Following her loss in the runoff for USG president after almost avoiding a second round of voting entirely, Catherine Ettman ’13 has refocused her campus involvement toward developing women’s leadership among undergraduates.
Representatives of New Jersey Transit presented its plans to remove 460 feet of historic train tracks to allow for the development of the University’s proposed Arts and Transit Neighborhood in front of the New Jersey Historic Sites Council on Thursday in Trenton.
Amid a campus-wide outbreak of gastroenteritis that has affected at least 243 students — nearly 5 percent of the student body — McCosh Health Center returned to normal operations on Saturday evening after temporarily redirecting patients to the University Medical Center at Princeton. Meanwhile, the University defended its decision at the end of last week not to inform the student body that the health center was diverting patients to UMCP.
The USG evaluated and proposed changes to both its external communications policy and its internal communications systems at the weekly senate meeting Sunday night.
The winter of junior year is traditionally a time of high stress for many Princeton students, between independent work, leadership in campus organizations and interviews for summer internships that may turn into jobs. Starting this year, juniors will have yet another postgraduate option in the mix: Teach for America.
The New Jersey Assembly voted 42-33 on Thursday to legalize same-sex marriage in the state.The State Senate had approved the bill on Monday by a vote of 24-16, and the bill will now be sent to Gov. Chris Christie.
When Veda Sunassee ’10 took EGR 495: Entrepreneurial Leadership with former visiting professor Gordon Bloom in the fall of 2009, he was inspired to take what he had learned in the classroom and try to change the world.Sunassee, along with classmates Faaez ul Haq ’12 and Amira Polack ’12, joined Danny Growald ’11 to found the Princeton Social Entrepreneurship Initiative. Polack, the current co-president, described PSEI as a student organization spin-off of the course that they took three years ago.
In the midst of a campus-wide gastroenteritis outbreak, McCosh Health Center is diverting patients to the University Medical Center at Princeton due to a lack of available beds at McCosh, the Department of Public Safety confirmed late Thursday night.“All the beds are full” at McCosh, said Public Safety Sgt. Rob Adams, adding that students requiring transport are being taken to UMCP until further notice.
Every year, psychology and Wilson School professor Eldar Shafir is amused by the semester-end evaluations of his popular course WWS 312: The Psychology of Decision Making and Judgment.“When some students say that lectures are not well organized, I just crack up. When they are in my class and buying shoes online, how would they know?” he said. “Either they are buying the wrong shoes or having no idea what I am saying, but to think that they can successfully do both is completely wrong.”
For Princeton students who have ever felt trapped by their circles of friends, help may have finally arrived. A new website, Princetonlunch.net, promises to help users “Meet Princeton students you might never encounter otherwise,” according to its slogan.
On Friday, they heard shots. The University asked them to leave. They wanted to stay. And their parents — oceans away — were, for the most part, in the dark.Welcome to Cairo.
Biographer Walter Isaacson, the author of the best-selling authorized biography of Steve Jobs, spoke about the commonalities of the notable people about which he has written in a conversation with journalism professor Evan Thomas on Wednesday.
The Obama administration recently released a new initiative designed to assist college-bound students and their families in making decisions on attending college based on affordability and value.The tool, called College Scorecard, provides data on the costs of attending different colleges and universities, average graduation rates, student loan repayment rate, average amount of debt after graduation and employment status of recent alumni.
The University Art Museum returned six works of art to the country of Italy in December, ending a major decade-long international legal battle with the country over the ownership of the works. The transfer completed an agreement signed with Italy on June 2, 2011.In a January statement, the University claimed that they returned the artworks after an internal investigation into the ownership of certain items in the University’s collection.
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.
