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(04/19/17 2:03am)
On Tuesday, former U.S. Representative and Senator Rick Santorum discussed the degradation of “traditional American values." Santorum noted that one particular value – freedom – is equally important for both members of the Left and Right, especially among modern youth.
(04/13/17 1:16am)
Among the many events Princeton Advocates for Justice — and the Princeton Clay Project — host to bring awareness to activist and other progressive causes was the table in Frist Campus Center on Apr. 6 in an effort to harness student sentiment welcoming refugees.
(03/13/17 2:58am)
The University’s Office of Alumni Affairs has announced that candidates Aleksandra Czulak ’17, Andrew Sun ’17, and Achille Tenkiang ’17 have passed the primary round of the Young Alumni Trustee Election and will move on to the General Election, to be held from May 2 to May 24, according to a press release from Cathy Phillips. The election results were verified and confirmed by an election services company hired to run the election.
(02/24/17 4:26am)
At a lecture on Feb. 23, Kenneth Rogoff, professor of economics at Harvard University, discussed the idea of moving to a society with less cash, which forms the basis of his new book, “The Curse of Cash."
(02/22/17 6:11am)
The University’s Program in Law and Public Affairs hosted a public forum covering the interpretation and ramifications of executive orders enacted by President Donald Trump Feb. 21. Among the speakers present were LAPA Fellow and visiting scholar from UC Berkeley Professor Kathryn Abrams, Edward S. Sanford’s Professor Amaney Jamal, the Wilson School’s Professor Robert Keohane, and University Muslim Life Coordinator Sohaib Sultan. LAPA Fellow Professor of Politics Paul Frymer moderated the discussion.
(02/17/17 4:11am)
The University’s Dillon Gymnasium, constructed in 1947 and home to renowned athletes such as Bill Bradley ’65, gold-winning captain of the 1964 US Olympic basketball team and former U.S. senator, celebrates its seventieth anniversary this year.
(12/15/16 2:23am)
Two on-campus robberies were reported this past week, according to the Department of Public Safety.
(11/20/16 9:13pm)
A fire on Witherspoon Street extensively damaged the building complex comprising the More Café, Sakura Express, and the Village Silver this afternoon.
(11/07/16 7:50pm)
Andrew Appel, Eugene Higgins Professor of Computer Science, recently testified before Congress regarding security at the polls. In his testimony, Appel noted key areas of concern — voting machines and voting procedure, in particular — that could impact the validity of the election results.
(10/11/16 7:26pm)
Last week, Boston’s Local 26, a labor union, called for a strike by Harvard University Dining Services staff. The 600 or so protesters voiced their discontent with low wages and proposed changes to benefits offered to workers by Harvard.Negotiations between the protestors and Harvard administrators are ongoing, with many dining halls still closed on campus.In light of the events at Cambridge, several University staff members from across the dining halls on campus have offered their insights into the current working conditions and compensations.“While the pay could always be better, it’s livable,” one dining hall worker said.The individual continued by expressing great love for their work, and added that, taken together, the wages and the benefits at the position in the University were better than any job that they had previously had.Another dining hall employee noted that the University'schild care benefits, maternity leave, and disability benefits were unparalleled by any other employer.In a statement, University spokesperson John Cramer noted that “the University places great emphasis on providing competitive wages and benefits to all of its staff.”While all of the dining services staff interviewed expressed satisfaction with their jobs, some had critiques of the University’s competitive wage policy.The third employee explained that there is a general sentiment among their co-workers that dining services employees are not being properly compensated for outstanding work.They noted that, while the University offers annual raises of up to 50¢ per hour, it is quite often the case that one who is constantly diligent and tending to their work will only receive around 10¢ extra per hour as compensation.Cramer added that the Office of Human Resources utilizes market surveys to determine reasonable wages and benefits when engaging in collective bargaining with workers’ unions.“The University encourages dialogue with its staff members regarding working conditions on a continual basis,” he said.The Office of Human Resources, he notes, provides workers with a confidential means of communicating to the University their thoughts on working conditions.In a statement released to the ‘Prince’, Harvard’s Department of Public Affairs and Communications noted that “Harvard deeply values the contributions of its dining services employees.”“The fact that the average tenure of a Harvard dining hall worker is 12 years is a testament to the quality of work opportunities here,” the statement reads.However, there is no clear end in sight to the current protests. While it was the goal of Harvard administrators to settle negotiations with Local 26 this past weekend, no resolution was found and the strikes have rolled over into this week.In the statement, Harvard further regarded Local 26 as having instigated the protests and accused them of failing to bring anything of value to the negotiations. Additionally, Harvard bemoaned the failure to reach a compromise with HUDS staff, citing lack of commitment by Local 26.“Harvard’s negotiation team offered to stay until 11:59 p.m. to continue to work on a deal, but Local 26 representatives left at 5:30 p.m,” the statement reads.A representative of Local 26 could not be reached for comment.
(10/05/16 3:25pm)
Subhash Khot GS ’03, an alumnus of the University’s graduate computer science program, has received the MacArthur Fellowship for his pioneering work in computational complexity.
(09/27/16 3:06pm)
Alison Gray, a postdoctoral fellow at the program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, presented her work on the ongoing Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observations and Modeling program in a lecture Monday afternoon.SOCCOM seeks to fill in the gaps left by prior in situ studies of the Southern Ocean, which have had limited available windows for sampling, especially in the winter, due to the harsh conditions of the Antarctic.Gray noted that current estimates allot to the Southern Ocean approximately 50 percent of the total global ocean uptake of anthropogenic CO2, despite only accounting for 30 percent of the total global ocean surface area. Thus, climatologists are particularly interested in better understanding this system's forcings.This comes as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recently reported the hottest August on record. Global climate change is attributed to rising levels of greenhouse gasses including carbon dioxide. Average global temperatures for the past 16 months have set records, according to NOAA.Gray said more than 50 biogeochemical profiling floats have been deployed into the Southern Ocean across four different regions. The floats store the collected data and later transmit the information to satellites upon resurfacing. Gray said that the floats’ primary strength is their autonomy.“They don’t mind being out in the Southern Ocean when it’s windy, […] cold,” Gray said in the lecture.The floats can also collect data when the surface has iced over, giving them another advantage over the existing method of collecting data from cruises.Of the nearly 50 floats deployed thus far, 13 have collected more than a year’s worth of data, which comprises the team’s initial analyses. Gray added that, while her team's calculations were dependent upon alkalinity levels in the water near the floats, the floats have not been designed to measure this property. However, using existing, shipboard measurements made in the region, she and her team were able to approximate this value. She justified this approach by noting that her team’s calculations were not particularly sensitive to alkalinity, meaning, a reasonable approximation for this value suffices. She stated that current estimates place the approximate uncertainty associated with the pCO2 in their calculations at two percent.With this information, Gray and the team were able to determine the annual air-sea CO2 flux in the region. The results already distinguish themselves from those of prior studies, with significantly higher measurements for these fluxes than have been provided by estimates based on existing datasets. The implications, however, suggest that researchers must review the current understanding of forcings at the level of the sea-atmosphere interface.Gray chalked the stark difference present in the graphs she provided to three potential causes.The first is that one cannot discount the possibility of a sampling bias in the study.“It’s pretty concerning that we’re extrapolating from a relatively little number of data points," she said.Her team further investigated this lead in their analyses, studying the locations where the operational floats had been placed, and comparing their measurements to those of existing climatologies in those regions. Although sampling bias obviously factored into their calculations, it alone was not enough to account for the significantly higher levels of outgassing that their study indicated.Gray said that if a sampling bias could not wholly account for this deviation, then perhaps the conditions of the time period during which these floats were operating was just particularly exceptional. She noted that, since 2014, wind speed and sea-surface temperature have been particularly anomalous, possibly affecting the fluxes the team found. Once again, however, their analyses showed that even this possibility insufficiently accounts for the deviation.Gray then rested her case on a third option – that existing climatologies are severely underestimating the flux during wintertime. This proposal does not come as a surprise, given the scarcity of data collected in the winter.Of course, there is still more work to be done to lend more credibility to this idea, she said. 16 floats will have collected a year’s worth of data by the end of this year, at which time their data will be incorporated into the aforementioned study. Furthermore , over 100 additional floats will be deployed over the span of three years.The lecture, titled “A Southern Ocean source of carbon dioxide detected with autonomous biogeochemical floats," took place at Guyot Hall Lecture Hall 10 at 12:30 p.m., and was sponsored by the Department of Geosciences.