Eight members of the University faculty were elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Academy announced Tuesday. A total of 212 new members were inducted this year.
African American studies professor Cornel West GS ’80 held a discussion with Donna Brazile, a Democratic strategist and political commentator, on the topic of politics and their effects on African Americans in McCosh Hall on Thursday.
Five months after losing a House race to incumbent Rep. Rush Holt, D-N.J., former Republican candidate Scott Sipprelle is still looking to fix what he described as a “broken” political process.
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan spoke on the importance of improving the American education system at Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall on Wednesday. The event, which was sponsored by the Wilson School, was free and open to the public.
Rockefeller College master Stanley Katz entered the Rocky dining hall to have dinner with Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel one April evening in 1984. Instead of the subdued meal he expected, he found the hall filled with most of the college’s students and faculty gathered together to celebrate his 50th birthday at a celebration organized by Malkiel herself.
The Borough Council will take action on the zoning ordinance requested for the University’s Arts and Transit Neighborhood in the next few weeks and the final decision may be resolved by mid-June at the earliest, the Borough Council and Township Committee announced at a joint meeting on Wednesday evening.
African American studies professor Cornel West GS ’80 and Radhanath Swami, a yoga practitioner and director of the Radha Gopinath Ashram, discussed their perspectives on religion and life at a talk titled “East Meets West: Hindu and Christian Perspectives on God, Love and Spiritual Activism” on Tuesday evening in Richardson Auditorium.
On Tuesday, the Office of Religious Life hosted a gathering of remembrance for senior lecturer Antonio Calvo, whose sudden death last week has shocked and troubled students and faculty.
Despite having previously announced that she would move to Princeton Township to seek re-election in the 16th district of New Jersey, Republican State Assemblywoman Denise Coyle said she would remain in Bernards Township and retire at the end of 2011.
Clifford Levy ’89 of The New York Times has won a Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, Columbia University announced on Monday afternoon. Levy, a former Moscow bureau chief and the recently inaugurated deputy editor of the Times’ Metro section, shared the accolade with Ellen Barry for their nine-part “Above the Law” article series that explored corruption, political and judicial misconduct and the abuse of power in post-Communist Russia, sparking heated discussion in the country.
Princeton Record Exchange, located on South Tulane Street, was named one of the top 10 independent record shops in the country in a recent list by Time.
After nearly two years of standing empty, the 140 Nassau St. storefront where Ricky’s Candy, Cones and Chaos once stood will gain a tenant this summer.
The University came in 12th in a recent ranking by The Daily Beast of the 50 most stressful colleges in the country.
Politics and Wilson School professor Larry Bartels will leave the University to teach at Vanderbilt next fall, two politics professors confirmed to The Daily Princetonian.
The University is currently under investigation by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights for various alleged Title IX violations regarding sexual assault reporting.
Former university president William Bowen GS ’58 will deliver the graduate student commencement address at Indiana University Bloomington on May 6, the university announced last week.
Researchers working on the National Spherical Torus Experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory are planning to embark on a list of experiments that will run for eight months, starting in July. The experiments are centered around “scientific puzzles” of plasma and aim to “deepen understanding” of plasma so that its energy can be harnessed, according to a PPPL press release.
Bloomberg Businessweek released its second annual ranking of U.S. colleges by return on investment on April 7. Following salary analyst company PayScale’s methodology, Businessweek’s rankings analyze how well schools prepare graduates for high-paying careers.
Borough and Township residents expressed their support for the University’s proposed Arts and Transit Neighborhood in local advertisements last week that urged the municipal governments to move forward on approving the University’s zoning requests.
