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Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies tasked to fund, manage research

Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies tasked to fund, manage research

Rebecca Zhang

The University announced last week the creation of the new Stanley J. Seeger ’52 Center for Hellenic Studies, tasked to “oversee, fund, initiate and manage research on all aspects of Hellenic studies, at Princeton and abroad.”

NEWS | 12/01/2011

University encourages women to seek high honors

Luc Cohen

When Kyle Edwards ’12 received an email last spring informing her of fellowship opportunities, she disregarded it.Though she said only students with a specific grade point average or higher are on the fellowship listserv, she rationalized her decision to ignore the email by telling herself that applying to prestigious awards like the Marshall and Rhodes Scholarships takes a lot of effort with only a small chance of return.

NEWS | 12/01/2011

Coursekit pilot program receives mixed responses

Carla Javier

In May 2011, former Penn students Joseph Cohen, Dan Getelman and Jim Grandpre left college early to focus on developing Coursekit, a new learning management system designed to supplant Blackboard use at universities. Their project moved quickly: Coursekit has been initially launched to 3,500 students in 80 courses, with a writing course at Princeton among the first trial courses to use the new program.

NEWS | 11/30/2011

Peck MPA ’94 speaks on recession, consequences

Shreya Nathan

Author and The Atlantic features editor Don Peck MPA ’94 discussed the long-term consequences of the current recession on the crumbling middle class on Wednesday, and he asserted that young adults are hit the hardest by the struggling job market.

NEWS | 11/30/2011

News & Notes: Penn student passes away due to cancer

University of Pennsylvania freshman Annie Zhu passed away due to cancer Tuesday morning at her home in Raritan, N.J.

NEWS | 11/30/2011

Keeping Faith: Shivaji Sondhi

Robert George

The following is the fourth installment of “Keeping Faith,” a six-part series of conversations between politics professor Robert George and University professors of various faiths.

NEWS | 11/30/2011

Panel puts spotlight on AIDS

Alaka Halder

A panel of researchers and activists discussed the challenges surrounding the increasing rates of AIDS among young American gay and bisexual men on Wednesday evening in Frist Campus Center.

NEWS | 11/30/2011

Brown professor lectures on slavery and the morality of early Americans

Sohee Khim

Brown University history professor emeritus Gordon Wood, the recipient of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for History, discussed how the issue of slavery cannot explain the outbreak of the Civil War without taking into account its context within the Revolutionary War.

NEWS | 11/30/2011

Ge Wang GS ’08: Making music through iPhone apps

Prihatha Narasimmaraj

Ge Wang GS ’08 has turned out some pretty quirky iPhone apps. Ocarina is a touchscreen flute that you play by blowing into an iPhone’s microphone. Magic Piano allows you to play duets with a complete stranger. There’s even I Am T-Pain, an app that autotunes your voice to mimic that of Mr. Pain himself.

NEWS | 11/29/2011

Tyson criticizes common views on space exploration

Anastasya Lloyd-Damnjanovic

Astrophysicist, former University lecturer and TV personality Neil deGrasse Tyson launched into a passionate criticism of public attitudes toward space exploration and the dominant myth that America was a pioneer in the field in a lecture on American space exploration to a packed audience in McCosh Hall on Tuesday night.

NEWS | 11/29/2011

Students create gender-neutral housing petition

Ellie Wilkinson

VanderLinden, along with PEP members Timothy Trieu ’14 and Aleks Taranov ’15, was in charge of drafting and devising the gender-neutral housing petition, which went live Nov. 9 on the website gopetition.com. The petition follows the implementation of a pilot program in Spelman Halls during the 2010-11 academic year, that permitted mixed-gender groups to draw into the dormitory’s apartment-style rooms.

NEWS | 11/29/2011

Ordinance could halt construction

Patience Haggin

Borough officials are making a new effort to prevent the University from building its proposed Arts and Transit Neighborhood. At a meeting on Tuesday evening, members of the Borough Council voted unanimously to introduce a new ordinance that would interfere with the University’s plan to build its Arts and Transit Neighborhood.

NEWS | 11/29/2011

News & Notes: Harvard students try to interrupt recruiting event

Occupy Harvard ralliers attempted to interrupt a Goldman Sachs recruiting event held at Harvard’s On-Campus Interview Facility on Massachusetts Avenue Monday afternoon.

NEWS | 11/29/2011

Jacobson presents online documentation project

Marcelo Rochabrun

In a lecture on Tuesday, Yale University professor Matthew Frye Jacobson presented his online American history documentation project called “Historian’s Eye.”

NEWS | 11/29/2011

County working on redistricting consolidated towns

Monica Chon

The Mercer County Board of Elections is currently working on election redistricting for the soon-to-be consolidated Princeton Borough and Township.

NEWS | 11/28/2011

U-Store boosts sales in 2010

Brendan Toole

In conjunction with its 106th anniversary, the Princeton University Store recently announced its financial statements for the past year, boasting sales of $7.5 million for the 2010 fiscal year.

NEWS | 11/28/2011

News & Notes: Princeton, Harvard early admissions seen as potential cause of Penn application decline

Top Colleges educational consultant Steven Goodman is attributing the decline in the early applications pool at the University of Pennsylvania to the reinstatement of Princeton and Harvard’s early action programs, according to The Daily Pennsylvanian.

NEWS | 11/28/2011

University researchers pioneer new reaction robotics

Caleb Kennedy

The prospects of making unexpected and groundbreaking chemical discoveries may have just received a huge boost, thanks to a method recently developed and successfully tested by University researchers.

NEWS | 11/28/2011

ODUS to purge 26 groups

Louise Connelly

This fall, the Student Groups Recognition Committee instated a year-long clean-up initiative that will filter inactive student groups from the current Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students financial database.

NEWS | 11/28/2011

FDIC chair discusses financial malaise

Catherine Ku

Acting chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Martin J. Gruenberg ’75 offered insight on the recent economic crisis from a federal agency’s point of view in a lecture on Monday night.

NEWS | 11/28/2011

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