Borough Police charged four local teenagers last week in the theft of students’ laptops and iPods from Tiger Inn, Terrace Club and Frist Campus Center.
Dean of the Faculty David Dobkin outlined a new retirement incentive program at the monthly faculty meeting on Monday afternoon. The program will offer professors a bonus equal to at least one-and-a-half times their annual salary if they agree to transition to half-time teaching upon reaching age 65 and retire completely by age 68.
Jake Nebel ’13 and David Chen ’13 have fairly typical part-time jobs for college students, but they don’t have typical commutes. Driving to weekend tournaments — like most assistant high school debate coaches — would be pretty difficult, considering that Nebel coaches for The Greenhill School in Dallas, Texas, and Chen works for Palos Verdes High School near Los Angeles.
In a breakthrough discovery, mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Emily Carter and physics graduate student Chen Huang have solved an 80-year-old physics problem.
When a friend of Josh Miller ’12 was killed in a drive-by shooting his sophomore year of high school, Miller knew he wanted to do something — but he had no clue that the project would carry on into his years at Princeton.
The student group Let’s Talk Sex (LeTS) plans to hold an event that will include screening clips from pornographic films and a discussion with a porn industry director or actor sometime this semester, LeTS president Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux ’11 said.
Students and faculty who rely on the Dinky and New Jersey Transit buses may face fare increases of up to 30 percent by May, NJ Transit Executive Director James Weinstein said on Feb. 18, Bloomberg News reported. To minimize the fare increase, NJ Transit is considering eliminating some bus and rail routes and making staff and salary reductions, Weinstein added.
Roughly 20 Princeton students traveled to Yale last weekend for the Ivy Council’s tenth annual Ivy Leadership Summit, “Fearless Leadership in the 21st Century,” to participate in panels, workshops and networking events. At the conference, the Ivy Council announced that Princeton will host next year’s summit, council attendee Stephen Stolzenberg ’13 said at Sunday night’s USG meeting.
On Sunday, The USG released the results of its online long-term priorities survey — which students could answer from Feb. 16 to 19. Also on Sunday, USG officials discussed environmental protection and community service at their weekly Senate meeting.
Traveling to India usually involves a long plane ride and maybe even a rickshaw. But for two hours on Saturday, local children journeyed to the subcontinent without leaving Princeton.
While many students who were admitted to the University last spring are buried in books, Andrew Finkelstein ’14 is building a cow shelter in India.Finkelstein is one of 20 participants in the University’s pilot Bridge Year Program, which began in August 2009.
Brown is on the verge of establishing a school of engineering. Provost David Kertzer approved the school at a meeting in early February, The Brown Daily Herald reported on Wednesday. Faculty members will vote on the proposal in April, and the Corporation of Brown University will make the final decision in May.
Though it offers free coffee and has been open since October, the Taproom Cafe is still struggling to lure students into its nook in the Campus Club basement.
Yale will increase undergraduate tuition and room and board fees by 4.8 percent, from $47,500 for the current academic year to $49,800 for 2010-11, The Yale Daily News reported.
As they advance through the pre-med path — completing rigorous science courses, volunteering at hospitals, maintaining GPAs and, of course, taking the MCATs — students know that their acceptance into medical school is uncertain. The 93 percent acceptance rate among applicants at the University is among the best in the country, but one in 15 applicants still ends up with a stack of rejection letters.
Five undergraduate and three graduate students were named 2010 Arthur Liman Fellows in Public Interest Law, the Program in Law and Public Affairs (LAPA) announced on Tuesday.
The Young Alumni Trustee (YAT) primary election will be extended by one day after a technical glitch initially barred several members of the Class of 2010 from voting, Associate Director of Alumni Education Leslie Rowley said in an e-mail to The Daily Princetonian today.
It’s 3:15 a.m. Friday morning, and you’ve just gotten back from the Street. Approaching your dorm, you pull out your prox and slap it across the sensor. A light turns green, and, with a click, the door unlocks. For a hazy moment, as the door shuts behind you, you wonder what kind of magic enabled your piece of orange plastic to open doors with a wave.
In 2007, when art and archaeology professor Chika Okeke-Agulu wanted to address controversy surrounding the 52nd Venice Biennale — a global exposition of contemporary art held in Venice, Italy — he took to the Internet.
Raising five children has taught Bill Dwight ’84 that lecturing kids about money is futile. So the computer science concentrator from Palo Alto, Calif. decided to devise a more interactive approach. He is now the CEO of FamZoo, a money management and education website that he launched as a subscription-based service last month after working on it for five years.
