Brittany Hardy ’14, a religion concentrator, has been awarded a Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Fellowship. The fellowship, which is funded by the U.S.
Overall town crime rates went down in 2013, the first year following the consolidation of the former Princeton Township and the Borough, though police cautioned against reading too far into the numbers.The report said the Princeton crime index is 35 percent higher than the New Jersey average, but that the New Jersey crime index is 27% lower than the National average.
A man was struck and killed by a New Jersey Transit train on Tuesday at the New Brunswick train station, The New York Daily News reported. The man was apparently leaning into the path of the train when he was struck. Four people were hit by the man’s dislocated body parts and suffered minor injuries.
Both doses of the meningitis B vaccine will be offered to eligible undergraduate and graduate students on March 26 and 27 in the Frist Campus Center Multipurpose Room, from 1 p.m to 7 p.m. Approximately 91 percent of University students have already received the vaccine during the first distribution of the first dose.
Richard Kluger ’56 is a Pulitzer Prize winner, a two-time National Book Award finalist and has previously worked at The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post and Forbes Magazine. But one memory he especially treasures from his time as a journalist is a lettersent to him by Albert Einstein while Kluger was a sophomore reporter for The Daily Princetonian.
The Princeton University Mentoring Program, a program aimed at supporting ethnic minorities, is in the process of transitioning from three branches of mentorship programs to one inclusive program for students who identify as students of color. PUMP was originally split into the Latinos Unidos for Networking and Advising, the Black Student Union’s Leadership and Mentoring Program and the Asian American Mentoring Program. While the mentors and mentees were paired within ethnic groups under the previous construction, director of the Fields Center Tennille Haynessaid that under the new system freshmen can be paired with mentors of a different race if they wish.
Eddie I. Fennell III, a Whitman College Dining Services employee, died of double pneumonia on March 8.
Some student groups have been allocated fewer beds for Reunions than expected this year. The Alumni Association said that beds for student interim housing have been allocated to all student groups who will be participating. “It wasn’t really an issue we thought we had to worry about, so it’s pretty frustrating right now trying to work around it,” said Charlie Wu ’16, a member of the Princeton Roaring 20 a cappella group. Mibs Southerland Mara, the associate director for Reunions, said the University has to look at each group and carefully consider the allocation of beds depending on the circumstances.
Princeton and Yale do not enroll as many low-income students as Harvard does, according to a recentBloomberg View article. The article, entitled “Why Can't Yale and Princeton Be More Like Harvard?,” assessed the number of undergraduates at each institution who receive federal Pell Grants, which are provided based on financial need to an average of 41.4 percent of college students nationwide. Although about 10 percent of students at both Harvard and Yale received Pell Grantsin 2003-04, Harvard featured 20 percent of such grants by 2011-2012 compared to Yale’s 14 percent. Meanwhile, Princeton offered the grant to about 7 percent of its students in 2003-04 and about 12 percent of its students in 2011-12, Bloomberg View reported. The article also notes that Harvard started a campaign to attract more low-income students in 2004 and suggested that the initiative had a positive impact. Of those students who received the grant in 2011-2012, 75 percent had family incomes of $30,000 or less.
Former Yale President Richard C. Levin was appointed CEO of Coursera, the New York Times reported Monday.Coursera is an educational company that offers online academic courses with more than 100 partner universities worldwide, including the University.Levin has formerly promoted open online educational courses similar to Coursera’s offerings.
Actor James Franco was in town and later on campus Monday to film scenes for the upcoming film “The Sound and the Fury,” a period drama set in 1910.
A new experiment, the Facility for Laboratory Reconnection Experiment, is being designed at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory to further scientists’ understanding of magnetic reconnection, a process relevant to both astrophysical plasmas and plasmas within fusion reactions. PPPL Director Stewart Prager said the PPPL will host FLARE and operate it during its research phase as well as contribute technical staff and researchers.
The leader of the Venezuelan opposition movement, Leopoldo López, has roots in Princeton, having graduated from Princeton’s Hun School in 1989.
The Princeton Station parking lot was outfitted with a new multispace meter system last week, supplementing existing permit spaces and ending a temporary period of free parking in the new lot, Director of Community and Regional Affairs Kristin Appelget announced.
The Crooked Root Café, launched byClaire Stanton ’15 and Pamela Soffer ’15,is nearing its one-year anniversary next month.Because Soffer and Stanton studied abroad in London and Barcelona respectively in the fall of 2013, the café only recently reopened in 2014. The Latin American-inspiredcafé is student-run and was first officially opened in Murray-Dodge Hall on April 19 of 2013.
At approximately 6:17 p.m. on Sunday fire alarms went off in Whitman College leading to an evacuation of all the students in the residential college, according to University Media SpecialistMike Caddell. Fire alarms were reportedly triggered from the smoke of an overcooked meal from the Whitman kitchen, he explained.Timothy Lau '17 and five other students were cooking a meal celebrating the end of spring break when they decided to let the smoke out from the kitchen through the window and kitchen door, Lau said. While the kitchen fire alarms were not triggered, the hallway alarms, which Lau said are more sensitive to smoke, were triggered about 15 seconds after the door was opened.
Mark Benjamin ’14, Luchi Mmegwa ’14 and Brian Reilly ’14 have been elected finalists for the position of Young Alumni Trustee for the Class of 2014. Each graduating class elects one of their members every year to serve on the University's Board of Trustees.
Richard Falk, international law professor emeritus and United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, accused Israel of “ethnic cleansing” during a news conference onMarch 21, Reuters reported. Falk, a controversial figure in the United States,spoke last month at the Universityencouraging Palestinians to empower themselves and engage in nonviolent resistance in the ongoing conflict. Falk noted at the April talk that Israeli residency laws have forced over 11,000 Palestinians out of Jerusalem since 1996, and are reminiscent of colonialism and apartheid.
The Graduate Student Government elected a new board of representatives after presenting an overview of last year's achievements on March 12, former GSG president Friederike Funk said.
The Drexel University student who died March 10 from meningitis met a number of Princeton football players at a social mixer a week before her death, local health authorities said. Stephanie Ross reportedly had close contact with one Princeton football player, Princeton Health Officer Bob Hary reportedto the Princeton Health Commissionon March 18, according to Planet Princeton.
