In a lecture on Tuesday, Yale University professor Matthew Frye Jacobson presented his online American history documentation project called “Historian’s Eye.”
The Mercer County Board of Elections is currently working on election redistricting for the soon-to-be consolidated Princeton Borough and Township.
In conjunction with its 106th anniversary, the Princeton University Store recently announced its financial statements for the past year, boasting sales of $7.5 million for the 2010 fiscal year.
Top Colleges educational consultant Steven Goodman is attributing the decline in the early applications pool at the University of Pennsylvania to the reinstatement of Princeton and Harvard’s early action programs, according to The Daily Pennsylvanian.
The prospects of making unexpected and groundbreaking chemical discoveries may have just received a huge boost, thanks to a method recently developed and successfully tested by University researchers.
This fall, the Student Groups Recognition Committee instated a year-long clean-up initiative that will filter inactive student groups from the current Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students financial database.
Acting chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Martin J. Gruenberg ’75 offered insight on the recent economic crisis from a federal agency’s point of view in a lecture on Monday night.
Still smarting from the wounds of losing a 10-year battle for tax-exempt status a year ago, Cottage Club was informed by a state court earlier this month that it can no longer pursue appeals of taxes it paid several years ago.
In addition to Christina Chang ’12, Samuel Dorison ’11 and Kyle Edwards ’12, whose names The Daily Princetonian reported on Wednesday, Alice Easton ’09 and Emily Rutherford ’12 have also been named recipients of 2012 Marshall Scholarships.
It seems intuitive: Blocking a hole with a solid object should prevent light from moving through it. But it turns out that obstructing a tiny metal hole with a metal cap actually makes more light penetrate it instead, according to new research by electrical engineering professor Stephen Chou and his team of researchers.
George Gallup, Jr. ’53, the son of Gallup Poll founder George Gallup, died at his home in Princeton on Nov. 21 at age 81. The pollster was diagnosed with liver cancer last year.
Harvard announced that it has received 4,245 early applications for the Class of 2016 in the first year of the early action program’s reinstatement since it was eliminated four years ago.
USG presidential candidates Bruce Easop ’13 and Catherine Ettman ’13 will enter a run-off race for the position, USG president Michael Yaroshefsky ’12 announced in an email sent out to the student body on Friday evening.Ettman received 1,067 votes, or 48.41 percent of the total cast for president — just short of the simple majority needed to win. Easop received 754 votes, or 34.21 percent. The run-off race will run from Monday to Wednesday.
USG presidential candidates Bruce Easop '13 and Catherine Ettman '13 will enter a runoff race for the position, USG president Michael Yaroshefsky '12 said in an email sent out to the student body on Friday evening.
Emily Rutherford ’12, a history major, and Alice Easton ’09, who concentrated in ecology and received a certificate from the Wilson School, are also recipients of the 2012 Marshall Scholarship. The total number of Princetonians who recieved the prize this year is five.
Wilson School professor Daniel Kurtzer, former U.S. ambassador to Israel and Egypt, and politics professor Amaney Jamal discussed the reasons the United States should take action on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in a public forum on Tuesday.
The following is the third installment of “Keeping Faith,” a six-part series of conversations between politics professor Robert George and University professors of various faiths. Martha Himmelfarb is a religion professor and practicing Jew. Her work focuses on religion in late antiquity, in particular the Jewish and Christian traditions.
History professor David Cannadine ’74 is garnerning attention for arguing in his upcoming book, “The Right Kind of History,” that history should be made a compulsory subject in the British school system up through the GCSE level or until students reach age 16.
Samuel Dorison ’11, Kyle Edwards ’12 and Christina Chang ’12 have been chosen as three of 40 recipients of the 2012 Marshall Scholarship, which funds “young Americans of high ability to study for a degree in the United Kingdom,” according to its website.
In an open forum-style town hall meeting at the Princeton Public Library on Tuesday, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie congratulated the town of Princeton on the consolidation of the Borough and Township before fielding questions from the audience. Joining Christie were Township Mayor Chad Goerner and Borough Council President Kevin Wilkes ’83.
