Alumni, along with family and friends, flocked to campus on Saturday to attend events held on the University’s Alumni Day.
Intel has awarded a $1.3 million grant to a team of researchers from Princeton, Oxford, Rice University and the University of British Columbia to invent technology that would increase the reliability of and discover errors in firmware, a type of software embedded in computer chips.
The USG approved four new student groups at the USG Senate Meeting held in Frist Campus Center on Sunday night. Princeton Equality Project, Princeton Flutes, Princeton Scandinavian Association and Princeton Opera Company were unanimously approved by the USG senate.
Responding to natural disasters, hostage takings, mass uprisings, drug cartels and economic collapse was all in a day’s work for the participants at the Princeton Interactive Crisis Simulation, which took place this weekend at the Friend Center.
When archeologist Wade Catts, mapping specialist Matthew Harris and historian Robert Selig teamed up in 2009 to study the historical significance of the Battle of Princeton, they never expected to uncover evidence that would overturn decades-old beliefs about the battle’s history.
The Excellence in Teaching Awards for the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences were presented in a ceremony Thursday at the Friend Center.
Ed Kelley ’13 lives in a room with an entrance just like that of any other room in Whitman, with the exception of a crest on the nameplate next to the door. The shield contains the flags of Texas, Hong Kong, Brazil and Florida surrounded by a moose and a lobster, with the motto “praeterire feminas acquirere pecuniam.” Inside, a leather armchair, an oriental rug and a TV set to the fireplace channel greet visitors. This isn’t a typical student dorm. Welcome to the Chalet.
As Cap & Gown Club puts the finishing touches on its new wing — which officially opened in early February — Tiger Inn renovations are proceeding according to plan and are scheduled to be completed in August 2011. Construction on Charter Club’s new lounge, originally set to be completed in December or January, will begin within the next two weeks and be completed in April.
The program in Law and Public Affairs announced its fellows for the 2011-12 academic year on Wednesday.
Four University students — Hanna Katz ’11, Karen Campion ’11, Clare Herceg ’11 and John Torrey ’11 — have been awarded Princeton ReachOut 56-81 Fellowships.
Ambassador Seyed Mousavian, Iran’s former lead nuclear negotiator, spoke at Dodds Auditorium in Robertson Hall on Thursday afternoon on “Iran’s Nuclear Crisis and the Way Out.” Mousavian is an associate research scholar at the Wilson School’s Program on Science and Global Security.
Building A in Butler College has been named Yoseloff Hall following a gift from investment professional Anthony Yoseloff ’96 and his wife, Nanar, late last year, the University announced on Wednesday. Anthony Yoseloff declined to provide information about the amount of the contribution.
The University will reinstate its early admission program for applicants to the Class of 2016 after a four-year hiatus, it announced Thursday morning. The program will offer applicants a single-choice early action option — allowing accepted students to respond to the offer of admission in the spring — instead of a binding early decision option, which the University offered from 1996 to 2006. “In eliminating our early program four years ago, we hoped other colleges and universities would do the same, and they haven’t,” President Shirley Tilghman said in a University statement.
The University policy that prohibits undergraduates from parking cars in the area between the access kiosks from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays has caused inconvenience for some University student
After Mitch Daniels ’71 was arrested, indicted and convicted on charges of drug use as an undergraduate in May 1970, he said that he thought his aspiring political career was doomed. “Any goal I might have had for competing for public office were shot,” he told The Daily Princetonian in September 1988.
On Wednesday night, Yvonne Haddad, a professor of the history of Islam and Christian-Muslim relations at Georgetown University, presented a public lecture titled “Islamophobia and the Reconstruction of Muslim American Culture” to a group of approximately 50 students and community members in Robertson Hall.
The University offers the third-best value among private colleges for providing academic excellence at an affordable price, according to The Princeton Review’s “100 Best Value Colleges,” which was published online Tuesday by USA Today.
Changes to the GRE, the standardized test taken by applicants to many graduate and business schools, will go into effect in August. The changes, intended to better predict test-takers’ future performance, have implications for the way the test is conducted and scored as well as for the types of questions asked.
Orange Key, the University’s student-run tour service, saw an increase of about 20 applicants from last year to a total of nearly 100 interested undergraduates.
