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(04/20/23 5:09am)
“Princeton didn't fall into the ocean,” says Gillian Knapp, the Emerita Professor of Astrophysical Sciences, regarding her hiring in 1984 as the first full female faculty member in the Department of Astrophysical Sciences.
(04/19/23 4:18am)
The University’s highest-paid officer, Andrew Golden, who has served as President of the Princeton University Investment Company (PRINCO) since 1995, is set to step down from the role in 2024, according to a University press release. Golden will retire on June 30, 2024, after nearly three decades as president.
(04/12/23 3:34am)
Professor Eddie Glaude GS ’97 will step down as chair of the Department of African American Studies (AAS). He has held the role since AAS was converted from a certificate program to a department in the summer of 2015.
(04/11/23 3:56am)
Five pieces of art linked to Edoardo Almagià ’73, who is currently being investigated for smuggling art into the United States, remain in the Princeton University Art Museum (PUAM).
(04/06/23 2:51pm)
In “How to Stand Up to a Dictator” by Maria Ressa ’86, Ressa writes that she was originally optimistic about the potential of social media, saying she hoped Rappler, the digital news platform that she co-founded, “would harness the social media platforms to build communities of action for better governance and stronger democracies.” But, as she learned over the course of her reporting, “the Philippines is ground zero for the terrible effects that social media can have on a nation’s institutions, its culture, and the minds of its populace.”
(03/24/23 1:57am)
Two years after the program’s inception, this semester marks the first time that students have been able to fulfill the University’s language requirement using the American Sign Language (ASL) sequence. The sequence, which starts with ASL 101 and finishes with ASL 107, allows students to learn ASL while being exposed to Deaf culture and studies.
(03/03/23 4:54am)
The University’s second Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Report highlighted the University’s goal of increasing diversity in academic hiring. While the demographics of non-tenure-track faculty more closely mirror that of the undergraduate student body, tenured faculty remain overwhelmingly white and male.
(02/24/23 4:12am)
Witherspoon Street, which runs perpendicular to Nassau Street across from FitzRandolph gate, has been under construction for more than a year. The Witherspoon Street Improvement Project is meant to make the road more accessible for pedestrians and bicyclists. In an interview with The Daily Princetonian, Assistant Municipal Engineer Jim Purcell described a series of upcoming projects along the entire length of the street, which runs through the heart of Princeton.
(02/03/23 5:24am)
Students who requested housing accommodations for the 2023-24 academic year instead received a 134 page email with all 206 email drafts granting housing accommodations. Each email draft included the approved student’s first name and the type of room they were granted based on their accommodation request.
(01/31/23 4:59am)
On Saturday, Jan. 28, the Butler College and the Office of Disability Services hosted, as a part of Wintersession programming, a screening of “Growing Together: A Film on Family & Disability,” directed and produced by Sofia Pauca ’21. The documentary follows six families of individuals with developmental disabilities, including Pauca’s brother Victor.
(12/09/22 5:08am)
The University approved Chinese international students’ continuous housing requests on Dec. 5 after initially denying a number of requests for housing over winter break.
(12/08/22 4:41am)
The Spring 2023 course catalog features 23 new courses in or cross-listed with the African American Studies Department (AAS), spanning a range of disciplines including theater, poetry, and journalism. This is the most new courses of any department, barring Freshman Seminars, according to the catalog.
(12/06/22 3:52am)
On Nov. 16, Professor Imani Perry of the Department of African American Studies received the National Book Award for Nonfiction, honoring “South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation.”
(11/22/22 4:16am)
On Friday, Nov. 18, Sara Mughal of Starbucks Workers United spoke to students in a talk sponsored by the Princeton Young Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA) and the Whig-Cliosophic Society (Whig-Clio).
(11/18/22 2:34am)
Universities nationwide, including Princeton, are bracing for Supreme Court decisions coming in 2023 that could change their policies with regard to affirmative action, as the Court reviews federal cases challenging race-conscious admissions at Harvard and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
(11/11/22 3:18am)
On Nov. 2, the University announced the recipients of its most prestigious awards for alumni, with Christopher Cavoli ’87 receiving the Woodrow Wilson Award and Robert Kahn GS ’64 set to receive the James Madison Medal.
(11/04/22 3:09am)
On Oct. 31, the Supreme Court heard arguments in two cases that could determine the future of race-based affirmative action in college admissions across the country. After the proceedings, The New York Times reported that “the court’s conservative majority seems ready to throw out affirmative action programs.”
(10/06/22 4:00am)
The University sold the majority of its stake in the Lithium Americas Corporation during the second quarter of 2022, according to Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings released over the summer. As of last filing, the University’s holdings in the company are around $4.5 million, down from $92 million earlier this year.