BP announced this week that it would extend its research partnership with the University?s Carbon Mitigation Initiative (CMI) by five years.
Hypersonic air travel for the masses may be on its way to becoming a reality, with the help of airflow-modeling work from a research team led by mechanical and aerospace engineering (MAE) professor Pino Martin.
?The greatest insult to our planet and our world economy is the way we produce and use energy,? Rep.
An additional 478 Princetonians are now registered to vote around the country following a registration drive by P-Votes that ended earlier this week.
John Luria has been named the new bridge-year program?s first director, a position he will assume in December, University officials announced last week.
Though many Americans may have first heard of South Ossetia in August, this summer?s conflict between Russia and Georgia over the breakaway Georgian region is a continuation of a decades-long conflict in the Caucasus, Oksana Antonenko, an expert on Georgian and South Ossetian relations, told a crowd of students, faculty and community members in Jones Hall on Wednesday afternoon.Antonenko, a senior fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies who advises policymakers both in the United States and abroad about conflict resolution in the Caucasus, gave a detailed account of the events surrounding this summer?s war and outlined her proposals for strengthening relations in the region.?There was no turning back,? Antonenko said of the conflict.
In a closed-door executive session on Tuesday night, the USG Senate upheld its original decision to declare Austin Hollimon ?12 freshman class treasurer, rejecting an appeal by Bill Pang ?12 to overturn his disqualification.Though Pang received a majority of the votes in the runoff election, he was disqualified after an investigation revealed that he had exceeded campaign spending limits.?The margin was close,? senior elections manager Braeden Kepner-Kraus ?10 said in an interview Wednesday.
Emotionally provocative scenes from Toni Morrison?s newest book, ?A Mercy,? silenced a packed Alexander Hall on Tuesday evening, as she illustrated to the assembled crowd the ubiquity of slavery in civilization?s history.
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.
