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

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

Cottage loses tax-exempt bid

Patience Haggin

Still smarting from the wounds of losing a 10-year battle for tax-exempt status a year ago, Cottage Club was informed by a state court earlier this month that it can no longer pursue appeals of taxes it paid several years ago.

NEWS | 11/27/2011

Easton ’09, Rutherford ’12 win Marshall scholarship

Michael Granovetter

In addition to Christina Chang ’12, Samuel Dorison ’11 and Kyle Edwards ’12, whose names The Daily Princetonian reported on Wednesday, Alice Easton ’09 and Emily Rutherford ’12 have also been named recipients of 2012 Marshall Scholarships.

NEWS | 11/27/2011

Holes blocked with cap transmit more light, researchers find

Buyan Pan

It seems intuitive: Blocking a hole with a solid object should prevent light from moving through it. But it turns out that obstructing a tiny metal hole with a metal cap actually makes more light penetrate it instead, according to new research by electrical engineering professor Stephen Chou and his team of researchers.

NEWS | 11/27/2011

News & Notes: Gallup ’53, son of Gallup Poll founder, dies at 81

George Gallup, Jr. ’53, the son of Gallup Poll founder George Gallup, died at his home in Princeton on Nov. 21 at age 81. The pollster was diagnosed with liver cancer last year.

NEWS | 11/27/2011

News & Notes: Harvard receives record 4,245 early applications

Harvard announced that it has received 4,245 early applications for the Class of 2016 in the first year of the early action program’s reinstatement since it was eliminated four years ago.

NEWS | 11/27/2011

Ettman ’13, Easop ’13 enter runoff

Marcelo Rochabrun

USG presidential candidates Bruce Easop ’13 and Catherine Ettman ’13 will enter a run-off race for the position, USG president Michael Yaroshefsky ’12 announced in an email sent out to the student body on Friday evening.Ettman received 1,067 votes, or 48.41 percent of the total cast for president — just short of the simple majority needed to win. Easop received 754 votes, or 34.21 percent. The run-off race will run from Monday to Wednesday.

NEWS | 11/27/2011

Web Update: Easop '13, Ettman '13 to enter runoff for USG presidency

USG presidential candidates Bruce Easop '13 and Catherine Ettman '13 will enter a runoff race for the position, USG president Michael Yaroshefsky '12 said in an email sent out to the student body on Friday evening.

NEWS | 11/24/2011

Web Update: Easton ’09, Rutherford ’12 also Marshall recipients

Emily Rutherford ’12, a history major, and Alice Easton ’09, who concentrated in ecology and received a certificate from the Wilson School, are also recipients of the 2012 Marshall Scholarship. The total number of Princetonians who recieved the prize this year is five.

NEWS | 11/22/2011

Wilson School’s Kurtzer, politics professor Jamal discuss U.S. role in Israel, Palestine conflict

Regina Wang

Wilson School professor Daniel Kurtzer, former U.S. ambassador to Israel and Egypt, and politics professor Amaney Jamal discussed the reasons the United States should take action on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in a public forum on Tuesday.

NEWS | 11/22/2011

Keeping Faith: Martha Himmelfarb

Robert George

The following is the third installment of “Keeping Faith,” a six-part series of conversations between politics professor Robert George and University professors of various faiths. Martha Himmelfarb is a religion professor and practicing Jew. Her work focuses on religion in late antiquity, in particular the Jewish and Christian traditions.

NEWS | 11/22/2011

News & Notes: Cannadine emphasizes the importance of history class

History professor David Cannadine ’74 is garnerning attention for arguing in his upcoming book, “The Right Kind of History,” that history should be made a compulsory subject in the British school system up through the GCSE level or until students reach age 16.

NEWS | 11/22/2011

2 students, 1 alumnus named Marshall scholars

Sohee Khim

Samuel Dorison ’11, Kyle Edwards ’12 and Christina Chang ’12 have been chosen as three of 40 recipients of the 2012 Marshall Scholarship, which funds “young Americans of high ability to study for a degree in the United Kingdom,” according to its website.

NEWS | 11/22/2011

Christie talks consolidation

Monica Chon

In an open forum-style town hall meeting at the Princeton Public Library on Tuesday, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie congratulated the town of Princeton on the consolidation of the Borough and Township before fielding questions from the audience. Joining Christie were Township Mayor Chad Goerner and Borough Council President Kevin Wilkes ’83.

NEWS | 11/22/2011

Dumpster diving for dinner

Catherine Ku

In the summer after his sophomore year at Princeton, Alex Barnard ’09 was sent a New York Times article on “freeganism” by his girlfriend. The article came with a warning: If he became a freegan, she would break up with him.

NEWS | 11/22/2011

Institute of Advanced Study to continue construction despite battlefield’s history

Emily Tseng

The Institute for Advanced Study is moving forward with plans to build housing on land immediately adjacent to Princeton Battlefield State Park. The Institute will go before the Princeton Regional Planning Board on Dec. 1 with a proposal for a 7.3-acre residential complex. The proposed project site lies directly between the Institute and the Battlefield State Park on land owned privately by the Institute.

NEWS | 11/22/2011

News & Notes: Global panel predicts global warming-caused weather extremes

Patience Haggin

Unprecedented weather extremes — floods, heat waves and droughts — will occur more regularly as global warming worsens, according to international climate scientists and disaster experts on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change after meeting in Uganda.

NEWS | 11/21/2011

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