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.
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.
The University has already begun construction on what will be the largest building project in its history, the Arts and Transit Neighborhood.
The USG and the Keller Center will host the first Princeton Idea Farm, an idea development competition sponsored by Microsoft, from Feb.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The USG social committee announced on Sunday night that it is considering plans to raise guest fees for this year?s Lawnparties. Social committee chair Carla Javier ?15 asked the Senate for feedback about raising fees from $20 to $25 or $30.
Latino student groups Chicano Caucus and Accion Latina y Amigos are in the process of consolidating into a single club called Princeton Latinos.
Abigail Greene ?13 and Christina Laurenzi ?13 have been awarded ReachOut fellowships of $30,000 to continue their demonstrated commitment to international service.
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.
Using a collection of Michael Jordan shoes, rock songs and child-rearing manuals, a new American studies course taught for the first time this spring will try to teach students U.S.
After receiving substantial followings on Facebook of more than 1,800 friends each, the moderators of Tiger Compliments and Tiger Admirers ? two Facebook accounts that allow students to compliment each other anonymously ? decided to expand their service for Valentine?s Day and arrange an offline handwritten note exchange.
After several years of maintaining a policy of nondisclosure, Princeton?s Quadrangle Club has decided to publicly release this year?s sign-in numbers. According to Quad president Branden Lewiston ?14, 68 students signed into Quad this year.
The price of tuition at the University will surpass $40,000 for the first time next year; 20 years from now, students enrolled at many private universities could face tuition charges upwards of $80,000.
When former United States Senator Kit Bond ?60 came to the University in 1956, he did not expect to pursue a career in politics. ?I thought I was going to be a world-class physicist or engineer,? Bond said. After reluctantly completing an honors course in math, however, Bond said he quickly realized his aptitude for the social sciences.
The Center for African American Studies underwent its first external review last November to evaluate its standing and make recommendations for future expansions.
Longtime Obama adviser and Cabinet Secretary Chris Lu ?88 will leave the White House Feb. 25 to take some time off from his fast-paced Washington career.
