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Universities' admissions processes adjust to mail delays after recent anthrax cases

Universities' admissions processes adjust to mail delays after recent anthrax cases

As discoveries of anthrax spores shut down post offices and slowed mail delivery throughout the nation, admissions offices at many universities, including at Princeton, have decided to be flexible with their deadlines.

NEWS | 11/14/2001

FBI questions University personnel to find possible sources of anthrax

As part of the investigation into the recent anthrax mailings ? a national search that has focused on the greater Trenton area ? officials from the FBI have questioned molecular biologists at Princeton.A spokeswoman for the FBI explained that agents have been visiting many laboratories in the Trenton area as part of their investigation.In Princeton itself, both BASF Agro-Research and Bristol-Myers Squibb operate research facilities.

NEWS | 11/14/2001

University withdraws from alliance to offer public free, Internet-based distance learning

The University will withdraw next month from the Alliance for Life-Long Learning ? of which it is a founding member ? to pursue an independent long-distance education venture.

NEWS | 11/14/2001

Leveling the playing field

This past summer, sociology professor and Wilson College master Miguel Centeno helped establish the Princeton University Preparatory Program, a mentoring program linking area high school students to University community members.

NEWS | 11/14/2001

Korean woman speaks on experience as Japanese 'comfort woman'

Hwang Keum-ju was an 18 year-old foster-daughter of a wealthy Korean family when she received a draft notice from the Japanese government during its wartime occupation of Korea.

NEWS | 11/14/2001

Politics professor Greenstein says Bush has become stronger leader since Sept. 11

Nearly one year after Election Day 2000 and two months after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, President Bush is experiencing the longest successive rally around a president since presidential approval rating polling was first conducted."Now for the seventh successive week he has been between 86 and 90 percent," politics professor Fred Greenstein said as he opened his "consumer reports" analysis of the Bush presidency in Dodds auditorium yesterday afternoon."This is a man, the 43rd President, about whom grave reservations have been or were raised before September 11," Greenstein said.

NEWS | 11/13/2001

Sky survey predicts lesser risk of asteroid collision with Earth

A recently published study that sought to more accurately pinpoint size, location and number of asteroids asserts there is a decreased probability of an asteroid colliding catastrophically with Earth in the next 100 years.Using data provided by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey ? of which the University is a member ? researchers have found that there are approximately 700,000 asteroids large enough to destroy Earth, as compared with a previous estimate of two million.

NEWS | 11/13/2001

Psychology professors study student reaction to tragedy

In light of the events of Sept. 11, psychology department chair Joan Girgus and researcher Gilda Paul have decided to conduct a study analyzing "how college students are feeling in the wake of the tragedies."On Nov.

NEWS | 11/13/2001

New administration faces absences at major posts

The inauguration of a new University president has traditionally signaled an administrative transition period campus-wide.

NEWS | 11/13/2001

Success measured in degrees: Dennis Keller '63 and DeVry Institute

With the computer's increasing importance in today's workplace, technology institutes such as DeVry are attracting more students than ever.This trend is no surprise.

NEWS | 11/13/2001

Lewis donates science library

Frank Gehry will soon be joining the ranks of I. M. Pei and Robert Venturi '47 GS '50 in the list of famous architects who have designed buildings on campus, thanks to a $60 million gift from Peter Lewis '55.Lewis' donation will fund the construction of a new science library, which will be designed by Gehry.

NEWS | 11/13/2001

Wilson letter tests negative for anthrax

University officials announced yesterday that a suspicious letter found in Robertson Hall did not contain anthrax.

NEWS | 11/13/2001

Professors Brown, Nehamas receive new Mellon foundation award

University professors Peter Brown and Alexander Nehamas were among the first five recipients of the Andrew Mellon Foundation's new Distinguished Achievement Awards for scholars in the humanities.The Distinguished Achievement Awards provide up to as much as $1.5 million over three years for deep and extensive research in the humanities by the recipient, and more broadly, their institution and field of specialty."The awards are intended for those who have made major contributions to their own disciplines, whose influence may well have extended more broadly to other fields and whose current work promises to make significant new advances through both teaching and research," according to the foundation's website.The University will administer the funds, which go toward paying for salaries, research expenditures and support for researchers collaborating with the recipients.Brown, the Philip and Beu-lah Rollins Pro-fessor of History, said he was "absolutely stunned" upon learning he had won the fellowship.

NEWS | 11/12/2001

Like a rolling stone: Weisbard '88 changes his tune to lead Seattle's Experience Music Project

When Eric Weisbard '88 arrived at Princeton in 1983, he was interested in Russian and perceived himself to be a Wilson School major.That all changed when, a couple of weeks into school, his friend handed him a tape with "The Velvet Underground" on one side and Lou Reed on the other."It was the idea that there was music this good," Weisbard recal-led about the epiphany that changed the direction of his life.As a freshman, he lived in Holder Hall just above the basement studios of WPRB, Princeton's radio station.

NEWS | 11/12/2001

Doran lectures on bin Laden's mission

The alleged mastermind behind the Sept. 11 attacks, Osama bin Laden, does not consider the fight against America to be an end, but instead a tactic ? a means of achieving a larger goal ? according to professor Michael Doran of the Department of Near Eastern Studies.Doran, who spoke yesterday to a capacity audience in McCosh 28, articulated that bin Laden's real goal is to spread his radical vision of Islam to Muslims around the world."He believes that the existing order in the Middle East is corrupt and run by apostates," Doran said.

NEWS | 11/12/2001

Witherspoon statue unveiled Saturday near East Pyne

As the Tigers clinched a homecoming football victory in the stadium on Saturday, the larger-than-life statue of John Witherspoon, Princeton's sixth President, was unveiled in a ceremony by East Pyne.The enduring legacy of Witherspoon was appropriately symbolized by the several descendants of the former president and numerous alumni present at the unveiling.

NEWS | 11/11/2001

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