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Bending beams: Focusing ions with ceramic

Bending beams: Focusing ions with ceramic

Erik Gilson of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory isn’t doing anything much different from holding a magnifying glass over an ant on a hot summer day, focusing diffuse rays from the sun to fry a bug to a crisp. Replacing the glass lens with magnets and the ant with a pellet of nuclear fuel gives a rough model of the experiment that his project is trying to carry out.

NEWS | 04/02/2012

Greek members allowed to encourage sophomore rush

The ban on freshman rush will not prevent members of Greek organizations from encouraging first-year students to rush during their sophomore year, members of the Committee on Freshmen Rush Policy confirmed during an open forum on Monday afternoon.Many members of the audience — which totaled upward of 50 students — seemed surprised at the revelation, which was not explicitly outlined in the written policy announced last week.

NEWS | 04/02/2012

News & Notes: Spitzer ’81 takes over television talk show for Keith Olbermann on Current TV

After losing his CNN show in July, former New York governor Eliot Spitzer ’81 returned to television on Friday night on Current TV as the replacement for Keith Olbermann, who was fired by the network. Current TV, led by former vice president Al Gore, will host Spitzer’s show, “Viewpoint with Eliot Spitzer” in Olbermann’s old 8 p.m. daily slot.

NEWS | 04/02/2012

World Trade Center steel arrives in Borough

A piece of steel from the wreckage of the World Trade Center has made its way to Princeton for display in a local monument to commemorate the attacks over 10 years ago. The monument is planned to be completed by Sept. 11 of this year.

NEWS | 04/02/2012

Humanities courses earn high marks

Three months ago, the Office of the Registrar collected through SCORE 15,521 student responses rating the overall quality of courses on a scale of 1 (Poor) to 5 (Excellent). From this data emerges a complex picture of trends in ratings, with humanities, upper-level and smaller courses receiving the highest marks and quantitative and scientific, lower-level and larger courses the lowest. What factors cause some courses to be higher-rated than others?

NEWS | 04/02/2012

Gastfriend ’13 wins Truman prize

Daniel Gastfriend ’13, the co-chair of the Pace Council for Civic Values, the vice president of Princeton Social Entrepreneurship Initiative and a member of the Princeton Footnotes, was named the sole University recipient of the Truman Scholarship.

NEWS | 04/02/2012

Steward of an Institution

When first approached by President Shirley Tilghman in 2004 to become the University’s 11th provost, Christopher Eisgruber ’83 almost choked on his tuna salad sandwich.

NEWS | 04/01/2012

Demographics hold steady

The return of early admissions after a six-year absence coincided with the most competitive application year in University history. Yet despite the reversion to a two-round admission cycle, which President Tilghman said in 2006 disadvantaged students of lower socioeconomic status, the demographic breakdown of the Class of 2016 mirrored those of previous years.

NEWS | 04/01/2012

Trends in majors analyzed at CPUC

Dean of the College Valerie Smith reported on the progress of the University’s Major Choices initiative and presented data on trends in undergraduate major selection at a meeting of the Council of the Princeton University Community last week. Her findings include an 85-percent growth rate in the mathematics department since the initiative began.

NEWS | 04/01/2012

News & Notes: ‘Prince’ Receives Award

The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard honored The Daily Princetonian with its top award for student journalism for the paper’s March 2011 series “The Arming Question.” The three-part series investigated the controversy surrounding arming Public Safety officers.

NEWS | 04/01/2012

USG extends social chair Wagstaff’s term by one semester

The USG voted to extend the term of social chair Benedict Wagstaff ’14 to next winter as part of a constitutional amendment to align the election of the social chair with other members of the executive committee.

NEWS | 04/01/2012

CWR to return to application

After testing an open-enrollment policy for some of its courses this academic year, the Creative Writing Program will be returning to the previous application-based process but with a new and more flexible application.

NEWS | 04/01/2012

News & Notes: Harvard ends HEI investment

Four months after announcing that it would review its investments in HEI, Harvard has decided to not reinvest in the controversial hospitality firm, the Harvard Crimson reported Sunday.

NEWS | 04/01/2012

Silberman '13 awarded $25,000 grand prize in national cook-off

Eric “Ricky” Silberman ’13 was named the national winner of the sixth annual Man-O-Manischewitz Cook-Off on Wednesday, taking home a grand prize of $25,000 in cash and prizes after preparing his dish alongside four other finalists for a live audience in New York City.All five finalists were given one hour to prepare and present their original recipes in front of seven judges and an Upper West Side audience of family, friends, Jewish community members, media and Manischewitz employees. Entries were judged — in order of importance — on taste, ease of preparation, appearance, originality and creativity.

NEWS | 03/29/2012

Rapper Childish Gambino to headline spring lawnparties

Rapper Childish Gambino will headline this spring’s USG-sponsored concert at Lawnparties, according to a representative of Glassnote Records, who declined to be identified.Donald Glover, who uses Childish Gambino as a stage name, is well-known for his premier studio album, “Camp,” released this past November. Glover stars as Troy Barnes on NBC’s hit show “Community.”

NEWS | 03/29/2012

OIT issue delays room draw

Freshmen in Butler, Mathey and Whitman colleges scheduled to participate in room draw between 10:00 a.m. and noon on Thursday were unable to select a room due to “technical interruption of service” on the Housing Office website, according to an email sent by the Housing Office to freshmen whose draw times had to be rescheduled.Students originally scheduled to draw today, in Wilson, Forbes and Rockefeller colleges, have been rescheduled to a future date. The draw will most likely be rescheduled for the week of April 16, the email said. Students will draw at the same assigned times on a different date.

NEWS | 03/29/2012

Katsevich '14, Sinha '13 awarded Goldwater

Aman Sinha ’13 and Eugene Katsevich ’14 were selected to receive the 2012 Goldwater Scholarship, a prestigious award that gives scholarships to sophomore and junior undergraduates who excel academically in the sciences. Both were notified on Tuesday by email from Deirdre Moloney, the Office of International Programs Director of Fellowship Advising.The award is given to students who plan to pursue careers in science, mathematics and engineering.

NEWS | 03/29/2012

News & Notes: Kate Fukawa-Connelly selected as new associate director of HPA

Kate Fukawa-Connelly selected as new associate director of HPA continuing the sea change in the leadership of Health Professions Advising, Dean of the College Valerie Smith announced in an email Thursday that Kate Fukawa-Connelly would become the group’s new Associate Director. She will begin her tenure on May 1.Last week, Smith announced that Glenn Cummings, the director of HPA, had suddenly resigned and been replaced by Jess Deutsch ’91, who vacated the Associate Director slot in January that is now being filled by Fukawa-Connelly. After only one month in her new position as the Director of Student Life in Forbes College, Deutsch resigned from that position as well. Deutsch has now returned to HPA as director part-time.

NEWS | 03/29/2012

U. accepts 7.86 percent

The University offered admission to 7.86 percent — or 2,095 students — out of the 26,664 who applied for a spot in the Class of 2016.The total number of applications includes the 3,443 students who applied to the single-choice early action program in December. 21.09 percent of those students were admitted for the first time since 2006, the last time the University offered an early round of admission.

NEWS | 03/29/2012

2 town officials to retire after 30 years

After more than 30 years of service for Princeton Township, Township Administrator Jim Pascale and Chief of Police Robert Buchanan annouced their plans to retire publicly.The governmental positions in the consolidated Princeton have not yet been determined, though there is speculation that the administrator will be current Princeton Borough Administrator Robert Bruschi, which would leave Pascale without a job.

NEWS | 03/29/2012

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