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Jackson GS ’86 to lead new EPA emission regulation efforts

Jackson GS ’86 to lead new EPA emission regulation efforts

Lisa Jackson GS ’86, the first African-American Environmental Protection Agency administrator, is leading the EPA’s first steps to regulate greenhouse gas emissions as part of the Obama administration’s agenda to combat climate change. The EPA has announced regulations over new power plants and refineries in the past week and will announce regulations for existing facilities within the next year.

NEWS | 01/09/2011

Zeller GS, 27, dies in hospital

Bill Zeller, a fifth-year graduate student in the computer science department, died Wednesday night at age 27 as a result of injuries from a suicide attempt.Zeller was found in his University apartment by Public Safety officers at about 6 a.m. Sunday, shortly after he attempted to take his own life. Brain damage due to oxygen deprivation left Zeller in a coma at University Medical Center at Princeton until the evening of Jan. 5, when he was removed from life support.

NEWS | 01/06/2011

Keller, University's first tenured female professor, dies at 83

Suzanne Keller, Princeton’s first female tenured faculty member and an emeritus sociology professor, died of a stroke Dec. 9 at age 83.

NEWS | 01/06/2011

Lockout charges delayed until September

Students locked out of their rooms after hours will not face lockout charges next semester, Deputy Director of Housing Melissa Plaskonos said. Though the University had planned to implement a $30 fee for students calling Public Safety to unlock their rooms beginning in the spring semester, the change has been deferred until September.

NEWS | 01/06/2011

State task force calls University ‘jewel in the crown’ of higher education

New Jersey should seriously consider reorganizing, refunding and rethinking the state’s system of higher education, according to recommendations by the New Jersey Higher Education Task Force released Tuesday.

NEWS | 01/06/2011

Durkee ’69: 8 clubs open to alternative system

The eating clubs will soon decide whether to adopt an alternative member selection process, based on recommendations issued last May by the Task Force on Relationships between the University and the Eating Clubs, University Vice President and Secretary Bob Durkee ’69 said.

NEWS | 01/06/2011

News & Notes: DREAM Act fails in Senate

Extensive lobbying by President Barack Obama proved insufficient for the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act to overcome a filibuster in the Senate. The DREAM Act would allow young immigrants who do not have legal status to become permanent residents after two years of college or military service.

NEWS | 01/04/2011

U. to give $500K to Township in new agreement

Following a yearlong negotiation, the University will make a voluntary $500,000 contribution to Princeton Township this year, Township Mayor Chad Goerner announced at the Township Committee’s annual reorganization meeting on Jan. 2.

NEWS | 01/04/2011

New Jersey will lose 13th seat in next Congress

New Jersey is set to lose one of its 13 seats in the House of Representatives, according to preliminary results released by the U.S. Census Bureau, setting off a political brawl over how the state’s districts will be redrawn.

NEWS | 01/04/2011

Policy on ROTC unchanged after repeal of don't ask, don't tell

The University does not anticipate making any significant changes to its formal relationship with the ROTC program in light of the end of the U.S. military’s don’t ask, don’t tell policy.On Dec. 22, President Barack Obama signed a bill that ended the military’s ban on openly gay men and women serving in the armed forces. The 17-year-old policy, which applied to ROTC programs, prevented the military from asking about a soldier’s sexual orientation.

NEWS | 01/04/2011

News & Notes: Pahlavi ’88, son of late Shah of Iran, takes own life

Alireza Pahlavi ’88, the youngest son of the late Shah of Iran, took his own life in his Boston home early Tuesday morning, according to a statement by his brother. He was 44.

NEWS | 01/04/2011

Graduate student taken to hospital after apparent suicide attempt

A graduate student in the computer science department apparently attempted to take his own life over the weekend, and he is currently a patient at the University Medical Center at Princeton.The student, whose name is being withheld to protect his privacy, posted a 4,000-word note online in which he spoke of intense emotional distress and explained his intentions.

NEWS | 01/04/2011

News & Notes: Kocherlakota '83 becomes voting member of Federal Reserve's ruling committe

Narayana Kocherlakota ’83, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, began a one-year term as a voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee on Jan. 1.

NEWS | 01/04/2011

Bermann, Nunokawa appointed as masters

Sandra Bermann will replace Harvey Rosen as master of Whitman College, and Jeff Nunokawa has been appointed to a second term as master of Rockefeller College.

NEWS | 01/02/2011

Forbes College security camera footage of students posted online

A security camera in the Forbes College library streams live video on the Internet. It was available for viewing by anyone connected to the Princeton network with access to the proper URL until password protection was added following inquiries by The Daily Princetonian.

NEWS | 12/26/2010

Terrace votes to accept graduate students

Members of Terrace Club voted by a margin of roughly 77 percent to 23 percent to admit graduate students as members during sign-ins this spring, according to an e-mail sent to club members by Terrace president-elect Ricardo Lopez ’12 on Tuesday. Terrace will be the only eating club that allows graduate students to join.

NEWS | 12/19/2010

New decade, new campus: The Arts and Transit Neighborhood

At a 2008 open house, the University depicted its proposed Arts and Transit Neighborhood, part of the 10-year campus development plan, as a way to connect campus to the surrounding community. But disputes with area authorities, particularly over the location of the Dinky, have interfered with the project.

NEWS | 12/16/2010

New decade, new campus: Science rises in the south

The University’s first-ever 10-year campus plan grouped buildings together by academic discipline in hopes of fostering collaboration. But bringing the sciences together moves them away from the rest of campus, raising fears that their connection to the rest of the University — and Princeton’s status as a unified, liberal arts-focused institution — will be lost.

NEWS | 12/16/2010

Reporter's Notebook: A new campus

Paolo Esquivel '11 sits down with news writer Ben Kotopka '13 to discuss his two-part series on south campus.

NEWS | 12/16/2010

Nassau Hall looks ahead to next decade’s agenda

The economic crisis that closed this decade shook the world, and the University was not immune. President Shirley Tilghman admitted that “there are very few silver linings of the recession,” which led to serious declines in the University endowment and cuts across the board, including employee layoffs. But it did force the University to identify its priorities, she said.

NEWS | 12/16/2010

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