Two people were shot and killed on Thursday afternoon at Virginia Tech, bringing back memories of the campus’ 2007 shooting, which left 33 people dead and was the deadliest campus shooting in the nation’s history.
Around 20 students staged a protest and walkout at J.P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs recruiting events held on campus Wednesday and Thursday. The demonstrations were part of the Occupy Princeton movement founded this fall in response to the national Occupy Wall Street campaign.
Despite the popular perception that newer residential colleges, such as Whitman and Butler College, have larger endowments to fund more expensive student activities, several University representatives explained that the colleges’ budgets are determined by the number of student residents.
Dr. Mark McClellan, director of the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at the Brookings Institution, presented a lecture on Wednesday titled "Bending the Health Care Cost Curve: Pathway to Real Reform,” in which he illustrated opportunities for improvement on the issue based on his experiences.
The following is the fifth installment of “Keeping Faith,” a six-part series of conversations between politics professor Robert George and University professors of various faiths. Paul Cuff is an electrical engineering professor and practicing Mormon. His work focuses on information theory.
On Wednesday evening, the Mercer County Board of Elections held the first of three public meetings regarding the new election district map for the consolidated Princeton. Open to the public, the meeting was led by the Chairman of the Board Dominic Magnolo.
Women entrepreneurs and venture capitalists discussed their personal experiences and the environment women entrepreneurs face today before a crowd of mostly community members on Wednesday.
The University is set to expand its South Asian Studies certificate program’s linguistic offerings with a new Urdu language program, which will be offered for the first time next fall.
Former New York governor Eliot Spitzer ’81 discussed issues affecting the U.S. government in a talk on Wednesday moderated by Ferris Professor of Journalism and former Newsweek editor-at-large Evan Thomas.
Fulbright grants were awarded to nine students from Princeton’s graduating Class of 2011, four graduate students and two other recent alumni. The grants enable them to study or teach abroad for the 2011-12 academic year. All 15 Fulbright scholars are currently in their host countries.
Nobel Prize Winner Christopher Sims has called for a number of measures to help the European economy recover, Reuters reported on Tuesday.
Legendary broadcast journalist and author Tom Brokaw presented a lecture titled “The Time of Our Lives” about the American dream and how the United States should focus on service.
According to a report released by The Chronicle of Higher Education, University President Shirley Tilghman was paid $910,626 in 2009, ranking 45th of all of the university presidents surveyed for the report.
Most Princeton students have heard of the Breakout Princeton Civic Action Trips organized by the Pace Center for Civic Engagement. Known on campus as Breakout Trips, the trips take place during fall and spring break, though planning for the trips start months earlier. Many Princeton students noted that, while the trips are good learning experiences, they are also a significant time commitment and are by no means a relaxing way to spend fall break — particularly for trip organizers.
Alex Gansa ’84, the executive producer and head writer of the current Showtime series “Homeland” and a writer/producer of “Entourage,” “24,” “The X-Files” and “Dawson’s Creek” spoke on Tuesday about his career path and the experience of working at both network and cable shows.
The University can now move forward with its plans to build its long-planned Arts and Transit Neighborhood. On Tuesday evening the Borough Council approved a zoning ordinance granting the University the right to build its $300 million developments, ending a contentious six-year process.
Nine days before the University announces its early-action admission decisions, Ivy League universities and experts are assessing the impact of Harvard and Princeton’s recent move to reinstate early-action programs.This year, Princeton received 3,547 early-action applications, and Harvard received 4,245. The shift by the two universities created a ripple effect across the Ivy League, admissions experts said, most notably at Yale and Columbia.
Starting on Monday, the Princeton Borough Police will be conducting additional patrols and checkpoints as part of the annual statewide “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” campaign.
Playwright and Artistic Director of McCarter Theatre Emily Mann has been named the 2011 Person of the Year by the National Theatre Conference.
Documentaries are a rich form of storytelling with the ability to mobilize the public and shape public policy, argued documentary filmmaker and editor Purcell Carson and TV producer and human rights law scholar Emily Holland ’01 in a panel Monday evening titled “The Role of Documentary in Shaping Public Policy.”
