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In the wake of a significant funding increase, Princeton’s Undergraduate Student Government (USG) discussed an expansion of the scope of the USG Projects Board in a meeting on Sunday, Oct. 8. The expansion was approved unanimously by the group, though it received questions from the sisters Isabella Shutt ’24 and Genevieve Shutt ’26 for not going far enough.
Content Warning: The following article contains discussion of death and suicide.
Princeton’s Operations Research and Financial Engineering (ORFE) department has described itself as a one-of-a-kind program that combines data-driven science with principles that can be applied to a wide range of fields, including finance, communications, and transportation. It is a department that prides itself on the study of “optimal decision-making under uncertainty.” Yet a failure in a different optimization problem — the optimal number of students to accept in 2020 — created a series of bottlenecks in the department.
In 2021, Atlantic reporter Emma Green pressed President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 on whether Princeton should exist, noting that compared to The City University of New York, for example, Princeton spends an extraordinary amount of money on its relatively few students. Eisgruber noted that Princeton’s purpose was to educate future leaders, but in recent years, Princeton has also focused on creating programs that serve more than the campus community, specifically aimed at helping students achieve social mobility. In 2022, Princeton formed a research partnership with five historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) to facilitate inclusion in a variety of academic disciplines. Princeton has also recently started a program to help local community college students transition to four-year colleges, which Eisgruber recently touted while at the White House.
There are no fewer than 11 construction projects currently underway on Princeton University campus. All are expected to be completed between the fall of 2023 and spring of 2027 according to the University's construction timeline.
One of Princeton’s most accomplished molecular biologists has been honored with a major award by a foundation connected to the Spanish aristocracy for her work studying quorum sensing, which could potentially provide an alternative to traditional antibiotics which have seen increased resistance in recent years.
More gender-neutral bathrooms would make Princeton more inclusive
School of Public and International Affairs professor Noreen Goldman and her colleagues recently published “The impact of COVID-19 on life expectancy among four Asian American subgroups,” deconstructing aggregate data about Asian American life expectancies after the pandemic. Published in the Social Science & Medicine - Population Health journal, the study found that Asian Americans as a whole faced greater losses in life expectancy between 2019 and 2020 than the white population, losing 1.1 to 3.9 years, with the largest drops occurring among Chinese women and Filipino men.
Update on Elizabeth Tsurkov GS's Kidnapping
A new statement released by the University states, for the first time, that the kidnapping of doctoral candidate Elizabeth Tsurkov GS in Iraq last March occurred during travel related to research for her politics dissertation. The University originally confirmed that Tsurkov was missing in July and has since maintained that University-related travel to Iraq would not be approved for students.
When safety precautions for COVID-19 forced students off of campus for over a year, many students disengaged with their clubs. When students finally returned to campus, the character and composition of many clubs had changed, often including a loss of membership and engagement.
The sky in Princeton shone brightly on the night of Friday, Sept. 29, with a noticeable purple hue around campus.
Princeton to offer free Lyft rides to off-campus medical appointments
Who Runs Princeton?
From late August through September, the University processes roughly 20 percent of the packages they receive annually. The high demand challenges Campus Mail Services and causes delays in normal package processing times. This year, the demand coincided with system changes implemented over the summer intended to improve efficiency and ease of use.
At an event hosted by The Effron Center for the Study of America on Sept. 19, Grammy Award-winning artist Solána Imani Rowe, better known as SZA, who gave the keynote address at the event, promised Princeton students free tickets to a concert in her then-upcoming tour.
Meet the Class of 2027
The University will soon launch a Lyft voucher program to transport students to and from off-campus medical appointments. Run through the Office of Campus Life, it will serve both undergraduate and graduate students.
It has been an eventful few years for Dr. Katalin Karikó. After pioneering the mRNA technology behind the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine with immunologist Dr. Drew Weissman in 2005 — over a decade before the COVID-19 pandemic — Karikó received an honorary degree from Princeton in May 2023 at Commencement.