HackPrinceton attracts over 600 participants
The winners of this weekend's HackPrinceton were Derrick Dominic '15 in the software category and Chen Ye, a student at Brown University, in the hardware category.
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The winners of this weekend's HackPrinceton were Derrick Dominic '15 in the software category and Chen Ye, a student at Brown University, in the hardware category.
The Crooked Root Café, launched byClaire Stanton ’15 and Pamela Soffer ’15,is nearing its one-year anniversary next month.Because Soffer and Stanton studied abroad in London and Barcelona respectively in the fall of 2013, the café only recently reopened in 2014.
Three Princeton graduates launched a nonprofit organization in Sept. 2013 that collects stool samples and provides hospitals withscreened, filtered and frozen material for clinical use.
The University is not aware of any injuries caused as a result of the sheets of ice that have covered sidewalks around campus after several snowstorms hit the east coast over the last few weeks, according to University Spokesperson Martin Mbugua. However,several students reported suffering falls while walking around campus.
Approximately 40 percent of student applicants for the position of residential college adviser were offered a position this year, Associate Dean of the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students Michael Olin said.
William H. Scheide ’36 turned 100 on Jan. 6, 2014. In the century since his birth, Scheide has established himself as an international leader in the music community and has spread his passion for music, particularly that of Johann Sebastian Bach, philanthropy and scholarship all over the world.
When Ben Klaber ’06 first asked professor Alain Kornhauser GS ’71 to help him sponsor University participation in an autonomous car race in 2004, the popular operations research and financial engineering professor answered with a characteristically humorous reply.
A new initiative, Club Nom, has been launched to facilitate dialogue between eating club members and students who eat independently, in the co-ops or in the residential colleges. Founded by Hannah Rosenthal ’15, Club Nom will begin holding forum-style discussions next semester.
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor ’76 and Association of American Universities President Hunter Rawlings III GS ’70 will be presented with the University's top alumni honors at Alumni Day onFeb. 22, the University announcedMonday.Sotomayor will be given the Woodrow Wilson Award and Rawlings will be awarded the James Madison Medal.
Senator Ted Cruz ’92, a national debate champion as a Princeton undergraduate, recently put his award-winning speaking skills into practice on the Senate floor, delivering the fourth-longest speech in Senate history.
The Princeton Public Schools Board of Education appointed Stephen Cochrane ’81 superintendent of Princeton Public Schools earlier this month. He is a current assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction at the Upper Freehold Regional District.
Former University professor James Rothman won the Nobel Prize in Medicine on Monday along with Stanford biochemistry professor Thomas Sudhof and University of California, Berkeley biologist Randy Schekman. Rothman, Sudhof and Schekman’s contributions advanced scientific understanding of the transportation systems within cells.
Two of the University's most prominent undergraduate Christian organizations, whose membership had been delineated largely along racial lines, merged this fall, following a lengthy discussion over the previous academic year.