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News & Notes: Hessler ’92 selected as a MacArthur Fellow

News & Notes: Hessler ’92 selected as a MacArthur Fellow

Peter Hessler ’92 was named one of 22 new MacArthur Fellows for 2011 by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation on Tuesday. He will receive $500,000 in “no strings attached” support over the next five years, which will be paid out in equal quarterly installments.

NEWS | 09/21/2011

Robert George, alumni hold panel on conservative community on campus

Teddy Schleifer

Politics professor Robert George and four recent alumni shared stories and advice with 30 students during a panel session Wednesday night in Frist Campus Center, discussing life on a campus that the panelists deemed relatively diverse but nevertheless a difficult environment for conservative students.

NEWS | 09/21/2011

Students discuss Middle East landscape

Caleb Kennedy

Students gathered on the south lawn of Frist Campus Center on Wednesday to discuss the changing landscape of the Middle East and issues related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as part of “Talk Israel: Join the Conversation.”

NEWS | 09/21/2011

Mayoral candidates discuss consolidation

Patience Haggin

Candidates for Princeton Borough mayor spoke out on issues of municipal consolidation, the upcoming Valley Road School decision, and ways to reform the Borough’s budget management in a community forum on Tuesday evening. In an overwhelmingly Democratic Borough, this November’s election is the first competitive race for mayor in decades.

NEWS | 09/20/2011

News & Notes: Penn neglects to inform students of professor’s passing

Undergraduates waiting for the first seminar of Political Science 291: Citizenship and Democratic Development at the University of Pennsylvania last week received some unexpected news as they waited for class to begin: Their professor, Henry Teune, had passed away five months previously, and the University had forgotten to cancel the class, according to the email students recieved in the middle of the uncancelled class.

NEWS | 09/20/2011

New method could prove existence of dark matter

One of the cosmology’s greatest unsolved mysteries is the nature of dark matter, a mysterious and invisible substance that dominates over 20 percent of the universe’s observable mass. But recent findings by the University’s Shravan Hanasoge, a post-doctoral student in the geosciences department, and New York University’s Michael Kesden about primordial black holes — theoretical remnants of the Big Bang and one of a handful of potential sources for dark matter — may give scientists a new way to unlock the secrets of the elusive substance

NEWS | 09/20/2011

Threats arise at Muslim Students Association event

A local man claiming to be part of the Knights Templar was arrested on Saturday night after allegedly interrupting a Muslim Student Association welcome back dinner and telling students that “Muslims are going to hell."

NEWS | 09/20/2011

Singer discusses importance of health care reform

Peter Singer, a professor with the University Center for Human Values, presented a talk on “Rationing Health Care” on Tuesday. The event, open to the public, was sponsored by the Student Bioethics Forum.

NEWS | 09/20/2011

Director of ‘The Wire’ Simon discusses career

On Tuesday night in McCosh 50, journalist and television producer David Simon delivered a lecture titled “The End of the American Century and What’s in it for You?” Simon was the first of this year’s three Belknap Visitors in the Humanities.

NEWS | 09/20/2011

Monks create mandala in Frist

This week, men in red and orange robes, the Tibetan Monks of the 2011 Drepung Gomang Monastery Sacred Arts Tour, will construct an interfaith sacred sand mandala — a three-dimensional drawing made of sand.

NEWS | 09/20/2011

News & Notes: Researchers: Brain need a cool down? Try a yawn

University students are likely familiar with yawning as a sign of sleepiness — or boredom — but new research by Andrew Gallup, a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, has shown that yawning may also be a method for cooling down the brain.

NEWS | 09/19/2011

12 faculty join emeritus status

Launa Greer

At the end of the 2010-11 school year, 12 faculty members from a range of departments were transferred to emeritus status by the University’s Board of Trustees.

NEWS | 09/19/2011

Senior EU official talks foreign policy, economics

Kurt Brendel

Catherine Ashton, vice president of the European Commission and high representative for foreign affairs and security policy for the European Union, discussed the foreign and economic policy issues binding the 27 EU member states in a talk at Robertson Hall on Monday.

NEWS | 09/19/2011

Intelligence sharing top focus after 9/11 attacks

Henry Rome

The U.S. Intelligence Community has made “important progress” implementing the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission, but institutional culture and potential budget reductions pose growing challenges to the government’s intelligence efforts, said Christopher Kojm GS ’79, the commission’s former deputy executive director, in a lecture Monday afternoon.

NEWS | 09/19/2011

Google Books case stalls

Regina Wang

While little progress has been made in the Google digital books case, which was adjudicated by U.S. Circuit Court Judge Denny Chin ’75, Chin proposed a schedule for the trial against Google last week, setting the case to go to court next year.

NEWS | 09/19/2011

Thomas Sweet to open 200 stores in China

Kelly Hall

University students and community members alike know Thomas Sweet as an ice cream store that serves rich, homemade ice cream in a family-friendly atmosphere.

NEWS | 09/19/2011

SFER founders take year off to expand organization

Jenna McCarthy

Catharine Bellinger ’13 and Alexis Morin ’13 are taking a year away from their studies at the University to expand Students for Education Reform, a nonprofit organization they founded whose goal is to mobilize student leaders on college campuses to close the educational achievement gap.

NEWS | 09/18/2011

News & Notes: Former Princeton professor steps down as Brown president

Former Princeton vice provost Ruth Simmons will be stepping down as president of Brown University at the end of this academic year, Brown announced on Thursday.

NEWS | 09/18/2011

Union protests University with inflatable rat

Patience Haggin

A 20-foot inflatable rat sat in front of Firestone Library earlier this week as a form of protest against the University’s contract employing nonunionized asbestos removal workers.

NEWS | 09/18/2011

PCDO hosts panel on consolidation

Patience Haggin

Borough and Township residents weighed the pros and cons of municipal consolidation at a forum hosted by the Princeton Community Democratic Organization on Sunday evening. Residents will vote on consolidation on Nov. 8.

NEWS | 09/18/2011

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