For students who struggle in the traditional school setting, the Princeton Learning Cooperative, in its first full year, offers an alternative method of education based on individual student needs.
At many University lectures, one can often find attendees who don’t seem to fit the stereotype of the Princeton student. They usually sit at the back, and they don’t need to attend precepts. They also don’t write papers or take exams.
Roundtable, a startup company co-founded by Princeton student Josh Miller, has been named one of Business Insider’s 20 most innovative tech startups of 2011, the online business journal announced on Nov. 8.
The Borough and Township’s recent decision to consolidate has received national media attention, including an editorial in The Philadelphia Inquirer published on Tuesday.
The Township Committee voted unanimously to grant the University’s requested zoning to create an Arts and Transit Neighborhood on Monday evening.
Economics professor Alan Blinder ’67 presented a public lecture on the economic downturn and potential recovery on Monday night titled “Storm Clouds Rising: Are There Ways Out.” “I was thinking I would just call this lecture: ‘The Mess,’ ” Blinder joked, underscoring the somewhat pessimistic tone of the lecture, which was part of the Wilson School’s Economic Recovery Series.
McKay Jenkins GS ’96 discussed his bestselling new book on the growing presence of synthetic chemicals in our bodies and the environment, “What’s Gotten into Us? Staying Healthy in a Toxic World,” in Guyot Hall on Monday afternoon.
An event held by Einstein’s Alley, an organization which seeks to foster technology-based entrepreneurship in New Jersey, drew around 80 participants from a variety of fields to the Frick Chemistry Laboratory’s Taylor Commons on Monday night.
FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III ’66 and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson GS ’86 will be awarded the Woodrow Wilson Award and James Madison Medal, respectively, during Alumni Day on Feb. 25, 2012.
The Council of the Princeton University Community convened to discuss the Arts and Transit Neighborhood project and University finances on Monday evening.
In a lecture titled “Investigating Health and Human Rights Abuse” on Sunday evening, Wilson School visiting lecturer Joseph Amon described health as a “human right.”“Human rights are really about how people with certain health conditions are subject to discrimination,” Amon said, citing examples such as how people diagnosed with HIV/AIDS are shunned by their communities.
Princeton media institution The Packet Media Group — composed of the Princeton Packet and its 10 sister newspapers — and its Princeton property on Witherspoon Street, are up for sale, according to a statement by James Kilgore, the president and owner of the newspaper publishing company. The Packet is home to over 100 employees.
Cincinnati City Council member P.G. Sittenfeld ’07 became the youngest Cincinnati city council member ever when he won the election with 30,474 votes, the second-highest number of votes, last Tuesday.
The sudden birth of the Arab Spring took even the most seasoned State Department diplomats by surprise, former U.S. ambassador to Yemen Barbara Bodine said in a lecture titled “A Time for Every Season: Assessing the Arab Spring” in Jadwin Hall on Saturday morning.
The implementation of the ban on freshman affiliation with a fraternity or sorority was furthered last week, as an online survey soliciting suggestions on how to administer the new policy was made available to students on Thursday.
Princeton released its third annual Sustainability Report on Nov. 9, confirming its progress in sustainable practices on campus, including a 2.6 percent reduction in greenhouse emissions from 2008 and a 13 percent decrease in water and landfill waste since 2006.
To appreciate the role that social media plays in the Arab Spring, London revolts or Occupy movements, we must first understand how larger media networks function and encourage civic participation, according to Ethan Zuckerman, director of the Center for Civic Media at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and principal research scientist at MIT’s Media Lab, who spoke in a lecture Thursday night in Sherrerd Hall.
Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye announced that 3,547 students applied to Princeton’s single-choice early action program.
“I remember sitting in class here,” Jonathan Safran Foer ’99 said as he sat down with creative writing professor Joyce Carol Oates for an armchair discussion, “Writing Life,” in McCosh Hall 50 on Thursday. “It’s strange and exciting to be back and on stage.”
