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.”
Sheila Nall knew police officers were searching her secluded Princeton neighborhood for a fugitive one day last March. But she didn’t know that the wanted man had apparently spent the night hiding out in her garage.
Luchi Mmegwa was elected Class of 2014 president after last week’s runoff voting, USG president Michael Yaroshefsky ’12 announced in an e-mail to the freshman class Friday evening. Michael Moses and Sophia Deng were elected vice president and treasurer, respectively.
Mediterranean salads featuring calamari and scungilli, made-to-order gyros, and smoothies are among this year’s additions to residential college dining menus. Along with a greater variety of options, a chain of personnel shifts has shaken up chef placements, while more dining halls have gone trayless.
Griff Harsh ’09, the son of Princeton donor and California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman ’77, was accused of sexual assault while at the University, the gossip website Gawker reported on Friday.
When Wilson School professor Uwe Reinhardt had his first son, he received a visit from an insurance salesman attempting to sell him a questionable life insurance policy designed to yield a higher commission.
Makara Nkhereanye ’93 and identical twin brother Tsele face up to 10-and-a-half years behind bars for running a $2 million investment scam.
Michael Medeiros and Luke Massa sit down to discuss Massa's column on challenging homophobia on campus.
Students in the thick of midterms may want to take note of a recent study that empirically demonstrates what they may already know: Alcohol consumption before and during final exam period is detrimental to students’ performance. The effect is particularly significant for the highest-performing students, according to the study, which was released by the National Bureau of Economic Research in September.
For Pixar animation artist Sanjay Patel, finding a cross between his Hindu upbringing and love of art was an accident 30 years in the making. The product of his discovery is a modern, illustrated retelling of the ancient Hindu story “Ramayana.”
A new report on the historical significance of Princeton Battlefield has given added ammunition to opponents of a plan by the Institute for Advanced Study to build housing on the site.
Young adults were a key constituency in the 2008 presidential election but seem to have lost their enthusiasm, according to results from a study by Harvard’s Institute of Politics released Thursday.
Luchi Mmegwa was elected Class of 2014 president following runoff elections earlier this week, USG president Michael Yaroshefsky ’12 announced in an e-mail to the Class of 2014 on Friday evening.
