For 25 years, National Geographic’s Crittercam — a small device worn on a collar around a wild animal’s neck — has given scientists an animal’s-eye view of the world by capturing video, sound and other data.
Polartec has announced Princeton University’s Outdoor Action program as one of its finalists in this year’s Made Possible Challenge, putting Outdoor Action in the running for a $10,000 prize.
To understand the state of the nation three years after “one of the most upsetting and baffling episodes of financial history,” one must examine current economic practices and regulation of the financial services industry through a historical lens. Only thus can one determine whether those involved in creating and enabling the 2008 crisis have been held accountable Gretchen Morgenson, assistant business and financial editor and columnist at the New York Times, argued before a crowd of 150 in Dodds Auditorium on Monday night.
Animal rights organizations from New Jersey and Philadelphia organized protests at the intersection of Nassau Street and Washington Road Friday afternoon to protest new allegations of animal deaths at the University.
Consumers might have an extra incentive when holiday shopping this season, Meghan Sebold explained in a lecture on sustainable fashion on Monday evening.
In a press release published on its website last Thursday, the animal activist group Stop Animal Exploitation Now! accused the University of allowing at least 10 laboratory rats to die of starvation.According to the account by an anonymous former laboratory employee, the rats were not given food or water in what was perhaps a miscommunication between animal staff and research staff. Two of the rats starved to death after a period of days and those remaining needed to be euthanized.
Compared with the constant presence of residential college advisers during students’ freshman years, dormitory assistants — students who act as liaisons between upperclass dorms and the administration — are much less well known.With the deadline to apply for next year’s DA positions upcoming, several current DAs spoke to The Daily Princetonian about their current roles as liaisons and working with students.
The committee to implement the ban on freshman rush attended the Undergraduate Student Government meeting held on Sunday at 7:30 p.m. in Frist 309. The committee’s transparency and opportunities for community input were at the heart of discussion between the committee and the USG members.
Universities need to serve their societies. But they do that best when they give their faculty and students the chance to become deeply, passionately excited about some new inquiry, and let them follow it, even if the immediate rewards aren’t clear.
Abigail Borah, a Princeton resident currently a junior at Middlebury College in Vermont, was ejected from the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa, after her interruption of the U.S. negotiator attending the conference on Thursday.
When Wilson College resident Karen Wang ’14 woke up one day and got out of bed, she heard a suspicious crunch beneath her feet. She looked down and saw a cockroach scrambling away with its body half-squashed.
Two years after the Department of Music decided on a cost-cutting measure that would eliminate subsidies for private lessons for University music students, members of Princeton University Sinfonia and other student musicians are still feeling the effects of the reduced funding, despite the recent improvement in University finances.
Olivia Waring ’12, a chemistry major with a Chinese language certificate, has been chosen as the recipient of the 2012 Daniel M. Sachs Class of 1960 Scholarship.
Karmonitchni: It means “organic” and “fitting well together” in Russian and represents the harmonic spirit of performance that Hobart Earle ’83 works to coax out of his orchestra.
Comedian and actor Steve Martin discussed his career and comedy, documenting the rise of his life in stand-up comedy, before a packed McCosh 50 on Thursday night.
Two people were shot and killed on Thursday afternoon at Virginia Tech, bringing back memories of the campus’ 2007 shooting, which left 33 people dead and was the deadliest campus shooting in the nation’s history.
Around 20 students staged a protest and walkout at J.P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs recruiting events held on campus Wednesday and Thursday. The demonstrations were part of the Occupy Princeton movement founded this fall in response to the national Occupy Wall Street campaign.
Despite the popular perception that newer residential colleges, such as Whitman and Butler College, have larger endowments to fund more expensive student activities, several University representatives explained that the colleges’ budgets are determined by the number of student residents.
Dr. Mark McClellan, director of the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at the Brookings Institution, presented a lecture on Wednesday titled "Bending the Health Care Cost Curve: Pathway to Real Reform,” in which he illustrated opportunities for improvement on the issue based on his experiences.
The following is the fifth installment of “Keeping Faith,” a six-part series of conversations between politics professor Robert George and University professors of various faiths. Paul Cuff is an electrical engineering professor and practicing Mormon. His work focuses on information theory.
