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Coursera head talks online education

Coursera head talks online education

The co-founder of Coursera — the new online platform launched this summer at the University that has grown exponentially in the past few months — said, “education is the great equalizer,” in a lecture Wednesday afternoon. Coursera, she said, allows everyone around the world to access educational content online.

NEWS | 10/17/2012

Entire lecture course takes large-scale field trip

Using funds from the University endowment and departmental administrative allowances, the ecology and evolutionary biology department paid for 151 students enrolled in an introductory lecture course to travel to New York City’s American Museum of Natural History

NEWS | 10/17/2012

Psychology professor Darley cited in three-car crash

Psychology professor emeritus John M. Darley, 74, was cited by police for allegedly causing a three-car accident Tuesday morning in town. No one was injured.

NEWS | 10/16/2012

News & Notes: Racial slur discovered on bulletin wall in 1967 Hall

Public Safety responded to a report of a bias or hate crime in 1967 Hall in Butler College this weekend.

NEWS | 10/16/2012

Slaughter ’80, Londregan GS ’88 speak before debate

Before Mitt Romney and Barack Obama battled out their political differences on national television, Wilson School professors Anne-Marie Slaughter ’80 and John Londregan GS ’88 discussed their opposing ideologies in Richardson Auditorium.

NEWS | 10/16/2012

Students look to expand gender-neutral housing

Student leaders are working with administration to look into expanding the growing gender-neutral housing program to all upperclassmen rooms in future years. The Princeton Equality Project, an LGBT activism student organization, is one of the strongest advocates on campus for the change. The Undergraduate Life Committee, a joint USG-administration committee, has considered the proposal, ULC chair Adi Rajagopalan ’13 confirmed.

NEWS | 10/16/2012

Student Life Committee to include 5 graduate students

The new University Student Life Committee will be composed of 10 undergraduate and five graduate students, reflecting a change to the charter of the USG's Student Life Committee.Last May, the USG passed a charter change to rename the Undergraduate Student Life Committee the University Student Life Committee and allow graduate students to participate in the group.

NEWS | 10/16/2012

News & Notes: USG has yet to deliver COMBO III survey findings as planned

Despite earlier plans to release the full results of its COMBO III survey in the first two weeks of October, the USG has not yet done so. This data set will include a recently conducted analysis of the results of the survey, which was administered in the summer of 2011.

NEWS | 10/15/2012

College Democrats, Republicans plan fall break campaigning efforts

The two largest student-run political groups on campus are taking advantage of the original purpose of fall break: participating in the elections. The week before the presidential election, the College Democrats and College Republicans plan to canvass in two crucial battleground states.

NEWS | 10/15/2012

U. hires additional faculty to meet large Class of 2016

The University hired additional lecturers and Assistants in Instruction for the academic year and increased the number of classes offered to accommodate additional students due to the over-enrollment of the Class of 2016.No new professorial faculty were hired because the University had already completed its faculty hiring process for the year by the time it learned the freshman class would be larger than usual.

NEWS | 10/15/2012

In high-stakes debate, Obama may use lessons from past advisor

When President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney trade jabs tonight in the second presidential debate of this campaign cycle, they won’t be making up their one-liners on the spot. According to Visiting Research Scholar in the Program in Law and Public Affairs Mark Alexander, who has helped numerous Democratic candidates prepare for debates, candidates get most of their language from a “debate book.”

NEWS | 10/15/2012

At the helm of their classroom - and of the University

In addition to being active members of the University administration, many high-ranking staff members teach as professors in the Freshman Seminar Program. For administrators with a background in academia, the program represents an opportunity to return to their original vocation, but those without teaching experience have to adapt.

NEWS | 10/14/2012

Roach '75 runs Buddhist retreat in desert

While studying at the University, Michael Roach ’75 briefly landed in jail for helping to disrupt napalm weapons research at the Institute for Advanced Study. These days, he runs a three-year Buddhist retreat in the Arizona desert, in which retreaters isolate themselves in silence and use yoga and meditation to explore their minds.

NEWS | 10/14/2012

Q&A: Creator of Nassau St. cutouts

Since they first popped up near the U-Store on Nassau Street, the life-size cutouts of famous people affiliated with the University have been popular with everyone from students to tourists. On Nassau Street, people can currently take photographs with cutouts of first lady Michelle Obama ’85, former Director of the Institute for Advanced Study Robert Oppenheimer, Albert Einstein, former creative writing professor Toni Morrison, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor ’76, former University President Woodrow Wilson, Class of 1879 and CIA Director David Petraeus GS ’87. Former African American Studies professor Cornel West GS ’80 and former University trustee and U.S. President Grover Cleveland are on the way.

NEWS | 10/14/2012

Projects Board violated constitution, USG says

The USG acknowledged Sunday night that its student group funding subsidiary violated the USG constitution by funding two projects without the appropriate approval of the USG Senate.At last week’s Senate meeting, the funding branch — the Projects Board — informed the student government that it had transferred $1,800 and $1,200 to two student groups. According to the USG constitution, any Projects Board allocations in excess of $1,000 must be approved by the Senate.

NEWS | 10/14/2012

News & Notes: Class of 2016 elect five for freshman council

The Class of 2016 elected Justin Ziegler, Molly Stoneman, Gwen Lee, Priya Krishnan and Fiz Dhanani to form the inaugural freshman class council. Following a USG referendum last semester, the freshman class now elects a class government of equals rather than a government dictated by a hierarchical system led by a class president.

NEWS | 10/14/2012

Game theorist Shapley GS ’53 wins economics Nobel Prize

Lloyd Shapley GS ’53, a noted game theory scholar and professor emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles, was awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel yesterday. He shared the award with Harvard economics professor Alvin Roth.

NEWS | 10/14/2012

Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action could affect Princeton

The Supreme Court’s decision in the affirmative action case Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin could have implications for Princeton’s own admissions policy, according to University General Counsel Peter McDonough.“We hope and expect it will not,” McDonough said in an email, on the possibility that the Court’s decision could impact the University. “However, depending upon what the Court says and how it says it, it could.”

NEWS | 10/14/2012

Ettman '13, Morell '13 to serve on Princeton presidential search committee

Catherine Ettman ’13 and Jeff Morell ’13 will serve as the two undergraduate representatives on the search committee to select the University’s 20th president, the University announced on Monday morning.The 17-member committee will also include nine trustees and will be led by University Board of Trustees chair and presidential search committee chair Kathryn Hall ’80. The other trustees are John Diekman ’65, Laura Forese ’83, Joshua Grehan ’10 — who is a Young Alumni Trustee — board vice chair Brent Henry ’69, Randall Kennedy ’77, clerk of the board Robert Murley ’72, Nancy Peretsman ’76 and James Yeh ’87. Henry and Murley served on the committee that chose current University president, Shirley Tilghman.

NEWS | 10/14/2012

Perceptions of friendliness and competence inversely related, Princeton research team finds

To appear warm people convey themselves as less competent, and to appear competent people convey themselves as less warm, according to a recent study conducted by a team of researchers in the psychology department.

NEWS | 10/13/2012

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