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Tilghman, Slaughter ’80 discuss women and leadership

Tilghman, Slaughter ’80 discuss women and leadership

Wilson School professor Anne-Marie Slaughter ?80 and University President Shirley Tilghman spoke Friday evening as part of the Alumni Association?s ?Conversation on Women & Leadership.? The pair discussed a wide range of topics, from the label of feminism to the role of government in actually implementing gender-based reform.

NEWS | 02/24/2013

Starlings only aware of immediate neighbors, U. research finds

Scientists have long puzzled over how flocks of several thousand starlings flying without a leader and without a destination manage to remain one cohesive unit, but University researchers have now determined the cause of this flock unity.

NEWS | 02/21/2013

Cap changes Bicker decision

As eating clubs were conducting pickups the Saturday after Bicker week, a student who had previously been informed that he had been hosed learned that he had actually been accepted.

NEWS | 02/21/2013

Clowning around: Gelsone ’96 makes living in comedy

While all of her roommates became doctors and many of her friends entered finance after graduating from Princeton, Christina Gelsone ?96 headed to clown school.

NEWS | 02/21/2013

Ivy League admit numbers stabilize

This academic year?s round of Ivy League admissions saw less change in application numbers for the incoming freshman class.

NEWS | 02/21/2013

Shawon Jackson ’15: Spotlight on Service

USG president Shawon Jackson ?15 said he plans to promote accessibility, approachability and accountability for the USG this year, signaling that he would keep his campaign promises during his term. ?The theme for this year is ?to lead is to serve,? and that?s a quote from Elie Wiesel,? Jackson said.

NEWS | 02/20/2013

‘What I Be’ features U. students

Founder and photographer of the ?What I Be? project Steve Rosenfield discussed his photography and the importance of honesty to oneself at a lecture in Frist Campus Center on Wednesday afternoon. Rosenfield has photographed people from a variety of backgrounds and spent this week taking pictures of over 80 Princeton students as part of the ?What I Be? project, which he said aims to ?create security through insecurity.? The photographs feature individual students with words describing personal insecurities written on their bodies, including on their hands and faces. Former USG president Bruce Easop ?13 said before the lecture began that the project served as a conversation-starter in the days leading up to Mental Health Week. Rosenfield, who is based in Davis, Calif., said that when he began taking photographs four years ago, his goal was to produce images that were ?really dramatic and really raw.? He came to the University this week at the recommendation of Shirley Gao ?13, also from Davis, who first encountered Rosenfield?s work two years ago. ?It was very touching and striking for me to see these photos of people revealing parts of themselves,? Gao said.

NEWS | 02/20/2013

U. finalizes 3rd cross-national strategic partnership of year, with University of Tokyo

Continuing its effort to support collaborative, cross-national research and teaching initiatives, the University has finalized its third strategic partnership of the year with the University of Tokyo.

NEWS | 02/20/2013

Male streaker dances through Cottage Club

An approximately 20-year-old white male allegedly danced naked in the University Cottage Club dining hall on Friday evening, police said Tuesday. Police alleged that the individual danced until he was confronted by a Cottage employee.

NEWS | 02/20/2013

Students witnessed ‘end of the world’ in Guatemala

Seven students had the opportunity to witness the end of the world in Guatemala, the birthplace of the Mayan apocalypse legend itself, on Dec.

NEWS | 02/20/2013

Bassler appointed MOL chair

After 19 years as a professor in the University?s molecular biology department, professor Bonnie Bassler will begin her term as department chair on July 1. While the announcement was posted on the molecular biology webpage last week, the department has been preparing for the transition over the last several months.

NEWS | 02/19/2013

Arts & Transit Neighborhood challenged by lawsuit

A new lawsuit was filed this month against the Regional Planning Board of Princeton, challenging its 9-1 vote in favor of the University?s plans for the Arts and Transit Neighborhood on Dec.

NEWS | 02/19/2013

Two seniors win Pyne Prize

Two seniors, Caroline Hanamirian ?13 and Jake Nebel ?13, have been awarded the Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, the highest general distinction the University confers on undergraduate students. Four graduate students, Angele Christin GS, Laura Gandolfi GS, George Young GS and Jiaying Zhao GS, were granted the Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship. The Pyne Prize is awarded annually to the two seniors who have most clearly demonstrated excellent scholarship, strength of character and effective leadership.

NEWS | 02/19/2013

New performance spaces to open for students in the fall of 2017

The University has already begun construction on what will be the largest building project in its history, the Arts and Transit Neighborhood.

NEWS | 02/19/2013

Keller Center, USG to host first Idea Farm host first Idea Farm

The USG and the Keller Center will host the first Princeton Idea Farm, an idea development competition sponsored by Microsoft, from Feb.

NEWS | 02/18/2013

Boyd discusses social media, online privacy and Internet ethics

Danah Boyd, a senior researcher at Microsoft Research, spoke on conceptions of online privacy, intergenerational interactions and the sometimes surprising interpretation of Internet content in a lecture on Monday night at Dodds Auditorium. The lecture was titled ?Privacy, Ethics and Social Media: Understanding What You Think You See,? and was part of the Wilson School?s 2012-13 ?Technology and Public Policy? thematic lecture series. Boyd, who holds appointments at New York University and Harvard?s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, works to understand the way young people use the Internet in social relationships, with a particular focus on social media. ?I?m an ethnographer ? I spend most of my time trying to understand everyday practices and how to map what is going on in our lives? Boyd explained. A large part of Boyd?s lecture focused on competing conceptions of technological privacy in what she characterized as ?a culture of public by default, private by effort.? She said that young people often conceive of privacy as ?the control of a social situation.? Referring to her interactions with students who had said they were shocked by their parents? and teachers? entry into their ?online social space,? Boyd explained that young people abide by different social norms on online social spaces such as Facebook.

NEWS | 02/18/2013

Postdocs unify physics theories

For decades, physicists have accepted that the universe has two sizes: small and large. So-called classical equations govern big objects like baseballs and galaxies, while quantum mechanics describes the strange world of subatomic particles.

NEWS | 02/18/2013

Rare Handel opera manuscript will be displayed at Firestone

A rare manuscript of George Frideric Handel?s 1736 opera ?Berenice,? purchased by the University for 44,450 British pounds at an auction last November, will be available for viewing at a special exhibition in Firestone Library until March 4.

NEWS | 02/18/2013

Buono emerges as candidate to challenge Christie for N.J. governor

The Princeton Community Democratic Organization voted to endorse state senator Barbara Buono as a candidate for New Jersey governor on Sunday evening in the Suzanne Patterson Center. Buono is seeking the New Jersey Democratic Party?s candidacy for the November gubernatorial election. Mayor Liz Lempert also outlined the year?s priorities for the community at the meeting, announcing that they will be finalized later this month. Buono, who was not present at the meeting, will appear at the next monthly PCDO meeting in March.

NEWS | 02/17/2013

Women's Squash: Disappointing finish for Tigers at Howe Cup

The women?s squash team, the Ivy League champions, entered this weekend?s Howe Cup as the number-one seed and with high expectations of a national championship.

NEWS | 02/17/2013

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