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(05/01/16 1:53pm)
David Calone ’96 decided to launch his bid for the House of Representatives this year after realizing that the current Representative for his district, Lee Zeldin, did not have a strong environmental or job creation record.
(04/20/16 12:08pm)
Raised in segregated North Carolina, Glenn Ivey ’83 is currently running as a Democrat to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives for Maryland's 4th District.
(04/10/16 7:44pm)
If elected to Congress this fall, William Yandik '00 may be one of the only farmers to serve in the House of Representatives.
(03/21/16 12:41pm)
When August Wolf ’83 decided to make a run for public office, his first task was deciding whether to run for the U.S. Senate or the House of Representatives. He started by looking at his potential general election opponents, and ultimately decided to run for the Senate because of his opponents’ myriad weaknesses.
(03/20/16 3:12pm)
Raja Krishnamoorthi ’95, who won the Democratic Party primary on Mar. 15, believeshe has a very good chance to serve in the the U.S. House of Representatives in Illinois’ 8thCongressional District.
(03/03/16 10:12pm)
Kimberley Strassel ’94 became a household name on Feb. 13, 2016, when she appeared with CBS anchors John Dickerson and Major Garrett to host the CBS Republican Debate in Greenville, S.C.Strassel explained that when the camera turned to her so she could ask the first question, she realized the gravity of what she was doing.
(02/17/16 4:53pm)
The University will not cancel or postpone any international travel programs due to the Zika virus epidemic, according to University Media Relations Specialist Min Pullan.
(02/08/16 8:25pm)
Researchers from the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory won a grant to use 80 million processor hours on the nation’s fastest supercomputer to conduct simulations of various phenomena.
(02/03/16 9:56pm)
Campus Wellness Dietitian Melissa Mirota seeks to help the University community make healthy diet choices as a food consultant across dining halls.
(02/01/16 5:28pm)
Four students at the University of California, Berkeley, filed complaints against Google Inc. for privacy violations relating to Google’s Apps for Education program,which provides Gmail and other Google products to educational institutions, on Jan. 27 to the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
(01/05/16 10:53am)
Eric Lander ’78, valedictorian of his class and one of the leading contributors to the Human Genome and Innocence Projects, is the founding director of the Broad Institute, a genomics research institution of MIT and Harvard.
(12/14/15 4:19pm)
The University Board of Trustees has commissioned a special committee to study the legacy of former University President Woodrow Wilson, Class of 1879, and determine whether or not the Wilson School and Wilson College should be renamed, in light of demonstrations by the Black Justice League, University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 said.
(11/30/15 6:40pm)
Former Dean of the Wilson School Anne-Marie Slaughter ’80 discussed the focus of the second half of the women’s revolution in a lecture Tuesday, saying that American society should place a higher value on caregiving.“We focus more on ourselves and are missing the value of investing in others,” she said. “Families need to have parents, and as a society, we need to value care for those we love.”Slaughter is the President and CEO of New America, a think tank focused on public policy issues based in Washington, D.C. She was the Dean of the Wilson School from 2002 to 2009 and is currently a professor emerita of politics and international affairs.Her 2012 article in The Atlantic, “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All,” became one of the most widely read pieces published by the magazine.Citing her new book, “Unfinished Business: Women, Men, Work, Family,” which was published in September, Slaughter explained that investing in the next generation is essential to Americans’ survival as a race and a nation. Unfortunately, she added, as a nation we don’t value caregiving.“We expect women to work, but we don’t have paid leave,” she said.Additionally, Slaughter said that the issue of caregiving is as much an issue to women as it is to men. She noted that many men wrote to her saying that they would like to spend time with their children, but cannot do so because they are expected to be the breadwinners.“We are not giving men the same range of choices as women,” she said. “We need to let men speak for what they want.”She highlighted her own career and family situation, focusing on her ability to balance work and family life. However, she said she realized that what she had been telling women was not accurate, and that her situation had only worked because she had money, a supportive husband and a flexible career.In her book, she said, she modified her stance, saying that in order to achieve full gender equality, we need to focus on changes in the workplace. Men have to be valued for taking paternity leave, and women who work in traditional roles such as teachers and nurses also have to be valued.“This kind of work is as hard and valuable as traditionally powerful jobs,” Slaughter said. “We need to liberate men and women from traditional gender roles.”Slaughter also noted that she thinks her outlook on society stems from her time at the University, saying that she realized in hindsight that society at the time was very encouraging to feminists. She noted that she had the great fortune to be born when opportunities historically open to men became open to women, and that for women to excel it would be a question of wanting one’s career enough.Slaughter said she is optimistic about attaining full gender equality, and added that during her lifetime, she experienced many unprecedented events. She noted that back in the 1970s, it was the norm for students to smoke, and a decade prior, it was illegal for a white person to marry an African-American person.“We are witnessing the next wave of the civil rights movement,” she said. “By helping women advance, liberating men and caring for others, we can support a full range of human endeavor.”Slaughter graduated from the University in 1980 with a bachelor’s degree from the Wilson School and a certificate in European studies. She obtained her master’s degree in international affairs from Oxford University in 1982, her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1985 and her doctorate in international relations from Oxford in 1992.The talk was sponsored by the Wilson School and was held at 4:30 p.m. in Dodds Auditorium in Robertson Hall.
(11/30/15 4:15pm)
On top of advising governments on public policy issues around the world and writing numerous opinion pieces for The Huffington Post, Business Insider and Salon, visiting professor Steven Strauss played a key role in the growth of New York City's technology and entrepreneurship scene.
(11/19/15 8:35pm)
Photos of black tenured professors at Harvard Law School were covered with black tape on Thursday morning, according to the Harvard Crimson.
(11/11/15 4:59pm)
Seyed Hossein Mousavian, a research scholar in the Program on Science and Global Security at the Wilson School, originally studied engineering, but he is probably most known for playing an important role in the 2003 and 2015 negotiations around Iran’s nuclear program.
(11/10/15 4:28pm)
Associate physics professor Bogdan Andrei Bernevig and former University professor Arthur McDonald were recognized for their work in physics on Sunday – Bernevig was awarded the 2016 New Horizons in Physics Prize, and McDonald was awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.
(10/22/15 1:59pm)
Visiting professor of distinguished teaching in the math department Keith Devlin said that, during his childhood, he did not intend to go into mathematics as a career.
(10/14/15 9:19pm)
American Enterprise Institute resident fellow J. Matthew McInnis spoke on current affairs in Iran at a Wednesday lecture. After the event, McInnis sat down with The Daily Princetonian to discuss the Iranian nuclear deal and Iran’s relationships with other world powers.
(10/14/15 8:43pm)
Iran’s foreign policy actions come from its insecurity and desire to uphold its unique ideology, American Enterprise Institute’s resident fellow J. Matthew McInnis said at a lecture on Wednesday.