One square kilometer at a time, a group of University researchers is working to map farmland across sub-Saharan Africa.
Sometime this past summer, Shirley Tilghman found herself in conversation with Harold Shapiro GS ’64, her predecessor as University president. The two presidents, who have a mentor-mentee relationship, were speaking openly about the state of the University and of Tilghman’s career. Tilghman told Shapiro, who traded One Nassau Hall for a smaller office in Wallace Hall 11 years earlier, that she had personal ambitions besides leading the University, just like Shapiro had.
Second-year chemistry graduate student Jessica Bongiovanni GS died Sunday, Dec. 2, from osteosarcoma, a type of bone cancer. She was 25.
The Program in Urban Studies’ faculty advisory board will meet on Monday to discuss changes to the program that are part of a large restructuring following low student ratings in its courses last year. With a newly approved budget, the program is redesigning its website, adding workshops and organizing thesis colloquiums.
Location scouts for Justin Timberlake and Ben Affleck’s newest movie, “Runner, Runner,” are scouting Princeton for locations to film a scene, according to sources familiar with the production. Produced by Leonardo DiCaprio’s film production company Appian Way Productions, acquired by New Regency Pictures and directed by Brad Furman — who most recently directed “Lincoln Lawyer” — “Runner, Runner” is slated to be released in the United States on Sept. 27, 2013.
It’s tough to keep your gift selections fresh when you’ve been shopping for Mom for, well, as long as you’ve been holiday shopping.
If it’s 4:30 p.m. and you’re in Robertson Hall, chances are you’ll witness a steady stream of students and community members rolling in to hear one of the Wilson School’s guest lecturers.
The assets of the 11 eating clubs jumped by nearly $15 million over the course of the recession, according to the most recent tax returns filed by the clubs. This substantial increase in combined club assets may reflect the recent slew of capital campaigns undertaken by some of the clubs on the Street.
With their alma mater under investigation, some Princeton High School graduates said the practice of adjusting attendance records for students in danger of not graduating is frequent at the high school.
The University will host its first-ever conference for LGBT alumni this April. The event comes at the heels of the “She Roars” conference held for women alumni in spring 2011 and a gathering for black alumni held in 2009.
Stephanie Tam ’13 and Kaitlin Stouffer ’13 won this year’s two Sachs Scholarships, the University will announce today. Tam received the Sachs Scholarship at Worcester College, University of Oxford and will study there next year, and Stouffer received the Sachs Global Scholarship and will spend next year working in South Africa.
A Yale committee has recommended the school offer online courses to students and community members in the future, continuing the trend of colleges and universities looking to online education to enhance their course offerings.
The Transition Task Force published a draft of its final report on Monday as the process of preparing Princeton Borough and Princeton Township to merge on Jan. 1, 2013, approaches its last stages.
History professor Jeremy Adelman and seven Princeton students participated in their first global precept with six Coursera students from around the world for HIS 201: A History of the World since 1300 on Tuesday morning.
It was the height of Hurricane Sandy, and much of Princeton lay in pitch darkness, countless roads were closed and even the town's emergency operations center — created to manage the crisis response — lost power for a time. Click here for an interactive graphic — pairing police dispatch recordings and maps of Princeton — detailing the attempt to reach the house of William Sword '76.
For the past 12 months, Princeton Borough and Princeton Township have been attempting to combine two governments into one, a process that, though complicated and occasionally contentious, has provided a local case study to a group of Wilson School graduate students studying municipal governance.
Each sign-in eating club on the Street except Colonial Club has elected its leadership for the next year. Neal Donnelly ’14 will serve as president of Terrace Club, Branden Lewiston ’14 of Quadrangle Club, Paul Popescu ’14 of Cloister Inn and Sam Halpern ’14 of Charter Club. Colonial will choose its officers in January.
Dean of Religious Life Rev. Alison Boden will speak at a meeting of the United Nations High Commissioner’s Dialogue on Protection Challenges in Geneva next week, discussing how the UN can work with faith-based organizations without sacrificing its secular nature. The speaking engagement reflects the Office of Religious Life’s broader reorientation toward international humanitarian efforts since Boden’s appointment in 2007.
This coming spring, the Program in Teacher Preparation will implement a new certificate track called "Urban Concentration," which focuses on issues in urban education. Students pursuing a certificate in teacher prep will be able to choose this subject for specialized study.
The Transition Task Force — the body tasked with facilitating the January consolidation between Princeton Borough and Princeton Township — unveiled the final draft of its report at a town hall-style meeting held to discuss the process with local residents on Monday night.
