Adriana Cherskov ’14 has been awarded a 2014 Gates Cambridge Scholarship, making her the sixth Princeton student or alumnus to receive the award this year.
Princeton University was ranked sixth in the latest edition of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, which was released Wednesday.
The University's Office of Information Technology announced the introduction of mobile printing on Feb.
The computer criminal activity case involving a former University employee has been resolved, the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office said Wednesday. Alla Ryklin, 48, of West Windsor, was arrested last December for allegedly hacking into the University's computer system and was initially charged with two counts of computer criminal activity.
The pursuit of perfection is one of the biggest issues facing women in America today, Barnard College president Debora Spar argued at a lecture on Wednesday.
The Faculty-Student Committee on Discipline may for the first time provide transparent information about the total number of disciplinary cases adjudicated each year, Dean of Undergraduate Students and Committee on Discipline Chair Kathleen Deignan told The Daily Princetonian. The Committee — together with the student-run Honor Committee, which adjudicates allegations of cheating on in-class examinations — has in the past issued annual discipline reports detailing the number of students found responsible for violations of University policy.
Student groups and organizations will now request funds for events and activities using the Student Activities Funding Engine website, which was launched last year to streamline summer funding requests.SAFE will now be the universal engine through which students make all their funding requests. The first phase of implementing SAFE, which began in the winter of 2013, allowed individual students to request funds for expenses, including those for senior thesis research, internships and study abroad over the summer.
No one has been charged in connection with an incident involving a smashed painting at the Ivy Club last month, according to police records obtained by The Daily Princetonian. A male student allegedly punched a museum-framed painting in Ivy Club on Feb.
Former chair of the economics department and former chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke reportedly made at least $250,000 for a 40-minute appearance at the financial conference of the National Bank of Abu Dhabi, according to Reuters. In his speech, Bernanke expressed regrets about his time as chairman, especially during the financial crisis.
Since Rush Holt announced his retirement on Feb.
The Princeton Police Department is currently investigating an apparent suicide. While on patrol around6:30 a.m., officers found the body of a 23-year-old male resident on Spring Street.
Powdered eggs, first mistaken for a suspicious powder, prompted numerous emergency response agencies to the University’s Print & Mail Services facility in the Forrestal Campus on Tuesday. The suspicious substance was reported at 10:20 a.m.
Approximately 20 students were found responsible for plagiarism in COS 126: General Computer Science by the University's Faculty-Student Committee on Discipline during the 2012-13 academic year. The number represents an increase of more than twice the number of violations that occurred in any previous academic year, Fall 2013 COS 126 lead preceptor David Pritchard said. The spike coincides with massive increases in enrollment in recent years, and is consistent with a trend of increased cases of alleged plagiarism in introductory computer science courses across the country.
Two government whistleblowers, Cathy Harris and Thomas Tamm, discussed their experiences as whistleblowers and the consequences of their whistleblowing actions at a lecture on campus on Tuesday. Beatrice Edwards, executive director and international program director of the Government Accountability Project, a nongovernmental organization that aims to promote government accountability by protecting whistleblowers and other activists,moderated the lecture.
Vivienne Chen ’14 and Natasha Japanwala ’14 won theMartin Dale Fellowship, which will allow them to pursue independent projects after graduation. The fellowship provides each student with a $33,000 grant, and was created by Martin Dale ’53.
Director of the Andlinger Center for Energy and the EnvironmentEmily Carter is joining two other female theoretical chemists in a call for the boycott of the 15thInternational Congress of Quantum Chemistry because its preliminary list of speakers did not include women. Laura Gagliardi, chemistry professor at the University of Minnesota, and Anna Krylov, chemistry professor at the University of Southern California, composed anopen letterwith Carter.
University administrators will soon present data on the peer academic advising system that was implemented across all residential colleges in the 2012-2013 academic year. The peer advising program had been extremely limited before the 2011-2012 school year, Dean of Wilson College Anne Caswell-Klein said.
Nine students were arrested in front of the White House at a youth protest against the Keystone XL Pipeline on Sunday. The students joined around 1,000 other participants to protest phase 4 of TransCanada's pathway for crude oil, which is still pending President Barack Obama's approval.If approved, the final leg of the pipeline would have a capacity of 830,000 barrels of oil per day and constitute 329 miles, according to the project’s website. The students were among 398 youths who were arrested and charged with infractions for strapping themselves to the White House fence and blocking sidewalk passages, according to Nikolaus Hofer ’17, who left for Washington, D.C.
Two arrests were made on campus last week by the Department of Public Safety, according to thedaily crime logspublished by DPS. The first of these arrests was made in front of the U-Store on University Place shortly after midnight on Monday morning.
The central question facing the Committee on Discipline one night last year — a question that would contribute to the eventual verdict in a student plagiarism case — focused on a time stamp. If the time stamp on the student’s computer science assignment was altered, it would indicate the student had plagiarized and then presented fabricated evidence to the Committee before the hearing. The issue of the time stamp came up toward the tail end of the four-and-a-half-hour long hearing, late at night on March 13, 2013.
