News & Notes: Student death at Drexel linked to suspected case of meningitis
Do-Hyeong MyeongA student at Drexel University, Philadelphia, diedon Mondayevening from a suspected case of meningitis type B, NBC reported.
A student at Drexel University, Philadelphia, diedon Mondayevening from a suspected case of meningitis type B, NBC reported.
After significant delays,the USG project team working on the Committee on Background and Opportunity IV report is set to publish its findings by early April, USG president Shawon Jackson ’15 said.
Susan Patton ’77 argues in her new book, “Marry Smart: Advice for Finding THE ONE” that women should work hard to find a husband, especially since they have a limited window in which they can have children.
Dartmouth President Philip Hanlon proposed mandatory expulsion for certain cases of sexual assault ina statement on the university's websiteon Saturday. Expulsion would be mandatory in cases where students use “force, threat, or purposeful incapacitation” in order to have sexual penetration with another student, Hanlon wrote. The proposal comes as Dartmouth is under investigation by the Education Department for its handling of sexual misconduct.
One of the headliners for spring Lawnparties has been confirmed, although contracts have not yet been signed, USG Social Committee chair Logan Roth ’15 announced at the meeting on Sunday night. The official announcement will be made in early April, he said. "I'd love to get people out of the clubs and out on the street together," Roth said of his plans for Lawnparties this year. The total number of headliners expected for Lawnparties remains unclear.
Students for Prison Education and Reform launched their Admissions Opportunity Campaign with an online petition last week.
The Princeton Institute for Computational Science and Engineering began offering a new graduate certificate in Computational and Information Science in January.Students go through specialized training in numerical analysis, computer science and programming,software engineering and statistics and data modeling to complete the program. Originally designed by computer science professor J.P.
Princeton’s third annual Mental Health Week has taken a more interactive approach this year to increase awareness of mental health issues on campus. USG offered a variety of activities that gave students the opportunity to send postcards, make inspirational posts and t-shirts, receive free massages, take mood-screening tests and attend a variety of workshops and talks related to mental health, USG president Shawon Jackson ’15 said. “One of the major changes has been moving away from speakers and having more engaging activities for students,” Jackson explained.
Three in every 10 Republicans say they would not back New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie if he ran for the White House, according to a recently released Washington Post-ABC News poll. Although Christie was favored by the GOP to lead the party in 2016 after winning his reelection this past fall, he now faces two investigations, one by the state legislature and the other by U.S.
Former CIA employee and former NSA contractor Edward Snowden was a product of a culture in the intelligence community that has evolved significantly since the Cold War, Frederick Hitz ’61 said in a lecture on Thursday. Hitz is a former inspector general of the Central Intelligence Agency and adjunct professor at the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia. “It was really run like a mom-and-pop store,” Hitz said of the CIA’s clandestine service in the Cold War.
The Princeton in the Middle East program will send postgraduate fellows to the Middle East and North Africa next year as part of its new independent initiative and partnership with Endeavor, a nonprofit organization that sends entrepreneurs around the world. In 2012, PriME was launched under the Princeton in Africa program tosend recent graduates to the Middle East and North Africa region to acquire real work experience.
Several students have complained about the career fairs hosted by Career Services, saying the fairs place an undue emphasis on computer science and finance. Nicholas Porto ’15, an electrical engineering concentrator, said the internship fairs are very skewed toward computer science, while the career fairs in general, despite the occasional outlier, are more focused on finance and consulting. Adam Klosowiak ’15, also an electrical engineering concentrator, said sometimes, even when the career fairs are targeted toward the humanities, recruiters still look for people with knowledge of computer software. Career Services Executive Director Pulin Sanghvi explained that a lot of financial organizations have large budgets set aside for recruitment events, whereas for other companies, going to a recruiting fair could take a major chunk out of their budget. 49 out of 77 companies registered for February's "Summer Internship Career Fair" were in the financial or computer science industries, according to a Daily Princetonian review of the list of registered employers.
The Princeton University Investment Company, which manages the University's endowment, has slightly adjusted its allocations to include a higher percentage of investments in comparatively more liquid assets.
Adriana Cherskov ’14 has been awarded a 2014 Gates Cambridge Scholarship, making her the sixth Princeton student or alumnus to receive the award this year.
Princeton University was ranked sixth in the latest edition of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, which was released Wednesday.
The University's Office of Information Technology announced the introduction of mobile printing on Feb.
The computer criminal activity case involving a former University employee has been resolved, the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office said Wednesday. Alla Ryklin, 48, of West Windsor, was arrested last December for allegedly hacking into the University's computer system and was initially charged with two counts of computer criminal activity.
The pursuit of perfection is one of the biggest issues facing women in America today, Barnard College president Debora Spar argued at a lecture on Wednesday.
The Faculty-Student Committee on Discipline may for the first time provide transparent information about the total number of disciplinary cases adjudicated each year, Dean of Undergraduate Students and Committee on Discipline Chair Kathleen Deignan told The Daily Princetonian. The Committee — together with the student-run Honor Committee, which adjudicates allegations of cheating on in-class examinations — has in the past issued annual discipline reports detailing the number of students found responsible for violations of University policy.
Student groups and organizations will now request funds for events and activities using the Student Activities Funding Engine website, which was launched last year to streamline summer funding requests.SAFE will now be the universal engine through which students make all their funding requests. The first phase of implementing SAFE, which began in the winter of 2013, allowed individual students to request funds for expenses, including those for senior thesis research, internships and study abroad over the summer.