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Michael Wolovick explains potential solution to glacial melting

Sea level rise is a much discussed symptom of climate change. While some ideas for curbing glacial melting have been proposed, few geoengineering solutions have been implemented. However, current research by University postdoctoral research associate Michael Wolovick indicates that there exists a practical solution for glacial melting. Wolovick is investigating glacial sills, or walls made of rock and silt, as a way to block glaciers from exposure to warm water and keep them from melting.

NEWS | 04/06/2018

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Princeton Public Schools, Charter School negotiate settlement

A few weeks after a Princeton Public Schools board member offered an “olive branch” to the Princeton Charter School, a settlement negotiation process between the two parties is now underway. The negotiation process seeks to resolve the lawsuit initiated by PPS, which asserted that PCS had violated New Jersey’s Open Public Meeting Act during a meeting about expansion.

NEWS | 04/05/2018

U. Professor Stephen Macedo

U. professor Stephen Macedo discusses possible tradeoffs between immigration and social justice

Saying all of us benefit from immigration does not cut it, according to University politics professor Stephen Macedo. He presented the political theories behind why policy makers and social scientists should think more in distributive terms rather than in aggregate terms in his lecture titled “Immigration, Globalization, and Social Justice: Is There a Tradeoff?”

NEWS | 04/04/2018

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Black Lives Matter leader DeRay McKesson discusses blackness, ‘quiet trauma’

Mckesson explained that he isn’t deterred by death threats and criticism, and he is constantly looking for ways to use his social power and media attention as platforms for bridging the ideological racial divide. Mckesson said that he is trying to give a voice to the oppressed regardless of the discomfort. “Freedom is not only the absence of oppression, but the presence of justice and joy,” he said. 

NEWS | 04/01/2018

Carbon Fee and Dividend, national numbers

Princeton Student Climate Initiative crafts carbon policy with NJ state assemblyman

“This isn’t just about this one piece of legislation. First of all, we’re trying to be part of a comprehensive energy package for the state of New Jersey. But it’s also about reimagining the environmental movement as a whole as being something more representative of the people actually impacted by climate change,” said Amanda Eisenhour ’21, political director of the Princeton Student Climate Initiative. 

NEWS | 04/01/2018

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French theatre lecturer Guillaume Gallienne discusses teaching philosophy, life, and art

“I’m there to tell them they are not alone. I think that’s my job. The purpose for me of theater is to say that we’re not alone, or that we’re not separated,” explained Guillaume Gallienne, sociétaire of the renowned French theatre company Comédie-Française and winner of multiple César Awards for his autobiographical film “Les Garçons et Guillaume, à table!”.

NEWS | 03/30/2018