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(09/24/18 2:37am)
In 1959, renowned novelist and physical chemist C.P. Snow delivered a lecture titled “The Two Cultures,” in which he highlights the widening rift between the sciences and the humanities (including art). Though often interpreted as a purely ad hominem attack on humanists and British elites, I believe Snow is arguing that balancing and blending knowledge of these two seemingly disparate realms is critical to understanding and improving the world.
(09/29/17 4:07am)
Recent natural disasters in Texas, Mexico, and Puerto Rico have inspired a tremendous wave of campus activism. Various initiatives led either fully or in part by Princeton students have already raised hundreds of thousands of dollars in the wake of several earthquakes and hurricanes that have torn a path of destruction through the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico.
(09/14/17 2:18am)
Bill Bradley ’65 is a former University basketball star, Olympic gold medalist, Rhodes Scholar, U.S. Senator for New Jersey, and Democratic presidential candidate. The ‘Prince’ sat down to interview Bradley while he was on campus for an event to celebrate a second large donation of Bradley's own documents to the University.
(05/10/17 2:57am)
Established in 2000 by a gift from University Charter Trustee Lloyd Costen ’50, the Princeton Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts supports a class of several scholars for a period of three years, providing them with financial and intellectual support. The Society, which has been directed for the last eight years by English professor Susan Stewart, will continue next year under the directorship of history professor Michael Gordin, according to a University press release.
(05/08/17 2:10am)
One of the greatest remaining mysteries of the universe is the nature of so-called “dark matter.” First proposed by Lord Kelvin and Henri Poincaré in the early 20th century, dark matter, which is thought to account for nearly 85 percent of matter in the universe, has defied understanding ever since.
(05/01/17 4:07am)
This week’s meeting of the Undergraduate Student Government
featured debate on a wide range of amendments, as USG worked to wrap up new
business for the spring.
(04/27/17 1:11am)
After anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant, and racist flyers were found posted around campus last week, Princeton Advocates for Justice and a coalition of graduate students held a Rally for a Hate-Free Princeton today in protest.
(04/05/17 3:44am)
“There is a doctor who argues that women’s ovaries, and their teeth and skin, will dry out if their ovaries are not regularly bathed in male semen,” Rebecca Traister said in the face of nervous chuckles from the audience. She let slip that this was only a joke, and the crowd howled with laughter.
(03/02/17 4:57am)
“There is, in short, a shared longing for belonging… a shared longing, in other words, for justice,” according to Canadian Supreme Court Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella.
(02/14/17 5:05am)
The evaluation of factual information is not only a qualitative exercise, but it is also a crucially qualitative judgement of both the information and its source, according to New Yorker staff writer Nicholas Schmidle.
(01/16/17 4:28am)
Though we may never see fusion in a device small enough to power a car, we are closer than ever to sustainable fusion power due to innovative design.
(12/12/16 8:46pm)
The Institute for Advanced Study and the Civil War Trust have reached an agreement to expand the Princeton Battlefield State Park, according to a press release jointly issued by the Institute and the Trust at 3 p.m. on Dec. 12.
(12/06/16 5:29am)
Most partygoers wouldn’t think to call Department of Public Safety and file a noise complaint for the party they are currently attending. For a group of University students at the 2 Dickinson St. Co-op, however, that was exactly the right idea.
(11/29/16 5:09am)
In an email sent to the undergraduate student body on Monday
afternoon, University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 said that though the
University is committed to protecting undocumented students, the concept of a
Sanctuary Campus is legally unfounded.
(10/27/16 5:57pm)
World-renowned theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson shared a lifetime’s worth of wisdom about the future while dining with 30 members of Princeton Envision.
(10/20/16 9:02pm)
On Oct. 20, Green Princeton hosted a Do-It-Yourself costume-making event at 99 Alexander Street. From 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., students were invited to bring clothes and other supplies to trade and fabricate into costumes for Princetoween. The event was advertised as an “upcycle” event, where students could turn old clothes into new and creative costumes.
(10/19/16 9:54pm)
The third presidential debate of the 2016 election season took place on Oct. 19 at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Moderated by Chris Wallace of Fox News, this debate returned to the format of the first general election debate of the season, with a 90-minute program divided into sections that represented a wide spread of political issues.
(10/03/16 6:50pm)
Astrophysics professor Stewart Prager stepped down as director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory on Sept. 26th, just before news broke of a malfunction at the National Spherical Torus Experiment Upgrade fusion experimental facility.
(07/31/16 7:31pm)
PHILADELPHIA- Speaking on behalf of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who had just become the Democratic Party's presidential nominee, her husband and former President Bill Clinton called on the Democratic Party to unite and made a unique appeal for their nominee last Tuesday at the 2016 Democratic National Convention.
(07/31/16 7:27pm)
Introduced by her daughter Chelsea, Clinton took to the stage with applause and cheering from the audience. After waiting for the crowd to quiet down, Clinton proceeded to thank many of those who had spoken before her, including her daughter Chelsea Clinton, husband and former President Bill Clinton, President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama '85, Vice President Joe Biden and Democratic Nominee for Vice President Tim Kaine.
