Democrat Rush Holt won his seventh consecutive term as representative for New Jersey’s 12th Congressional District in last Tuesday’s election. It was his slimmest margin of victory since 2002.
The five-year anniversary of the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s investigation of the 1979 Greensboro Massacre, in which members of the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party went unconvicted after killing five people at a political march, sparked 11 undergraduates to journey to Greensboro, N.C., over fall break through the Pace Center’s Breakout program.
At 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, nearly 100 excited competitors, along with family and friends, packed Richardson Auditorium to the sounds of techno music. For the next nine hours, they participated in Princeton’s first Rubik’s Cube competition.
A suspect in an alleged armed robbery near Hoagie Haven last month was caught Thursday by the U.S. Marshals Service in his hometown of Chester, Pa.
Alumni won five of 12 races in last week’s midterm elections. But in a year in which Republicans took control of the House of Representatives, gained a majority of the nation’s governorships and picked up positions in the Senate, some high-profile alumni failed to catch the Republican tidal wave in several major races nationwide.
The Federal Trade Commission has appointed computer science and Wilson School professor Edward Felten to a year-long post as its first chief technologist, the agency announced Thursday. Felten, who will help the FTC navigate technology policy issues, is also founding director of the University’s Center for Information Technology Policy.
The Federal Trade Commission has appointed computer science and public policy professor Edward Felten to a year-long post as its first chief technologist, the agency announced Thursday. Felten, who will help the FTC navigate technology policy issues, is also founding director of the University’s Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP)Felten will assume his position in January, and computer science professor Margaret Martonosi will serve as acting director of CITP during his one-year leave of absence.
The number of Princetonians in Congress will increase by one following an election in which Republicans pummeled Democratic incumbents across the country, taking control of the House of Representatives. But the Republican tidal wave was not enough to sweep high-profile alumni to victory in several major races.Winners: Rep. John Sarbanes ’84, D-Md.; Rep. Jared Polis ’96, D-Colo.; Rep. Leonard Lance GS ’82, R-N.J.; Terri Sewell ’86, D-Ala.; and Nan Hayworth ’81, R-N.Y.Losers: Meg Whitman ’77, R-Calif.; Robert Ehrlich ’79, R-Md.; Kenneth Buck ’81, R-Colo.; Rep. Jim Marshall ’72, D-Ga.; Randy Altschuler ’93, R-N.Y.; Ravi Sangisetty ’03, D-La.; and Timothy vanBlommesteyn ’75, I-N.H.
Democratic Rep. Rush Holt defeated Scott Sipprelle, his Republican challenger, by 7 percentage points in Tuesday’s election. Holt received 53 percent of the vote, while Sipprelle had 46 percent.Holt, the former assistant director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, earned a seventh term in Congress and will represent the state’s 12th District, which includes Princeton and other parts of central New Jersey.
It was only after hours of photocopying required readings that Connor Diemand-Yauman ’10, then a junior, realized that he had accidentally cut off the last few letters of each line.Little did he know that through deciphering these readings, he would formulate an idea for his thesis that would ultimately be written about in The Economist, featured on BBC News and published in the psychology journal Cognition.
When Princeton students sign up for classes, they are rarely surprised to find that their professors are groundbreaking researchers, founding members of national councils and recipients of numerous awards.
Republicans are expected to make significant gains in both houses of Congress and in gubernatorial races on Nov. 2, when 12 alumni are running for major offices.
The University received an overall A-minus grade on the 2011 College Sustainability Report Card released by the Sustainable Endowments Institute on Wednesday, after scoring in the B range every year since the report first came out in 2007.
Roughly a year after a lawsuit put the Office of Disability Services in the media spotlight, the University is conducting an internal review of the office.
Roughly 110 University students are expected to be among the thousands gathered on the National Mall in Washington for the “Rally to Restore Sanity” and the “March to Keep Fear Alive” on Saturday.
Growing up in Karachi, Pakistan, Natasha Japanwala ’14 lived just a block from a street where homeless people slept in rows. And while living conditions on her street were more comfortable, safety threats made simple things like riding a bicycle alone in her neighborhood unimaginable.
Fantasy author Sarah Beth Durst ’96 distinctly remembers the first time she visited Princeton. “When you go down Washington Road with all the elm trees over it, it felt like I was coming to another world,” Durst said. “That passageway was a transformative experience.”
Molecular biology professor Coleen Murphy and Shijing Luo GS may have found a way to slow down the ticking of a woman’s biological clock: worms.
The day that their classmates received their diplomas, Connor Diemand-Yauman ’10 and Jonathan Schwartz ’10 skidded down a Swedish mountain on high-performance sleds in pursuit of $1 million.
With her plate full of pizza — one meat lover’s slice, one cottage cheese and apple, and one strawberry and Nutella — Anjali Bisaria ’12 said, “This is probably the best meal so far this semester.”
