The USG discussed the success of the recent Mental Health Week at its meeting Sunday night.
A proposal to add a representative of the Princeton University Investment Company to the Council of the Princeton University Community was presented at the CPUC meeting on Monday by Resources Committee Chair Deborah Prentice, chair of the psychology department.
The Honor Committee will host a series of focus groups this spring to discuss the current disciplinary policy for students caught working over time during examinations, Honor Committee chair Antonia Hyman ?13 announced in an op-ed published Wednesday in The Daily Princetonian.
The two bee colonies maintained by the Princeton BEE Team died two weeks ago due to a parasite infestation in the hive. The cause is most likely the Varroa mite, a parasite that sucks bees? blood, Penn State researcher Elina Lastro Nino said after examining the hives. The Varroa mite is by no means unique to the Princeton area, and is the number-one killer of bee colonies, BEE Team founder Michael Smith ?10 said.
The Princeton Board of Health will vote on a proposed ordinance to ban smoking within 35 feet of all municipally owned property, public parks and outdoor pools on March 19.
Flora Thomson-DeVeaux ?13 was awarded the Martin A. Dale ?53 Fellowship in late February to continue the research she began with her senior thesis on Argentinean butler Santiago Badariotti Merlo. The fellowship provides a senior with a grant of $30,000 to pursue an independent project after graduation.
An online petition seeking a new ?Sexual Experiences Survey? has gathered over 900 signatures in the past two days.
Editor-in-Chief of Forbes Magazine and CEO of Forbes, Inc. Steve Forbes ?70 argued for a stable dollar and simplification of the tax code as keys to recovering from the 2008 economic crisis and ensuring a prosperous American economy in the future in a lecture on Sunday afternoon.
New Jersey Rep. Rush Holt, a Democrat who represents New Jersey?s 12th congressional district, held a question-and-answer discussion before approximately 50 members of the University community on Friday evening at Terrace Club.
Following the efforts of other universities to address smoking-related concerns, Princeton students, in collaboration with the Pace Center, have formed the Princeton Tobacco Control Policy Group to raise awareness about secondhand smoking. “The overall goal is to have a healthier campus for students and faculty … and to raise awareness about the dangers of tobacco,” president and founder of PTCPG Judy Hou ’16 said. Hou, who was involved in tobacco prevention activities in high school, said she formed the group because she felt that Ivy League schools have not done enough to address the health effects of secondhand smoking. “This is a topic that hasn’t been approached as much at Ivy League schools … People don’t think it’s really something that affects them directly, but I think a lot of state schools have seen that it’s a bigger issue,” Hou added.
Murray-Dodge Cafe has expanded its hours to open Sundays, Mondays and Wednesdays from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.
A new study published in Ecology Letters by postdoctoral researcher Peter Molnar and ecology and evolutionary biology professor Andrew Dobson outlines a model predicting the survival of parasites in certain regions of the globe as climate change progresses. While scientists 20 years ago predicted climate change would cause parasitic disease to increase overall, Molnar said his model quantifies the idea that this picture is too simplistic. “To sum these complications up, it basically depends on what parasite you’re looking at, its life history parameters and where in the world you’re looking,” Molnar explained. Instead of a universal expansion of parasite populations, Molnar’s model predicts that under the influence of climate change, the future survival of parasites will depend on their thermal niche, or the range of temperatures in which a parasite can survive.
Agricola, the newest addition to the Princeton restaurant scene, will open for dinner this Sunday in the space formerly occupied by Lahiere?s on Witherspoon Street.
Jonathan Macey, chair of Yale?s Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility and law professor, discussed the approaches that universities can take to approach divestment and the best way to uphold a university?s values through ethical investment with a group of student panelists on Thursday evening.
Members of the 2 Dickinson Street Co-op have continued to protest the $50 per member fee instituted this semester in addition to dues on all co-ops officially recognized by the University.
A ?concept? plan by the New Jersey Department of Transportation proposing changes to U.S.
One of the chemical and biological engineering department?s recent changes to CBE 346: Chemical Engineering Laboratory, known popularly as Core Lab, has elicited student concerns about the criteria instructors use to assign lab partners.
The newly-consolidated Princeton is seeking $460,000 from the state of New Jersey to cover transition costs incurred over the past year.
A new University study recently published in Nature has shown that extensive genetic mapping can be used to trace the genetic origins of even the smallest trait variations, providing support for 20th-century scientific arguments that privilege nature over nurture. The study was conducted by Joshua Bloom, a graduate student in the molecular biology department who developed the project for his Ph.D., and ecology and evolutionary biology professor Leonid Kruglyak ’87. Bloom was unavailable to comment for this article. Thuy-Lan Vo Lite ’12, who worked on the project for her senior thesis, said she enjoyed participating in the investigation of the “missing heritability,” a mystery that has existed in genetics since the 1920s. “In humans there’s this problem where even in traits that we know are heritable, we can’t really find all the genetic components to fully explain that heritability,” Lite said.
Hordes of survivors of the world?s first atomic bombing in Hiroshima were rushing toward Motoyasu River on Aug.
