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NEWS: Updated: Remnick '81 to address seniors at Class Day

NEWS: Updated: Remnick '81 to address seniors at Class Day

BY LOULLY SANEY Staff Writer Pulitzer Prize-winning author and editor of The New Yorker David Remnick ’81 will speak to the Class of 2013 at Class Day this spring, the Class Day committee announced Thursday afternoon. Remnick began his career as a reporter for The Washington Post immediately after graduation, joined The New Yorker in 1992 and has served as its editor since 1998.

NEWS | 04/04/2013

NEWS: Chiang wins Waterman award for study of networks

BY LILY DATILLO Contributor Electrical engineering professor Mung Chiang has been awarded the Alan T.

NEWS | 04/04/2013

Financial Times editor speaks about anthropology

Gillian Tett, assistant editor and columnist at the Financial Times, spoke about the inspirational career of French anthropologist Pierre Bourdieu and about a modern-day lack of respect for anthropology as a field in a talk titled ?Joining Up the Dots: Why An Anthropologist Helps to Make Sense of the World? on Wednesday afternoon. Tett framed anthropology?s capacity to help us understand our own societies through the story of Bourdieu, a 20th-century anthropologist whose military experience in Algeria led him to scientifically examine his own community and larger French society. Drafted in 1955 to fight against the Algerian movement for independence, which sought to break away from the French colonial empire, Bourdieu often got into trouble with his superiors for reading pacifist literature and spreading other subversive ideas, Tett explained. While stationed in Algiers, Bourdieu had an epiphany that led him to study Algerian society.

NEWS | 04/03/2013

U. CBE study finds new methods to increase antibiotic effectiveness

A study published in Nature Biotechnology this January led by chemical and biological engineering professor Mark Brynildsen has developed new methods to increase the effectiveness of antibiotics in killing harmful bacteria.

NEWS | 04/03/2013

Warmer winters affect heating costs

Princeton has experienced warmer winters than usual over the past two years, affecting the University?s heating costs and the sales of local businesses. According to Executive Director of Facilities Engineering Thomas Nyquist, the weather between November 2012 and February 2013 was warmer than that of previous years during the same period, but March 2013 was colder than in previous years.

NEWS | 04/03/2013

Whig-Clio hosts debate on hooking up

In a vote of 26-16, the audience members at a debate held by The American Whig-Cliosophic Society on Tuesday evening found that the so-called hookup culture at Princeton does not promote misogyny. Whig-Clio began the debate with the proposition that the hookup culture is misogynistic.

NEWS | 04/03/2013

NEWS: Warmer winters affect U. heating costs and local business sales

By ELLA CHENG Staff Writer Princeton has experienced warmer winters than usual over the past two years, affecting the University’s heating costs and the sales of local businesses. According to Executive Director of Facilities Engineering Thomas Nyquist, the weather between November 2012 and February 2013 was warmer than that of previous years during the same period, but March 2013 was colder than in previous years.

NEWS | 04/03/2013

NEWS: Financial Times editor Tett speaks on future of anthropology

BY DANNY JOHNSON Staff Writer Gillian Tett, assistant editor and columnist at the Financial Times, spoke about the inspirational career of French anthropologist Pierre Bourdieu and about a modern-day lack of respect for anthropology as a field in a talk titled “Joining Up the Dots: Why An Anthropologist Helps to Make Sense of the World” on Wednesday afternoon. Tett framed anthropology’s capacity to help us understand our own societies through the story of Bourdieu, a 20th-century anthropologist whose military experience in Algeria led him to scientifically examine his own community and larger French society. Drafted in 1955 to fight against the Algerian movement for independence, which sought to break away from the French colonial empire, Bourdieu often got into trouble with his superiors for reading pacifist literature and spreading other subversive ideas, Tett explained. While stationed in Algiers, Bourdieu had an epiphany that led him to study Algerian society.

NEWS | 04/03/2013

NEWS: U. study finds new methods to increase antibiotic effectiveness

BY ANGELA WANG Staff Writer A study published in Nature Biotechnology this January led by chemical and biological engineering professor Mark Brynildsen has developed new methods to increase the effectiveness of antibiotics in killing harmful bacteria.

NEWS | 04/03/2013

News: Slaughter ’80 to leave U. for D.C. think tank

By JAMES EVANS Staff Writer Wilson School professor and former Wilson School dean Anne-Marie Slaughter ’80 will leave the University to become the next president of the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan think tank based in Washington, D.C. The appointment would remove Slaughter from consideration for the University presidency, a position for which she was widely considered a front-runner — along with Provost Christopher Eisgruber ’83 — since the presidential search began last fall. The University’s Presidential Search Committee is expected to make an announcement this spring.

NEWS | 04/03/2013

NEWS: News & Notes: U. ranked 5th on ‘dream schools’ list

By DAILY PRINCETONIAN STAFF Princeton was ranked fifth on the Princeton Review’s list of applicants’ top 10 “dream schools,” The Huffington Post reported.

NEWS | 04/03/2013

NEWS: Whig-Clio debates whether hook-up culture is misogynistic

By PAUL PHILLIPS Contributor In a vote of 26-16, the audience members at a debate held by The American Whig-Cliosophic Society on Tuesday evening found that the so-called hook-up culture at Princeton does not promote misogyny. Whig-Clio began the debate with the proposition that the hook-up culture is misogynistic.

NEWS | 04/03/2013

Planck data supports view of simple universe

Greta Shum

Princeton researchers working with the European Space Agency have received groundbreaking data from the Planck satellite launched by the ESA in May 2009.

NEWS | 04/02/2013

U. fire marshal post left vacant

The University has not had a fire marshal for more than a year, ever since former marshal Robert Gregory left his post to work for emergency services in Princeton Borough, which has since been consolidated into the single Princeton municipality.

NEWS | 04/02/2013

U. physicist Polyakov wins $3 million prize

Elizabeth Paul

Physics professor Alexander Polyakov was awarded the 2013 Fundamental Physics Prize for his contributions to string theory and quantum field theory on March 20.

NEWS | 04/02/2013

AASA submits proposal for Asian American Studies

Members of the Asian-American Students Association and Asian-American Studies Committee have submitted a formal proposal to the University outlining their specific requests for the creation of an Asian American Studies certificate program by fall 2015.

NEWS | 04/02/2013

USG to nominate students to Priorities Committee

The Undergraduate Student Government was asked by the University?s Priorities Committee on March 22 to nominate several students for the committee.

NEWS | 04/02/2013

NEWS: U. physicist Polyakov wins $3 million prize

By ELIZABETH PAUL Contributor Physics professor Alexander Polyakov was awarded the 2013 Fundamental Physics Prize for his contributions to string theory and quantum field theory on March 20.

NEWS | 04/02/2013

NEWS: USG solicits nominations for Priorities Committee

By JEAN-CARLOS ARENAS Contributor The Undergraduate Student Government was asked by the University’s Priorities Committee on March 22 to nominate several students for the committee.

NEWS | 04/02/2013

NEWS: AASA submits report to U. outlining request for Asian American Studies program

By KRISTEN MCNIERNEY Staff Writer Members of the Asian-American Students Association and Asian-American Studies Committee have submitted a formal proposal to the University outlining their specific requests for the creation of an Asian American Studies certificate program by fall 2015.

NEWS | 04/02/2013

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