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(04/22/15 2:12pm)
The Spanish and Portuguese department experienced a significant increase with 16 new concentrators this year compared to three sign-ins last year, according to Spanish and Portuguese department representative Germán Labrador Méndez said.
(11/30/14 6:19pm)
The Princeton Neuroscience Institute has drafted a proposal outlining a program of study for a new neuroscience concentration, according to a document obtained by The Daily Princetonian and dated June 24.
(10/07/14 6:36pm)
The University will begin attaching a letter detailing the policy of grade deflation and the fact that it was repealed at the beginning of this academic year to the transcripts of sophomores, juniors and seniors, University spokesperson Martin Mbugua said Tuesday.
(09/29/14 9:01pm)
Qatar is a nation committed to facilitating international peace and self-determination for all peoples in our uncertain world, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the State of Qatar His Excellency Dr. Khalid Bin Mohammed AlAttiyah argued in a lecture Monday.
(08/08/14 9:18pm)
Recommendations from the grading policy report released on Tuesday could go into place as early as the upcoming fall term, said University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83, who is supportive of bringing end to grade deflation.
(08/07/14 8:36am)
Following decades of rampant grade inflation, the average GPA and fraction of A-grades given dropped dramatically from 2003-05 — the years right before the current grading policy was implemented — according to a report released by the University on Tuesday morning.
(05/11/14 1:55pm)
While B.S.E. departments did not have significant changes in the numbers of freshmen who declared this year, computer science and Operations Research and Financial Engineering were the two most popular major choices for Class of 2017 B.S.E. students.
(05/01/14 3:17pm)
While bachelor's degree concentration declarations for the Class of 2016 were predominantly male in the science, technology, engineering and math fields, the gender distribution was roughly even in the social sciences and the humanities.
(04/30/14 3:12pm)
Assistant psychology professor Alin I. Coman has published a one-year studyinPsychological Science,a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, assessing the effects of wartime atrocities on people of different social groups. The study indicates that their association with a certain social group may influence the ways in which they recall actions committed by that group.
(04/29/14 6:42pm)
Although economics professor Paul Krugman announced his decision to join the City University of New York faculty on Feb. 28, email exchanges and documents indicate that private negotiations about his new position had been ongoing for over a year.
(04/29/14 1:47pm)
Evan Thomas, former editor-at-large at Newsweek who has taught journalism at the University for seven consecutive years, will be leaving Princeton at the end of the academic year. As a professor, he lived at the top of Blair Tower, and students and faculty alike say that he observed the Princeton student culture more closely than most. After Princeton, he will continue his writing career; he is currently working on a biography of President Richard Nixon. Before a farewell reception on Tuesday, Thomas spoke with The Daily Princetonian about his time here, student life at the University and the culture of busyness that, he says, dominates the student body.
(04/28/14 3:53pm)
Beth Lew-Williams, who will join the University next year, will become the first professor in Asian-American history. She will teach a course called “Asian-American History” in the spring of 2015.
(04/28/14 3:10pm)
With 155 new members in the Class of 2016, the Wilson School has seen an increase of 76 percent in its student body in two years. Overall enrollment, including both juniors and seniors, will now total 317, up from 180.
(04/24/14 3:55pm)
Two hundred sixty-nine members of the Class of 2016 declared concentrations in the humanities by the end of the sophomore major declaration period on Tuesday.The same number of students declared a humanities concentration in the Class of 2015, whereas 286 did in the Class of 2016.The humanities majors with the largest number of concentrators remain history, with 90, and English, with 48. History is also the humanities major with the largest increase from last year, as 78 members of the Class of 2015 declared a history concentration.History department representative Jack Tannous said that this year’s increase in history majors was unexpected, adding that the number of students who sign in every year is hard to predict. Tannous noted that many of the new concentrators he spoke to said they decided to concentrate in history because history courses had been those that they had liked best. He also attributed the increase in student enrollment to the department’s flexibility.“You can work in government; you can go to a professional school; you can go work in finance if you want to,” he said. “You can do a huge number of things. I think people recognized the huge amount of flexibility that a history major offers them.”Humanities majors with the lowest enrollments are the language departments, including Spanish and Portuguese, French and Italian, Slavic languages and literatures andGerman.While each of these departments had six concentrators last year, Slavic languages and literatures received one sign-in from the Class of 2016, Spanish and Portuguese received two, French and Italian received four and German received five. The German and Slavic department numbers are unofficial numbers from College Facebook.Spanish and Portuguese department representative Germán Labrador Méndez and French and Italian department representative André Benhaim also said that the change in number of concentrators in their departments was unexpected, noting that there are frequent fluctuations. Benhaim noted that Spanish concentrators can vary from two to eight with a mean of four, while French and Italian concentrators have varied from four to 15.Mendez explained that language enrollment numbers can be misleading because students frequently choose to take language classes or pursue the certificate instead of declaring a major. He noted that the number of students graduating with a Spanish certificate each year varies between 20 and 30.Benhaim said thathe could not be sure why enrollments in his department fell, but added that a possible reason could be that freshmen and sophomores believe that concentrators study only language and literature, while many in fact pursue interdisciplinary tracks.“I would really like for students to make their concentrations knowing all the facts,” Benhaim said. “A lot of the students don’t know how flexible and rich the opportunities are in the Department of French and Italian.”There are numerous benefits to concentrating in a small department, Benheim noted, explaining that faculty memberswill get to know their students better and are in an easier position to write letters of recommendation.Dinara Gabdrakhmanova ’16, one of the two sophomores to declare a concentration in Spanish and Portuguese, explained that majoring in Spanish and Portuguese will allow her to study abroad, which is normally difficult to do as a premed student. She said that, sinceshe will be pursuing medicine later on, now is the time to study something else and expand her horizons.“Being culturally aware will help me become a better doctor, help me relate to patients who may only speak Spanish,” Gabdrakhmanova said.Overall, many humanities departments showed slight decreases in enrollment from last year.Classics had 11 Class of 2016 concentrators, compared with 16 last year, and comparative literature had 16 majors, compared with 22 last year and 25 the year before. Religion also showed a decrease from 15 to 11 concentrators. Near Eastern studies had 10 sign-ins compared to 12 last year, and East Asian studies dropped by one from 12 concentrators last year to 11 this year.Unofficial numbers from College Facebook show that art and archaeology had 13 sophomores declare this year and 14 last year. The music department had eight sophomores this year compared to 10 last year. However, philosophy concentrators increased by five, from 22 to 27 sophomore sign-ins.Tannous pointed to a trend of decreasing humanities concentrators across the country, citing the recession as a possible cause. He noted that the history department had over 100 concentrators per year before the recession and dropped to 90 in 2007-2008, reaching a low of 64 in 2012-2013.Benhaim explained that many students think a concentration in the humanities is too specific and will not lend itself to a variety of jobs, but added that this is not the case and that very few of the concentrators in his department continue on to graduate school.“I really hope the humanities this year go up,” Tannous said, “because I love the humanities. What I’m concerned about are humanities numbers in general.”
(04/23/14 9:15pm)
While new financial regulation has focused on bank oversight and risk management, economics and Wilson School professor Atif Mian and professor of finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of BusinessAmir Sufi argue in an upcoming book that not enough attention has been paid to the role of high levels of private, household debt in the Great Recession.
(04/20/14 10:09pm)
New research produced by politics professor Martin Gilens andpolitical science professor at Northwestern University Benjamin Page shows that average citizens have little to no influence on the outcome of government policy.
(04/20/14 2:28pm)
Gene Katsevich ’14 is one of 15 students nationwide to be awarded a Hertz Fellowship this year. Katsevich, a math concentrator, will use the fellowship to pursue a Ph.D. in statistics at Stanford University.
(04/14/14 3:01pm)
Only 171 students, approximately 26 percent of the students sampled, responded to the USG Academics Committee’s Midterm Evaluation Pilot program survey.The survey was available from April 3 to April 6 and allowed students to submit anonymous feedback about their classes.
(04/14/14 12:12pm)
Wilson School diplomat-in-residence and Directorof the Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative program Barbara Bodine intends to step down at the end of the academic year.
(03/27/14 9:36am)
History professor Julian Zelizer went with 48 students to Broadway on Wednesday to see "All the Way," a play about former President Lyndon B. Johnson's presidency starring "Breaking Bad" star Bryan Cranston as Johnson. The group had a chance afterward to discuss the play with several of the actors, including Cranston.