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News & Notes: 5 U. professors awarded research grants

News & Notes: 5 U. professors awarded research grants

The University’s Intellectual Property Development Fund has awarded research grants to five faculty teams in the science and engineering departments to help them transform their laboratory projects into commercially successful products, according to a University press release.

NEWS | 02/05/2012

Feds probe alleged admission discrimination

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights is currently investigating a complaint received in August that the University’s undergraduate admission process discriminates against Asian Americans.

NEWS | 02/05/2012

Tuition and financial aid increase in new budget

The trustees approved a $1.5 billion operating budget for the 2012-13 fiscal year at a meeting on Jan. 28, the University announced in a statement.

NEWS | 02/05/2012

Student accused of simple assault at Tower Club

An undergraduate student was arrested following an incident at Tower Club early on Jan. 22 and charged with simple assault and criminal restraint.

NEWS | 02/05/2012

U. sees dip in applications

The University received a total of 26,663 applications to the Class of 2016, as announced in a press release last week, marking a 1.93- percent decrease in the total number of applications over last year’s numbers. Last year’s regular admission applications totaled 27,189.This year’s total includes the 3,476 applications received in November for the single-choice early action program, which was reinstated in 2011.

NEWS | 02/05/2012

Charter fills, eliminates waitlist

The five sign-in clubs saw only minor fluctuations in first-round membership numbers this year. As in previous years, Charter was the only one to fill to capacity in the first round of sign-ins, offering membership to 100 sophomores.Now in the second year of its point system, Charter accepted 100 of 144 sophomores in the first round, but discontinued its wait-list policy.

NEWS | 02/05/2012

Web Update: Application numbers dip slightly

Applications to the University fell 1.93 percent this past year, the University announced Monday morning, ending seven consecutive years of increasingly large applicant pools. The 26,663 applicants to the Class of 2016 make up the second-largest pool in University history, only smaller than the 27,189 applicants to the Class of 2015.

NEWS | 01/29/2012

USDA: No infractions in animal research

Daniel Santoro

In the most recent unannounced inspection of the University’s lab facilities for non-human primates, the USDA found no infractions. The result of the Nov. 28–29 inspection marks the University’s first misconduct-free report in the last two years.

NEWS | 01/15/2012

New solar field under construction in West Windsor

Anastasya Lloyd-Damnjanovic

The University has begun installation of the new solar photovoltaic panel field in West Windsor Township after clearing 27 acres of land and obtaining the necessary local, county and state permits and utility company approvals.

NEWS | 01/15/2012

News & Notes: Students chosen as education activists to watch by Time

Alexis Morin and Catharine Bellinger, the founders of the educational equality organization Students for Education Reform, were named as two of the education activists to watch in 2012 by Time magazine.

NEWS | 01/15/2012

OWS debate covers issues, motives, inequality of sit-in

Regina Wang

An Occupy Wall Street forum held on Friday centered on the justification for the Occupy Wall Street movement and its goals and consequences, beginning with statements by the eight participants and ending with questions from the audience.

NEWS | 01/15/2012

Compromise sought over IAS historical build site

Emily Tseng

The battle over the Institute for Advanced Study’s plans to build housing on land immediately adjacent to the Princeton Battlefield is reaching fever pitch.

NEWS | 01/15/2012

Quad to lower member fees

Luc Cohen

Princeton Quadrangle Club will be lowering its membership rates significantly for students who sign a contract with the eating club for the 2012-13 school year, president Katie Knorr ’13 and president emeritus Julia Blount ’12 announced in a press release on Thursday.

NEWS | 01/15/2012

High Inquisitor bans groups

Following the completion of the Task Force on Undergraduate Student Intelligence, University Headmistress and High Inquisitor Shirley Tilghman and the members of the Inquisitorial Squad have issued a number of sweeping reforms to campus social life.

NEWS | 01/12/2012

Students protest magic distribution

In a surprising turn of events at the normally apathetic University, a small number of students have taken issue with the high concentration of magic on campus and have staged a protest just inside the front gates.

NEWS | 01/12/2012

SPEW! accuses U. of house elf violations

The University has been found guilty of a number of nonhuman rights violations, according to an investigation by the Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare!.Representatives from the group, who were interviewed when all four members of the organization stormed into The Daily Prophet office demanding attention, said that they had found a number of emaciated and “clearly abused” house elves caged in the University’s basement.

NEWS | 01/12/2012

He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named seizes Hufflepuff

Following the recent break-in at the Ministry of Magic, the forces of the Dark Lord moved into Princeton Township, using their curses to hex, pillage and murder any foolish civilian that stood in their way.

NEWS | 01/12/2012

University officials, Yaro ’12 caught in sex sting

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NEWS | 01/12/2012

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NEWS | 01/12/2012

News & Notes: Gabinus Debenedettus steps down

It is with great regret that The Daily Prophet announces the retirement of former editor-in-chief Gabinus Debenedettus, who was found wandering the woods with no memory of who he was after what appeared to be a traumatic incident with a fire-breathing hellcat in the Forbidden Forest.

NEWS | 01/12/2012

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