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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Paolo Esquivel '11 sits down with news writer Ben Kotopka '13 to discuss his two-part series on south campus.
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.
Selected stories cover topics ranging from milestone changes in University policy to the Princeton community's involvement in larger national incidents.
Within the last decade, Princetonians have won Nobel Prizes, risen to political office and upheld the University's informal motto, "Princeton in the nation's service and the service of all nations."
The next time you are in trouble while traveling abroad, facing scams online or even stuck with a flat tire, the Department of Public Safety would like to help.This is the sentiment the department hopes to convey to the campus community in public seminars in the upcoming year.
Though residential college advisers have had mixed responses to the on-call system put into effect last September, a record 256 students have applied for RCA positions for the upcoming academic year. Last year 241 students applied, and 234 applied in 2008.
President Barack Obama’s recent tax deal with Republicans includes tax breaks that have supported higher education not just on the institutional level, but for tuition-paying families as well.
Young college graduates should prepare to be the most entrepreneurial generation yet or face massive unemployment, according to Scott Gerber, founder of the Young Entrepreneur Council, a three-month-old board of more than 80 entrepreneurs that counts among its members former USG president Josh Weinstein ’09.
The number of Princeton applicants for Princeton in Latin America and Princeton in Africa decreased this year, while those for Princeton in Asia remained stable, according to the executive directors of the three programs.
Politics professor Robert George is involved in a dispute with Apple that could result in legal action. Two weeks ago, George coauthored a letter to Apple chief executive Steve Jobs asking him to reinstate the Manhattan Declaration iPhone application, which the company removed following criticism that the app was anti-gay.
Elevators in Wu and Scully halls failed state inspections last month and were closed after testing showed minor problems with their hydraulic systems, inspection records show.
"If you want to work in film, why did you go to Princeton?” Sarah Curran ’02 was continually asked this question when she attended the Tribeca Film Festival as a student. Though she does not work in film today, Curran is one of hundreds of alumni working in the performing arts industry. After acting, teaching and earning a master’s degree in performance, she now holds a position at an arts programming office at Stanford University.
