It is Thursday, April 22, and Jessica Leutzinger '04 arrives on time at McCosh 10 for a meeting about graduation tickets.
Deep in the bowels of Green Hall, professors aren't the only ones making noise. The monkeys are just as loud.In elaborate cages packed with spinach and other greens, colorful obstacles and fruit-filled logs, a colony of 44 marmosets ? a type of New World monkey ? are living under intense scrutiny.What they, and other animals like them, have shown has overturned one of the central dogmas of neuroscience by disproving the idea that mammals are born with all the neurons they will ever have. Innovative studiesFor more than a decade, psychology professor Elizabeth Gould has conducted dozens of innovative studies in rats and monkeys, demonstrating that new neurons are constantly produced in the adult brains of mammals, including primates.Her work may have wide-reaching significance, from better understanding how we store memories and react to anxiety and stress to the possibility of repairing damaged brain parts.To get to this stage, though, it is necessary to start with monkeys.A group of small primates native to South America, marmosets have a characteristic that make them particularly interesting to study.
Following a change in University policy last week, the College Democrats and Republicans are now permitted to conduct voter registration drives in common areas on campus.
What do you do with an eight-ounce, 23-karat Nobel Prize? Philip Anderson, professor emeritus of physics and 1977 Nobel Prize winner keeps his stored in a safety deposit box.Anderson, a theoretician in the field of solid-state physics, remembers the day he won the coveted prize for an idea called localization as if it were yesterday."In 1973 there were rumors that my name was being linked with the Nobel Prize," Anderson said, "and they were just rumors, I had no reason to believe them.
As anthropologist Anne-Maria Makhulu pondered whether to accept an appointment with the University's Society of Fellows last year, Princeton's prestige, picturesque campus and distinguished faculty could not assuage her anxieties about a more mundane problem: the cost of living in the upscale suburbia of the Princeton area."We couldn't come to Princeton if we didn't get housing through the University," said Makhulu, a University of Chicago Ph.D.
Earl Miner, a popular emeritus professor of English and Japanese literature, died on April 17 at the age of 77 after an extended illness.
In an almost 2 to 1 decision, the faculty voted Monday to approve the anti-grade inflation proposals released earlier this month by the Committee on Examinations and Standing.
Computer science professor Andrew Appel introduced a resolution at Monday's faculty meeting crticizing Dean of Undergraduate Students Kathleen Deignan's decision to confiscate nearly 400 Newman's Day shirts from a student dorm room Friday."Censorship of speech is repugnant to academic values," the resolution stated.
After the faculty overwhelmingly voted to keep Monday's vote on the grade inflation proposal public, Dean of the Faculty David Dobkin approached a 'Prince' photographer and told him to "destroy" photos of the faculty voting.
Public Safety officers entered a 1901 Hall room on Friday and confiscated nearly 400 Newman's Day shirts, University officials and students who were there said.Following the instructions of Dean of Undergraduate Students Kathleen Deignan, two Public Safety officers entered the room around 3 p.m.
The empty storefront at 140 Nassau St. will soon be transformed by a swirl of bold colors, bright lights, vibrant music and vintage '70s TV shows.Ricky's Candy, Cones and Chaos, an ice cream and candy shop, is scheduled to open the second or third week of June, in the location formally occupied by Sam Goody, owner Rick Barber said.Barber and business partner Charles Alario are still waiting for the final building permits.Barber, who formerly worked in merchandising at FAO Schwarz, said the store will be highly animated.
Dillon Gym echoed with the sounds of hip-hop and bouncing basketballs all Saturday night as 22 teams battled it out in Princeton's first Annual 3-on-3 Charity Streetball Tournament.The event, organized by the Black Men's Awareness Group (BMAG), featured a freestyle contest, three-point shootout, slam dunk contest, live disc jockey and free refreshments.
The Honor Committee on Sunday voted in a unanimous 9-0 decision to add a clause to the Honor Code Constitution that would give the body more discretion when ruling on student cases."In short the amendment would codify and thus require future Honor Committees to determine whether a student should have reasonably understood what he was doing was wrong," Honor Committee Chairman Eli Goldsmith '04 said.The Honor Code Constitution currently stipulates that on a first offense the committee can either suspend a student, or when there are extenuating circumstances put him on probation.The proposed amendment would define a student's unintentional violation of the Honor Code as an extenuating circumstance."As chairman, I've used the [extenuating circumstances] language before, but this change is to ensure that future committees will have to take intent into account," he said.Students who did not know they were violating the code could be sentenced to probation rather than mandatory suspension.
When Cornel West GS '80 left Harvard University to come to Princeton in April 2002, Matthew Briones was faced with a difficult decision.
In a 4:30 p.m. meeting today in Nassau Hall, the set of anti-grade inflation proposals released two weeks ago by the Committee on Examinations and Standing will come before a vote of the faculty.
Organizers for the second annual Princeton Colloquium on Public and International Affairs have had to rework plans for today's colloquium after Maj.
Imagine a brand new library with a wireless network, comfy chairs, over 100 public access computers, a collection of stuffed animals, a café by Chez Alice, floor to ceiling glass windows and two working fireplaces.
Full professors at Princeton are the third highest-paid professors in the country and the second highest-paid in the Ivy League, according to a new report published last week by the American Association of University Professors.The University's 457 full professors earned an average annual salary of $145,600 ? about 8 percent less than professors at Harvard, the highest paying school, and roughly 7 percent less than professors at the Rockefeller University, a graduate and research institution in New York City and the second-highest paying.Associate professors at Princeton earned an average of $92,400; assistant professors $70,900 and instructors $56,400.
