The Princeton Review has ranked Princeton the fourth best value private college behind Swarthmore, Harvard and Williams in its 2013 list of 150 Best Value Colleges.
The years spent by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor ’76 at the University were marked by academic insecurity, but ultimately served to broaden the horizons of the future judge, she wrote in her recently published memoir, “My Beloved World.”
Referred to as a “founding father of modern mathematical physics” by those who knew his work, the University’s Thomas D. Jones Professor Emeritus Arthur Wightman GS ’49 died of Alzheimer’s disease on Jan. 13 at the age of 90.
The local Princeton Alcohol and Drug Alliance announced at a meeting Thursday that it will form a task force to review a proposed ordinance that would prohibit underage drinking on private property. If passed, the ordinance would give police officers the ability to issue a summons punishable by a fine to minors under the age of 21 who consume alcohol on private property.
When Zach Koerbel ’16 and Jeremy Cohen ’16 signed up for COS 217: Introduction to Programming Systems this December, they had little hope of enrolling in their preferred preceptor’s section. According to Cohen, it is nearly impossible for freshmen to enroll in the two precepts taught by lead preceptor Robert Dondero because they usually fill to capacity during junior course registration. Determined, nonetheless, to defy the odds, the two prospective engineers wrote a script allowing them to monitor the course’s enrollment activity indefinitely and eventually snag two seats in the class.
Over the next few weeks, Alan Chang ’14 will begin the search for Princeton undergraduates to share their knowledge of physics, kung fu, origami and hip-hop with high school students from across the tri-state area at the University’s first Splash program event set for April 27.
Lisa Jackson GS ’86, current administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, will step down on Feb. 14, sparking speculation that she could replace outgoing President Shirley Tilghman at the end of this academic year.
The University’s High-Performance Computing Research Center, a 47,000-square-foot facility opened on the Forrestal campus in 2011, has revolutionized the scale on which scientists can perform computational research. Capable of analyzing data sets from disciplines as diverse as astrophysics and genetics, the HPCRC’s modern design provides impressive computing power at a small environmental cost.
The energy infrastructure company Williams has proposed an expansion of its gas pipeline project in several New Jersey counties that includes the construction of 1.5 miles of pipeline through Princeton.
After a pilot semester, Whitman College plans to continue an informal mentorship program it began this fall. The program, known informally as the Whitman Family or "Sibs," matches freshmen with sophomores who previously lived in the same rooms.
The University’s 27-acre solar collector field in West Windsor was completed this summer and became fully operational in October 2012. The field, which generates 8 million kilowatt-hours of energy annually, provides about 6 percent of the University’s total energy used.
The Princeton Council approved a three-person task force to examine the need for consolidation of the three existing Princeton firehouses on Jan. 14. Possibilities for expansion include rebuilding the current Witherspoon Street firehouse and expanding into the Valley Road School.
The University’s operating budget for the 2013-14 fiscal year will include a 3.8 percent increase in the undergraduate fee package and a 4.6 percent increase in the total amount allocated for financial aid, according to a report by the Priorities Committee.
Liz Lempert, the first mayor of the consolidated Princeton, can seem more like a community organizer than a politician. Nevertheless, Lempert — a mother and local advocate who became known in the community through her involvement with the Obama campaign — has risen to the top of Princeton local politics in just five years.
Approximately 40 percent of students who applied to be residential college advisors were offered a position this year, according to Associate Dean of Undergraduate Students Michael Olin.Out of 245 applications for 97 available positions, 52 were filled with new students and 45 with returning RCAs. Fourteen of the applicants were chosen to be alternate residential college advisors, or ARCAs.
In a new initiative, University faculty and staff are working together to encourage the development of digital tools in the study of the humanities. The Digital Humanities Initiative at Princeton is a project to bring together members of the University community who are working to explore how digital tools may be used to aid humanistic scholars.
Only a year after the University launched the Princeton in Brazil program, the University is instituting a new Princeton in Argentina summer study abroad program in Buenos Aires. In a partnership with the Universidad de Belgrano, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures and the Program in Latin American Studies will jointly offer one intermediate and one advanced Spanish course exclusively for University students.
All schools in Plainsboro and West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South were put on lockdown Tuesday afternoon after West Windsor police lost sight of a man and a woman carrying hunting rifles.
Students were unable to access the Student Course Online Registration Engine at the beginning of the formal course add/drop period for less than an hour due to an error made in the Office of the Registrar on Monday morning.
Undergraduate Housing has expanded the gender-neutral housing option into the residential colleges for the first time, according to the 2013 Undergraduate Room Draw Guide. The option, which allows students of different genders to live together, will now be available to rising sophomores, juniors and seniors in the residential college draws in addition to the draw already available in upperclass dormitories.
