Chen Guangcheng, a Chinese human rights activist, was awarded the James Madison Award For Distinguished Public Service by the American Whig-Cliosophic Society on Thursday.
Former director of the Center for Jewish Life Rabbi James Diamond died Thursday morning in a triple-car accident, according to the Princeton Police.
The Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students and the Pace Center have cosponsored Community Walks, a new initiative designed to foster student involvement in the local community by introducing students, alumni and their families to various organizations in the town of Princeton through student-led walking tours. The concept originated in the spring of 2012 after four students formed a Pace Center working group to research projects sponsored by the civic engagement centers at peer universities, according to Shirley Gao ?13, one of the four members of the group and a member of the Community Walks Executive Board. ?I had noticed this gap in Princeton University programming; I noticed that we didn?t really have anything to push people beyond Nassau Street and explore the local town,? Gao explained. The team of students and administrative advisers developing the initiative hopes to familiarize students with the town and encourage them to participate in the local community on the basis of the awareness gained from the walk, according to Associate Dean Maria Flores-Mills, the ODUS member affiliated with the project. ?I think it?s very much in concert with the University?s unofficial service motto,? Flores-Mills added.
Chinese human rights activist Chen Guangcheng was presented with the James Madison Award for Distinguished Public Service on Thursday afternoon.
The nonprofit and volunteer-run organization known as ?101? provides need-based scholarships to graduates of Princeton High School.
Internationally renowned social psychologist and Dean for the School of Education at Stanford Claude Steele discussed his research on stereotype threat and the challenges faced by underrepresented minorities in higher education on Tuesday evening. Steele explained how stereotype threat, the experience of anxiety that a person feels when he or she is in a position to potentially confirm a negative stereotype about his or her social group, can cause people exposed to the same situation to have divergent experiences.
An online petition calling for the commissioning of an updated ?Sexual Experiences Survey? has amassed over 1,100 signatures since it was first circulated on March 10. The petition was authored by Shreya Murthy ?13, Siofra Robinson ?13 and Kellie Valladares ?13, with input from Kanwal Matharu ?13, earlier this month in response to the publication of a previously unpublished survey from 2008 showing that one in six female undergraduates reported non-consensual vaginal penetration. ?We were definitely shocked when the initial article had come out, but it seems that once we started asking questions it didn?t really seem like the University was necessarily trying to hide it or intentionally suppress it ? more that they had just used it internally and hadn?t necessarily thought to make it as public, as perhaps students would want it to be,? Murthy said. In response to the petition, Vice President for Campus Life Cynthia Cherrey, Sexual Harassment/Assault Advising, Resources and Education Program Director Jacqueline Deitch-Stackhouse and Women?s Center Director Amada Sandoval met with Murthy, Robinson and Valladares on Monday to discuss efforts that can be made on campus to address sexual assault. ?When we met with the students [who crafted the petition], we had a productive first discussion on how to continue to further our efforts in this area,? Director of News and Editorial Services in the Office of Communications Daniel Day said on behalf of Cherrey.
American workers are getting fewer benefits from migration, according to a new study by economics professor Greg Kaplan and Sam Schulhofer-Wohl, an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
New Program Coordinator for the University’s LGBT Center Andy Cofino began working at the office over spring break.
A $10 million lawsuit against the Princeton Club of New York filed by former longtime employee Jo-Ann Garcia was settled in a private agreement, according to Club General Manager Larry Hines and the lawyers of both parties.
A joint project in Sierra Leone by Shirley Gao ?13 and Raphael Frankfurter ?13 and a project in Brazil by Courtney Crumpler ?13 were awarded this year?s Henry Richardson Labouisse ?26 Prize, which provides graduating seniors $30,000 to pursue work in the developing world. The two judges, Wilson School professor Stanley Katz and history professor Janet Chen, selected the winning projects because they best fit the award?s mission to support hands-on efforts to help the developing world that are likely to succeed, Katz said. ?The spirit of this award is that it?s for students who want to go out and work with local organizations and local individuals to improve local living conditions,? Katz said.
The University has created the position of associate director for emergency preparedness planning in order to begin a thorough review of existing emergency response plans and protocols in mid-April.
Experts studying the global food trade rarely consider how the trade of food encompasses a virtual trade of the water required to produce the food.
In response to a faculty petition urging the University to divest from assault weapon manufacturers after the Dec.
In an event held on Tuesday evening in recognition of Women?s History Month, the American Whig-Cliosophic Society hosted a panel on whether women are limited in society, especially in relation to Freud?s claim that ?anatomy is destiny.? The panelists included Wilson School professor Nannerl Keohane, Italian professor Gaetana Marrone-Puglia, Director of Student Life for Butler College Alexis Andres and Women?s Center director Amada Sandoval. Andres began the discussion by explaining the research she conducted for her dissertation on the concept of effortless perfection for women at the University of Virginia, which was based on a survey conducted by Keohane at the Women?s Initiative Steering Committee at Duke University. She shared responses from students she interviewed who said that women felt pressure to do well in school, participate in multiple extracurricular activities and maintain a nice body but never show their exhaustion or stress. Sandoval added to this by discussing the double standard women face in terms of personalities and body issues, saying that women are constantly scrutinized on the basis of their looks and behavior.
Nationally renowned author and creative writing professor Joyce Carol Oates said she will retire from her teaching position at the University in July of 2015.
In a recent study published in Nature, University researchers have discovered the mechanism inside a mouse’s brain that allows it to map its location in three-dimensional space.
Professor of history and public affairs Keith Wailoo has been named vice dean of the Wilson School, effective July 1, 2013, Wilson School dean Cecilia Rouse announced in a statement on March 14. ?I?m very excited to be working with Keith and I think he?ll make a magnificent vice dean,? Rouse said in an interview with the Daily Princetonian. As vice dean, Wailoo will oversee the Wilson School?s academic operations.
Earlier this month the University’s Bridge Year Program announced the addition of a site in Salvador, Brazil for the 2013-14 academic year. The Bridge Year Program, which currently offers international sites in China, India, Peru and Senegal, allows incoming freshmen enrolled in the program to defer their admission and participate in civic engagement projects for a nine-month period.
Former Wilson School dean and current University professor Anne-Marie Slaughter ?80, whose prospects of succeeding University President Shirley Tilghman have been matter of speculation, has accepted numerous speaking engagements in the past few months, including keynote speeches at commencement ceremonies at Meredith College and Lafayette College. In a poll conducted by the unofficial search website princetonpresident.com, Slaughter was chosen as the favorite candidate by a 32 percent plurality of the approximately 300 voters who participated.
