Former USG president Connor Diemand-Yauman ’10 has been awarded the Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, the University announced this morning.
This September, some local grade schoolers will be learning more than the basics on their first day of class when the Princeton International Academy Charter School (PIACS) opens its doors — and debuts its Mandarin Chinese immersion program — to 170 students.
President Tilghman addressed the immediate future of the University through the lens of fiscal conservatism.
Eben Novy-Williams '10, Associate Editor for Sports Emeritus, takes a look at both extremes of room draw in a piece he produced for Back Story, a radio show produced by undergraduates in Dan Grech '99's fall journalism course, The New Audio Age of Journalism. The complete show will air Feb. 14 at noon on WPRB.
Princeton’s art and archaeology department reflects the field’s changing demographics, with a predominantly male faculty and a primarily female student body.
Students who trudged through the snow to Labyrinth Books on Saturday were greeted by a sign that read, “Labyrinth will be closed due to weather and the town’s absurd parking policy.”
With 219 bickering, Tower Club set a new record for the largest bicker class in the University’s history. The previous record of 217 was set by Tower in spring 2008.
Five intoxicated students were transported to McCosh Health Center and the University Medical Center at Princeton (UMCP) last weekend, the Department of Public Safety reported.
The USG will sponsor a spring Lawnparties concert at Quadrangle Club, after having donated its fall social budget to the Pace Center, USG social chair John Wetenhall ’11 said at the USG’s first meeting of the semester Sunday afternoon.
Google announced last Tuesday that it will award five Princeton professors combined grants of $500,000 for their promising research on Internet energy efficiency and privacy.
Sheryl WuDunn GS '88 and New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof spoke about their new book “Half the Sky” before a packed crowd in Dodds Auditorium on Thursday afternoon. The nonfiction work identifies gender inequity as the moral challenge of the century.
Thousands of students apply every year for the opportunity to study engineering at Princeton. But roughly 40 students bypassed the application process altogether and began their first class Thursday night. The select few were eight-year-olds who spent an hour building cars out of Legos at the Princeton Public Library, under the mentorship of four undergraduate engineers.
The Princeton University Art Museum’s portrait of George Washington at the Battle of Princeton went missing last night. But it was found within the hour, thanks to the detective work of roughly 45 undergraduates participating in the museum’s scavenger hunt Thursday evening.
Raucous chanting, door-banging and shaving cream spraying have routinely ushered in the first Friday of the spring semester in recent years, as bicker clubs pick up new members from their dorm rooms.
Long after the eating clubs have stopped serving dinner and the dining halls have turned off their lights, hungry students in search of a late-night snack still have many places they can turn to to satisfy their cravings.
The University is planning to build a new data center facility to accommodate its growing computing needs. Set to open in 2011, the new facility will house general administrative and academic computing systems, as well as the Terascale Infrastructure for Groundbreaking Research in Engineering and Science Center (TIGRESS).
The University announced last week that New South, the high-rise administration building next to the Dinky Station, will be renovated to accommodate programming for the Lewis Center for the Arts.
“Frantic” is how Gabrielle Haigh ’13 describes her experience in the four-course Humanities Sequence, HUM 216-219, an intensive year-long introduction to the Western canon.
Jenna Hauca ’11 was studying in Green Library when her pager went off. Within an hour, she had donned a firefighter’s uniform and put out a garage fire in Princeton Township.
On Sunday evening, Colonial Club picked up its smallest first-round class in at least a decade. With only 13 members joining, the club saw a drop of 74 from the previous year.
