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Coursekit pilot program receives mixed responses

Coursekit pilot program receives mixed responses

Carla Javier

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.

NEWS | 11/30/2011

Ge Wang GS ’08: Making music through iPhone apps

Prihatha Narasimmaraj

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.

NEWS | 11/29/2011

Tyson criticizes common views on space exploration

Anastasya Lloyd-Damnjanovic

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.

NEWS | 11/29/2011

Students create gender-neutral housing petition

Ellie Wilkinson

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.

NEWS | 11/29/2011

Ordinance could halt construction

Patience Haggin

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.

NEWS | 11/29/2011

News & Notes: Harvard students try to interrupt recruiting event

Occupy Harvard ralliers attempted to interrupt a Goldman Sachs recruiting event held at Harvard’s On-Campus Interview Facility on Massachusetts Avenue Monday afternoon.

NEWS | 11/29/2011

Jacobson presents online documentation project

Marcelo Rochabrun

In a lecture on Tuesday, Yale University professor Matthew Frye Jacobson presented his online American history documentation project called “Historian’s Eye.”

NEWS | 11/29/2011

County working on redistricting consolidated towns

Monica Chon

The Mercer County Board of Elections is currently working on election redistricting for the soon-to-be consolidated Princeton Borough and Township.

NEWS | 11/28/2011

U-Store boosts sales in 2010

Brendan Toole

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.

NEWS | 11/28/2011

News & Notes: Princeton, Harvard early admissions seen as potential cause of Penn application decline

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.

NEWS | 11/28/2011

University researchers pioneer new reaction robotics

Caleb Kennedy

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.

NEWS | 11/28/2011

ODUS to purge 26 groups

Louise Connelly

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.

NEWS | 11/28/2011

FDIC chair discusses financial malaise

Catherine Ku

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.

NEWS | 11/28/2011

Cottage loses tax-exempt bid

Patience Haggin

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.

NEWS | 11/27/2011

Easton ’09, Rutherford ’12 win Marshall scholarship

Michael Granovetter

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.

NEWS | 11/27/2011

Holes blocked with cap transmit more light, researchers find

Buyan Pan

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.

NEWS | 11/27/2011

News & Notes: Gallup ’53, son of Gallup Poll founder, dies at 81

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.

NEWS | 11/27/2011

News & Notes: Harvard receives record 4,245 early applications

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.

NEWS | 11/27/2011

Ettman ’13, Easop ’13 enter runoff

Marcelo Rochabrun

USG presidential candidates Bruce Easop ’13 and Catherine Ettman ’13 will enter a run-off race for the position, USG president Michael Yaroshefsky ’12 announced in an email sent out to the student body on Friday evening.Ettman received 1,067 votes, or 48.41 percent of the total cast for president — just short of the simple majority needed to win. Easop received 754 votes, or 34.21 percent. The run-off race will run from Monday to Wednesday.

NEWS | 11/27/2011

Web Update: Easop '13, Ettman '13 to enter runoff for USG presidency

USG presidential candidates Bruce Easop '13 and Catherine Ettman '13 will enter a runoff race for the position, USG president Michael Yaroshefsky '12 said in an email sent out to the student body on Friday evening.

NEWS | 11/24/2011

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