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News & Notes: 60 apply for four spots on consolidation transition team

News & Notes: 60 apply for four spots on consolidation transition team

The Borough and Township took another step closer to merging the two municipalities, with nearly 60 local residents expressing interest in being part of a team that would facilitate the transition.The Borough received 28 applications last month, while the Township received 31.

NEWS | 01/08/2012

News & Notes: Bobby Flay to open Burger Palace in MarketFair Mall

Television celebrity chef Bobby Flay will be opening a “Bobby’s Burger Palace” in the Princeton MarketFair Mall later this year. The restaurant will be the 10th in the growing chain of upscale fast food joints, which serve a mixture of hamburgers, fries and shakes.

NEWS | 01/08/2012

News & Notes: Princeton area trails receive federal grant

Three nearby parks and trails were among 49 in New Jersey to receive federal recreation money from the Federal Highway Association, New Jersey Environmental Commissioner Bob Martin announced on Dec. 26.

NEWS | 01/08/2012

Gwen John paintings, worth more than $500,000, discovered

Launa Greer

A collection of watercolor paintings and drawings that had been sitting unidentified for 60 years in the University Library’s Manuscripts Division has been recognized by University of Reading professor Anna Gruetzner Robins as the work of renowned 20th century Welsh artist Gwen John.

NEWS | 01/08/2012

Industry, departments partner on environment

Michael Granovetter

Through an initiative to strengthen ties between the industrial and academic domains of sustainable energy and environmental technology, the University established the Princeton Energy and Environment Corporate Affiliates Program earlier this semester. PSEG, the parent company of the nation’s largest electric and gas company PSE&G, became the program’s first charter member as of Nov. 30.

NEWS | 01/08/2012

News & Notes: 2010 U. graduates leave with second-lowest debt

US News & World Report named the University as having the second-least 2010 graduate debt in the country. The average University student graduated with $4,385 in debt, while the average 2010 graduate nationwide graduated with about $25,000 in debt. The University ranked after only Alice Lloyd College, a small private college in Kentucky, where the average student graduated $3,108 in debt. No other Ivy League school appeared in the “10 Schools with Least 2010 Graduate Debt” rankings.

NEWS | 01/08/2012

News & Notes: Harris-Perry to host MSNBC show

Melissa Harris-Perry, a former African American studies professor at the University, will begin a new weekend program on MSNBC.Harris-Perry left the University last February after claiming that ?[her] colleagues did not value [her] intellectual contributions,? as she told The Daily Princetonian at the time.

NEWS | 01/08/2012

Networks in brain explain violence

Daniel Santoro

Failure in the part of the brain that controls social functions could explain why regular people might commit acts of ruthless violence, according to new study by a University research team.

NEWS | 01/08/2012

News & Notes: Local residents discuss new voting districts

A single voting district would encapsulate all graduate and undergraduate housing under a new zoning plan reportedly favored by local residents to create districts for the newly consolidated Princeton.Before Princeton residents approved consolidation at the polls on Election Day, student housing was split between Princeton Borough and Princeton Township, and consequently different students would report to different polling locations to vote.There are currently 3,057 eligible voters in the larger of the two University voting districts, which was the part that was located in the borough.Under the new plan, there would be 22 voting districts in total in the consolidated Princeton, with larger districts in the western portions of what is now the Township and smaller ones in the more densely populated areas near Nassau Street in what is now the Borough.The plan was designed by the Mercer County Board of Elections with input from a public meeting held on Dec.

NEWS | 01/08/2012

Members of task force selected to address long-term transit needs in Borough, Township

Monica Chon

Princeton Borough, Princeton Township and the University have each selected representatives for a six-member transit task force and the nine-member board of trustees for the Mass Transit Trust Fund. The task force members will study, evaluate and make recommendations concerning long-term transit needs of the Princeton community, especially in light of the development of the Arts and Transit Neighborhood. The trust fund trustees will be charged with planning and implementing improvements to the transit system in Princeton.

NEWS | 01/08/2012

News & Notes: Famed MAE professor dies

Sin-i Cheng GS ’52, a former professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and a pioneer in the study of aerodynamics, died on Dec. 6. He was 89.

NEWS | 01/08/2012

U. to pay more to municipalities

Patience Haggin

Every year, the University makes a voluntary contribution to the Borough and the Township operating budgets in addition to its tax payments. This year, the University has increased its total community contribution — also called a payment in lieu of taxes, or PILOT — to $2.475 million, University officials announced last month.

NEWS | 01/08/2012

Study: Uninformed group can help achieve consensus

Prihatha Narasimmaraj

While it is a commonly appreciated theory that more vocal and persuasive individuals can successfully win the vote of those who are either unsure of or uncommitted to an opinion, a Princeton research team suggests that an uninformed group of individuals actually tends to side with the numerical majority, thus helping to achieve a democratic outcome.

NEWS | 01/08/2012

Borough considers new zoning district

Patience Haggin

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.

NEWS | 12/15/2011

726 offered early admission

Catherine Duazo

The University has offered admission to 726 students out of a pool of 3,443 candidates for the Class of 2016, or 21 percent, through its new single-choice early action program. Decisions for early action admissions were released online Thursday afternoon. These students are expected to make up between 31 and 36 percent of the total number of applicants who will be admitted to the incoming freshman class.

NEWS | 12/15/2011

Lewis ’82 to talk at 2012 Baccalaureate address

Ellie Wilkinson

Writer and journalist Michael Lewis ’82 will speak at the Baccalaureate ceremony on June 3, Class of 2012 president Lindy Li announced in an email to seniors on Thursday morning.

NEWS | 12/15/2011

Tigertones visit the White House, perform for Obama

Sohee Khim

While most University students scrambled to pull the last assignments of the semester together, members of the Tigertones came back late Wednesday night after singing in the West Wing of the White House for President Barack Obama and his guests.

NEWS | 12/15/2011

News & Notes: Harvard accepts 18 percent of 4,231 early applicants

Harvard accepted 772 of 4,231, or 18 percent, of early applicants to the Class of 2016, according to an announcement made on Thursday.

NEWS | 12/15/2011

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