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(04/17/14 11:22am)
Former University President Shirley Tilghman, University trustee Charlie Gibson ’65 and current Purdue University President Mitch Daniels ’71 were recently elected directors to the Commission on Presidential Debates.
(04/13/14 7:18pm)
Admiral and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Michael G. Mullen will be returning as a guest professor to Princeton this coming fall. He will be teaching the seminar WWS 318: U.S. Military and National and International Diplomacy, which he first taught in the fall of 2012.
(04/08/14 7:26pm)
Harvard sophomore Andrew Sun died Sunday of an apparent suicide after he fell from a downtown Boston Building, The Harvard Crimson reported.
(04/01/14 3:31pm)
The Constitution should represent democratically endorsed political ideas and beliefs, and if we enforce inherited rules on which the polity no longer agrees, the Constitution can become a cage that binds citizens, politics professor Keith Whittington argued in a lecture on Tuesday.
(03/31/14 7:36pm)
The field of Democratic candidates for New Jersey's 12th District Congressional seat has recently expanded to include Dr. Andrew Zwicker, aphysicist and head of the Science Education Program at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.
(03/24/14 8:32pm)
Former Yale President Richard C. Levin was appointed CEO of Coursera, the New York Times reported Monday.Coursera is an educational company that offers online academic courses with more than 100 partner universities worldwide, including the University.Levin has formerly promoted open online educational courses similar to Coursera’s offerings. In 2007 he started Open Yale Courses which offered dozens of Yale classes for free online. He has been an advisor to Coursera since January.His goals as the new CEO include expanding the number of online courses offered by partner universities, the New York Times reported. Levin stated that he hopes to do so by stressing the potential widespread educational benefits of open online education.According to the New York Times, some professors have voiced their concern over the potential of expanding open online courses to diminish the value of professors at second-tier schools.Coursera’s competitor, edX, jointly founded by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, also announced that Wendy Cebula, the former executive of Vistaprint, will serve as the new president and chief operating officer.
(03/24/14 12:38pm)
The leader of the Venezuelan opposition movement, Leopoldo López, has roots in Princeton, having graduated from Princeton’s Hun School in 1989. The Hun School is an independent college preparatory school located in Princeton.
(03/04/14 4:01pm)
Since Rush Holt announced his retirement on Feb. 19, three candidates have announced their intention to run for New Jersey’s 12thdistrict seat in the House of Representatives. The candidates are State Rep. Linda Greenstein (D-Middlesex), Assemblywoman Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-Mercer) and Assemblyman Upendra Chivukula (D-Somerset).
(02/22/14 3:23pm)
Hunter R. Rawlings III GS ’70 commented on the challenges that universities face in providing undergraduate education in the “data age” in an Alumni Day speech. The speech was an acceptance speech for the James Madison Medal awarded him by the Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni in 2013 for his distinguished career in public service.
(02/12/14 3:22pm)
Dov Grohsgal GS ’13 is running for a position as state representative in the 194th district of the state of Pennsylvania. He is alecturer in the Princeton Writing Program and history department, as well as an academic adviser to the men’s basketball team,
(02/10/14 9:42am)
Author and creative writing professor Jeffrey Eugenides participated in an informal discussion Monday on the inspiration behind his stories, his ever-changing writing style and how his works reflect his inner nature as an author. The discussion was moderated by Professor of English and Comparative Literature Michael Wood.
(02/06/14 12:59pm)
Imagine a middle school student uses the word “terrorism” in an essay, and thisessay’s transcript is stored indefinitely via a third-party vendor. Data mining flags the essay, and this resultsin an investigation of the student and the student's family.
(12/09/13 10:15pm)
1,959 students were vaccinated against meningococcal-B on the first day of the vaccination campaign, according to University Spokesperson Martin Mbugua. As of 4:30 p.m., the number was 1,261. There was a small number of students who experienced adverse effects, although these effects were within expected ranges.
(12/08/13 11:14am)
In the wake of former South African President and anti-apartheid revolutionary Nelson Mandela’s death on Dec. 5, members of the University community reflected on his positive legacy and planned a series of commemorative events.
(12/05/13 3:43pm)
Though McGraw Study Hall remains a popular academic-help resource, with 5,800 student visits recorded by the McGraw Center in the last academic year, its popularity has also been a source of dissatisfaction for some students because of the overcrowding and shortage of student tutors.
(11/20/13 3:25pm)
In response to student concerns regarding the burning of a human figure, fuel for Sunday’s bonfire will not include an effigy of John Harvard and likely will not include a Yale bulldog. The bonfire celebrating the University football team’s victories over both Harvard and Yale will take place Sunday evening at 7 p.m. on Cannon Green.
(11/17/13 7:30pm)
Colleges and universities nationwide have “betrayed” victims of rape and sexual assault by failing to punish perpetrators of rape, forensic scientist David Lisak said in a lecture at the University on Friday. He advocated a greater emphasis on bystander intervention than is seen in most college sexual assault prevention programs.
(11/17/13 2:58pm)
University of Massachusetts professor David Lisak is a clinical psychologist who studies interpersonal violence.Prior to the first session of Lisak's three-part lecture on sexual assault at Princeton, The Daily Princetonian spoke with him on Princeton’s sexual assault statistics in relation to nationwide statistics.
(11/14/13 9:18pm)
Donald DeZarn, the senior operations manager for Butler/Wilson Dining Services,lost his bid for a seat in the New Jersey State Senate on Nov. 5, bringing his eight-month campaign on a Libertarian platform to a close. Instead, Democratic incumbent Linda Greenstein will continue to represent the state’s 14th district.
(10/16/13 8:08pm)
Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng called for the worldwide recognition of universal human rights and proposed measures to end to the Chinese government’s repression of its people in a lecture delivered at the University Wednesday night.