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Filmmakers discuss role of documentary during ‘hyper-saturated’ media environment

Filmmakers discuss role of documentary during ‘hyper-saturated’ media environment

Launa Greer

Documentaries are a rich form of storytelling with the ability to mobilize the public and shape public policy, argued documentary filmmaker and editor Purcell Carson and TV producer and human rights law scholar Emily Holland ’01 in a panel Monday evening titled “The Role of Documentary in Shaping Public Policy.”

NEWS | 12/05/2011

News & Notes: Timothy Downs named director of Facilities, Finance and Administrative Services

The University’s Facilities Organization has appointed Timothy Downs as the new director of Facilities Finance and Administrative Services, effective Nov. 1.

NEWS | 12/05/2011

Experts discuss the ‘art’ element of sustainability

Prihatha Narasimmaraj

In a Monday evening panel discussion titled “The Art of Sustainability! Why We Need Art to Make Progress on Environment,” participants Fritz Haeg, Subhankar Banerjee and Jenny Price ’85 discussed how manipulating art can enact changes in environmental policies and practices.

NEWS | 12/05/2011

Students question enforcement of furniture rule

Marcelo Rochabrun

A number of students are complaining that Undergraduate Housing has implemented a new University furniture policy without adequately informing undergraduates — or at least begun to enforce an older policy without notifying students of its existence.

NEWS | 12/05/2011

Easop ’13 wins USG presidency in runoff

Regina Wang

Bruce Easop ‘13 has won the USG presidency in a runoff election against USG vice president Catherine Ettman ‘13, USG president Michael Yaroshefsky ‘12 announced in an email to the student body early Friday evening.Easop won by a vote of 1,064 to 982. Ettman won the majority of votes in every class, except for the Class of 2013.

NEWS | 12/04/2011

Researchers use bubbles for better batteries

Catherine Lei

According to University researchers, the elusive solution for storing energy in electric vehicles may have been discovered in an unlikely place: bubbles.Porous graphene membranes for lithium-air batteries have been found to store more energy than conventional graphene sheets, according to scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Princeton.

NEWS | 12/04/2011

Students win national programming competition

Sarah Chen

While the men’s water polo team played at the NCAA Championships in California this weekend, four Princeton computer science majors took first place in an entirely different event just an hour away at Facebook’s headquarters in Palo Alto.

NEWS | 12/04/2011

Forbes hosts Diversity Week cooking contest

Catherine Ku

The Forbes Multipurpose Room was transformed into Kitchen Stadium on Sunday night as students waged a culinary battle for the title of Iron Chef: World. For Forbes’ first college-wide cooking competition, participants were divided into teams, with each team representing one regional cuisine, and given ingredients to create dishes from their respective regions. The event was planned by a team of Forbes residential college advisers.

NEWS | 12/04/2011

News & Notes: Geosciences professor Ward given Procter & Gamble Award

Geosciences department chair Bess Ward will receive the 2012 Procter & Gamble Award in Applied and Environmental Microbiology, the University reported Wednesday.

NEWS | 12/04/2011

Cannon Club welcomes 138

Luc Cohen

Cannon Dial Elm Club welcomed 138 members on Saturday, out of a total of 189 students who bickered. The students will be the first class of new members to take their meals in the Cannon clubhouse since the club closed its doors after the 1972-1973 academic year. Cannon was in operation between 1990-98 in the former Elm Club, which now houses the Fields Center. At the time, it was known as Dial Elm Cannon.

NEWS | 12/04/2011

Computing center opens at Forrestal

Michael Granovetter

Creating computational models that depict visualizations of distant galaxies and movements of single atoms will soon become much more feasible with the opening of the University’s High-Performance Computing Research Center, a 47,000-square-foot building located on Princeton’s Forrestal campus.

NEWS | 12/01/2011

News & Notes: Township resident Bill Spadea to run for District Assembly seat

princeton township resident Bill Spadea has announced his candidacy for the 16th District Assembly seat, filling the position of Peter Biondi, who died two days after his re-election in November.

NEWS | 12/01/2011

Web Update: Easop '13 wins USG presidency

Class of 2013 Bruce Easop '13 has won the USG presidency in a runoff election against USG vice president Catherine Ettman '13, USG president Michael Yaroshefsky '12 announced in an email to the student body early Friday evening.

NEWS | 12/01/2011

Princeton Pitch tests ideas

Carla Javier

“Get ready,” Princeton Entrepreneurship Club co-director of competitions Chenyu Zheng ’12 said each time the giant timer in Dodds Auditorium ticked down to zero. About 150 audience members varying in dress from full suits to jeans and T-shirts waited, eager to hear Princeton’s next big business idea.

NEWS | 12/01/2011

Former secretary to the Treasury discusses crisis

Lekha Kanchinadam

Michael Barr, former assistant secretary of the Treasury and one of the main authors of the Dodd-Frank Reform Act of July 2010, spoke at the Wilson School yesterday about the financial crisis and the government reform that has since followed it. Barr, who is now retired from public work, began by describing what he believed to be causes of the financial meltdown in 2008.

NEWS | 12/01/2011

Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies tasked to fund, manage research

Rebecca Zhang

The University announced last week the creation of the new Stanley J. Seeger ’52 Center for Hellenic Studies, tasked to “oversee, fund, initiate and manage research on all aspects of Hellenic studies, at Princeton and abroad.”

NEWS | 12/01/2011

University encourages women to seek high honors

Luc Cohen

When Kyle Edwards ’12 received an email last spring informing her of fellowship opportunities, she disregarded it.Though she said only students with a specific grade point average or higher are on the fellowship listserv, she rationalized her decision to ignore the email by telling herself that applying to prestigious awards like the Marshall and Rhodes Scholarships takes a lot of effort with only a small chance of return.

NEWS | 12/01/2011

Brown professor lectures on slavery and the morality of early Americans

Sohee Khim

Brown University history professor emeritus Gordon Wood, the recipient of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for History, discussed how the issue of slavery cannot explain the outbreak of the Civil War without taking into account its context within the Revolutionary War.

NEWS | 11/30/2011

Panel puts spotlight on AIDS

Alaka Halder

A panel of researchers and activists discussed the challenges surrounding the increasing rates of AIDS among young American gay and bisexual men on Wednesday evening in Frist Campus Center.

NEWS | 11/30/2011

Keeping Faith: Shivaji Sondhi

Robert George

The following is the fourth installment of “Keeping Faith,” a six-part series of conversations between politics professor Robert George and University professors of various faiths.

NEWS | 11/30/2011

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