Hannah Freed-Thall, Douglas Jones Jr., Joel Lande, Ellen Lockhart and Tey Meadow have joined the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts for the 2011-12 academic year.
African-American studies professor Cornel West GS ’80 criticized Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain for smoking a “symbolic crack pipe” after Cain’s suggestion that racism no longer matters in the United States.
While he was a senior at Northwestern University in 2000, Nick Ehrmann GS ’10 decided to apply for Teach for America out of what he called “a pretty abstract desire of wanting to do some good in the world.”
Director of the United States Office of Personnel Management John Berry spoke yesterday in Robertson Hall on the value of “Public Service in the 21st Century” and the large-scale impact individuals can have by working with the federal government.
When the U.S. News & World Report released its list of America’s best national universities for 2011-12 earlier this year, the spotlight was on the University’s return to number one. Tying with Harvard and forging ahead of Yale, the University made the top of the list for the first time since 2009.
Unbeknownst to many University students, the campus lies across two municipalities: Princeton Borough and Princeton Township.
One week after dispelling rumors about his own 2012 presidential run, New Jersey Governor and University ex officio trustee Chris Christie endorsed former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney’s bid for the Republican presidential nomination on Tuesday afternoon.
On Wednesday night in the James M. Stewart ’32 Theater in the Lewis Center for the Arts, author and translator Stephen Mitchell read excerpts from his new translation of Homer’s “Iliad,” released on Oct. 11.
James Mulvenon, the vice president of Defense Group, Inc.’s Intelligence Division and a Chinese military expert, discussed cybersecurity and U.S.-China relations on Wednesday in Robertson Hall as part of the Princeton-Harvard China and the World program, co-sponsored by the Center for Information Technology Policy.
James Steward, director of the University Art Museum, has been selected to participate in the National Arts Strategies’ Chief Executive Program for 2011-13.
In an effort to give University email account users the benefits of one of the most advanced and robust email system available, the Office of Information Technology is in the process of upgrading faculty, staff and student group emails from the IMAP to the more advanced Microsoft Exchange server.
Steve Runk has been appointed director of communications of the Lewis Center for the Arts, according to an announcement on Sunday by acting chair of the Lewis Center Michael Cadden.
Visiting economics professor and former Deutsch Bundesbank president Axel Weber discussed the root cause of and recommended solution to Europe’s economic problems in “The Euro Crisis: Challenges and Opportunities,” the first pre-inaugural event for the Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance, in a crowded Dodd Auditorium on Tuesday afternoon.
In the past month, a number of animal activist groups have criticized the University and other Ivy League schools for their laboratories’ treatments of animals used in medical research, but spokespersons at these schools have rejected the accuracy of these reports and reiterated their emphasis on avoiding incidents.
Kyle Ofori ’13, Nathan Jones ’14 and Michael Becker ’14 placed first, second and third, respectively, in the inaugural Hong Kong Cup Chinese Speech Contest on Oct. 8.
Princeton International Academy Charter School is suing South Brunswick, Princeton Regional and West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional school districts to prevent them from interfering with the charter school’s opening. A judge in Trenton heard the dispute on Tuesday.
Receiving a fatherly pat on the cheek from “the most dangerous man in Pakistan,” watching as an intelligence officer compared waterboarding to salted peanuts and receiving a compliment on a pair of boots from a Somali general with suspected ties to Osama bin Laden are but a few of the many bizarre stories recounted by Toronto Star journalist Michelle Shephard in her new book, “Decade of Fear: Reporting from Terrorism’s Grey Zone.”
Wilson School lecturer and former U.S. Ambassador to Yemen Barbara Bodine discussed development in Yemen over the past three decades and the country’s future possibilities in a lecture in Robertson Hall on Tuesday night.
Bioethics professor Peter Singer and GiveWell.org co-founder Holden Karnofsky spoke about global poverty in a talk sponsored by the American Whig-Cliosophic Society and the Princeton chapter of Giving What We Can on Tuesday.
The Army microbiologist accused of mailing anthrax-laden letters from a mailbox in Princeton a decade ago did not, in fact, have the technical skill needed to manufacture the spores, a team of scientists asserted this week. This raises the possibility that one of the largest FBI investigations in history failed to identify co-conspirators or the right suspect.
