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Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye confirmed on Thursday that all Orange Key guides will be paid starting this semester. “Our perspective is that we view the tours to be of importance to the mission of the University, and we are now paying the guides for their work,” Rapelye said.

NEWS | 09/22/2011

Students explore security with CISS

Students explore security with CISS

Sohee Khim

The Center for International Security Studies has hosted a variety of programs and conferences, including “India and the World,” a program directed by professor Shivaji Sondhi to highlight the country’s increasingly large role in Asia and in the global economy.

NEWS | 09/22/2011

Friedberg, Ikenberry discuss China’s global role at lecture

Anastasya Lloyd-Damnjanovic

Wilson School professors Aaron Friedberg and John Ikenberry debated the rise of China and its implications for the United States’ hegemony and foreign policy in the Whig Hall Senate Chamber on Thursday night.

NEWS | 09/22/2011

Alumni find success with start-up Yext

Catherine Ku

Like most operations research and financial engineering concentrators, Daphne Earp ’10 and Collin McCarthy ’09 had always pictured themselves working in the investment-banking sector following graduation. The fall of her senior year, Earp had even taken a job at a Wall Street firm, which she secured through senior recruiting.

NEWS | 09/22/2011

OA, CA may see changes

Luc Cohen

With more and more incoming freshmen participating in Outdoor Action and Community Action, the University is considering ways to expand its pre-orientation programming and possibly encourage all students to attend a session.

NEWS | 09/22/2011

News & Notes : Whitman to head HP

Whitman to head HP former ebay president and chief executive Meg Whitman ’77 has been named Hewlett-Packard’s new president and CEO. She is replacing Leo Apotheker, who held the position for less than a year. Whitman has served on HP’s board of directors since January.

NEWS | 09/22/2011

University second in lab violations

Daniel Santoro

The University tied with Yale for the second-worst Research Misconduct Score in the Ivy League in a report released yesterday by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.

NEWS | 09/21/2011

4 residential colleges welcome new DSLs

Sarah Chen

This school year began with a changing of the guard among residential college directors of student life, with new faces in Whitman, Butler, Rockefeller and Forbes colleges.

NEWS | 09/21/2011

‘The Guy You Want in the Foxhole’

Teddy Schleifer

The military had never been in the long-term goals of Brig. Gen. Mark Milley ’80. But 31 years later, Milley is the University’s highest ranked alumnus in the armed forces.

NEWS | 09/21/2011

News & Notes: Hessler ’92 selected as a MacArthur Fellow

Peter Hessler ’92 was named one of 22 new MacArthur Fellows for 2011 by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation on Tuesday. He will receive $500,000 in “no strings attached” support over the next five years, which will be paid out in equal quarterly installments.

NEWS | 09/21/2011

Robert George, alumni hold panel on conservative community on campus

Teddy Schleifer

Politics professor Robert George and four recent alumni shared stories and advice with 30 students during a panel session Wednesday night in Frist Campus Center, discussing life on a campus that the panelists deemed relatively diverse but nevertheless a difficult environment for conservative students.

NEWS | 09/21/2011

Students discuss Middle East landscape

Caleb Kennedy

Students gathered on the south lawn of Frist Campus Center on Wednesday to discuss the changing landscape of the Middle East and issues related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as part of “Talk Israel: Join the Conversation.”

NEWS | 09/21/2011

Mayoral candidates discuss consolidation

Patience Haggin

Candidates for Princeton Borough mayor spoke out on issues of municipal consolidation, the upcoming Valley Road School decision, and ways to reform the Borough’s budget management in a community forum on Tuesday evening. In an overwhelmingly Democratic Borough, this November’s election is the first competitive race for mayor in decades.

NEWS | 09/20/2011

News & Notes: Penn neglects to inform students of professor’s passing

Undergraduates waiting for the first seminar of Political Science 291: Citizenship and Democratic Development at the University of Pennsylvania last week received some unexpected news as they waited for class to begin: Their professor, Henry Teune, had passed away five months previously, and the University had forgotten to cancel the class, according to the email students recieved in the middle of the uncancelled class.

NEWS | 09/20/2011

New method could prove existence of dark matter

One of the cosmology’s greatest unsolved mysteries is the nature of dark matter, a mysterious and invisible substance that dominates over 20 percent of the universe’s observable mass. But recent findings by the University’s Shravan Hanasoge, a post-doctoral student in the geosciences department, and New York University’s Michael Kesden about primordial black holes — theoretical remnants of the Big Bang and one of a handful of potential sources for dark matter — may give scientists a new way to unlock the secrets of the elusive substance

NEWS | 09/20/2011

Threats arise at Muslim Students Association event

A local man claiming to be part of the Knights Templar was arrested on Saturday night after allegedly interrupting a Muslim Student Association welcome back dinner and telling students that “Muslims are going to hell."

NEWS | 09/20/2011

Singer discusses importance of health care reform

Peter Singer, a professor with the University Center for Human Values, presented a talk on “Rationing Health Care” on Tuesday. The event, open to the public, was sponsored by the Student Bioethics Forum.

NEWS | 09/20/2011

Director of ‘The Wire’ Simon discusses career

On Tuesday night in McCosh 50, journalist and television producer David Simon delivered a lecture titled “The End of the American Century and What’s in it for You?” Simon was the first of this year’s three Belknap Visitors in the Humanities.

NEWS | 09/20/2011

Monks create mandala in Frist

This week, men in red and orange robes, the Tibetan Monks of the 2011 Drepung Gomang Monastery Sacred Arts Tour, will construct an interfaith sacred sand mandala — a three-dimensional drawing made of sand.

NEWS | 09/20/2011

News & Notes: Researchers: Brain need a cool down? Try a yawn

University students are likely familiar with yawning as a sign of sleepiness — or boredom — but new research by Andrew Gallup, a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, has shown that yawning may also be a method for cooling down the brain.

NEWS | 09/19/2011

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