Beyond the Bubble

ABC talk show host shares experiences of professional world, different career paths

ABC talk show host shares experiences of professional world, different career paths

Angela Wang

Daphne Oz ’08, co-host of ABC’s food-centered talk show The Chew, shared her experiences in the professional world during a lecture on Thursday and advised students to embrace the opportunity to explore different career paths before choosing a long-term track. “It’s not only amazing, it’s totally acceptable for people our age to have eight, 10, 15 careers,” she said. Oz explained that upon graduation from the University, where she concentrated in Near Eastern Studies, she struggled to identify what she wanted to do as a full-time career.

NEWS | 02/20/2014

Falk encourages Palestinian use of ‘soft power’ in conflict with Israel

Falk encourages Palestinian use of ‘soft power’ in conflict with Israel

Daily Princetonian Staff and Anna Windemuth

Palestinians should continue to pursue self-empowerment, legal justice and peaceful resistance in their ongoing territorial conflict with Israel, international law professor emeritus Richard Falk said during the 11thannual Edward W.

NEWS | 02/18/2014

Biographer discusses personal aspects of Wilson’s presidency

Corinne Lowe

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and University trustee A. Scott Berg ’71 gave a lecture on Tuesday on the life of Woodrow Wilson, Class of 1879, depicting Wilson as a president deeply influenced by his regional and religious background and reluctant to take a stand against racism and women’s suffrage. Berg’s Woodrow Wilson biography, published in the fall of 2013, is a New York Times best seller whose rights were recently been purchased by Leonardo DiCaprio’s production company.

NEWS | 02/18/2014

Eugenides: upholding ‘pact with the reader’ key

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Eugenides: upholding ‘pact with the reader’ key

Jacqueline Gufford

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.

NEWS | 02/10/2014

Volcker '49 talks American democracy

Volcker '49 talks American democracy

Chitra Marti

Former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Paul Volcker ’49 criticized the current state of democracy in America in a Wilson School lecture on Friday. Volcker explained that the topic of the lecture would be “Good Governance,” examining the current state of the United States’ governing bodies and whether or not they are meeting the needs of citizens. “In that context, my speech can be both definitive and exceedingly short,” Volcker said.

NEWS | 02/09/2014

Reidenberg argues student privacy is lost in data cloud

Jacqueline Gufford

Imagine a middle school student uses the word “terrorism” in an essay, and thisessay’s transcript is stored indefinitely via a third-party vendor.

NEWS | 02/06/2014

Coen '79 talks newest film

Coen '79 talks newest film

Paul Phillips

Film director Ethan Coen ’79 discussed various elements of his latest film as well as his experience in making movies in a dialogue with poet and creative writing professor Paul Muldoon on Thursday, following a screening of the Coen brothers’ film “Inside Llewyn Davis." “Inside Llewyn Davis,” which opened on Jan.

NEWS | 02/06/2014

From Beyoncé to Bravo: Pal-Chaudhuri ’01 balances Hollywood with 'socially minded' art

Angela Wang

Most students look forward to applying what they’ve learned at Princeton to their developing careers post-graduation, but by the time Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri ’01 graduated from the University, she was already in what she called "the full-fledged middle of [her] career.” She was a fashion model and photographer. Pal-Chaudhuri spent five years traveling the world as a model before enrolling at the University to study anthropology.

NEWS | 02/05/2014

Director of Google Ideas discusses technological empowerment

Warren Crandall

Jared Cohen, director of Google Ideas, spoke Tuesday afternoon about the new and complex challenges facing technology users and developers in the near future.

NEWS | 02/04/2014

No current trustees gave to Christie’s gubernatorial campaigns

Jacob Donnelly

Of the 39 active members of the University’s Board of Trustees, the only contributor to either of Gov.

NEWS | 02/03/2014

From U.S. Embassy, Beijing, to Twitter: SINSI Scholars praise program for support and flexibility

Angela Wang and Elliott Eglash

Established by the Wilson School in 2006, the Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative has sent students across the globe for public policy fellowships in a variety of locales, from the Tanzanian Ministry of Health to the U.S.

NEWS | 01/12/2014

Scheide ’36: 100 years of passion, philanthropy, music

Scheide ’36: 100 years of passion, philanthropy, music

Jasmine Wang

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. Best-known as one of the most famous Bach enthusiasts in the music world, Scheide founded the Bach Aria Group in the 1940s, an unprecedented ensemble that brought some of Bach’s rarest masterpieces to audiences everywhere. Among his many contributions to the University, his principal legacy is the Scheide Library, one of the most valuable rare books collections in the world.

NEWS | 01/12/2014

New biography portrays Wilson as passionate lover, draws interest from Hollywood

Corinne Lowe

“Wilson,” a recent biography of former University president Woodrow Wilson, Class of 1879, has drawn attention from Hollywood for its characterization of the late president as a passionate lover.

NEWS | 01/12/2014

Updated: In wake of GW Bridge closure revelations, former Township mayor says he never felt pressured by Christie

Daily Princetonian Staff and Anna Windemuth

A series of controversialtext messages and emailsbetween top staff members of Gov.

NEWS | 01/09/2014

Alain Kornhauser GS ’71: Like “a V8 engine on a roller skate”

Jasmine Wang

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.“I said, ‘Ben, don’t interrupt my lecture.’ Just kidding.

NEWS | 01/07/2014

U. researchers develop Bitcoin prediction market

James Evans

The value of the digital currency Bitcoin has soared in recent months, but can the technology also help make predictions?

NEWS | 01/05/2014

As CDC moves to provide Bexsero to UCSB, no meningitis precautions planned for Class of 2018, Preview students

Charles Kyungchan Min

In the wake of the vaccination campaign against meningitis B that began on campus last month, the U.S.

NEWS | 01/05/2014

Blizzard 'Hercules' closes campus Friday morning and afternoon

Ruby Shao

The first winter storm of 2014, dubbed “Hercules” by national media, caused the University to close campus to non-essential employees on Friday morning and afternoon.

NEWS | 01/03/2014

CDC to provide meningitis vaccine to UC Santa Barbara

Charles Kyungchan Min

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is working to provide Bexsero, the meningococcal B vaccine, to students at the University of California, Santa Barbara, according to a CDC update on Dec.

NEWS | 01/02/2014

News & Notes: Bunch '09 dies, is suspected in Ga. murder-suicide

Daily Princetonian Staff

Bryan Bunch’09 was found dead Dec. 18 in Cobb County, Ga., in an apparent murder-suicide,The Marietta Daily Journalreported.

NEWS | 12/22/2013

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