“There’s a motto in academia — everyone here is smart; you can distinguish yourself by being kind. No one embodied this motto more than John,” noted professor Kevin Kruse.
Kelton Chastulik ’21 is the first junior to receive this recognition since 2017.
University faculty members elected to the Academy this year include Professors Rubén Gallo, M. Zahid Hasan, Amaney Jamal, Ruby Lee, Margaret Martonosi, Tom Muir, Alondra Nelson, Eve Ostriker, Alexander Smits, James Stone, Leeat Yariv, and Muhammad Qasim Zaman.
“[Armstrong’s] important contributions as a teacher, a faculty adviser, a scholar and a University citizen make her an exceptional choice to succeed Nicole Shelton as the faculty head of Butler,” said Dean of the College Jill Dolan in the announcement.
The program took place from Monday, May 4, to Wednesday, May 6, through a series of three one-hour webinars that discussed Academic Advising and Career Exploration, Mental Wellness, Housing and Dining, and Residential Colleges.
Sommers said she looks forward to crafting her Latin-language commencement address — “maybe throwing in some jokes.”
“This huge amount of money is dropped on small businesses, and it's not making a dent,” University economist Christopher Neilson said about the CARES Act.
The Marconi Prize is widely considered to be the highest honor in telecommunications research, given to one or two individuals a year for “a significant and impactful scientific discovery or innovation that changed millions of lives.”
Despite 97 fewer applicants applying compared to 2019, the transfer student acceptance rate of 1.4 percent is still nearly four times smaller than the 5.5 percent acceptance rate for the Class of 2024.
The amended rules will require live hearings during which students accused of sexual assault will be able to cross-examine their accusers.
Bridge Year will be offered to the incoming Class of 2024, but most likely with a delayed start date to allow participants additional time to complete pre-departure tasks.
Students who take gap years this fall may not be guaranteed immediate return to the University, according to Dean Jill Dolan.
Adamson’s work focuses on understanding how somatic cells respond to DNA damage and mutations. Her lab hopes to achieve an understanding of how DNA damage affects cells as a whole, as opposed to past approaches that focus on individualized mechanisms of cell responses.
“...[F]or someone who’s been working on journalism since my time at Princeton and since the day I left the gates, it’s pretty great to win something like this,” Juliet Eilperin ’92 said.
Virtual learning is difficult. The Daily Princetonian reached out to every department to see what planning, if any, has been done to prepare for the possibility of an online fall semester.
University officials considered “whether to postpone the beginning of the academic term until later in the fall or even until January,” but decided against such a decision.
The Udall Scholarship is a national scholarship awarded to sophomores and juniors focused on Native American studies or environmental studies. It is awarded, on average, to 55 students a year.
In an email addressed to the IIP student cohort on Tuesday, April 28, the organizing team explained that the office was working with existing partners to launch new virtual options. It will be up to the partner organization to determine if the internship can be completed remotely.
Among the 260 individuals who earned over $1 million, only one was African American, one was Hispanic, and 30 were women, according to a source privy to recent information.
The purpose of a term extension for tenure-track faculty at the University is to “mitigate the effects of the current public health crisis on their research and professional development,” Hotchkiss said.
