The computer science department will implement a no-pass/D/fail policy for COS 126, 217 and 226 beginning in fall 2013.
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.
Nine students have received the 2013 Spirit of Princeton Award, which recognizes positive contributions to the University community.
Aman Sinha ?13 was named valedictorian at a meeting of the Faculty Committee on Examinations and Standing on Monday afternoon.
Aman Sinha ?13 was named valedictorian at a meeting of the Faculty Committee on Examinations and Standing on Monday afternoon.
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
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,
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
The USG discussed the USG-moderated Class of 2017 Facebook group and the upcoming COMBO IV survey at its meeting Sunday evening.
The first Princeton University East Asian Undergraduate Conference, abbreviated as
A USG referendum requiring the
Joseph Amon is a visiting lecturer in public and international affairs at the Wilson School, teaching GHP 351/WWS 381 epidemiology.
A group of 40 students who had purchased tickets to attend the Class of 2016 boat cruise in
The Honor Committee will now be required to change its standard penalty for students who write over the time limit during exams and to publish statistics about the number of students who appear before the committee, after a vote by the student body on
An 18-year-old princeton resident was arrested and charged with drug possession and criminal trespass at Frist Campus Center on Tuesday morning. Kairi Nadre-Dimitri Aeriel was allegedly seen asleep inside Frist in the early hours of Tuesday morning, prompting a call to the University’s Department of Public Safety.
The Honor Committee will now be required to change its standard penalty for students who write over the time limit during exams and to publish statistics about the number of students who appear before the committee, after a vote by the student body on
Joe Incandela, the announcer of the Higgs Boson discovery and a particle physicist, spoke about the goals of the Large Hadron Collider program and its progress over the past four years in a lecture on Thursday night.
In the first year of non-selective admissions to the Wilson School, the School saw the number of concentrators almost double, while other social science departments saw a decline in the number in its sophomore concentrators fall.
ESL El Centro volunteers teach English as a second language to recent adult immigrants from Latin America.
