On Tuesday night Henry Posner III ’77 discussed his proposed joint venture to condemn the University’s ownership of the Dinky station.
A 22-year-old male student was arrested for allegedly attempting to strangle a female student in Cloister Inn on Friday, Borough police reported.
An anonymous Cannon Club alumnus is promoting a contest for undergraduates in recognition of the club's reopening.
University faculty and alumni who work as political consultants said that Daniels’ decision, announced on Saturday night, to not seek the Republican nomination for president in 2012 reflected a genuine concern by his family about the turbulence of a national campaign. Daniels was considered by many to be a frontrunner for the nomination.
Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels ’71 announced in an email to supporters on Saturday that he would not seek the U.S. presidency in 2012.
The Joint Consolidation/Shared Services Study Commission finalized its recommendations for consolidating police and public works departments.
Gov. Chris Christie discussed his economic record during a lecture in McCosh Hall on Friday.
Yina Moore ’79, a member of the Princeton Regional Planning Board, said she has not made a final decision on consolidation and was unsure if the potential monetary savings would outweigh the risk of losing the Borough’s independence.
Dartmouth president Jim Yong Kim announced a Learning Collaborative on High-Risk Drinking on May 2 as the inaugural effort of his National College Health Improvement Project. Princeton is one of 13 colleges to have signed onto the project, with seven more expected to join before June.
There is at least one community on campus that will welcome anyone who wants to join it, yet, in a way, is extremely selective.
After 43 years of helping shape his field and standing up to University administration, geosciences professor Lincoln Hollister will retire this July.
Goldfarb, who is a member of the Joint Consolidation/Shared Services Study Commission of Princeton Borough and Princeton Township, said he has not yet made a firm decision about whether he believes the Commission should recommend that a referendum on consolidation be added to the November ballot.
The Joint Consolidation/Shared Services Commission of Princeton Borough and Princeton Township gave a public presentation on the options for Borough and Township consolidation Wednesday evening.
Representatives of all 14 fraternities and sororities have come together to form the Princeton Greek Council.
President Shirley Tilghman is currently co-chairing a National Institutes of Health review board examining problems with the biomedical career path. Tilghman was appointed as co-chair in December along with NIH Deputy Director for Extramural Research Sally Rockey. NIH announced the remaining 10 members of the board late last month.
The Borough Council, community residents and University representatives met at the Council meeting on Tuesday to discuss the University’s requested zoning for the proposed Arts and Transit Neighborhood, the future of the Dinky train and the memorandum of understanding released last week as a result of negotiations between the Borough and the University.
The Wilson School held a panel titled “After bin Laden: The Implications for Foreign Relations and Policy” in Robertson Hall on Monday.
Four University faculty members were elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the University announced last Tuesday. The Academy is often considered the nation’s most prominent elected body of scientists, and The New York Times has described the distinction of being elected as “an honor considered second only to a Nobel Prize.”
Former university professor Harold Garfinkel passed away from congestive heart failure last month at his Pacific Palisades, Calif., home at the age of 93.
Wilson School professor emeritus Daniel Kahneman and Wilson School professor Alan Blinder ’67 were among four economists named to the American Economic Association’s list of 2011 Distinguished Fellows.
