of Development and the current program coordinator at the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students.

The University’s employee health plan will now include coverage for gender reassignment surgery, effective July 1, University Spokesperson Martin Mbugua said. Discussions about a similar change to the student health plan are still ongoing.

At least 15 graduating seniors — Sarah Chen, Courtney Crumpler, Chloe Ferguson, Charlie Brower, Grace Kim, Audrey Hall, Claudia Park, Molly Brean, Eric Silberman, Rebecca Khalandovsky, Clayton Greenberg, Monica Greco, Carolina Nunez, Lily Akerman and Sarah Furgatch — had been awarded Fulbright scholarships as of Monday afternoon. 

A member of the Harvard University community has tested positive for tuberculosis and some students and faculty members have also been asked to be tested, The Harvard Crimson reported.

While President-elect Christopher Eisgruber ’83 has been preparing for his presidency by organizing a listening tour around campus for the past few weeks, President Shirley Tilghman has been wrapping up her presidency by thanking those who were important during her years was president. 

The University is in the process of establishing an interuniversity center in Beijing to coordinate collaboration between the University and peer institutions in China, Jeremy Adelman, a history professor and director of the Council for International Teaching and Research, explained. The center, which is expected to open this fall, will continue the University’s efforts to promote international teaching and research initiatives.

Xinyi Chen '15 has won one of the 2013 “20 Under 20” Thiel Fellowships, the Thiel Foundation announced this morning.

The Thiel Fellowships provide 20 young entrepreneurs under 20 years of age with $100,000 each to start a company. The winners are required to cease active enrollment in school during their two years as Thiel Fellows.

Four University undergraduates have created Friendsy, a website that allows students to indicate their interest in becoming friends with, hooking up with or dating other students. Launched on May 1, the site had attracted more than 600 users and 2,500 mutual connections as of Tuesday.

Thirty students traveled to Capitol Hill on May 7 to speak with Congressional representatives and lobby for comprehensive immigration reform, in a trip organized by the DREAM Team.

A “food truck" operated by Dining Services will make its first appearance on campus in late August, and is intended for use mainly at athletic events.

According to Director of Dining Services Stu Orefice, the food truck will primarily be used at lacrosse games and may also be used for additional athletic functions. The items that the truck will offer will “vary upon the event,” Orefice said.

Kathryn Davis, philanthropist and longtime donor to the University together with her late husband Shelby Cullom Davis ’30, died at her home in Hobe Sound, Fla. last Tuesday, April 23. She was 106.  Davis was an active philanthropist dedicated to the cause of international peace.

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender alumni attendants at the recent Every Voice conference had the opportunity to record their personal narratives as part of an audio and visual oral history project organized by the Alumni Association of Princeton University and funded by the institutional equity and diversity efforts of the Office of the Provost. 

The American Whig-Cliosophic Society will announce on Monday the recipients of the society’s Summer Fellowship in Public Service, a grant of $3,500 given to three students to subsidize the cost of an unpaid internship this summer.

Senator Ted Cruz ’92 (R-TX) is reportedly considering a campaign for the presidency in 2016, according to reports from friends and sources close to him.

Wilson School professor and former dean Anne-Marie Slaughter ’80 has received numerous inquiries from search firms acting on behalf of other universities asking if she were interested in leading these institutions, Slaughter said Thursday. 

University students have recently formed a grassroots campaign called Ban the Box NJ in hopes of mobilizing political support for the NJ Opportunity to Compete Act, according to the campaign’s website.

Cannon Dial Elm Club, which planned to host a blood drive earlier this semester, has rescheduled the drive for Friday, April 26. The drive will take place at the club from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

As the president-elect of the University, Christopher Eisgruber ’83’s list of tasks includes selecting a new provost. Though Eisgruber said he has not yet begun the selection process, he hopes that the news provost will be in place by the time he leaves the position to become president on July 1.

Former CIA Director David Petraeus GS ’87 will begin teaching at the City University of New York as a visiting professor of public policy on Aug. 1, the Los Angeles Times reported. The announcement comes only five months after Petraeus resigned from his position at the head of the agency after evidence of an affair with his biographer became public.  

Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories, Inc., an Indian pharmaceutical corporation with 15,000 employees worldwide, will move its North American headquarters to a 75,500-square-foot facility in the Princeton Forrestal Center in Plainsboro, the company has announced. The company is planning to bring 335 employees, who will move in following the completion of renovations in August.