Kwame Anthony Appiah, currently the Laurance S.
Three men contracted to perform work on Lake Carnegie were rescued after their boat became stranded on a dam, according to a Princeton Police Department press release. The men were working to install aeration devices on the lake to keep it from freezing when their boat experienced steering difficulties and drifted onto the dam, where it became stuck. The Princeton First Aid and Rescue Squad, Princeton Fire Department, Kingston Fire Department and patrols responded to a report of boaters in distress, and the three men were rescued.
Through the University’s new partnership with AgriArk, a start-up company focusing on sustainability, food waste from University dining halls may be processed into fertilizers, according to Rob Wisniewski, CEO of the company.Wisniewski’s technology uses fermentation to process food waste.
The University career pagereceived complaints online for “color-cod[ing] their employment opportunities” through the site's photographs, according to posts onsocial media sites and blogs last week.
As students receive the vaccine against meningitis B this week, its availability only to certain members of the community has evoked mixed feelings from those excluded.
Katie Dubbs ’14 and Anastasya Lloyd-Damnjanovic ’14 were awarded Sachs Scholarships. Dubbs received the Sachs Global Scholarship and will spend next year studying in Vienna, Austria, and Lloyd-Damnjanovic won the Sachs Scholarship to study at Worcester College, Oxford. Following their first interviews this past Saturday, both received a phone call from a committee member on Sunday morning asking them to head to Frist Campus Center to answer additional questions.
1,959 students were vaccinated against meningococcal-B on the first day of the vaccination campaign, according to University Spokesperson Martin Mbugua.
During a ceremony held in the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York City Monday afternoon, the Ivy League named junior quarterback Quinn Epperly the conference’s Offensive Player of the Year and awarded him the Asa S.
Princeton Ridge, an area in the northern region of the town of Princeton and the target of ecological preservation efforts, is now the site of a natural gas pipeline expansion by Williams Co., an energy infrastructure company.The town of Princeton has filed for neutral “intervenor” status on the project, along with Environment New Jersey, Food and Water Watch and the New Jersey chapter of the Sierra Club.
No new cases of gastroenteritis on campus have been reported since Thursday, University Spokesperson Martin Mbugua said Monday. On Thursday, nine studentsreported to University Health Serviceswith symptoms of gastroenteritis. Keith Levine, a local health inspector, said on Thursday that foodborne illness impacted five individuals on Thursday.The source was considered to be Ivy Club, and Levine was summoned to the club to inspect and start an investigation into the outbreak. The Daily Princetonian was able to independently verify that at least five Ivy members had been afflicted with symptoms of gastroenteritis. Outbreaks of gastroenteritis affected the University inearly 2012andearly 2013. In both cases, the outbreaks affected hundreds of students.
Pulin Sanghvi, the newly appointed executive director of Career Services, comes to the University with a strong background in finance and consulting, including companies as large as Morgan Stanley and McKinsey & Company. Acknowledging that recruitment for these industries is already quite strong on campus, Sanghvi said his main priority is to broaden student opportunities for career exploration. However, Sanghvi said he is not concerned that his background will hinder his abilities to expand career exploration services at the University, citing that he had expanded offerings as the head of the Career Management Center at Stanford Graduate School of Business. His arrival comes at a time when the office is undergoing several reforms.
The Council of the Princeton University Community meeting held yesterday discussed the future of Graduate School housing and proposed incorporating more student and faculty input into classroom design.Graduate Student Government president Friederike Funk raised concerns regarding the current shortage of graduate housing in light of the planned demolition of the Butler Apartments and asked during the Q&A session how this tract of land will be used in the future.
Since the first case of meningitis at Princeton was reported in March 2013,the University has faced seven additional cases of meningococcal disease.
The University is continuing to investigate the leak of “The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls,” reclusive author J.D.
At its weekly meeting on Sunday evening, the USG unanimously approved amendments requiring each of the four class governments to hold its own monthly public meetings and to publish and report its own budget each semester. The remaining amendments, which proposed to fully separate the Senate and the class governments, were tabled indefinitely. In a vote of 17 in favor and four against, the USG decided not to continue its own Summer Storage Initiative and not to collaborate with Princeton Student Agencies.
After serving as executive director of Dining Services for 21 years, Stu Orefice left his position at the University last Monday to pursue a consulting job in New York City. “It was time for me to create a new recipe,” Orefice wrote in an announcement sent to his friends and colleagues, adding, “I am extremely proud [of] the work of our award-winning dining team, and I take comfort in the fact that I leave the Princeton pantry fully stocked with high quality ingredients.” In his message to coworkers, Orefice explained that he hopes his job transition will allow him more flexibility to spend more time with his family.
Small World Coffee, the popular coffee shop with two locations on Nassau and Witherspoon streets, will celebrate the 20th anniversary of its move to Princeton on Dec.
In the wake of former South African President and anti-apartheid revolutionary Nelson Mandela’s death on Dec.
