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Tilghman talks about genome, race in annual Baldwin lecture

Tilghman talks about genome, race in annual Baldwin lecture

At the genome level, individuals are 99.9 percent identical to one another, President Tilghman said during the annual James Baldwin lecture in Richardson Auditorium on Tuesday evening. In “The Meaning of Race in the Post-Genome Era,” Tilghman charted the historical basis of the intersection between scientific inquiry and racial classifications, beginning with an early attempt by 18th-century Swedish taxonomist Carl Linnaeus to divide the human race into five categories based on skin color.

NEWS | 03/09/2010

Planned porn event stirs controversy

Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux ’11, president of Let's Talk Sex, said that an event planned by LeTS would primarily consist of remarks by feminist pornographer Tristan Taormino and would include “a brief showing of various film clips.”

NEWS | 03/09/2010

Investing in the future

Graduating just eight months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, with the economy in recession, Brian Danielewicz ’02 applied for 28 jobs through the Office of Career Services. “I landed four interviews and got zero job offers,” he recalled. Now an associate at US Renewables Group, a private equity fund, Danielewicz explained that he was able to use his personal network to locate additional opportunities and eventually secure his first job.

NEWS | 03/09/2010

Historic site sparks concern

Some alumni fear that the University will demolish the 86 Olden St. to make way for the future Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment.

NEWS | 03/09/2010

YAT finalists announced

Connor Diemand-Yauman ’10, Josh Grehan ’10 and Aditya Panda ’10 are finalists in the Young Alumni Trustee (YAT) primary election, the Alumni Association announced on Tuesday afternoon. The three candidates will move on to the general election.

NEWS | 03/08/2010

Gatherings for graduate students

You won’t find Hilary Bergsieker GS at the Street on a Saturday night. “As a student who came to Princeton already married and with a close set of friends,” she said, “I felt less pressure or motivation to go out and be social all the time than I did as a college freshman.”

NEWS | 03/08/2010

UFO more popular after move to Garden Theatre

Thursday through Saturday, students flock to the Princeton Garden Theatre on Nassau Street to enjoy the movies provided by the Undergraduate Film Organization (UFO). Last September, the UFO and the USG announced plans to move the UFO’s weekend movie program from the Frist Film/Performance Theatre to the Garden Theatre. After six months of strong attendance and positive feedback from students, USG members and students said the new program appears to be off to a strong start.

NEWS | 03/08/2010

Chomsky discusses the American 'culture of imperialism'

Much of American military policy is terrorism, 81-year-old linguist and cultural critic Noam Chomsky argued before a crowd of roughly 450 audience members in McCosh 50 on Monday evening.

NEWS | 03/08/2010

Looking for guidance

With its move to a new office space at 36 University Place from its former accommodations on Nassau Street, the Office of Career Services set out to form closer connections with students.

NEWS | 03/08/2010

Community-Based Learning Initiative elicits mixed responses

Last semester, Ann-Marie Elvin ’12 maintained a regular written and artistic correspondence with prison inmates, which was published in the literary magazine Inside Out as part of her work for SOC 227: Race and Ethnicity.

NEWS | 03/07/2010

Learning to teach

Between teaching, doing research for her dissertation, attending meetings and grading exams, Jelena Bradic GS leads the dizzyingly over-packed lifestyle that many of her fellow graduate students can relate to. “Sometimes I’m up until 5 a.m. and don’t even realize it,” the third-year operations research and financial engineering (ORFE) graduate student said.

NEWS | 03/07/2010

Wilson School admits 90 of 162 applicants

The Wilson School accepted 90 sophomores on Thursday out of 162 who applied, Wilson School spokeswoman Rebecca Anderson, said in an e-mail to The Daily Princetonian. Of the 90 accepted, six applied to be certificate students.This year’s admission rate for the University’s only selective major is in line with last year’s, when the Wilson School accepted 90 out of around 160 students. In 2008, the Wilson School accepted 90 out of 154 applicants.

NEWS | 03/07/2010

Students hold vigil for victims of Chile earthquake

Roughly 30 students and community members gathered on Saturday night outside the front entrance of Frist Campus Center for a candlelight vigil to honor those who lost their lives in the devastating earthquake that struck Chile on Feb. 27.

NEWS | 03/07/2010

Competition for careers

On a Wednesday morning last month, Sean Pi ’12 ran breathlessly into his 10 a.m. French class dressed in a suit and tie, carrying a suitcase and his French books. Just five minutes earlier, he had paid a cab driver $300 for a ride from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, where his red-eye flight from California had landed hours before.

NEWS | 03/07/2010

Daniels '71 spurs talk of potential bid for presidency

Mitch Daniels ’71, the popular Indiana governor who handily won reelection in 2008, has sparked speculation that he may run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, with recent comments that backtracked from earlier claims that he was not considering a run.

NEWS | 03/04/2010

Students protest budget cuts, tuition hikes across nation

Students, professors and unions across 32 states organized protests and rallies on Thursday in response to recent budget cuts in public university systems.

NEWS | 03/04/2010

Fraternity hosts alcohol workshop

Though members of Sigma Chi frequently get together on Thursday evenings, they usually don’t meet at the Princeton Public Library.But last night, roughly 18 Princeton students — all Sigma Chi members — gathered for an alcohol education event known as the CHOICES program, which aims to educate students about the risks associated with excessive alcohol use through group discussions and self-reflection.

NEWS | 03/04/2010

Most back Van Jones' hiring

When he arrives on campus to teach next fall, former White House adviser Van Jones will be greeted by students and faculty generally supportive of his appointment.

NEWS | 03/04/2010

Buried in blueprints, sans accreditation

Architecture majors at most universities with specialized programs receive a Bachelor of Architecture degree (B.Arch.). Princeton students in the School of Architecture, however, receive a Bachelor of Arts degree (A.B.). Unlike other universities’, Princeton’s architecture school is unaccredited. While many architecture programs concentrate on building regulations and construction, Princeton takes the unconventional approach of focusing on both liberal arts and architectural curricula.

NEWS | 03/04/2010

New financial index predicts slower growth

A team of academics and Wall Street economists — including Peter Hooper ’69 of Deutsche Bank and economics professor Mark Watson — have developed a new financial index which they unveiled at the U.S. Monetary Policy Forum conference in New York City on Feb. 26.The new index reveals that the economic recovery might not be as strong as some financial indicators suggest.

NEWS | 03/03/2010

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