Evan Saitta ’14 discovered a new way to distinguish between male and female stegosauruses while completing his senior thesis research in central Montana this summer.
The case of the undergraduate student charged with possession of illegal drugs by the University’s Department of Public Safety will be handled by Mercer County’s Prosecutor's Office, a representative from the local Princeton Municipal Court said Monday.Joseph Gauvreau ’17 faced a routine court date on Sept.
Seven students were transported for alcohol intoxication on Sunday, the day of Lawnparties, to either the University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro or University Health Services.In contrast, four students were transported for alcohol intoxication on Saturday and one on Friday, according to Department of Public Safety Director of Operations Stefanie Karp. In total, seven were transported to UMCPP and five to UHS. The number of students transported over the weekend remains the same as last Spring’s Lawnparties weekend. In the spring, the weekend includes two evenings of eating club Houseparties on Friday and Saturday in addition to Sunday's Lawnparties.
Butler College will partner with the Pace Center for Civic Engagement in a new initiative to provide Butlerites with opportunities to become engaged with their local communities.
“There are all sorts of politicians who have colorful personal lives. I don’t.” Christopher Eisgruber ’83 graduated at the top of the world’s best universities and climbed to the top of his favorite one.
Former University Provost and University of Pennsylvania President Sheldon Hackney, 79, died Sept.
Newark Mayor Cory Booker, the Democratic candidate in the Oct.
The Daily Princetonian: If you’re elected to the Senate, what are going to be the first things on your agenda? Cory Booker: Well, the first thing on my agenda is to find out where the Senate lavatory is, and [laughs] my way around.
Following Secretary of State John Kerry’s Saturday announcement that the United States and Russia reached an agreement for the international control of Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal, The Daily Princetonian spoke briefly by phone to U.S.
Cara McCollum, who competed as Miss New Jersey, was eliminated from the Miss America national competition on Sunday night when the top 15 semifinalists were revealed at the beginning of the evening’s programming.
While the University campus was shielded from the worst effects of Hurricane Sandy last fall, the other home of Katie Goepel ’15 was not as fortunate.
Late last week The Daily Princetonian spoke to Steve Lonegan, who is running as the Republican candidate for the late Senator Frank Lautenberg’s seat.
Susan Patton '77 has finished the manuscript of her book, "Smarten Up!: Words of Wisdom from the Princeton Mom" and has sent the completed manuscript to her editor, she confirmed last week.
Newark Mayor Cory Booker remains the favorite over former Bogota Mayor Steve Lonegan for the Oct.
Dean of the Graduate School William Russel announced Wednesday he will step down at the end of this academic year.
Whites are overrepresented among the University’s graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty and senior administrators, according to 2012 data published Thursday by the Trustee Ad Hoc Committee on Diversity formed in January of 2012.The report states the committee found that progress in the University’s efforts to increase diversity since 1980 has been “uneven,” and, in the case of black and Hispanic populations, “disturbingly slow.”Data also shows that men are greatly overrepresented among faculty and graduate student populations.The report recommends that academic departments take steps to increase diversity.“We analyzed a whole lot of data and basically found that the University’s progress on issues of diversity has been very uneven,” Deborah Prentice, co-chair of the Trustee Ad Hoc Committee on Diversity and a professor of psychology and public affairs, said.
University students who go by a first name other than their legal one will now have the option to change their name in the student directory, University Registrar Polly Griffin announced in an email sent to the student body last week. Under this new “preferred name policy,” the email explained, students may designate their “preferred” name in the directory through SCORE. “As long as the use of this preferred name is not for the purposes of misrepresentation, the University acknowledges that a ‘preferred name’ can and should be used where possible in the course of University business and education,” Griffin stated in the email, adding, “We know that this feature is important to many students, and we are pleased to be able to offer this option.” Griffin deferred comment to University spokesperson Martin Mbugua, who explained that the administration had been discussing this policy change over the past several months after receiving numerous requests from students who prefer a name other than their formal one.
State senator Barbara Buono, who represents New Jersey's 18th Legislative District, is the Democratic candidate for governor.
Those who arrived on campus by train in recent weeks were dropped off at the new temporary Dinky station, located 1,200 feet south of the old station’s location and over 700 feet south of its future location. The station’s relocation is currently being challenged by six different pending lawsuits, each of which takes issue with different aspects of the University’s Arts and Transit Neighborhood construction project that prompted the station’s relocation, as well as with different aspects of the project’s current execution. The construction currently revamping the Alexander corridor is part of the Arts and Transit Neighborhood, a $330 million development that will include several rehearsal and performance spaces dedicated to arts education on campus.
The Student Health Advisory Board has started a new initiative to combat bacterial meningitis by distributing reusable drinking cups to the student body in order to help avoid the spread of germs. The red cups say “Mine.
