University of Pennsylvania freshman Annie Zhu passed away due to cancer Tuesday morning at her home in Raritan, N.J.
Author and The Atlantic features editor Don Peck MPA ’94 discussed the long-term consequences of the current recession on the crumbling middle class on Wednesday, and he asserted that young adults are hit the hardest by the struggling job market.
In May 2011, former Penn students Joseph Cohen, Dan Getelman and Jim Grandpre left college early to focus on developing Coursekit, a new learning management system designed to supplant Blackboard use at universities. Their project moved quickly: Coursekit has been initially launched to 3,500 students in 80 courses, with a writing course at Princeton among the first trial courses to use the new program.
Ge Wang GS ’08 has turned out some pretty quirky iPhone apps. Ocarina is a touchscreen flute that you play by blowing into an iPhone’s microphone. Magic Piano allows you to play duets with a complete stranger. There’s even I Am T-Pain, an app that autotunes your voice to mimic that of Mr. Pain himself.
Astrophysicist, former University lecturer and TV personality Neil deGrasse Tyson launched into a passionate criticism of public attitudes toward space exploration and the dominant myth that America was a pioneer in the field in a lecture on American space exploration to a packed audience in McCosh Hall on Tuesday night.
VanderLinden, along with PEP members Timothy Trieu ’14 and Aleks Taranov ’15, was in charge of drafting and devising the gender-neutral housing petition, which went live Nov. 9 on the website gopetition.com. The petition follows the implementation of a pilot program in Spelman Halls during the 2010-11 academic year, that permitted mixed-gender groups to draw into the dormitory’s apartment-style rooms.
Borough officials are making a new effort to prevent the University from building its proposed Arts and Transit Neighborhood. At a meeting on Tuesday evening, members of the Borough Council voted unanimously to introduce a new ordinance that would interfere with the University’s plan to build its Arts and Transit Neighborhood.
Occupy Harvard ralliers attempted to interrupt a Goldman Sachs recruiting event held at Harvard’s On-Campus Interview Facility on Massachusetts Avenue Monday afternoon.
In a lecture on Tuesday, Yale University professor Matthew Frye Jacobson presented his online American history documentation project called “Historian’s Eye.”
The Mercer County Board of Elections is currently working on election redistricting for the soon-to-be consolidated Princeton Borough and Township.
In conjunction with its 106th anniversary, the Princeton University Store recently announced its financial statements for the past year, boasting sales of $7.5 million for the 2010 fiscal year.
Top Colleges educational consultant Steven Goodman is attributing the decline in the early applications pool at the University of Pennsylvania to the reinstatement of Princeton and Harvard’s early action programs, according to The Daily Pennsylvanian.
The prospects of making unexpected and groundbreaking chemical discoveries may have just received a huge boost, thanks to a method recently developed and successfully tested by University researchers.
This fall, the Student Groups Recognition Committee instated a year-long clean-up initiative that will filter inactive student groups from the current Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students financial database.
Acting chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Martin J. Gruenberg ’75 offered insight on the recent economic crisis from a federal agency’s point of view in a lecture on Monday night.
Still smarting from the wounds of losing a 10-year battle for tax-exempt status a year ago, Cottage Club was informed by a state court earlier this month that it can no longer pursue appeals of taxes it paid several years ago.
In addition to Christina Chang ’12, Samuel Dorison ’11 and Kyle Edwards ’12, whose names The Daily Princetonian reported on Wednesday, Alice Easton ’09 and Emily Rutherford ’12 have also been named recipients of 2012 Marshall Scholarships.
It seems intuitive: Blocking a hole with a solid object should prevent light from moving through it. But it turns out that obstructing a tiny metal hole with a metal cap actually makes more light penetrate it instead, according to new research by electrical engineering professor Stephen Chou and his team of researchers.
George Gallup, Jr. ’53, the son of Gallup Poll founder George Gallup, died at his home in Princeton on Nov. 21 at age 81. The pollster was diagnosed with liver cancer last year.
Harvard announced that it has received 4,245 early applications for the Class of 2016 in the first year of the early action program’s reinstatement since it was eliminated four years ago.
