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(04/08/21 12:20am)
Two University graduate alumni and longtime collaborators, Alfred Aho GS ’67 and Jeffrey Ullman GS ’66, received the 2020 ACM A. M. Turing Award, widely considered to be the highest technical distinction in the field of computer science.
(04/02/21 12:22am)
Rory Truex ’07 is an assistant professor of politics and public affairs at the University. His research specializes in Chinese politics and theories of authoritarian rule. In light of the charges that the Department of Justice (DOJ) recently made against MIT faculty member Gang Chen, Truex wrote in The Atlantic about the dangers of harming America’s open environment of scientific research in a crackdown on possible Chinese espionage.
(03/22/21 3:18am)
Mathematician and theoretical computer scientist Avi Wigderson GS ’83 was awarded the 2021 Abel Prize, a prestigious honor awarded by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters that is widely considered to be the equivalent of a Nobel Prize in the field of mathematics.
(02/16/21 4:11am)
Elder statesman George P. Shultz ’42, who served as U.S. Secretary of State under President Ronald Reagan and helped bring an end to the Cold War, died at his home in Stanford, Calif. on Saturday, Feb. 6. He was 100 years old.
(01/29/21 3:27am)
Dean of the Faculty Sanjeev Kulkarni will step down from his position at the conclusion of the 2021 spring semester, having served since July 2017.
(01/13/21 3:59pm)
Princeton alumna and Microsoft software engineer Zoya Shoaib ’20, a “kind, loving soul” and vibrant member of campus life, died on Saturday, Dec. 26 after a battle with neuroendocrine cancer. She was 22.
(12/14/20 7:17pm)
Cassidy Yang, a graduate student studying within the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, died in a car crash in Ohio on Dec. 5. She was 26.
(12/04/20 4:15am)
William Rice Elfers ’71, The Daily Princetonian’s undergraduate business manager in 1970 and a longtime alumni trustee, died on Saturday at the age of 71.
(11/30/20 6:03am)
The following content is purely satirical and entirely fictional. This article is part of The Daily Princetonian’s annual joke issue, which you can find in full here. Don’t believe everything you read on the Internet!
(11/02/20 1:30am)
A second-generation Princetonian and the son of former Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights John Doar ’44, Robert Doar leads the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), one of the nation’s most influential conservative think tanks. This year, AEI scholars have broken publicly with President Donald Trump.
(11/02/20 1:22am)
A veteran reporter with over three decades of experience, Engelberg oversees a team of over 100 journalists as Editor-in-Chief of ProPublica, a nonprofit organization that exposes abuses of power. Since 2010, ProPublica has won five Pulitzer Prizes.
(11/02/20 2:56am)
The first woman to serve as Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Gopinath holds one of the most prestigious posts available to academic economists. At the IMF, she provides independent advice on a wide range of international economic policy issues.
(11/02/20 1:24am)
As the president and chief executive officer of one of the 12 reserve banks of the Federal Reserve System as well as a voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee, Mester is one of the most influential decision-makers in U.S. monetary policy.
(11/02/20 2:59am)
As 10th Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), Swagel oversees an independent and non-partisan agency that provides economic and budgetary analyses to assist both chambers of Congress in forming Congressional budgets.
(11/02/20 2:56am)
As Chief Technology Officer of the United States, Michael Kratsios has encouraged U.S. competition in emerging technologies. He also spearheaded U.S. entry into the G7 Global Partnership on A.I., a coalition that counters China’s influence over new artificial intelligence technology.
(11/02/20 12:07am)
As Chair of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell supervises the United States’ central banking system. Described by former Federal Reserve Chair and University professor Ben Bernanke as “a consensus builder,” Powell has provoked sharp criticism from President Donald Trump, who nominated him. In particular, Trump has denounced Powell’s decisions to gradually raise interest rates and reduce the purchasing of financial assets through quantitative easing.
(07/20/20 11:30pm)
Students who elect to take a leave of absence will be informed by mid-August whether a one-year leave is possible, according to an email sent this morning from Dean of the College Jill Dolan.
(05/08/20 4:00am)
Last week, 16 University faculty members were elected to two of the nation’s historic learned societies: 12 were among the newest class of members elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS), and four were elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).
(04/15/20 12:37am)
In a presentation live-streamed on Tuesday, April 14, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Chief Economist Gita Gopinath GS ’01 predicted that 2020 will see the most significant reduction in global economic output since the Great Depression, as the world battles the COVID-19 pandemic.
(04/13/20 12:45am)
The prominent American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate Phillip W. Anderson, who helped name and shape the field of condensed matter physics, has died at the age of 96.