The student group Princeton for Workers’ Rights is protesting the University’s investments in HEI Hospitality LLC, an owner and operator of upscale hotels and resorts accused of mistreating its workers.
Conservationists might need to revise some of their ecosystem management strategies in the future, according to a recent study, conducted by University researchers, that suggests that invasive species might actually benefit the very ecosystems that they are simultaneously harming.
The consolidation of the Borough and Township into a single municipality, a proposal which has attracted national attention since its approval in this month’s elections, will have a positive effect on the community’s financial credit, the Wall Street credit rating firm Moody’s predicted.
“Multinational business corporations will go the same way as General Motors if they don’t learn how to make money,” said Paul Polak, social entrepreneur and founder of the nonprofit organization International Development Enterprises, during his talk titled “The Future of the Corporation” on Monday afternoon in Whig Hall.
Yale received 18 percent fewer early action applications for the Class of 2016 than for the Class of 2015, down to 4,310 applicants from 5,257 in 2010, according to the Yale Daily News.
Four Princetonians were selected from a pool of 830 candidates to win this year’s Rhodes Scholarship, the Rhodes Trust announced early Sunday morning. Mohit Agrawal ’11, Liz Butterworth ’12, Miriam Rosenbaum ’12 and Astrid Stuth ’12 are among the 32 Americans who will receive full funding to study at Oxford for the next two or three years.
Reforms to the academic calendar, transparency in the Undergraduate Student Government and helping students take advantage of the resources available to them were among the issues discussed at the debate between the three presidential candidates and two vice presidential candidates Sunday night.
A U-Haul truck driven by a Yale undergraduate struck three people, killing one, shortly before 10 a.m. Saturday at the tailgate before the Yale-Harvard football game, New Haven Police Department spokesman David Hartman said.
A recent study led by geosciences professor Gerta Keller challenges the most commonly-held belief for the mass-extinction of dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous period 65 million years ago.
Nursing and Wharton senior Jeffrey Lee died Sunday morning after running the Philadelphia Half Marathon, according to University of Pennsylvania spokesperson Phyllis Holtzman.
Andrew Blumenfeld ’13 has won the second and final seat on the La Canada Unified School District governing board, according to updated election results posted Friday afternoon.
Fifteen freshmen are running for the two Class of 2015 senator spots this year, with voting to open on Monday and the winners to be announced on Friday. Their names are: Phway Aye, Elise Backman, Caleb Bradford, Gavin Cook, Chris Costantini, Deana Davoudiasl, Kyle Douglas, Mary Funk, Shawon Jackson, Dalia Katan, Nabeer Khan, Madhu Ramankutty, Paul Riley, Shu Saha and Yifan Zhu.
National correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly James Fallows spoke Thursday afternoon in Dodds Auditorium about the problems facing the modern journalism industry in the era of new media. His lecture, titled “Learning to Love the (Shallow, Divisive, Unreliable) New Media,” was based on his April 2011 article in the Atlantic of the same name.
The salaries of Columbia professors were, on average, 6 percent lower than those of their peers at other Ivy League institutions in 2010, according to an article in the Columbia Spectator.
University students used to battling the rain one day and wearing flip flops the next will be unsurprised to learn that daily weather has become more erratic over the past couple of decades, according to University researchers.
Some of the photographs seem to be of ordinary young men. Vann, 38, from Baltimore could be your smiling neighbor, sitting on the freshly painted red steps of a house.
The Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies has started “PIIRS Undergraduate Fellowships” funded by the Institute to fund summer research for selected fellows, PIIRS director and politics professor Marc Beissinger said in an email.
Thirty-two candidates are seeking election to the USG this year, with the polls opening on Monday after a week of campaigning. The winners will be announced on Friday.
Around 20 students attended a forum held on Wednesday night that was intended to solicit student feedback on implementing the recent ban on freshman rush.
When Princeton astrophysics professor Edwin Turner and Harvard astronomy professor Abraham Loeb traveled to a conference in Abu Dhabi last year, they attended a guided tour of Dubai. Neither expected that this trip would mark the birth of a new idea that may revolutionize modern astrobiology and the search for extraterrestrial intelligent life.
