University Curator of Numismatics Alan Stahl received the Medal of the Royal Numismatic Society for 2010 in London on Jan. 18.
Alex Shih ’11 burned through much of his bank account and all of his summer internship money to pay for last weekend’s Intercollegiate Taiwanese American Students Association conference, which did not qualify for University funding.
Lindsey Breuer ’11 received the 2011 Elmer Adler Undergraduate Book Collecting Prize for her essay “If Only I Could Apparate, My Harry Potter Collection Would Truly Appreciate” at a dinner on Jan. 29, 2011.
Former music professor Milton Babbitt GS ’92, one of the most influential and controversial composers of the second half of the 20th century, died of natural causes on Jan.29 at the age of 94.
The University will install one of the largest solar collector fields at any U.S. college as early as summer 2012, according to a University statement released Wednesday.
In January, the Princeton University Press published “The Princeton Reader: Contemporary Essays by Writers and Journalists at Princeton University,” an anthology of nonfiction essays by 75 contributors who have written for publications from The Washington Post to Vogue.
According to a report from the NACUBO-Commonfund Study of Endowments, university endowments are rising again as the economy recovers from a severe recession.
Politics and African American studies professor Melissa Harris-Perry left her position at the University following the fall semester. She will relocate to Tulane University in New Orleans where she will teach political science and head a new program at the Newcomb College Institute to examine the influences between politics and race and gender in the South beginning in July.
While a restoration of high membership numbers may have returned one club to normalcy in first-round sign-ins, for two others, this year’s sign-ins were an experiment in breaking tradition.
A group of engineers at the University has created new laser sensing technology that has future applications in bomb detection and in airborne pollutant measurement. Instead of previous remote laser sensing methods, in which the returning beam of light is a reflection of the outgoing beam, the new system generates an entirely new laser beam from oxygen atoms whose elections have been excited to high energy levels.
Chemistry major Emma Yates ’11 was awarded the Churchill Scholarship, the University announced Tuesday, which will provide her with the opportunity to conduct original research next year at Cambridge University. Yates plans to investigate how toxic proteins implicated in Alzheimer’s disease might be converted into nontoxic forms.
What if nearly all the aspects of an Ivy League-quality class were posted free of charge for anyone with access to the Internet? In her new book, “Unlocking the Gates,” research analyst Taylor Walsh discusses how these opportunities are being presented by many elite universities and how they are impacting society and education.
Richard Just ’01 will become editor-in-chief of The New Republic after owner Martin Peretz officially steps down.
A veteran Princeton Borough police sergeant returned to the force last month after a judge found him not guilty in a misconduct case that spanned three years and will cost taxpayers roughly $400,000.
After five years of planning and acrimonious debate, the Arts and Transit Neighborhood — the University’s ambitious plan to create new arts facilities and streamline traffic flow near Forbes College — was abandoned when University president Shirley Tilghman decided discussions over the location of the Dinky had reached an impasse after a joint Borough Council and Township Committee meeting Monday night.
Environmental groups are scrutinizing the University’s plans for property near Route 1 where a pair of bald eagles has been nesting since 2004. The University purchased the property, located in West Windsor, from Sarnoff Corporation in 2001 for future academic use.
A year ago the villagers of La Source, Haiti, had to clamber across 20 miles of steep and dangerous terrain to reach the nearest spring. Their other choice was to drink from a polluted river nearby. The efforts of Josue Lajeunesse, a lead custodian at Whitman College and a native of La Source, now ensure that over 10,000 villagers have access to clean water channeled from the spring.
Creative writing professor and novelist Colm Toibin will leave Princeton for the University of Manchester after this semester.
Princeton ranked third in a survey of the “10 Most Loved Schools” by U.S. News & World Report measuring alumni donation rates.
Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have joined Princeton and the other six Ivy League schools in the Borrow Direct partnership. The merge will give patrons access to over 50 million items, an increase from the 30 million previously available through the partnership.
