Take a midnight snack run from Firestone Library to Wawa, and you’ll see a view of Princeton not featured in any campus architecture pamphlet: rooms filled with light, but void of people.
The USG issued a 29-page mid-year report Sunday night detailing the student government’s progress on key initiatives in academics, dining and social events, as well as its agenda for the upcoming semester.
The smell of dim sum filled the halls of the Fields Center on Sunday evening as hundreds of local students and community members celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Chinese equivalent of Thanksgiving.
Arizona may have recently come under national scrutiny for passing a law cracking down on illegal immigration, but an initiative in Princeton that has the opposite effect has attracted its own share of controversy.
A large crowd gathered under the tents outside the Princeton Public Library on Sunday afternoon, where they cheered, applauded and sang a collective “Happy Birthday” to the library, which was celebrating its 100-year anniversary with a cake shaped like a stack of children’s books.
Twenty-seven candidates have entered the races for freshman class government positions, and voting is set to begin today at noon. But, there has again been some confusion in the run-up to voting.
Beginning in early November, University Health Services expects to offer testing for sexually transmitted infections at dramatically reduced rates.
When the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to imprisoned human rights activist Liu Xiaobo on Friday, the news sparked international dialogue about the future of human rights in China.
When Gregg Berman GS ’94 decided to get a Ph.D. in physics at the University, he did not expect to then spend 16 years working in finance. But the skills he gained as a physicist helped him as he played a critical role in two federal regulatory agencies’ investigation into one of the wildest stock price swings in recent years.
The discovery for which Peter Agre won the 2003 Nobel Prize in chemistry was somewhat of an accident, the researcher said before a capacity crowd in Dodds Auditorium on Thursday afternoon.
In a little over three weeks, Rep. Rush Holt will face off against Republican challenger and Princeton venture capitalist Scott Sipprelle in the midterm elections. Holt, the former assistant director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, is the five-term Democratic congressman for New Jersey’s 12th district, which stretches across five counties and includes Princeton and part of Trenton.
Daphne Oz ’08 is writing her way out of the shadow cast by her television star father, Dr. Oz.
NEW YORK — For the third time in four years, a professor has won a Nobel Prize while teaching at the University. Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, a visiting professor with the Program in Latin American Studies and the Lewis Center for the Arts, was named the sole winner of the 2010 literature prize Thursday.
Deputy Dean of the College Peter Quimby will be stepping down at the end of this academic year to become headmaster of The Governor’s Academy, the Massachusetts boarding school announced on Wednesday.
Bianca Reo ’12 and Adeline Brown ’13 led a group of students wearing orange and black paint on a lively march across campus to encourage their classmates to support the football team at its Sept. 25 game against Lafayette.
Predatory lenders targeted African-Americans and Hispanics for subprime mortgages, revealing “institutional racism” in the financial crisis, two Princeton academics argued in a paper published on Monday.
Freshmen next year will no longer have to take two lab courses to fulfill their science distribution requirements, the faculty decided at a meeting on Sept. 20.
President Barack Obama nominated Caitlin Halligan ’88 for a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on Sept. 29. Halligan is currently general counsel for the Manhattan district attorney's office.
Eighty years after it opened as an academic center to prepare students for leadership in public service, the Wilson School is conducting a formal review of whether its undergraduate program is living up to its mission.
Princeton has made an unexpected appearance in Delaware’s Senate race.Christine O’Donnell, the Tea Party-backed Republican candidate, came under scrutiny in recent weeks when political opponents and media outlets said she falsely implied that she pursued a master’s degree at the University.
