Former assistant secretary of defense, national intelligence council chairman and Kennedy School of Government Dean Joseph Nye ?58, famous for his theory of ?soft power,? will be President-elect Barack Obama?s pick for U.S.
U.S. Senator Christopher ?Kit? Bond ?60 will not run for re-election in 2010, the 69-year-old senator said Thursday in an address before the Missouri General Assembly.Bond, who was elected governor of Missouri when he was 33 years old, explained that his decision to retire from the Senate had to do with his age.?In 1972, I became Missouri?s youngest governor.
Marc Harris, an inmate who escaped from a Montgomery Township facility Tuesday morning was caught early Thursday in Vineland, roughly 80 miles south of Princeton.?The Department of Corrections? Fugitive Unit are the ones who apprehended him,? New Jersey Department of Corrections spokesman Matthew Schuman said.
President-elect Barack Obama announced Thursday afternoon that he has selected William Lynn GS ?82 for deputy secretary of defense, the second-highest-ranking official in the Department of Defense behind Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.Lynn, who received his bachelor?s degree from Dartmouth and law degree from Cornell before earning an MPA from the Wilson School, formerly served as Pentagon chief financial officer and comptroller in the Clinton administration and is currently senior vice president of government operations and strategy at major American defense contractor Raytheon Company.Obama also announced other Department of Defense picks, including Robert Hale for comptroller, Michele Flournoy for undersecretary of defense for policy and Jeh Charles Johnson for general counsel.?I am confident that these distinguished individuals have the expertise and commitment needed to help me implement a sustainable national security strategy that combats 21st century threats and keeps the American people safe,? Obama said in a statement.Lynn has earned numerous Department of Defense medals for distinguished public service, including the Joint Distinguished Civilian Service Award and the 2000 Distinguished Federal Leadership Award for his work in improving defense accounting practices.
Queen Elizabeth II has honored history professor Linda Colley and her husband, history lecturer David Cannadine, for their service to the British Empire.
With the launch of TigerTransit this Monday came the end of the P-Rides Express shuttle and the employment of the students who helped run it.The P-Rides Express shuttle service, which provided on-demand transportation to students, faculty and staff between the hours of 5 p.m.
Nearly 600 students from 40 regional high schools and middle schools filled Jadwin and McDonnell halls on Thursday afternoon to compete in a regional tournament of the New Jersey Science Olympiad.The tournament, which consisted of 16 events, tested students on their knowledge of various subjects, including chemistry, ecology and meteorology.
In response to a recently announced $1.3 million 2009 budget shortfall, Princeton Borough will likely cut jobs and raise taxes and fees in the upcoming year, Borough Administrator Robert Bruschi said.?We have to come up with $1.3 million and have to live within the state budget guidelines ? We?ve cut the expenses we can cut, so all that is left is to cut jobs,? he said, noting that the Borough is under a number of constraints.
President Tilghman announced Thursday that the endowment has lost at least 11 percent of its value in the four months since the end of the fiscal year on June 30, 2008, in a letter sent to the campus community.This figure ? which does not include the non-marketable securities that comprise half of the endowment ? does not capture the full extent of the loss, she said, noting that the University will plan for a 25 percent decrease by the end of the current fiscal year in June.
Wilson School Dean Anne-Marie Slaughter ?80 is slated to become the head of policy planning at the Department of State under Hillary Clinton, President-elect Barack Obama?s nominee for Secretary of State, according to several media outlets.The Associated Press and Reuters reported Thursday that anonymous sources have confirmed that Clinton intends to pick Slaughter for the post.
The final defendant in the 2007 Rider University hazing death case was sentenced to three years of probation last month.
Claiborne Pell ?40, the shy student from a powerful political family who went on to help create the largest federal college-grant program to date, died of Parkinson?s disease on New Year?s Day at his home in Newport, R.I.
University researchers, led by molecular biology professor Yibin Kang, announced their discovery on Tuesday of Metadherin, a gene linked to breast cancer deaths.In an article published in the Jan.
Yale?s endowment is down roughly 25 percent since the fiscal year that ended June 30, Yale president Richard Levin, announced on Dec.
On, Dec. 15, President Tilghman met Speaker of the House Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Rep. Rush Holt (D-N.J.) and other leaders in the sciences in Chancellor Green for a roundtable discussion about science and technology in the United States and its ability to stimulate the national economy.A meeting between Tilghman and Pelosi earlier this year inspired the discussion.
Correction appended A new integrated campus transit system, TigerTransit, was launched Monday after a year of discussion between the Graduate Student Government (GSG), the USG and the Office of Parking and Transportation.
An estimated 600 people, both Israeli and Palestinian, have been killed, and 3,000 have been wounded since the start of Israeli air strikes in Gaza on Dec.
While most students were hitting the slopes, lounging on cruise ships or sleeping unnaturally long hours at home, some students spent the holidays on campus, bonding with each other in the season for family reunions.
Sequoia Voting Systems and computer science professor Andrew Appel ?81 have continued to butt heads in recent weeks over Gusciora v.
