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Fall break trips to assist Katrina relief

Fall break trips to assist Katrina relief

Nineteen University students will travel to Louisiana and Alabama with the Student Volunteer Council (SVC) to participate in Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, doing everything from cleaning up trampled gardens to clearing debris from hurricane-ravaged streets.A month and a half after Katrina struck, much of the Gulf is still in need of repair.

NEWS | 10/26/2005

Seniors Bush, Callaghan, Frist co-chair Class Day

This year's Class Day co-chairs are seniors Lauren Bush, Shaun Callaghan and Harrison Frist.Class Day, held the day before Commencement, is a student-organized event featuring remarks by a keynote speaker.

NEWS | 10/26/2005

RIAA sues two University students for music piracy

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has launched yet another round of litigation in its campaign to curb music piracy on college campuses.

NEWS | 10/26/2005

Bishop discusses role of church

Religion professor Cornel West GS '80 and author and evangelist Bishop T.D. Jakes met to discuss the issues facing Christian churches in modern America in a packed University Chapel on Wednesday evening.The public event, titled "Preachers, Profits and the Prophetic: The New Face of American Evangelicalism," was part of the "Conversation" lecture series organized by the Program in African-American Studies.Jakes is currently pastor of The Potter House, a multiracial, nondenominational church in Dallas with more than 30,000 members.

NEWS | 10/26/2005

Professor wins prize for plasma physics

Astrophysics professor Nathaniel Fisch received the 2005 James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics ? awarded annually by the American Physical Society (APS) ? last week for his research at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)."I hope the award will reflect well on all the work that goes on at the PPPL, and inspire people to further the field," said Fisch, who directs the Plasma Physics Program in the Department of Astrophysical Sciences.

NEWS | 10/26/2005

Professor wins prize for plasma physics

Astrophysics professor Nathaniel Fisch received the 2005 James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics ? awarded annually by the American Physical Society (APS) ? last week for his research at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)."I hope the award will reflect well on all the work that goes on at the PPPL, and inspire people to further the field," said Fisch, who directs the Plasma Physics Program in the Department of Astrophysical Sciences.

NEWS | 10/26/2005

Students prone to sleeping disorders

A few bad nights of sleep in the beginning of freshman year quickly snowballed into chronic insomnia for Ryan Harris '07.

NEWS | 10/26/2005

Fall break trips to assist Katrina relief

Nineteen University students will travel to Louisiana and Alabama with the Student Volunteer Council (SVC) to participate in Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, doing everything from cleaning up trampled gardens to clearing debris from hurricane-ravaged streets.A month and a half after Katrina struck, much of the Gulf is still in need of repair.

NEWS | 10/26/2005

RIAA sues two University students for music piracy

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has launched yet another round of litigation in its campaign to curb music piracy on college campuses.

NEWS | 10/26/2005

Slime mold shapes biologist's career

John Bonner has had a lifelong passion for slime mold.It was a slime mold that led Bonner ? the George M.

NEWS | 10/26/2005

Seniors Bush, Callaghan, Frist co-chair Class Day

This year's Class Day co-chairs are seniors Lauren Bush, Shaun Callaghan and Harrison Frist.Class Day, held the day before Commencement, is a student-organized event featuring remarks by a keynote speaker.

NEWS | 10/26/2005

Bishop discusses role of church

Religion professor Cornel West GS '80 and author and evangelist Bishop T.D. Jakes met to discuss the issues facing Christian churches in modern America in a packed University Chapel on Wednesday evening.The public event, titled "Preachers, Profits and the Prophetic: The New Face of American Evangelicalism," was part of the "Conversation" lecture series organized by the Program in African-American Studies.Jakes is currently pastor of The Potter House, a multiracial, nondenominational church in Dallas with more than 30,000 members.

NEWS | 10/26/2005

Students prone to sleeping disorders

A few bad nights of sleep in the beginning of freshman year quickly snowballed into chronic insomnia for Ryan Harris '07.

NEWS | 10/26/2005

Slime mold shapes biologist's career

John Bonner has had a lifelong passion for slime mold.It was a slime mold that led Bonner ? the George M.

NEWS | 10/26/2005

PINS at heart of renewed focus on service

Some colleges have an ivory tower to protect them from the real world. Princeton has an Orange Bubble.

NEWS | 10/25/2005

University extends grad student status

A town hall meeting will be held Thursday to discuss changes to the status of graduate students that will take effect this spring.

NEWS | 10/25/2005

University plans to help fight FCC ruling

The extension of a 1994 law controlling federal access to communication networks may result in expensive technology upgrades for colleges and, in the long run, higher tuition rates for students.The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted on Aug.

NEWS | 10/25/2005

Website creates forum for University debate

The Princeton Report on Knowledge (P-ROK), an online platform for intellectual discussion, was launched earlier this year to fill a gap in the public debate of academic work.The site's founders and editors ? anthropology professor John Borneman and history professor Gyan Prakash ? were disconcerted by the absence of a public forum for the discussion of social and natural sciences, humanities and on-campus events and seminars."We thought that the absence of such a forum or platform ghettoized academic work as 'merely academic,' " Prakash said.Borneman and Prakash took it upon themselves to change that, putting a premium on making knowledge and opinions widely accessible."While there is much support at Princeton for research, there is little effort to turn this into accessible knowledge," Borneman said.Since its inception, the site has taken an unorthodox format, featuring interviews, discussion forums and question and answer sections in lieu of scholarly articles.P-ROK's slogan reveals the site's interdisciplinary focus: "To survey the local complexities of a globalizing world.

NEWS | 10/25/2005

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