Provost Christopher Eisgruber ?83 was confirmed as the 20th University president shortly after noon on Sunday during an extraordinary meeting of the Board of Trustees.
Following the University press conference naming Provost Christopher Eisgruber '83 as the next University president, Eisgruber sat down with The Daily Princetonian to discuss his selection, his plans for the University and his time as an undergraduate.
As the administration of University Provost Christopher Eisgruber ?83 begins to work with the local town government, an item high on its agenda will be renegotiating the University?s monetary contribution to the town. Mayor Liz Lempert, who is acquainted with Eisgruber, said that she was glad to see someone who is already a member of the local community take on the presidency and that her first priority at this time is congratulating Eisgruber and the University on his selection. At the University press conference announcing his selection as president on Sunday, Eisgruber said that at the local level, he hopes to find ways to strengthen the civic partnership between the University and the town, of which he is a longtime resident. "I look forward to working with Mayor Lempert and her colleagues in the years ahead," he said.
A campus-wide test of the University's emergency notification system originally scheduled for
Chief of the Princeton Police Department David Dudeck will retire on Oct.
Susan Patton ?77 discussed her
Dr. Reddy?s Laboratories, Inc., an Indian pharmaceutical corporation with 15,000 employees worldwide, will move its North American headquarters to a 75,500-square-foot facility in the Princeton Forrestal Center in Plainsboro, the company has announced.
Two cases of bacterial meningitis have been reported on the University campus since March, University Spokesperson Martin Mbugua confirmed Thursday.
The town of Princeton will announce its 2013 operating budget at a council meeting on April 22.
Sociologist Charles Murray, who is best known for his controversial 1994 study "The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life," came to campus to speak publicly about his new book, "Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010." He spoke with The Daily Princetonian about his views on the growing divergence between the American white working class and the socioeconomically superior white upper class. Daily Princetonian: What inspired you to start writing the new book?
Tourism spending in Princeton and Central New Jersey has been rising for the past three years, according to figures released last month by the New Jersey Division of Travel and Tourism. Tourism expenditures in Mercer County reached an all-time high of $1.11 billion in 2012, approximately a 4 percent increase since 2011, according to a report on ?The Economic Impact of Tourism in New Jersey? issued at the Governor?s Conference on Tourism held in Atlantic City in March. In 2011, spending equaled $1.08 billion, which represented a 10 percent increase in comparison to significantly lower expenditures of $973 million in 2010.
A team of University scientists has been working with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the California Institute of Technology and the University of Toronto to build an instrument that will help cosmologists gain more insight into the expansion and homogenization of the very early universe. Physicists put on hard hats on Thursday and used a crane to hoist the instrument into a carbon fiber gondola, which will act as a sturdy frame for the device as it flies over Antarctica in the austral summer.The instrument, known as SPIDER, will be entirely built on campus and then shipped to Texas, where the finishing touches of the building process will be made in June.
Based on prospective figures from the 2014 fiscal year
Students for Prison Education and Reform has circulated an online petition to the Wilson School asking for the creation of a task force that focuses on mass incarceration in America. SPEAR founders Grace Li
A new BDSM and kink support group ? known as Princetonians in the Nation?s Service ? has attracted nearly 30 members since its creation in January. ?Our written-down mission statement basically says that we?re here to provide a safe space, a community and a social space for people who are kinky,? the founder of PINS, who was granted anonymity due to the club?s confidential status, said. According to the founder, who is a junior, the rules of the group prohibit members from ?outing? other members.
For the runners and spectators participating in the Boston Marathon on Monday ? including
Caroline Shaw GS, who is studying composition in the University?s Department of Music, has won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music.
Dr. Peter Kareiva, the chief scientist of The Nature Conservancy, gave a lecture on Tuesday afternoon in which he discussed the modern shift in conservation techniques and advocated for cooperation between conservationists and large businesses.
The nation has seen an unprecedented divergence between the upper and working classes during the past 50 years, sociologist and author Charles Murray explained at a Tuesday afternoon lecture in the Whig Hall Senate Chamber. Murray, who is a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, discussed his new book, ?Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010,? which was published in January 2012.
Four members of the Princeton faculty were named among the 173 Guggenheim Fellows of 2013 on April 11.
