The University’s Annual Giving campaign raised $50,010,045 for the year 2010-2011, it announced in July, the second highest total in the campaign’s history.
At the end of the month, the future of the former Valley Road School site will be determined. Princeton Regional Schools will choose between replacing the school with a site to house Princeton’s emergency services or converting the school to a community center for local nonprofits.
A $10 million gift made by philanthropist Lynn Shostack to the University’s Project X in June will ensure continued support for faculty members seeking seed funding for creative and unconventional research projects in the field of engineering.
Three weeks after the University’s Aug. 23 announcement that it would prohibit freshmen from rushing fraternities or sororities beginning in the fall of 2012, the University’s Greek organizations are still taking in the news.
Sovereign Bank signed a three-year agreement with the University in July, effective immediately, to help support international academic initiatives.
Last Sunday on Cannon Green, several hundred University faculty, students and members of the public gathered to reflect on the 10-year legacy of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and honor the memories of the thousands who perished, including 13 Princeton alumni.
Residents of the Borough and Township will vote on a referendum proposing consolidation of the two communities this November. If the referendum passes with a majority in both the Borough and the Township, the two Princetons will become one municipality under a borough form of government.
Seven undergraduates were awarded prizes during opening exercises on Sunday.The Freshman First Honor Prize, awarded annually to a current sophomore who achieved exceptional academic standing during their freshman year, went to Eugene Katsevich ?14, a prospective mathematics major from Oviedo, Fla.The George B.
The electro-hop group Far East Movement will headline the USG-sponsored concert at Lawnparties this Sunday at Quadrangle Club.
Cannon Club, which is set to reopen as an undergraduate eating club in February 2012, will now be offering social memberships to members of the classes of 2012 and 2013. The Graduate Board of Trustees of Cannon Dial Elm Club announced the news in an email sent out to juniors and seniors on Aug. 15.
Heavy rains and dangerous weather conditions in the wake of Tropical Storm Lee last week forced the University to recall the freshman pre-orientation Outdoor Action trips.
Trauma victims recovering from serious injuries exhibit similar gene activity — regardless of age, gender or previous health — as their condition changes.
In an official resolution this July, the Borough Council publicly announced that it is opposed to the University’s plan to move Dinky station.
Shanta Devarajan ’75, the chief economist of the World Bank’s Africa Region, spoke on the importance of service as the keynote speaker for the annual “Reflections on Service” event on Sept. 13.
When Wilson School professor Stanley Katz remembers 9/11, his first thoughts are not of Sept. 11, 2001, but rather of the walk to his office in Robertson Hall the very next day.
It seemed like another world — the bright sun, air buzzing over manicured flowers in Prospect Garden. But students hurrying towards Frist Campus Center, cell phones held tightly to ears, eyes focused somewhere in the distance minutes after the World Trade Center collapsed yesterday morning, made clear just how close the disaster was to home.
In an apparent parallel attack on U.S. financial and military institutions, two hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Center around 9 a.m. yesterday, causing the twin towers to collapse in the heart of New York's financial district.
Not long after United Airlines Flight 175 crashed into the World Trade Center, I was in Frist Campus Center. I hadn’t heard the news when I happened upon a group of students watching a replay of the crumbling towers on CNN.
Ten years after attacks that challenged the foundation of American political and social life, it remains unclear what legacy lies behind for the generation that was buried and arose in its ruins. The 9/11 generation cannot define itself because the generation is still growing, still grappling and still grieving.
President Barack Obama nominated Wilson School professor Alan Krueger as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers today.
