Sigurd Wagner, professor of electrical engineering, and Patrick Goerrn, a postdoctoral research fellow at the University, have developed a stretchable laser sensor.
Technology has begun to empower the automobile industry to develop environmentally friendly technology that would have been unimaginable as recently as 20 years ago, Ford Motor Company Executive Chairman William Clay Ford, Jr. ’79 told a roughly 150-member audience in the main auditorium of the Friend Center on Tuesday evening.
On Tuesday night in Betts Auditorium, history professor emeritus James McPherson and visiting politics professor Allen Guelzo spoke with a crowd of about 40 students and community members on the statesmanship of Abraham Lincoln. The two historians shared their views on the evolution of Lincoln’s legacy through an evaluation of his achievements and failures.
“Congrats on using Gmail for your Princeton email,” Dan Li ’11 wrote in the hundreds of e-mails he sent out over the last few days to students who forward e-mails from their Princeton accounts to their Gmail e-mail addresses. “If you’re creeped out because I know your Gmail address, read on.”
The Princeton Borough saw a sharp decline in population over the last 10 years, according to figures from the 2010 Census released on Feb. 3.
The Anscombe Society hosted an informal question and answer session with its members on Monday evening in Murray-Dodge Hall. Titled “Ask an Anscomber Anything,” the event invited students to direct questions to the club’s members in a more informal and open setting than typical club events.
University President Shirley Tilghman spoke about the ongoing discussions over the Arts and Transit Neighborhood and the progress of the University’s $1.75 billion Aspire capital campaign at a meeting of the Council of the Princeton University Community on Monday.
The three campus co-ops — the International Food Co-op, 2 Dickinson St. and Brown — have seen significant increases in membership interest for next year, with many students already on waitlists for the fall.
After the document leak at Columbia University that indicated that one out of 12 students at Columbia received at least a 4.0 grade point average last semester, fellow Ivy League school the University of Pennsylvania has begun to evaluate its grading policy.
African American Studies professor Cornel West GS ’80 has openly endorsed Carol Moseley Braun as a candidate in the Chicago mayoral election.
On Sunday, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem announced that its Rothberg International School would accept a dozen American students whose studies abroad had been interrupted by turmoil in Egypt.
Research conducted by professor Ilhan Aksay at the University’s Ceramic Materials Laboratory, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Washington State University has revealed a way of combining nanoparticles and graphene to develop a material that is more stable and durable for use in fuel cells.
Timothy Searchinger, an associate research scholar in the Princeton Environmental Institute, the Wilson School and the Program in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy, has received negative feedback for arguing that biofuels have contributed to the world food shortage.
In keeping with past trends, the acceptance rates for University a cappella groups — whose spring auditions concluded this week — were extremely low, though fewer students auditioned for groups in the spring than last fall.
Students can rest assured that finding valentines will be easier this year — or at least that they will have one more procrastination outlet.
During a town hall meeting Wednesday night, residents of Princeton Township and Princeton Borough pledged their money and support to the Princeton Fair Tax-Revaluation Group which is aiming to overturn a property tax revaluation.
An Italian grocery market, a wine store and a dry cleaning service have recently opened their doors as part of a new shopping complex on Spring Street, which runs parallel to Nassau Street.
According to the recent results of “The American Freshman: National Norms Fall 2010,” an annual survey of student health, emotional well-being among college students is at its lowest in the study’s 25-year history.
Chemical and biological engineering professor Christodoulos Floudas and mechanical and aerospace engineering professors Richard Miles and Alexander Smits have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
George Harne GS ’08 has been appointed the president of The College of Saint Mary Magdalen in New Hampshire.
