Announced as inductees on April 17, these distinguished individuals will be formally honored this October at a ceremony in Cambridge, Mass.
Every chair was filled, with students waiting outside, as the community came together to pray and reflect on the bombings in Sri Lanka.
In an email to members, Tower Club president Aliya Somani ’20 said that the club will be implementing new safety measures, including adding code locks on other commonly used doors and additional officer protocols to secure the club after dark. In another email, she said that staff will check that the kitchen exit and other exits are locked as they leave the club.
The second of its kind, the 2019 plan reflects on the initial 2008 Sustainability Action Plan and plots a course to furthering the University’s commitment to environmentalism.
“No one was threatened or injured,” said Deputy University Spokesperson Michael Hotchkiss, “though others at the Chapel were concerned.”
The proposed Culture and Difference distribution would require students to take a course that exposes them to diverse identities.
The report found that Russia did make a concerted effort to interfere in the 2016 election but concluded that there was no criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia. The report, however, could not reach a conclusion as to whether President Donald Trump obstructed justice, although it did document several attempts by Trump to influence the Special Counsel investigation.
A total of 2,246 students voted in the 2019–2020 USG elections.
On April 12 and 13, over 200 people joined the Students for Prison Education and Reform (SPEAR) for their sixth annual conference, entitled “Tracing the Violence.” According to the program, the conference was centered around understanding the origins of violence and recognizing “that policies and prisons are themselves sources of violence.”
Speaking to a full house, “eco-pirate” Paul Watson, the founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and co-founder of Greenpeace, asserted that predictions made about the environments of fish and other marine life were right and the world is on the brink of environmental collapse.
Janina Kugel has been the Chief Human Resources Officer of Siemens AG, a German multinational tech company, since February 2015. In her position, she has global responsibility for human resources, which includes diversity and health management and safety, among other areas.
Wieschaus’ best-known work studied on the development of embryos in fruit flies. His findings have also been influential in cancer research.
The Council of the Princeton University Community’s (CPUC) Committee on Naming recommended the name "Rivers Way" to the Board of Trustees.
The new Dinky return date, set 12 days earlier, will allow students leaving before the completion of examination period to make full use of Dinky services.
TIME 100 is an annual list of the most influential people in the world. Time published its 16th list — which includes representatives from a wide variety of fields, from art to science to politics to entertainment — on Wednesday, April 17.
For Janina Kugel, Chief Human Resources Officer of Siemens AG, a German multinational tech company, there is always a better way to be doing something.
Professor of history Kevin Kruse and professor of Slavic languages and literature Ilya Vinitsky are among 168 recipients of 2019 Guggenheim fellowships, from a pool of almost 3,000 applicants.
At Google Cloud’s annual conference, Thomas Kurian ’90 emphasized Google Cloud’s commitment to being the best possible partner.
Eliza Griswold ’95 — a journalist, poet, and former Ferris Professor of Journalism at the University — received this year’s Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction for her book, “Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America.” The Washington Post nonfiction book critic Carlos Lozada GS ’97 received the Pulitzer Prize for criticism “for reviews and essays on politics, truth, immigration and American identity in the Trump era.”
Professor of Quantitative Social Science at University College London Tak Wing Chan revealed that income inequality is an increasingly pervasive one in China, far worse than in the United States.
