22 items found for your search. If no results were found please broaden your search.
(12/04/17 1:56am)
The University’s futurist club, Envision, hosted the annual Envision Conference from Dec. 1 to 3. The conference centered around the development of future technologies, such as artificial intelligence and synthetic biology, and the implications of such endeavors.
(10/04/17 4:00am)
Terrell McSweeny is an attorney and a commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission. McSweeny is visiting the Wilson School for two days as part of the Leadership Through Mentorship Program. The 'Prince' sat down with her for an interview about her work and the issues she tackles as an FTC Commissioner.
(09/18/17 6:41pm)
Contrary Capital, a university-focused venture capital fund founded by entrepreneur Eric Tarczynski, launched today at noon. The fund provides financial backing to startups founded by students, faculty, and graduates of top universities, including the University.
(07/11/17 2:31am)
Ryan Reich ’04, accused of manipulating the LIBOR rate for profit between 2005 and 2007, was acquitted in April. Reich, an ex-Barclays interest rate swaps trader, was among the eight individuals acquitted of LIBOR rigging over the past two years.
(04/28/17 2:18am)
University College World Politics Fellow Antoinette Handley GS ’03 discussed the dichotomous responses of businesses to societal crises in Africa in a seminar on Wednesday afternoon.
(04/03/17 3:11am)
Since the beginning of his presidential campaign, President Donald Trump made his strong anti-regulatory stance known. In his first months in office, Trump has scaled back rules in all industries, from financial to energy to firearms. Yet, the economic hypothesis of Michael Porter ’69 is challenging Trump’s actions, especially those related to environmental regulations.
(03/27/17 1:26am)
For the past three years, Professor David Miller has concurrently worked as an on-call ethicist for Citigroup while also serving as a University professor and lecturer in the Department of Religion. He works with senior management at the multinational investment bank, advising them on the intersections of banking, the pursuit of profit, and moral and ethical boundaries.
(03/07/17 4:16am)
Ex-Barclays swaps trader Ryan Reich ’04 is currently being prosecuted by the United Kingdom’s Serious Fraud Office for manipulating the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) for personal profit between June 2005 and September 2007, according to a trial update by BloombergQuint.
(02/24/17 4:08am)
The Daily Princetonian sat down with the former Director of the Division of Investment Management of the Securities and Exchange Commission Norm Champ ’85 to discuss his role in the regulation of the finance industry after the Great Recession. Champ’s recent book, “Going Public: My Adventures Inside the SEC and How to Prevent the Next Devastating Crisis,” details the process of financial reform both by and within the SEC after the crisis, and is set to be published in March. Champ is currently a lecturer at Harvard Law School and a partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP Investment Funds Group.
(02/14/17 5:04am)
Technology will play an increasingly important role in the essential public policy areas of defense, transportation, and the economy, noted former Deputy United States Chief Technology Officer and University Computer Science Professor Ed Felten in a talk on Feb. 13.
(01/16/17 3:50am)
The Daily Princetonian sat down with University mathematics professor Charles Fefferman GS ’69 to discuss his work and career. Fefferman was recently jointly awarded the 2017 Wolf Prize in Mathematics with Stanford mathematics professor Richard Schoen for his work in numerous fields such as complex variables, partial differential equations, and subelliptic problems, as well as his contributions to the Navier Stokes equation and Euler Equation, according to the Wolf Foundation’s press release. Fefferman was also awarded the Fields Medal in 1978 for his work on convergence and divergence.
(12/14/16 1:06am)
Established airlines will be increasingly jeopardized by newer, low-cost carriers in 2017 and as time goes on, according to Air France Joint Venture Performance Director Omar Jeroudi in a lecture on the afternoon of Dec. 13.
(12/02/16 2:23am)
In a lecture, Wilson School professor Aaron Friedberg and Brookings Institution senior fellow Michael O’Hanlon GS '91 each presented several possibilities for action that the Chinese government may take under President-elect Trump in the future, all of which suggested a Chinese desire to scale back American influence in East Asia so that China can become the preeminent power in the region.
(11/18/16 2:49am)
Yale Law School Lecturer Linda Greenhouse discussed the cyclical nature of the judicial-legislative relationship and the transition into a more scrutinous Supreme Court in a lecture on Thursday evening.
(11/09/16 10:24pm)
Isometric Studio partners Andy Chen ’09 and Waqas Jawaid ’10 discussed their recent graphic design projects in conjunction with the University and their effects toward inclusion and belonging in a lecture on Nov. 9.
(11/14/16 7:19pm)
University psychology professor Susan Fiske, Harvard European studies and sociology professor Michèle Lamont, and Cornell economics professor Ravi Kanbur met in a panel discussion on the afternoon of Nov. 14 to discuss inequality in the world and the impact of inequality on the recent presidential election.
(10/11/16 2:41pm)
The multi-year renovations project on Dillon Gymnasium’s locker rooms, support spaces, and pool is nearing a close in the fall of 2016, according to Renovation Program Manager Dave Howell and Project Manager Jarett Messina. The renovations are estimated to reach completion Dec. 8th, 2016.The renovations are currently nearing the end of Phase 2, much of which focuses on improving circulation of foot traffic throughout the building.This project includes extensive maintenance work on Dillon Gym’s locker rooms, as well as its support spaces, corridors, and pool.“The goal of the project was to redo the A-level, which is where the locker rooms are,” Howell said, “And improve circulation, enhance the user experience, and provide gender inclusiveness through various types of locker room offerings or locker room designs.”Howell and Messina explained that the expansion of gender inclusivity in the locker rooms entailed the construction of six gender-inclusive toilets and shower rooms separate from the main locker rooms. The gender-inclusive rooms are equipped with private showers and toilet facilities, as well as individual lockers.“Anyone can go in there, use those private gender-inclusive rooms, and just put your stuff in a day locker outside that room,” Howell added. “Or, you could choose to go in the main locker room — when they’re open, they’re not open yet, but when they open up — you could choose to go in there like it was before.”Student reactions to the construction of these gender-inclusive spaces have generally been positive."I think that's being more inclusive of people who don't identify as a specific gender," Andy Zheng ’20 said. "Which would be a good thing because you're increasing the embodiment of diversity, not just racially.""I feel like that's a really great idea," Jeffrey Weiner ’20 said. "It's important to have a space where all people feel comfortable and welcome, especially at Dillon Gym, because fitness is such an important part of balancing work with a healthy lifestyle."According to Howell, Dillon’s main locker rooms had been in need of renovations for a considerable period of time.“There was quite a bit of deferred maintenance in that building,” Howell noted. “The locker room areas at the A-level have not changed since 1946, and they were in dire need of renovations and deferred maintenance.”Improvements on the locker rooms are the most visible portion of the renovations project, according to Messina. Renovations in those areas have included team rooms for the volleyball teams, a new training room, and a multipurpose room. Less-visible renovations include a complete fire-alarm replacement and improvements to the building to meet fire code regulations.Dillon Pool, which reopened this past July after being closed since April, also underwent some renovations over the spring and summer. Work on Dillon Pool included fire alarm and sprinkler maintenance, as well as the minor addition of railings to the bleachers."For the most part it was just putting in sprinklers and fire alarms," Messina added. "We improved it together with yearly maintenance that Campus Rec. had to do on the pool anyways. So they usually have to drain the pool every year, so we just coordinated their maintenance with our renovations work."Recent renovations include the addition of a new corridor on the A-level to improve foot traffic.“One of the important features of this design is a new corridor on the west side of the A-level that allows circulation across the building that never existed before,” Howell said, “which is a nice feature, providing natural light, it’s a nice open corridor, makes it much more efficient to traverse across the A-level.”The renovations are being conducted by Atkin Olshin Schade Architects, with Irwin & Leighton, Inc. serving as the construction manager. Neither Atkin Olshin Schade Architects nor Irwin & Leighton Inc. responded to requests for comment. Planning for the project began in August 2014, with Phase 1 of construction commencing during the summer of 2015.
(10/10/16 6:00pm)
Oliver Hart GS ’74 has been awarded the 2016 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for his contributions to contract theory, according to a press release by the Nobel Foundation.
(10/10/16 4:51pm)
New York University professor of economics William Easterly discussed foreign aid and development programs and their effects on immigration and xenophobia in the developed world in a lecture delivered on Oct. 10. The talk referenced his book The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor.Easterly’s talk emphasized the tendency of the world’s wealthy nations to use large foreign aid programs as a substitute for opening its doors to migrants from poorer nations. He proceeded to show how the increased advocacy for aid programs instead of immigration contributes to xenophobia through exaggeratedly negative stereotypes of ethnic groups.“Aid was a nice political out for the humanitarian lobby in the rich countries and the US,” Easterly said. “It did convince the humanitarian lobby in the US to assuage its conscience about the evils of racist immigration restrictions.”Using both historic and recent events as examples, Easterly demonstrated the shift from opening borders to migrants to donating foreign aid, such as Chinese migrants in the early 20th century and Norway’s generous foreign aid policy today.The talk illuminated the problem of foreign aid programs indirectly supporting human rights violations of aid recipients by allocating the majority of funds to oppressive regimes in poorer nations.“It just seems that there’s this serial indifference to human rights in the aid world,” Easterly said. “And one thing that has happened with the War on Terror is that there’s actually been an increase in aid going to the most oppressive and violent regimes in the world.”Easterly also spent time explaining how advocacy for foreign aid to poorer nations directly contributes to racist sentiments at home through the overuse of stereotypically negative images of needy ethnic groups to elicit compassion in wealthy nations.“Development has been guilty of itself creating some of these xenophobic stereotypes," Easterly explained. "It tends to fuel negative images of poor people, and that has been done for very good-hearted reasons."Dubbed “disaster pornography,” images of starving children or child soldiers in Africa are often cherry-picked or even staged by the media for broadcast in developed countries, where they appeal to voters’ compassion and empathy, according to Easterly. Easterly drew on several variants of cover art depicting images of malnourished African children for the popular Bono song “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” as a prime example of this phenomenon.“It breaks my heart that there really still are emaciated children, but also that all of Africa is portrayed as typified by an emaciated child,” he added.In concluding his talk, Easterly re-emphasized the fact that foreign aid advocacy is performed with good intentions, but has unintended consequences that harm the very populations it aims to assist.“I want to try to, again, keep recognizing that this has been done for very good humanitarian reasons, but there are other ways to achieve the same humanitarian goals without engaging in negative, xenophobic stereotypes.”In addition to teaching at NYU, Easterly also serves as the Co-Director of NYU’s Development Research Institute. He has written two other books: The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists’ Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics and The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Harm and So Little Good.The book talk, entitled “Development Theories and the Immigration Crisis in the US and the EU,” was held at 4:30 p.m. on Oct. 10 in Robertson Hall Bowl 016. It was sponsored by the Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
(10/10/16 5:19am)
Oliver Hart GS '74 has been awarded the 2016 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for his contributions to contract theory, according to a press release by The Nobel Foundation.Hart was jointly awarded the prize with Bengt Holmstrom, economics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Hart and Holmstrom will equally share the prize.“Hart made fundamental contributions to a new branch of contract theory that deals with the important case of incomplete contracts,” The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said in its press release announcing the award. “Hart’s findings on incomplete contracts have shed new light on the ownership and control of businesses and have had a vast impact on several fields of economics, as well as political science and law.”Hart earned his Ph.D. in economics from the University in 1974, and follows in the footsteps of numerous other Princeton alumni and professors in earning the Nobel prize in economics, such as John Nash, Daniel Kahneman GS '78, and Angus Deaton, who received the same award just last year. This marks the second year in a row the prize has been awarded to a University affiliate.Currently the inaugural Andrew E. Purer Professor of Economics at Harvard University, Hart earned his B.A. in mathematics from Cambridge in 1969 and M.A. in economics from University of Warwick in 1972, along with several other honorary degrees. Hart has also taught at the London School of Economics and MIT. Among other honors, Hart is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the British Academy, and president of the American Law and Economics Association.More to come...