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Students react positively to new neuroscience concentration

Students react positively to new neuroscience concentration

Daily Princetonian Contributor and Tammy Tseng

Student response to a newly approved neuroscience concentration has been mostlypositive since the University faculty voted unanimously to approve iton Monday. “I think [the neuroscience concentration] is a really great idea,” Vivienne Tam ’15 said.

NEWS | 12/02/2014

COS 126 to introduce novice-level precepts next semester

Pooja Patel

COS 126: General Computer Science will be introducing two new precepts next semester for students with little or no programming experience, undergraduate coordinator for the computer science department Colleen Kenny-McGinley said in an email on Nov.

NEWS | 12/02/2014

Students discuss Ferguson and related issues at town hall meeting

Daily Princetonian Staff and Anna Windemuth

The student community at the University should stand in solidarity with the people of Ferguson, Mo., and not remain silent in complicit violence, six student leaders announced to a packed auditorium in Frist Campus Center on Monday night.The presentation's call to action challenged campus community members to stand in the nation's service and fight for justice, ending with the mantra "No justice, no peace." The meeting took place a week after hundreds of University students protested the grand jury’s decision not to indict police officer Darren Wilson for shooting an unarmed African-American teenager, Michael Brown, in Ferguson.

NEWS | 12/01/2014

News & Notes: Woman hospitalized after crashing vehicle into tree

Charles Kyungchan Min

A Princeton resident was hospitalized after crashing into a tree along Mercer Street on Wednesday, according to Planet Princeton. Abbie Farrow, 56, was traveling north on Mercer Street when she skidded off the road and struck a large tree. She had to be extricated from her vehicle. She suffered injuries in the upper and lower extremities and was transported to the University Medical Center at Plainsboro. The accident took place at approximately 1 p.m.

NEWS | 12/01/2014

News & Notes: Town, church will hold public meeting on immigration changes

Daily Princetonian Staff

The town of Princeton has partnered with St. Paul's Catholic Church, located on Nassau Street, to hold various information sessions for the public and its Latino congregation at the church regarding President Barack Obama’s executive actions to delay the deportation of millions of undocumented immigrants, according to The Princeton Packet. St.

NEWS | 12/01/2014

Two TI officers ousted following distribution of sex photo

Chitra Marti

Tiger Inn has removed two undergraduate officers – its vice president and treasurer – following the distribution of an email containing a sexually explicit photo, and a separate email that seemed to mock activist Sally Frank ’80, whose lawsuit forced TI to accept women as members in the early 1990s. The number of ousted TI officers now totals six this year, after four officers were forced to resign earlier this year due to an unrelated incident in which the club allegedly hosted a party of the semi-secret drinking society known as the 21 Club. The first email, from mid-October, was sent by former vice president Adam Krop ’15, the New York Times reported. The email contained a photo of a woman engaged in a sex act at TI.

NEWS | 12/01/2014

Updated: Neuroscience concentration approved by faculty

Updated: Neuroscience concentration approved by faculty

Daily Princetonian Contributor and Tammy Tseng

University faculty members voted unanimously on Monday afternoon in favor of creating a new concentration in neuroscience at a faculty meeting. The new concentration could start admitting undergraduates into the department as early as this spring. The University has offered a neuroscience certificate program since 2001, but faculty members proposed establishing a concentration in the field because of greater interest from current and prospective students and the existence of similar neuroscience concentration programs at peer institutions, according to a leaked department proposal dated June 24. There was no previous public announcement of faculty intent to develop a concentration.

NEWS | 12/01/2014

U. updates travel restrictions to Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea

Katherine Oh

University graduate students, faculty and staff are no longer allowed to travel to Sierra Leone, Liberia or Guinea unless they have permission from the dean of the faculty, vice president for human resources or dean of the Graduate School, Dean of the College Valerie Smith said in a Nov.

NEWS | 12/01/2014

Princeton house receives top environmental certification

Princeton house receives top environmental certification

Shriya Sekhsaria

A house on Linden Lane became the first in Princeton to be awarded a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design platinum certification. LEED is a green building certification program, awarded by the U.S.

NEWS | 12/01/2014

News & Notes: Cornell Student Murdered on Thanksgiving Day

Daily Princetonian Staff

Shannon Jones, a 23-year-old student at Cornell, was murdered on Thanksgiving Day in a house off-campus, according to the Ithaca Voice.

NEWS | 11/30/2014

USG demands transparency in results of sexual assault surveys

Jacob Donnelly

The Undergraduate Student Government senate passed a resolution Sunday night calling for the data from an upcoming sexual assault survey to be released to the University community.The survey is expected to be administered in October 2015. The University is federally mandated to conduct a sexual assault survey following a resolution agreement signed with the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights after it was found in violation of Title IX.

NEWS | 11/30/2014

Plans drafted for neuroscience concentration, leaked proposal says

Daily Princetonian Contributor and Tammy Tseng

The Princeton Neuroscience Institute has drafted a proposal outlining a program of study for a new neuroscience concentration, according to a document obtained by The Daily Princetonian and dated June 24. The proposal will be discussed and presumably voted upon at a faculty meeting on Monday afternoon, Deputy Dean of the College Clayton Marsh confirmed in an email on Saturday. The change comes nine years after the founding of the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, an initiative of then-University President Shirley Tilghman, and less than a year after the opening of the new psychology and neuroscience building.

NEWS | 11/30/2014

Surmounting the odds: Ramona Romero, newly appointed University general counsel

Surmounting the odds: Ramona Romero, newly appointed University general counsel

Jasmine Wang

When Ramona Romero took her first job and became the only Hispanic lawyer at a large law firm, she felt lost and isolated.

NEWS | 11/30/2014

Updated: Gansa '17 wins popular vote in USG election, runoff election to be held

Annie Yang

William Gansa ’17 and Ella Cheng ’16 will participate in a runoff election for the position of Undergraduate Student Government president, according to an email that outgoing USG president Shawon Jackson ’15 sent to the student bodyon Friday afternoon. A runoff election will be held in a similar manner as regular elections, with campaigning being subject to the same penalties and rules. Cheng is a former staff writer for The Daily Princetonian. Gansa, who has no prior USG experience, won the popular vote, with over 43.85 percent of the votes or 1,116 votes in his favor.

NEWS | 11/28/2014

Over 200 join Palmer Square protest over grand jury decision on Michael Brown case

Jessica Li

Over 200 students, faith community leaders and Princeton residents joined in vigil on Tuesday at Palmer Square for Michael Brown and all victims of police brutality.

NEWS | 11/26/2014

News and Notes: USG elections see larger voting turnout than in recent years

Daily Princetonian Staff

2704 students have cast votes in the Winter 2014 Undergraduate Student Government elections, according to voting website Heliosvoting.org as of 1 p.m.

NEWS | 11/26/2014

How are the USG elections going so far?

How are the USG elections going so far?

Daily Princetonian Staff

Editor’s note: The Daily Princetonian interviewed over 300 students on Monday to get a sense of how the student body is voting in the most recent Undergraduate Student Government Elections.

NEWS | 11/24/2014

'No justice, no peace' for Michael Brown, students protest

'No justice, no peace' for Michael Brown, students protest

Jessica Li and Michael Granovetter

At its peak, over 300 students marched in protest along Prospect Avenue starting at midnight Tuesday morning chanting “Hands up, don’t shoot,“ “No justice, no peace” and “Black lives matter,” in what was probably the largest public protest at the University in recent years. The protest occurred the night before Thanksgiving break, a night known for students going out to the eating clubs — also located along Prospect Avenue — and partying before leaving campus for the rest of the week. The protest looped around both sides of the Street against the backdrop of a separate group of students that vied for entry into one of Princeton’s 11 eating clubs. The protests occurred hours after a grand jury ruled that Darren Wilson, a policeman from the suburbs of St.

NEWS | 11/24/2014

News & Notes: U. researchers discover novel bacterial infection mechanism

Do-Hyeong Myeong

A team of researchers from the University and Dartmouth has discovered that Pseudomonas aeruginosa, one of the world’s most prolific bacteria, afflicts humans through the sense of touch. According to associate professor of molecular biology Zemer Gitai and postdoctoral research fellow Albert Siryaporn, who co-authored the research with two Dartmouth researchers, Pseudomonas is the first pathogen discovered to infect people and animals merely by attaching to the surface of its host, instead of relying on chemical signals. Pseudomona is known to cause potentially fatal organ infections, as well as many hospital-acquired illnesses like sepsis.

NEWS | 11/24/2014

Regan Crotty '00 appointed Princeton's inaugural full-time Title IX Coordinator

Zaynab Zaman

Regan Crotty ’00 has been appointed to the new full-time position of Title IX Coordinator of the University, according to an email sent by Master of Wilson College Eduardo Cadava to the Wilson College listserv on Monday afternoon. Crotty is currently director of student life at Wilson College and a lawyer by training. The Office for Civil Rights, the office within the Department of Education that deals with Title IX issues, found the University in violation of Title IX earlier this year.

NEWS | 11/24/2014

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