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Macey talks ethical investment for U.

Macey talks ethical investment for U.

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.

NEWS | 03/07/2013

Students criticize co-op fees

Alex Jafari

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.

NEWS | 03/07/2013

Townspeople oppose changes to Route 1

A ?concept? plan by the New Jersey Department of Transportation proposing changes to U.S.

NEWS | 03/07/2013

CBE lab assigns pairs for students

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.

NEWS | 03/07/2013

Town awaits consolidation reimbursement from state

The newly-consolidated Princeton is seeking $460,000 from the state of New Jersey to cover transition costs incurred over the past year.

NEWS | 03/06/2013

U. researchers develop technique to probe ‘missing heritability’

Greta Shum

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.

NEWS | 03/06/2013

U. to receive symbolic tiles from Hiroshima bombing

Hordes of survivors of the world?s first atomic bombing in Hiroshima were rushing toward Motoyasu River on Aug.

NEWS | 03/06/2013

DeZarn to run for NJ state senate

Senior Operations Manager for Butler/Wilson Dining Services Donald DeZarn has announced that he will run as the Libertarian candidate in November?s election for state senator of the 14th Legislative District of New Jersey.

NEWS | 03/06/2013

Appointed judges more effective, U. research finds

Justices appointed to state supreme courts are more effective than their elected counterparts, a new study by Princeton researchers has found.In their article ?To elect or to appoint?

NEWS | 03/05/2013

Bodine discusses Middle East policy

Barbara Bodine, former U.S. ambassador to Yemen and lecturer in the Wilson School, discussed the Obama administration?s Middle East policy with a group of College Democrats on Monday evening.According to Bodine, modern American foreign policy must strike a balance between the relatively passive practice of leading by example and the relatively active practice of supporting American policies through interventionist means.

NEWS | 03/05/2013

Princeton Talks plans public panel

Princeton Talks, a student group founded by four sophomores, will seek to provide a public forum for campus dialogue on a diverse range of issues beginning late this spring.Inspired by the TED Talks series and Harvard University?s Harvard Speaks club, Phway Aye ?15, Billy Beacom ?15, Faridah Folawiyo ?15 and Susannah Sharpless ?15 created the group to remedy what Aye called ?a lack of conversation on campus.?Sharpless is a columnist for The Daily Princetonian.

NEWS | 03/05/2013

Volunteer coordination app wins Idea Farm

Justin Ziegler ?16 and Victoria Lin ?16 won Princeton?s first Idea Farm with ?Sum of Good,? their volunteer coordination platform for nonprofit organizations.

NEWS | 03/05/2013

U. astrophysicists to join Euclid telescope project

Elizabeth Paul

Although dark matter and dark energy comprise about 95 percent of the universe, their nature remains unknown.

NEWS | 03/04/2013

Sandel talks morality of life insurance

Michael Sandel, professor of government at Harvard University, examined the blurry lines that separate financial investment, gambling and life insurance in his lecture on Monday.?We think of gambling and insurance as two different responses to risk, but the line between the two has always been unstable,? Sandel said.

NEWS | 03/04/2013

Ayala ’84 and Szaky ’05 named ‘Social Entrepreneurs of the Year’

Jim Ayala ?84 and Tom Szaky ?05 were among 24 named Social Entrepreneurs of the Year for 2013 by the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship on Feb.

NEWS | 03/04/2013

Students develop TigerApp to improve room draw

Students who were enrolled in COS 333: Advanced Programming Techniques last spring have developed two new TigerApps, an updated version of the Student Room Guide and the Pursuit of Mappyness, to improve students? ability to navigate room draw and campus events, respectively.The apps were developed as part of a collaborative class project that spanned the second half of the semester.Josh Giles ?13 led the group responsible for the updated Student Room Guide app, which directs students to a new site that they can use to plan their housing for the coming academic year.

NEWS | 03/04/2013

Plans for pipeline unveiled

Plans for a 6.5-mile long expansion of the New Jersey section of the Transco Mainline natural gas pipeline ? 1.29 miles of which will run through Princeton ? were introduced in a town hall meeting on Feb.

NEWS | 03/03/2013

U. offers houses to those willing to move them

Allison Kruk

The University is offering seven houses slated for demolition free of charge to anyone willing to move them to an alternate location by April 30.

NEWS | 03/03/2013

Cannon blood drive rescheduled due to odor

Princeton?s Cannon Dial Elm Club had to cancel a blood drive Friday due to safety concerns from University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro staff.According to Marlene Ihle, the blood donor recruiter at UMCPP, the blood drive could not continue because there was a strong odor coming from a drain in the floor in the area of Cannon?s basement where the blood was going to be collected.Cannon?s community service officer Kathleen Ryan ?14, who organized the blood drive, declined to comment.

NEWS | 03/03/2013

Survey quantifies sexual assault

Sohee Khim

More than 15 percent of female undergraduates reported experiencing non-consensual vaginal penetration during their time at the University, according to an unpublished survey conducted in 2008 by several University offices. The survey, a version of a standard survey format called the “Sexual Experience Survey” was developed in 2007 by Mary Koss, a University of Arizona Public Health professor specializing in sexual violence, and consisted of 17 multiple choice questions.

NEWS | 03/03/2013

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