A male University student was diagnosed with bacterial meningitis and transported to a local hospital on Monday night, the University announced Tuesday afternoon.
Instead of the blue metal carrels in Firestone Library, which have traditionally been reserved for seniors in the humanities and social sciences as they write their theses, members of the Class of 2014 in these disciplines will be assigned personal lockers.
A male University student was diagnosed with bacterial meningitis and transported to a local hospital on Monday night, the University announced Tuesday afternoon.
Dr. Andrew Zwicker of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory presented a TEDx talk on the subject of ?Future Utopias? this past March in which he envisioned a future powered by green energy.
Princeton professor emeritus of international law and United Nations rapporteur Richard Falk has been widely criticized and asked to step down from his position at the UN because of a blog post he published on April 19, ?A Commentary on the Marathon Murders.? Accused of anti-Semitism and of blaming the bombings on the victims themselves, he and his family have received hate mail and threats, according to Falk. Falk noted in an interview that he had been highlighting the way in which the United States? global actions and military foreign policies, such as those in Iraq and Afghanistan, have created growing anti-American sentiment.
Former Senator George Mitchell urged the United States to exercise patience in assessing the results of the Arab Spring revolutions and to actively facilitate negotiations for a peaceful solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in a keynote address at the University?s Colloquium on Public and International Affairs last Friday. Under former President Bill Clinton, Mitchell served as a special envoy for Northern Ireland and played a leading role in peace negotiations there in the late 1990s.
A ?food truck" operated by Dining Services will make its first appearance on campus in late August and is intended for use mainly at athletic events. According to Director of Dining Services Stu Orefice, the food truck will primarily be used at lacrosse games and may also be used for additional athletic functions.
As graduation approaches for seniors serving in the Princeton Reserve Officers? Training Corps Battalion, cadets at the University and other institutions are preparing to enter an American military whose composition could change significantly as a result of former U.S.
A new student-created website called Pton.in provides University students with a portal to see where their peers will be over the summer.
The American Whig-Cliosophic Society will announce on Monday the recipients of the society?s Summer Fellowship in Public Service, a grant of $3,500 given to three students to subsidize the cost of an unpaid internship this summer. The fellowship, funded by the Whig-Clio Board of Trustees, is restricted to Whig-Clio members, president Matthew Saunders ?15 said.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender alumni attendants at the recent Every Voice conference had the opportunity to record their personal narratives as part of an audio and visual oral history project organized by the Alumni Association of Princeton University and funded by the institutional equity and diversity efforts of the Office of the Provost.
Kathryn Davis, philanthropist and longtime donor to the University together with her late husband Shelby Cullom Davis
Relay for Life at Princeton ? a cancer awareness group typically sponsored by the American Cancer Society ? chose not to officially partner with the ACS for this year?s walkathon in April.
Michael Froman ?85 will be nominated as the next U.S. Trade Representative, President Obama
Two months ago, the University offered seven houses that it owns on Alexander Street free of charge to any buyer willing to incur the cost of transporting them to an alternate location by April 30.
Before she became the first female director of policy planning for the U.S. State Department and before she tried to ?have it all,? Anne-Marie Slaughter
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.
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 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
