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Bonfire will burn lower this year to please local authorities

Bonfire will burn lower this year to please local authorities

Saturday’s bonfire will be smaller than the one that took place in 2006 in order to reduce the amount of embers emitted, according to Princeton Borough Director of Emergency Services Robert Gregory. The bonfire, which will take place on Cannon Green at 7 p.m. Saturday night, will celebrate the football team’s victories over Harvard and Yale this season.

NEWS | 11/14/2012

Wagstaff ’14: "A USG where people feel comfortable"

USG social chair Benedict Wagstaff ’14 — who has organized the past three Lawnparties, Friday night’s Hoodie Allen concert, Saturday night’s bonfire and many other social events on campus — is hoping to take on a more prominent role in the USG next semester.

NEWS | 11/14/2012

News & Notes: Icahn ’57 donates $200 million to rename Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Carl Icahn ’57, the Wall Street billionaire who donated $20 million to finance Carl Icahn Laboratory in 1999, has donated 10 times that amount to Mount Sinai School of Medicine, which will be renamed the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. The $200 million gift was reported by The New York Times Thursday.

NEWS | 11/14/2012

Indiana's Daniels ’71, Brazil's Fraga GS ’85 receive top University alumni awards

Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels ’71 and Arminio Fraga GS ’85 will be presented with the highest honors for Princeton alumni during Alumni Day on Feb. 23, the University announced Wednesday.

NEWS | 11/13/2012

Graduate students voice desire for U. president with academic background

Members of the Graduate Student Government made it clear that graduate students do not want to be left behind in the process of selecting the next University president at an open forum held Wednesday afternoon by the University’s presidential search committee.

NEWS | 11/13/2012

Politics department limits thesis length to combat over-writing

The politics department has added a new 125-page limit for senior theses this year to counter the perception among students that longer theses are better. Theses that exceed this limit will not be eligible for departmental prizes.

NEWS | 11/13/2012

After two months of limbo, Crotty named Wilson director of student life

Wilson College announced Regan Crotty ’00, who worked in the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students, as its new director of student life Tuesday afternoon, following the departure of Michael Olin.

NEWS | 11/13/2012

Research team makes quantum computing discovery

In 1936, the work of Alan Turing GS ’38 laid the groundwork for the birth of the first modern computer. Today, University researchers led by physics professor Jason Petta are inching towards what could be another revolution in the field: the quantum computer.

NEWS | 11/13/2012

News & Notes: Tilghman visits Harvard to talk science education

University President Shirley Tilghman visited Harvard Tuesday to deliver a speech about science education. Tilghman, a well-known molecular biologist before she was named president in 2001, argued that the curriculum needs to be integrated with larger scientific questions.

NEWS | 11/13/2012

U. spends $250,000 on online learning platform

The Coursera platform, which offers certain online classes to everyone with access to the Internet, has cost the University about $250,000 to implement, a figure that was publicized for the first time at last week’s faculty meeting.

NEWS | 11/12/2012

Two students found iPhone repair companies on campus

Within eight days in September, two students created iPhone repair companies that are in direct competition.

NEWS | 11/12/2012

News & Notes: Glenn Beck predicts Petraeus GS ’87 presidency at Princeton

Radio host Glenn Beck referred to the University as “the dumping ground for the Center for American Progress” — a left-leaning advocacy organization — in his show on The Blaze on Monday, speculating the Princeton presidency was an escape route for former CIA director David Petraeus GS ’87.

NEWS | 11/12/2012

Q&A: New research integrity director says animal abuse citations are “something in the past”

Stuart Leland began work as Princeton’s first director for research integrity and assurance on Aug. 15. The new office oversees the University’s research work and ensures compliance with human, animal and biological research regulations. Before coming to the University, Leland worked in animal welfare compliance for the pharmaceutical company Merck & Co. The Daily Princetonian spoke with Leland about the relationship between research and regulation, his past experience overseeing research and the University’s history of alleged animal abuse violations.

NEWS | 11/12/2012

Engineering course designs beehive-shaped disaster relief shelter

A University engineering class is working to build a new kind of sustainable house, and it's taking inspiration from the honeycomb.

NEWS | 11/12/2012

Staff question Petraeus GS ’87, need for academic background at presidential search forum

University staff members voiced concerns about the potential candidacy of former CIA director David Petraeus GS ’87 for University president at the third open forum held by the University’s presidential search committee Tuesday afternoon.

NEWS | 11/12/2012

The professor-columnist: Paul Krugman

Every Thursday, Paul Krugman wakes up, drinks a cup of coffee, opens up his laptop and chooses the 800 words that will appear on the opinion page of The New York Times. But if Krugman can’t send the piece to his editors by the time he sits for Thursday office hours, then he closes his laptop and brings the column with him to Robertson Hall, writing while students cycle in and out of his office.

NEWS | 11/11/2012

In Veteran's Day panel, service members discuss military sexual assault

A Veteran’s Day panel on the role of America’s armed forces held Monday afternoon turned tense when participants broached the topic of sexual assault within the military.

NEWS | 11/11/2012

Spike in size of Wilson School prerequisites may offer clue into future size of school

The numbers of students enrolled in the only two courses available this semester that satisfy the new statistics prerequisite for Wilson School undergraduate admission have increased drastically, a potential sign that the number of students concentrating in the Wilson School could increase now that the major has scrapped selective admission.Last fall, 48 students took POL 345: Quantitative Analysis and Politics. But in this year’s course, 121 students are enrolled: a 250-percent increase in enrollment.

NEWS | 11/11/2012

News & Notes: Neuroscience researchers awarded $4 million grant

The John Templeton Foundation, a philanthropic organization that funds research on philosophical questions such as love and creativity, has awarded University neuroscientists a $4-million grant. The grant funds research on how humans control their cognition and behavior to achieve goals.

NEWS | 11/11/2012

News & Notes: Police make arrests in alleged assaults involving fork, knife

Borough Police have charged an employee of Tandoori Bite on Witherspoon Street with simple assault after he allegedly threatened to kill a fellow employee and then allegedly attempted to stab him with a fork on Saturday. The attack occurred in the restaurant, police Captain Nick Sutter said.

NEWS | 11/11/2012

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