Meg Whitman '77, the CEO of eBay and donor to the newly opened Whitman College, was on campus yesterday for its official dedication.
A month of firsts for Whitman College came to an end yesterday afternoon with a ribbon-cutting ceremony that marked its official opening.Whitman's two-day dedication ? which began on Wednesday with a lecture by college architect Demetri Porphyrios GS '74 and was held in the center of the college in the South Courtyard ? was a chance for administrators and alumni to reflect on the construction and completion of Whitman and future plans for the college."This ceremony provides us with an opportunity to honor those who have made this college a reality," President Tilghman said.EBay CEO Meg Whitman '77, who donated $30 million to name the college, discussed the importance of community in residential colleges.
The Office of Religious Life (ORL) plans to start the search to hire a Muslim chaplain this month.
As required by Federal law, all voters casting ballots in the presidential primary election early next year will use a fully computerized voting system.
Every member of Colonial Club will participate in court-mandated community service this year after the club pleaded guilty over the summer to serving alcohol to a minor last spring."While we were fortunate not to have suffered any devastating consequences as a result of the legal charges in the spring, we are now in a fragile position, with one strike against us," Colonial president Tommy Curry '08 said in an email sent yesterday to club members.
Two scholars connected with the University were awarded coveted MacArthur fellowships this year, commonly known as "genius grants" because they fund unrestricted creative research by the recipients.Michael Elowitz GS '99 and Claire Kremen, an assistant ecology and evolutionary biology professor from 2001 to 2005, were among the 24 winners announced Tuesday.
From harnessing human emotion to composing music using only lines and colors, the MIT Media Lab is pushing the boundaries of the latest technology, lab director Frank Moss '71 said yesterday during a lecture in the Friend Center.Speaking to a largely older audience of around 35 people, Moss ? who studied mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton and earned graduate degrees from MIT ? described his interests in technologies ranging from drug discovery to robotics.Moss said the lab's goal is not only to further scientific advancement, but also to foster "a unique culture and environment for creativity and nonlinear thinking."Moss' scientific background includes stints in the private sector as well as academic research.
Credo, ergo sum ? I believe, therefore I am ? was the central message Andrew Newberg emphasized yesterday in a lecture in McCormick Hall.In "Born to Believe: God, Science and the Origin of Ordinary and Extraordinary Beliefs," Newberg, a medical professor at Penn, described why people believe what they believe and how they arrive at those beliefs.Newberg said he heard audience members questioning the connection between medicine and religion before the lecture began.
Seniors interested in investment banking but reluctant to join an unknown and faceless corporation may opt to work for a company that manages money in Princeton's interest, overseeing the endowment and other University investments.Two-dozen students gathered last night at the Nassau Inn for an atypical job information session organized by the Princeton University Investment Company (PRINCO). Though much smaller than the information sessions held in the last few weeks for major firms like Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan, the hopefuls were still anxious to impress ? or at least to learn more about how the University's money is managed.PRINCO President Andrew Golden said that though the company's offices are in Princeton and not in a big city like most banks' headquarters, working for the company can be attractive to recent graduates because of the firm's small size and close-knit culture.
Through a newly expanded Outdoor Action program, students will now have more opportunities to engage in wilderness activities throughout the year.
As the University strives to expand upperclassmen's dining choices with the launch of the four-year residential college system, this semester also saw the start of its initiative to provide financial aid for eating club membership. The new policy increases the board allotment for all juniors and seniors and aims to make clubs a more viable option for upperclassmen who might previously have eschewed them as too expensive.Student reaction to the program has generally been positive, but some say that the aid hike only addresses some of the price disparities between eating clubs and other dining options, while not taking into account any social fees clubs might charge.
Princeton alumni are not known for taking vows of poverty, and the latest Forbes magazine list of the 400 wealthiest Americans proves that belief.Of the billionaires who made the magazine's list, 10 are Princeton alumni and three of those 10 are in the top 50.Published last week, the list, which is in its 25th year, ranks the nation's top billionaires by net worth.
A 100-square-meter swastika cut into a cornfield in nearby Washington Township was discovered Friday by state police flying over the area on a routine patrol.There have been no arrests made in connection with the incident, but investigators told NBC 10 Philadelphia that the pattern was cut by hand.The symbol lies just off Hankins Road, the location of two similar incidents in July 1998 and June 1999, and is only visible from the air.
As most incoming freshmen were frantically packing for school a few weeks ago, Lang Wang '11 was spending up to six hours a day inputting the ISBN numbers of Princeton textbooks into his computer.After experiencing sticker shock when shopping for textbooks on the U-Store website, Wang used the two weeks prior to moving in to create princetonstore.com, an alternative to the U-Store, TigerTrade, and other Princeton textbook vendors.
Hoyt Laboratory was evacuated yesterday afternoon after a steam pipe ruptured and set off a fire alarm.The incident, which occurred around 4:45 p.m., prompted Public Safety to temporarily remove students, faculty and staff from the laboratory.
Greening Princeton's Farmer's Market opened yesterday in front of Firestone Library.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad faced a firestorm of harsh criticism from administrators, students and protestors yesterday during a visit to Columbia University.In a speech in the university's Alfred Lerner Hall, he defended his government's pursuit of nuclear energy, denounced the creation of Israel in the Palestinian homeland and declared that homosexuality does not exist in his country.Columbia president Lee Bollinger delivered a stinging introduction of the foreign leader, calling his guest a "petty and cruel dictator" and said that his denial of the Holocaust made him look "illiterate and ignorant."Bollinger, who has been criticized for extending an invitation to the controversial president, defended his decision and argued holding the town hall meeting was the right thing to do, adding that it was required "by the existing norms of free speech, the American university and Columbia itself.""In universities, we have a single-minded commitment to pursue the truth," Bollinger told a crowd of more than 700 people, most of them students.
While the novelty of the just-completed Whitman College dining hall and renovated spaces at Rocky-Mathey have attracted students from across campus, Wilcox and Wu dining halls have been consistently empty since the beginning of the academic year.Butler and Wilson College residents have been forgoing the traditional fare and atmosphere of their own dining halls for the novelties of Whitman and Rocky-Mathey.Meals that used to attract around 250 students to Wu now barely reach 50, said Jordan Bubin '09, student dining services manager, gesturing to the scant number of students seated at the Wilcox tables around him."It's the same sort of thing on each side [of the Butler/Wilson kitchen]," Bubin said.
A 26-year-old graduate student with large glasses and closely cropped curly hair stands opposite a mannequin dressed in women's clothing on prime-time television.Psychologist Debbie Magids gives Joshua Green GS '06 a task: greet this mannequin as if it were your grandmother.
