Molecular biology professor David Botstein was awarded a $3 million Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Feb.
The credit ratings agency Moody?s issued a downgrade of its outlook for the entire U.S. higher education sector in January, citing ?mounting fiscal pressure on all key university revenue sources,? but both Moody?s and University administrators have confirmed the stability of Princeton?s gold-standard Aaa rating.Moody?s had previously assigned a negative outlook to the higher education sector in the midst of the financial crisis in 2009, but then upgraded the status of the nation?s most elite institutions to ?stable? in 2011.
In the inaugural year of the new multi-club bicker system, 12 percent of students who bickered or joined Charter Club entered the selection process for more than one selective club.
A set of spending cuts to the federal budget could take effect automatically Friday if President Obama and congressional Republicans fail to reach a compromise to avert it.
Male students make up 54.1 percent of the new sophomore class of the six bicker clubs, according to a review of membership lists obtained by The Daily Princetonian.
David Sanger, chief Washington correspondent for the New York Times, spoke at the Wilson School on Monday as part of the ?Leadership and Governance Program.? Sanger discussed his most recent book Confront and Conceal: Obama?s Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power.
Following last year?s record-breaking number of campus gastroenteritis cases, which surpassed the number of cases in any of the previous 10 years, the number of students affected by symptoms of the virus in 2013 so far has plateaued at half of last year?s levels.
The USG and Student Health Advisory Board will co-host a bike tune-up event on Friday afternoon, offering free repairs, giveaways, raffles and opportunities to learn about bike safety and security on campus. In partnership with the USG and SHAB, representatives from the Department of Public Safety will be present to answer questions about safe biking practices and to help students register their bikes on-site through Transportation and Parking Services.
The USG?s academics committee has a busy year ahead of it, with major policy changes planned for the pass/D/fail option and the academic calendar, while other initiatives are under consideration. ?One thing I?m really, really excited about is the academics policy changes,? Shawon Jackson ?15 said when discussing his term as USG president.
Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke will speak at this year?s Baccalaureate ceremony on June 2, the University announced Tuesday morning. Bernanke joined the Princeton faculty in 1985 and chaired the economics department from 1996 to 2002.
At Firestone Library, the dust was brushed off of a surprising Civil War-era artifact ? a wanted poster for John Wilkes Booth printed just days after President Abraham Lincoln?s assassination. The poster, which was discovered by library staff in December, is now on display as part of the ?A Republic in the Wilderness: Treasures of American History from Jamestown to Appomattox? exhibition in the library?s main gallery.
Architecture Professor Emeritus Michael Graves has been appointed to the White House Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board, the Obama Administration announced earlier this month. The board, which is also known as the Access Board, develops and enforces design criteria that ensure accessibility to federally funded facilities for people with disabilities.
Students United for a Responsible Global Environment plans to petition the University to divest its holdings in fossil fuel companies, according to the group?s vice president of policy. The initiative follows similar campaigns at other Ivy League institutions, including Penn, Harvard and Brown. Isaac Lederman ?15, SURGE?s co-president, said his group found investment in fossil fuel-producing companies incompatible with the University?s values. ?It is immoral for the University to invest in [fossil fuel] companies, especially because the University is supposed to look after the planet that we, the students, are going to inherit,? explained Lederman.
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.
A University alumnus and member of Beta Theta Pi is seeking to generate interest for an advocacy group on behalf of Greek organizations on campus.
The University is ?actively exploring the possibility of offering benefits for gender reassignment surgery in both plans for students and employees,? though no decisions have yet been made, according to University Spokesperson Martin Mbugua. Although Princeton was ranked in the ?Top 10 Trans-Friendly Colleges and Universities? by the Advocate this past August, the University differs from Brown, Stanford and 34 other institutions in that it does not currently offer coverage to students for gender reassignment surgery under its student health care plan. Princeton health care plans for both students and employees currently provide coverage for prescriptions including hormone therapy and mental health counseling. LGBT Center Director Debra Bazarsky said that the Center and University Health Services have partnered in examining the surgery and arrangements for its coverage under the student and employee health care plans. ?There are transgender students on campus, some of whom are seeking surgery, some who have no intention of ever having surgery and some who?ve already had surgery,? Bazarsky said.
Members of the Asian-American Students Association and several faculty members have renewed a decades-old push for the administration to establish an Asian-American studies program at the University.
The United States has yet to determine a coherent policy on the use of war tactics such as drone strikes and cyber weapons, chief Washington correspondent for The New York Times David Sanger said in a lecture in Robertson Bowl on Monday. Sanger said that the American public was essentially engaged in a debate over how drone strikes and cyber weapons should be used in warfare and that it was crucial that this debate soon result in a coherent policy. Sanger cited domestic policy debates on the use of tactics like nuclear weapons and landmines as historical lessons to understand how public debate can help resolve present-day challenges.
The Princeton University Orchestra and the Princeton University Glee Club have been left $5 million, to be equally divided between the groups, in the will of an anonymous, deceased alumnus. Music lecturer and Glee Club director and conductor Gabriel Crouch announced to club members a week and a half ago that someone had left the two music groups $5 million, according to Glee Club president Tanyaradzwa Tawengwa ?14. PUO director Michael Pratt announced the donation to the orchestra on Feb.
Microsoft?s continued support of Undergraduate Student Government events, including Lawnparties, the Silent Disco and the recent Idea Farm, is part of a student engagement model the company is piloting at Princeton for future education programs at U.S.
