The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a nearly $20 million grant to the Princeton Center for Complex Materials (PCCM) that will provide funding for the center to continue its research for another six years.
Twenty years ago, Kavita Ramdas GS ?88 was a Wilson School student chatting with professors over lunch.
Expletives flew freely as controversial celebrity author James Frey joined English professor Sophie Gee in her class, ENG 231: Dirty Words: Satire, Slander and Society, on Tuesday morning.
Though Americans now view Osama bin Laden as the world?s most wanted terrorist, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Steve Coll reminded a crowd in Dodds Auditorim on Tuesday afternoon that the al-Qaeda leader comes from a charismatic and entrepreneurial family.By focusing on the bin Laden family story, Coll attempted to create a different lens from which to view Osama, since many tend to examine him in the light of the war in Afghanistan and international Islamist movements.Coll, author of ?The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century,? noted that Osama?s father, Muhammed Awad bin Laden, founded the company that would become the sole contractor of the Saudi Arabian royal family.Muhammed passed his ?charismatic genius? to his sons, Coll said.
The USG Senate, meeting in a private executive session late Tuesday night, rejected an appeal by Bill Pang ?12, who asked that the invalidation of his candidacy for Class of 2012 treasurer be overturned.Though Pang won more votes than runner-up Austin Hollimon ?12, he exceeded campaign spending limits.
After passing a resolution last week that would formalize debt-billing practices between Princeton Borough and the Township, the Borough Council is now waiting for the Township to respond, Borough Administrator Robert Bruschi said at Tuesday night?s council meeting.The Township will discuss the billing practices at its next meeting, Bruschi said.
Peter Hummon GS trained for three years to be a hypnotist. But when he tells people at parties that he?s a hypnotist, they often ?cover their eyes, change the subject, or dash across the room,? he said.
The United Nations suffers from a number of fatal flaws that render the organization incapable of fulfilling its mandate to address international peace and security, former United States Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton told a large audience of students, faculty and community members on Monday afternoon.
Mary Miller ?75 will become the first female dean of Yale College starting Dec. 1, Yale president Richard Levin announced at a ceremony Friday.
Paul Krugman was walking ?stark naked? to the shower Monday morning when he answered the phone to hear a person with what he thought was a fake-sounding Swedish accent.But the accent was authentic, the news momentous.
The economic downturn may be moving from Wall Street to Nassau Street, with local businesses seeing decreased foot traffic and falling sales as consumers wary of tough economic times ahead curb spending.
Through this election cycle, in a notable break from recent cycles, Democrats have been more concerned with religion than Republicans, Time Magazine's Nation Editor Amy Sullivan said in a lecture Monday afternoon in Guyot Hall.The relationship between religion and politics has shifted over the course of this year's presidential race, as the Democratic presidential hopefuls have been more open to discussions about religion than their Republican counterparts, Sullivan explained.Most Americans assume that political conservatives tend to be more religious than liberals, Sullivan said, but these trends have not manifested themselves this election cycle.Sullivan said that the campaign of Sen.
Less than a month before America heads to the polls, the College Democrats and College Republicans have stepped up their efforts to win the hearts and minds of citizens on and off campus.Whether canvassing, phone banking or recruiting, Princeton?s two largest student-run political organizations are trying to make sure nothing is left to chance come election day.
Sometimes the best way to overcome sexism is to ignore it, President Tilghman said Friday afternoon at a panel discussion in Dodds Auditorium.The panel, sponsored by the Association of Black Women in Higher Education, took for its topic ?Presidential Perspectives on Leadership.? In addition to Tilghman, the panel featured Julianne Malveaux, president of the historically black Bennett College for Women in North Carolina.Prior to assuming the presidency at Bennett in 2007, Malveaux was a successful pundit and businesswoman.
While many students engage in inter-Ivy rivalries on the football field or at the basketball court, Princeton students who have chosen to participate in 2008 Ivy League Risk tournament, hosted by gocrosscampus.com, have recently found their attempts to conquer the Northeast thwarted by alliances made by other schools.Despite last year?s win, the tides have turned against Princeton during the first four weeks of this year?s tournament.
The Princeton First Aid & Rescue Squad (PFARS) recently received the 2008 Outstanding Public EMS Agency award after being selected by the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services from among 10 other Emergency Medical Services agencies.The squad, which serves Princeton Township and Princeton Borough, including the University, has both full-time professionals and community and student volunteers.
As Justine Drennan ?11 curls up with a red blanket and a history book, her right hand is at her side, squeezing an ambulance-shaped stress ball to get the blood flowing in her arm.
Bats play a central role in many agricultural industries, and bat conservation should receive more funding, Bat Conservation International (BCI) founder Merlin Tuttle told an audience, including many parents visiting for freshman parents weekend, in a packed McCosh 50 on Friday evening.Tuttle, an ecologist and photographer who founded BCI in 1982, highlighted the ecological importance of bats, noting their key role in plant life cycles.?Seventy percent of all fruits produced in the tropics depend on bats for either pollination or seed dispersion,? he explained, citing bananas, mangoes and jackfruit as examples.Tuttle explained that bats play a key role in insect control, noting that roughly 150 bats preying on a population of cucumber beetles could prevent the insects from laying 33 million eggs among crops.He discussed a case in San Antonio, Texas, in which bats from local reserves attacked a ?storm front?? of moths moving into the region.
The USG will work with Labyrinth Books to increase its popularity with students and try to decrease book costs, several members said at Sunday night?s USG meeting.Campus and Community Affairs chair Cindy Hong ?09, who is also a columnist for The Daily Princetonian, said the USG would look to sponsor more events at Labyrinth, adding that she would like to see ?Labyrinth ... become more of an institution? that would fill an intellectual niche in the University community.Hong added that she met with Labyrinth co-owners Dorothea von Moltke and Cliff Simmons ?to discuss what challenges they have and what challenges we have? in supplying University course books.Labyrinth became the only major bookseller in Princeton upon its arrival on Nassau Street.
Though the impending election-day showdown between Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is currently occupying the central spot in the nation?s political consciousness, one group of University students is looking beyond the obvious choices and supporting an independent candidate for the presidency, Ralph Nader ?55.The group, called Princeton Independents, is mounting a campaign to have Nader included in the national presidential debates.?We want to let people know that there are more than two presidential candidates in these elections,? Sofya Aptekar GS, president of the group, said in an e-mail.
