News

From Amazon to Amazon.com: White ’12 publishes e-book guide on applying for postgraduate opportunities

From the depths of the Amazon jungle comes an Amazon.com ?Hot New Release? by Haley White ?12, titled ?Receive tens-of-thousands of dollars to travel, volunteer, or go to grad school.? White, who is currently working as an English teaching assistant at the Universidade Federal do Oeste do Para in the Brazilian Amazon as part of a one-year Fulbright Scholarship, recently published an e-book geared toward students applying for postgraduate scholarships and fellowships.

University concludes aerial drone usage

The University concluded an aerial photography program to take pictures and videos of the campus for admissions purposes last week, University spokesperson Martin Mbugua said.

Terrace aims to raise $3.5 million for renovations

Terrace Club has begun planning for renovations to its clubhouse through the Terrace Future Campaign, which seeks to raise $3.5 million from about half of the 4,000 living alumni of the eating club. The renovations include redesigning and modernizing the servery, expanding the existing dining room, building an all-purpose room mainly intended for musical performances, constructing a new staircase and an elevator, adding a bedroom to the officers? quarters and greening the clubhouse, according to the

Prox post sports-- Jorts

The night a preacher hit the Street

On a Saturday night in October 2011, Michael Stockwell, a self-proclaimed open-air preacher and the cofounder of Cross Country Evangelism, stationed himself on a sidewalk on Prospect Avenue.

Proposal for change to P/D/F policy unanimously voted down

?The USG Academics Committee?s proposal to create a policy allowing students to rescind a pass/D/fail election after viewing a final letter grade was unanimously voted down by the Faculty Committee on Examinations and Standing earlier this month. The unanimous decision came after Academics Committee chair Dillon Sharp ?14 and Class of 2014 senator and Academic Life Total Assessment committee member John McNamara presented to the committee on April 17. ?It?s dead; it?s not happening,? Sharp said. Had the Committee on Examination and Standing voted in favor of the proposal, the Faculty Advisory Committee on Policy would have also had to vote in its favor before the entire faculty would have the opportunity to approve it. The policy was one of the Academics Committee?s main priorities for the semester. Sharp explained at the beginning of his tenure as chair that the policy change would encourage students to continue to work hard throughout the semester and give them the chance to improve their grade point averages if they ended up doing better in a class than previously expected. Claire Fowler, senior associate dean of the college and an ex officio member of the Committee on Examinations and Standing, noted that there was consensus in the committee?s discussion to preserve the point of the University?s P/D/F option, which the committee believed was to encourage students not to worry about grades in a class. ?The faculty really thought the point of the P/D/F policy was to permit students to take courses that they were interested in without regard to grades, and they felt that the new proposal was putting the grade anxiety back into the P/D/F category,? Fowler said.

Candlelight vigil for Boston victims draws students, community members

Princeton students held a candlelight vigil at the Fountain of Freedom in Scudders Plaza for the victims of this month?s attacks on Boston on Monday evening from 9 to 11 p.m.

The night a preacher hit the Street

On a Saturday night in October 2011, Michael Stockwell, a self-proclaimed open-air preacher and the cofounder of Cross Country Evangelism, stationed himself on a sidewalk on Prospect Avenue.

Updated: COS 126 to implement no P/D/F policy next fall

The computer science department will implement a no-pass/D/fail policy for COS 126, 217 and 226 beginning in fall 2013.

Eisgruber to begin search for Burstein’s successor

Just after his appointment as the 20th president of the University, Christopher Eisgruber ?83 will lead the search for another key administrator, Executive Vice President Mark Burstein?s successor.

9 students receive Spirit of Princeton Award

Nine students have received the 2013 Spirit of Princeton Award, which recognizes positive contributions to the University community.

Sinha ’13 named valedictorian, Bensch-Schaus ’13 named Latin salutatorian

Aman Sinha ?13 was named valedictorian at a meeting of the Faculty Committee on Examinations and Standing on Monday afternoon.

Updated: Sinha ’13 named valedictorian, Bensch-Schaus '13 Latin salutatorian

Aman Sinha ?13 was named valedictorian at a meeting of the Faculty Committee on Examinations and Standing on Monday afternoon.

Eisgrubers and dog scheduled to move to Lowrie House in Jan. 2014

University Provost and President-Elect Christopher Eisgruber ?83 said he plans to move into Lowrie House, the University president?s official residence at 83 Stockton Street, as soon as repairs and renovations have been made. Tilghman explained that the

Faculty thanks Tilghman at her last meeting as U. president

University faculty approved a new undergraduate certificate program in Statistics and Machine Learning at a faculty meeting on Monday.The certificate program was organized over two years by computer science professor Robert Schapire, associate computer science professor David Blei, molecular biology professor John Storey, associate politics professor Kosuke Imai and Operations Research and Financial Engineering professor Jianqing Fan, according to Schapire. He said that the impetus for the certificate program came from the increasing importance of data to companies, governments and organizations as well as from greater student interest in the fields of machine learning and statistics. ?Princeton has a lot of strength in machine learning and statistics, but it?s kind of spread out all over campus, and so this is going to be a way of bringing faculty and researchers and students in one place,? Schapire said,

U. students form grassroots campaign to “Ban the Box”

University students have recently formed a grassroots campaign called Ban the Box NJ in hopes of mobilizing political support for the NJ Opportunity to Compete Act, according to the campaign?s

USG discusses expanding Class of 2017 Facebook presence, plans COMBO IV survey

The USG discussed the USG-moderated Class of 2017 Facebook group and the upcoming COMBO IV survey at its meeting Sunday evening.

EastCon analyzes contemporary East Asian popular culture

The first Princeton University East Asian Undergraduate Conference, abbreviated as

Honor Committee, students react to passage of referendum

A USG referendum requiring the

'Been there and done that': In between academia and the workplace

Joseph Amon is a visiting lecturer in public and international affairs at the Wilson School, teaching GHP 351/WWS 381 epidemiology.