The Regional Planning Board of Princeton will hear final arguments about the Institute for Advanced Study’s controversial planned housing construction at 7:30 tonight.
At least 190 students have come down with the highly-contagious gastroenteritis over the past two weeks, with 80 of the sick contracting the virus since Friday, University Spokesperson Martin Mbugua said.The spread of gastroenteritis caused by norovirus is “particularly higher” when compared with previous years, Mbugua said.
The University Bridge Year Program will nix its locations in Ghana and Serbia and offer new programs in Senegal and China instead beginning with the 2012-13 school year.The Bridge Year Program, which will continue to offer spaces in India and Peru, will also increase the total number of students the program can accommodate annually.
Georgetown Cupcake, the famous Washington, D.C.-based dessert seller featured on TLC’s DC Cupcakes and founded by Sophie Kallinis LaMontagne ’00, is coming to New York.Founded four years ago this month, LaMontagne’s cupcake store opened a third location in SoHo on Saturday, part of a new expansion that will bring the store to Boston by this spring. The popular television program, in its second season, features LaMontagne and her sister’s ventures in the dessert world.
When University professors step into the limelight, it's usually not alongside Chris Brown and Taylor Swift.Composer Steven Mackey, the chair of the music department, took home a Grammy Award Sunday night in the category of Best Small Ensemble Performance for his recording “Lonely Motel: Music from Slide.” Mackey was also nominated for Best Contemporary Classical Composition.
In an effort to protect its name online, the University has reserved several sites on the new ostensibly pornography-focused domain .xxx.
Cristina Martinez ’12 and Ceymi Doenyas ’12 were awarded Princeton ReachOut Fellowships for public service projects, the sponsoring foundation announced on Jan. 27.Martinez received the foundation’s annual domestic fellowship for her plans to work with young adults transitioning out of foster care, and Doenyas received the international fellowship for her proposal to use technology to assist autistic students in her home country of Turkey.
With the impending departure of the University Medical Center at Princeton to its new Plainsboro campus on Route 1, the Borough is faced with redeveloping the former hospital property, which consists of 9.8 acres in the heart of the town. The Borough Council met last night to discuss a zoning amendment to the site on Witherspoon Street, which would increase the number of proposed residential units from 280 homes to 324.
The City of Providence, R.I., is calling on Brown University to double its payments to the city, the majority of which are voluntary contributions, a debate that mirrors controversies with other private universities around the country and the cash-strapped towns in which they are located.
President Obama awarded philosophy professor and African American studies scholar Kwame Anthemy Appiah the National Humanities Medal on Monday in a ceremony at the White House. The medal, given by the National Endowment for the Humanities, honors individuals or groups whose work has deepened the nation’s commitment to the humanities.
The reintroduction of Cannon Dial Elm Club onto Prospect Avenue this year did not have a particularly significant impact on the numbers of students bickering the other five selective clubs.
President Shirley Tilghman unveiled additional details about plans for the recently approved and long-contested Arts and Transit Neighborhood at a meeting of the Council of the Princeton University Community on Monday afternoon.
Isaac Held GS ’76, a professor in the departments of geosciences and atmospheric and oceanic sciences, won the $510,000 annual BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Climate Change Category for his recent work on the structure of atmospheric circulation systems.
Terrace Club took 160 new members over two rounds of sign-ins, making it the eating club with the greatest number of new members for the second year in a row. Seventy-nine of those students signed in to Terrace in the first round.The total number of new members is a significant increase from the 120 students who signed in to the club in 2010. In 2009, Terrace accepted 115 over the two rounds and reported filling to capacity.
Five students were named winners of the 2012 Gates Cambridge Scholarship by the Gates Cambridge Trust in the United Kingdom on Monday. This year’s winners were Daniel Barson ’12, Victoria A. Tobolsky ’12, Daniel Strassfeld ’12, Rachel Bolten ’10 and Jane Abbottsmith ’12.
Ten students required medical transport to McCosh Health Center and the University Medical Center at Princeton due to alcohol intoxication this weekend. According to the Department of Public Safety, six students were taken to McCosh while four were transported to UMCP.
Fifteen members of Tower Club decided not to participate in this past weekend’s pickups as part of a “No Pickups Pledge.” The pledge argues that pickups are insensitive toward hosed classmates and creates a mess that the maintenance staff is forced to clean up.
Ivy Club and Tower Club ranked as the most competitive bicker clubs on the Street this year, with both clubs accepting about half of those who sought membership.This year, Ivy’s acceptance rate dipped significantly from last year, taking roughly 65 of 130 bickerees, according to sources within the club. Outgoing Ivy president Caroline Shifke ’12 did not respond to repeated requests for comment.
The cost of ambulance transports from campus to the University Medical Center at Princeton will increase by roughly 7 percent when the hospital moves into its new facility in May. Since 2005, UMCP has been in the process of relocating from its current location on Witherspoon Street, roughly 0.5 miles from campus, to a new facility 2.5 miles away in Plainsboro.
Carl Hartman ’36, a longtime foreign correspondent with the Associated Press who covered Europe during the middle of the 20th century, died Sunday in Washington. He was 95.
