The number of lockouts reported to the Department of Public Safety has declined dramatically since the implementation of a new policy that fines students for calling Public Safety to be let back into their rooms after business hours.
Harvard accepted 772 of 4,231, or 18 percent, of early applicants to the Class of 2016, according to an announcement made on Thursday.
Supporters who advocated against the University’s plan to move the Dinky station southward are looking for other ways to bring public rail transit further into town. Some seek to create a special committee concerned with the University Place corridor in hopes that this would facilitate the far-off possibility of replacing the Dinky with a light-rail system running as far north as Nassau Street.
Princeton is the most selective college in the Eastern United States, according to The Business Journals’ On Numbers blog.Harvard University came in second, followed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Yale and Columbia.
A psychology concentrator circulated a petition last week calling on the University and other institutions to “increase the standard of treatment of lab animals.” This represents the latest incident of public outcry following allegations that University staffers mistreated primates and rats.
The following is the final installment of “Keeping Faith,” a six-part series of conversations between politics professor Robert George and University professors of various faiths.Eric Gregory is a religion professor and a Reformed Protestant. His research includes religious and philosophical ethics.
The volume of emails sent on the Princeton network can bring an unwelcome distraction: lots of spam. As many students spend hours checking their inboxes, some are beginning to complain about the number of unnecessary emails they are receiving, particularly from residential college listservs.
On Wednesday evening, the Mercer County Board of Elections held its second general public meeting for Princeton residents with the purpose of presenting two possible scenarios for new election districts in the soon-to-be consolidated Princeton.As requested by the University, in the potential election districts map presented to the audience, all the undergraduate and most of the graduate dorms were drawn into one district, with the main campus covered by only two districts.
In a public conversation on Tuesday afternoon, senior members of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee discussed their experiences with the Civil Rights Movement alongside current efforts to transform economic and racial inequality in present-day America.
Patterns of seasonal measles outbreaks can now be monitored using composite satellite nighttime imagery that capture changing nighttime-light brightness, according to a team led by University postdoctoral researcher Nita Bharti.
Invited to speak to a crowd of Occupy Princeton supporters gathered Tuesday evening at Campus Club, Hedges commented on the Occupy movement across the country. A supporter of and activist within the Occupy movement, Hedges started off by discussing the history of radical, socialist and populist movements in America. He then mentioned the current status of Occupy movements, especially the protests in Zuccotti Park, as he has first-hand experience protesting in New York City with the Occupy movement.
Founder and chief executive of Amazon.com Jeff Bezos ’86 and his wife MacKenzie Bezos ’92 are donating $15 million to the University to establish a center in the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, according to a University press release. The donation will create the Bezos Center for Neural Circuit Dynamics.
Goldman Sachs and other research and finance companies are altering their recruitment strategy by putting more emphasis on hiring from interns rather than through information sessions, according to an article published in The Daily Pennsylvanian.
The Undergraduate Student Government’s Committee on Background and Opportunity presented the findings from its COMBO III survey on Monday afternoon, revealing that students’ backgrounds had a statistically significant influence on their Princeton experience.
For 25 years, National Geographic’s Crittercam — a small device worn on a collar around a wild animal’s neck — has given scientists an animal’s-eye view of the world by capturing video, sound and other data.
Polartec has announced Princeton University’s Outdoor Action program as one of its finalists in this year’s Made Possible Challenge, putting Outdoor Action in the running for a $10,000 prize.
To understand the state of the nation three years after “one of the most upsetting and baffling episodes of financial history,” one must examine current economic practices and regulation of the financial services industry through a historical lens. Only thus can one determine whether those involved in creating and enabling the 2008 crisis have been held accountable Gretchen Morgenson, assistant business and financial editor and columnist at the New York Times, argued before a crowd of 150 in Dodds Auditorium on Monday night.
Animal rights organizations from New Jersey and Philadelphia organized protests at the intersection of Nassau Street and Washington Road Friday afternoon to protest new allegations of animal deaths at the University.
Consumers might have an extra incentive when holiday shopping this season, Meghan Sebold explained in a lecture on sustainable fashion on Monday evening.
In a press release published on its website last Thursday, the animal activist group Stop Animal Exploitation Now! accused the University of allowing at least 10 laboratory rats to die of starvation.According to the account by an anonymous former laboratory employee, the rats were not given food or water in what was perhaps a miscommunication between animal staff and research staff. Two of the rats starved to death after a period of days and those remaining needed to be euthanized.
