When first approached by President Shirley Tilghman in 2004 to become the University’s 11th provost, Christopher Eisgruber ’83 almost choked on his tuna salad sandwich.
The return of early admissions after a six-year absence coincided with the most competitive application year in University history. Yet despite the reversion to a two-round admission cycle, which President Tilghman said in 2006 disadvantaged students of lower socioeconomic status, the demographic breakdown of the Class of 2016 mirrored those of previous years.
Dean of the College Valerie Smith reported on the progress of the University’s Major Choices initiative and presented data on trends in undergraduate major selection at a meeting of the Council of the Princeton University Community last week. Her findings include an 85-percent growth rate in the mathematics department since the initiative began.
The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard honored The Daily Princetonian with its top award for student journalism for the paper’s March 2011 series “The Arming Question.” The three-part series investigated the controversy surrounding arming Public Safety officers.
The USG voted to extend the term of social chair Benedict Wagstaff ’14 to next winter as part of a constitutional amendment to align the election of the social chair with other members of the executive committee.
After testing an open-enrollment policy for some of its courses this academic year, the Creative Writing Program will be returning to the previous application-based process but with a new and more flexible application.
Four months after announcing that it would review its investments in HEI, Harvard has decided to not reinvest in the controversial hospitality firm, the Harvard Crimson reported Sunday.
Eric “Ricky” Silberman ’13 was named the national winner of the sixth annual Man-O-Manischewitz Cook-Off on Wednesday, taking home a grand prize of $25,000 in cash and prizes after preparing his dish alongside four other finalists for a live audience in New York City.All five finalists were given one hour to prepare and present their original recipes in front of seven judges and an Upper West Side audience of family, friends, Jewish community members, media and Manischewitz employees. Entries were judged — in order of importance — on taste, ease of preparation, appearance, originality and creativity.
Rapper Childish Gambino will headline this spring’s USG-sponsored concert at Lawnparties, according to a representative of Glassnote Records, who declined to be identified.Donald Glover, who uses Childish Gambino as a stage name, is well-known for his premier studio album, “Camp,” released this past November. Glover stars as Troy Barnes on NBC’s hit show “Community.”
Freshmen in Butler, Mathey and Whitman colleges scheduled to participate in room draw between 10:00 a.m. and noon on Thursday were unable to select a room due to “technical interruption of service” on the Housing Office website, according to an email sent by the Housing Office to freshmen whose draw times had to be rescheduled.Students originally scheduled to draw today, in Wilson, Forbes and Rockefeller colleges, have been rescheduled to a future date. The draw will most likely be rescheduled for the week of April 16, the email said. Students will draw at the same assigned times on a different date.
Aman Sinha ’13 and Eugene Katsevich ’14 were selected to receive the 2012 Goldwater Scholarship, a prestigious award that gives scholarships to sophomore and junior undergraduates who excel academically in the sciences. Both were notified on Tuesday by email from Deirdre Moloney, the Office of International Programs Director of Fellowship Advising.The award is given to students who plan to pursue careers in science, mathematics and engineering.
Kate Fukawa-Connelly selected as new associate director of HPA continuing the sea change in the leadership of Health Professions Advising, Dean of the College Valerie Smith announced in an email Thursday that Kate Fukawa-Connelly would become the group’s new Associate Director. She will begin her tenure on May 1.Last week, Smith announced that Glenn Cummings, the director of HPA, had suddenly resigned and been replaced by Jess Deutsch ’91, who vacated the Associate Director slot in January that is now being filled by Fukawa-Connelly. After only one month in her new position as the Director of Student Life in Forbes College, Deutsch resigned from that position as well. Deutsch has now returned to HPA as director part-time.
The University offered admission to 7.86 percent — or 2,095 students — out of the 26,664 who applied for a spot in the Class of 2016.The total number of applications includes the 3,443 students who applied to the single-choice early action program in December. 21.09 percent of those students were admitted for the first time since 2006, the last time the University offered an early round of admission.
After more than 30 years of service for Princeton Township, Township Administrator Jim Pascale and Chief of Police Robert Buchanan annouced their plans to retire publicly.The governmental positions in the consolidated Princeton have not yet been determined, though there is speculation that the administrator will be current Princeton Borough Administrator Robert Bruschi, which would leave Pascale without a job.
Rapper Childish Gambino will headline this spring's Lawnparties, according to a representative of Glassnote Records, who declined to be identified.
The University accepted 7.86 percent of applicants for the Class of 2016, offering admission to 2,095 of the 26,664 applications, according to a post on the University website at noon on Thursday.
Cecile Richards began as a patient of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and since 2006 has served as its president. Following her lecture Wednesday afternoon, she discussed her career and her organization with The Daily Princetonian.
With public safety officers stationed at the two doorways on either side of the stage, Cecile Richards, the president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, discussed the politicization of women’s health care in a lecture on Wednesday.
Representatives from the Township and the Borough convened Wednesday evening for a meeting of the Transition Task Force to discuss options for hiring and letting go municipality personnel following the creation of the consolidated municipality.
A new report from the National Association of Colleges and Employers predicts a 10.2 percent increase in the hiring of new college graduates compared to the hiring of the Class of 2011. Last year, the Job Outlook Spring 2011 Update projected a hiring increase of 19.3 percent, the first increase since 2007.
