While an analysis of the past semester’s SCORE data reveals a greater proportion of high-rated courses in the humanities, the significance of the course evaluations — and how departments use them — remains in question.
Pyne Prize winner Jim Valcourt ’12 now has another laurel to add to his collection. Valcourt, a molecular biology major from Sterling, Mass., who is also pursuing a certificate in quantitative and computational biology, was awarded the Hertz Fellowship on March 22 to support graduate study in the physical, biological or engineering sciences.
Commuters from Princeton to New York now have the option of traveling by bus, which supplements the train service offered by New Jersey Transit through the on-campus station.A partnership between Suburban Transit and Megabus, branches of Coach USA, will begin running routes today. One-way fares range from $1 to $14, depending on how far in advance the customers book their tickets online.
Creative writing professor Joyce Carol Oates has released a new novel, titled “Mudwoman,” that describes the challenges faced by the first female president of an Ivy League university in New Jersey.
The following statement was provided to The Daily Princetonian by Mandela Sheaffer '13.Thanks for considering my request to publish this letter to you in its entirety. As you probably know, all charges against me have been dismissed and I received a personal apology from the BGSU chief of police by telephone. I prefer to keep my communications written for now so that I don't say something off the cuff that could be taken in the wrong way.
The two charges against William “Mandela” Sheaffer ’13 were dropped Monday. The Bowling Green State University police chief acknowledged that officers overreacted in a situation that sparked a social media campaign alleging racial motivations in Sheaffer’s arrest.Director of Public Safety and Chief of Police at BGSU Monica Moll said the charges were dropped not because they were race-based, but because officers escalated what should have been a minor incident, which took place last weekend in Ohio.
Erik Gilson of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory isn’t doing anything much different from holding a magnifying glass over an ant on a hot summer day, focusing diffuse rays from the sun to fry a bug to a crisp. Replacing the glass lens with magnets and the ant with a pellet of nuclear fuel gives a rough model of the experiment that his project is trying to carry out.
The ban on freshman rush will not prevent members of Greek organizations from encouraging first-year students to rush during their sophomore year, members of the Committee on Freshmen Rush Policy confirmed during an open forum on Monday afternoon.Many members of the audience — which totaled upward of 50 students — seemed surprised at the revelation, which was not explicitly outlined in the written policy announced last week.
After losing his CNN show in July, former New York governor Eliot Spitzer ’81 returned to television on Friday night on Current TV as the replacement for Keith Olbermann, who was fired by the network. Current TV, led by former vice president Al Gore, will host Spitzer’s show, “Viewpoint with Eliot Spitzer” in Olbermann’s old 8 p.m. daily slot.
A piece of steel from the wreckage of the World Trade Center has made its way to Princeton for display in a local monument to commemorate the attacks over 10 years ago. The monument is planned to be completed by Sept. 11 of this year.
Three months ago, the Office of the Registrar collected through SCORE 15,521 student responses rating the overall quality of courses on a scale of 1 (Poor) to 5 (Excellent). From this data emerges a complex picture of trends in ratings, with humanities, upper-level and smaller courses receiving the highest marks and quantitative and scientific, lower-level and larger courses the lowest. What factors cause some courses to be higher-rated than others?
Daniel Gastfriend ’13, the co-chair of the Pace Council for Civic Values, the vice president of Princeton Social Entrepreneurship Initiative and a member of the Princeton Footnotes, was named the sole University recipient of the Truman Scholarship.
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.
