Twelve Title IX complaints against the University were reviewed and closed by the Department of Education'sOffice of Civil Rights between Dec.
One of the most difficult aspects of being a judge is understanding the role and limits of a justice’s position, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Elena Kagan ’81 argued in a discussion on her experiences and judicial views moderated by University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 on Thursday. Kagan, nominated and appointed to the Supreme Court by President Barack Obama in 2010, holds a bachelor’s degree from the University, an M.Phil.
A student group that had gone inactive for the past few years is being revitalized by students who feel that campus lacks a group separate from the administration to discuss and activism regarding sexual assault,SpeakOut president Eliza Mott ’16 said. SpeakOut was created in 2006 in response to some highly publicized cases ofsexual assault related to Tiger Inn but has remained inactive for a number of years.
The new 7,500-square foot Wawa is set to open its doors on Friday at 8 a.m.. Except for the class banners that used to line the store's walls, the new locale retains most of the features of the old one, along with 14 newly hired employees and added features like modern restrooms and new equipment. The new Wawa, located near the new Princeton Station at 152 Alexander St.
Congressman and former Assistant Director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Rush Holt will serve as CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science after his retirement from the House of Representatives, according to the AAAS’s press release on Tuesday. Holt will assume his new post in February. The AAAS is the world’s largest general scientific society and the publisher of the journal Science.
A referendum to gain student support for greater transparency in mental health withdrawal and readmission policies will be on the ballot for the upcoming Undergraduate Student Government elections. A referendum is a vote sent out to the student body to gauge its support for a particular USG project.
Two of the four races for the upcoming Undergraduate Student Government committee chairs election are contested. There are two candidates for Social Committee chair, two for University Student Life Committee chair and one candidate for Academics Committee chair.
A fire alarm went off in Forbes College on Wednesday morning at 1:50 a.m. triggered by marijuana smoke, according to University spokesperson Martin Mbugua.
The University was the only school exempt from a state legislative bill that seeks to ban all public and private New Jersey colleges and universities from forcing students to purchase meal plans. Assembly Bill No.
In addition to voting for senators and executive positions in the upcoming Undergraduate Student Government election, students will also be able to vote on a referendum question regarding the re-establishment of a campus pub. A referendum is a vote sent out to the student body to gauge their support for a particular policy or project.
Tiger Inn’s graduate board president Hap Cooper ’82 condemned recent events at the eating club in an email to the club’s membership on Nov.
The three Undergraduate Student Government presidential candidates and two vice presidential candidates debated policy, programming and waffle fries at the elections debate on Tuesday night in the Whig Hall senate chamber. Speaking to about 25 audience members, USG presidential candidates Ella Cheng '16, William Gansa '17 and Molly Stoneman '16 presented opposing opinions on the role of USG in student life and emphasized different issues they plan to address if awarded the presidency. Stoneman is the current USG vice president, while Cheng is the Student Life Committee Chair.
Terry O’Shea '16 was not able to advance from thesemifinals of “Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions” and closed out with a second-place finish. “It’s been a dream.
The Undergraduate Student Government is undertaking a project to introduce more outdoor lighting on campus. According to Ella Cheng '16, the chair of the University Student Life Committee, the idea began with her predecessor Greg Smith '15, who met with the Department of Public Safety to discuss walking through dark areas on campus together last winter. After receiving feedback about certain students not feeling completely safe on campus at night, Cheng said that she decided to tackle the issue. "I thought about the best ways to address it, and then I figured that actually taking administrators on a walk through campus would be the best way to illustrate to them where the need is on campus," Cheng said.
After more than two years and an estimated $20,000, a research group in the mechanical engineering department has created the first 3D printer capable of printing LED lights. The venture was led by researcher Yong Lin Kong and Ian Tamargo ’14, and was sponsored by the Air Force of Scientific Research and the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency. The research group McAlpine, led by mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Michael McAlpine,made a breakthroughmore than a year ago after it successfully printed 3D bionic ears, devices that can hear sound frequencies beyond the capacity of a human ear, out of bovine cells. According to the team's website, the 10-person group explores “interweaving biology and nanomaterials” that “could enable the creation of bionic devices, possessing unique geometric, properties and functionalities for a variety of fundamental and applied research directions”. With this new 3D printing technology, the lab has shown the capability of printing “emissive semi-conducting inorganic nanoparticles, elastomeric matrix, organic polymers as charge transport laters, solid and liquid metal leads and a UV-adhesive transparent substrate layer cube of encapsulated LEDs," according to their report. “What we have presented here is an additional method to integrate electronics that can take into consideration the three-dimensional geometry of an object," Kong explained. He added that previously only simple mechanical structures were able to be printed using 3D technology and that McAlpine has presented the first example of the printing of a fully functional electronic device.
The Institute for Advanced Study’s plan to build new faculty housing will face a legal challenge from the Princeton Battlefield Society despite the Princeton Planning Board’s recent 6-0 vote to approve the plan. The planning board’s vote of approval allows IAS to use a special type of zoning for its housing development, meaning that the development will avoid a stream corridor governed by the Delaware and Raritan Canal Commission.
A new super PAC called “Stand For Principle” was formed three days after the midterm elections to support a potential presidential bid by Sen.
The legal group Project on Fair Representation announced a lawsuit on Monday against Harvard for “employing racially and ethnically discriminatory policies” in its admissions decisions, according to The Harvard Crimson. “Harvard’s undergraduate admissions policies and procedures have injured and continue to injure Plaintiff’s members by intentionally and improperly discriminating against them on the basis of their race and ethnicity in violation of Title VI,” according to a copy of the filed complaint obtained by The Crimson. The plaintiff in the case, Students for Fair Admissions Inc., is a newly formed nonprofit law group that includes groups of students and parents who wish to change the use of race in Harvard's admissions policies and proposes an injunction against policies the group says are discriminatory. In November 2006, Jian Li, a Chinese-American student, filed a complaint with the Office of Civil Rights against Princeton alleging he had been rejected from the University because of his race, despite scoring a perfect score on the SAT and a number of AP tests.
The Department of Public Safety sent an email to the University community on Monday announcing that an unidentified male had allegedly been observed masturbating by a student in the lounge outside the Chancellor Green Library on campus. According to the email, the unknown male was in his late 50s or 60s and was encountered by the student at approximately 4:10 p.m. The suspect has light complexioned, dry, rough skin and long white hair, the email said.
The works of University faculty, staff and students whose research would benefit society were honored on Thursday at the annual Celebrate Princeton Innovation event. The three innovations that received the recognition were a method for discovering antibiotics, a mechanism to study developing lungs and a fuel-efficient engine design. Some of the highlighted inventions were created by chemistry assistant professor Mohammad Seyedsayamdost, chemical and biological engineeringassociate professorCeleste Nelson and astrophysical sciences professor Nathaniel Fisch. Two student-led companies formed during Princeton eLab, a summer program run by the Keller Center, were featured: SpaceTouch, which aims to commercialize a technology interacting with computers through hand gestures,andSignSchool, an online platform for learning American Sign Language. The event was held at the Chancellor Green Rotunda, and it offered researchers the opportunity to showcase their innovations to visiting members of the venture capital and business communities.
