Architect Maya Lin presented a lecture discussing her past and present projects at Richardson Auditorium on Tuesday. Lin is most well known for designing the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
This fall marks the early stages of the spring 2011 policy change in the Program in Creative Writing, with enrollment in poetry, translation and screenwriting workshops no longer requiring applications for courses at the 201 level and below. But as the add/drop window closed only recently, it is still too early to fully assess many of the effects of the removal of the application process, according to program director Susan Wheeler.
Wokie Nwabueze was named as the University’s ombuds officer last week, the University announced in a recently distributed press release.
Princeton United Left, an organization started by Seongcheol Kim ’14, is a left-wing group currently seeking recognition from the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students. The organization, Kim said, is separate from the College Democrats and other campus organizations with similar political views. He described PUL as a broad-based left-wing political party on campus that operates outside of the existing political space while at the same time participating in campus-based actions.
Nearly seven years after it first began its capital campaign, Tiger Inn has nearly completed the first major renovation to the club’s facilities since it opened its doors in 1895. The expansion, which has increased the size of the building by over 5,000 square feet, will potentially accommodate around 50 new members.
In the spring of 2010, Carlyn Cook ’13, Teddy Eyster ’13 and the rest of the sophomore class had a decision to make about their eating plans for the following year. As Cook did not want to join an eating club, buy a residential college meal plan or become independent, her remaining option was to join a co-op — and Eyster opted to do the same.
Still short of its goal to recruit 75 to 100 upperclassmen to become social members this spring, Cannon Club will now be offering a discount to members of the Class of 2013 who decide to join the reopening club.
The Orange and Black Ball will return to the University this fall after an absence of more than over four decades, members of the junior and senior class governments confirmed. The ball will take place on Nov. 11, though the location has not yet been finalized.
A seven-member committee has been appointed to find a new dean for the University’s School of Architecture by the beginning of the next academic year.
Former U.S. Ambassador Thomas Pickering spoke about the need for diplomacy in addressing Iran’s growing nuclear capabilities to a full audience in Robertson Hall on Monday night. The public lecture was titled “Iran’s Nuclear Program: Can Diplomacy Help?” and was co-sponsored by the Wilson School’s Program on Science and Global Security.
A former Princeton Club of New York payroll manager, 51-year-old Jo-Ann Garcia, filed a $10-million lawsuit against her former employer in early August, contending that she was dismissed from her job due to her age and race.
Total reported campus crime has reached its lowest levels in over a decade, according to annual crime data for 2010 released by the Department of Public Safety at the end of last week.Most significantly, judicial referrals — cases that are sent to the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students — for on-campus alcohol offenses fell 73 percent in the last three years. Public Safety issued 33 judicial referrals related to alcohol in 2010, a substantial decline from the 120 issued in 2007. In all but two cases in 2010, the referrals resulted from an incident in a dormitory. The cause of the decline is unclear.
If Princeton residents vote to consolidate the Princeton Borough and Township this November, they can expect to receive aid from the state to cover 20 percent of the transition costs, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie announced on Friday. Christie also endorsed the consolidation measure and announced his support for pending legislation that would allow municipalities in the process of consolidation to spread their transition costs out over five years.
Both the number of students participating in fall Bicker and the overall numbers of students accepted to eating clubs declined significantly this year compared to last October. The decline was mostly due to the steep decrease in the number of students accepted to Cap & Gown Club, while the number of students gaining admission to Tower Club and Ivy Club increased slightly from last fall.
“Flying” carpets, once an image of myth, fantasy and science fiction, may soon be the innovation of the future, thanks to electrical engineering graduate student Noah Jafferis who has developed a sheet of plastic material that can propel itself forward and backward without touching the ground.
A study by Massimo Bollasina in the Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and Yi Ming and Venkatachalam Ramaswamy of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory have found that the dry period that occurred in South Asia during the second half of the 20th century can be attributed largely to aerosol pollution.
In direct response to the recommendations of the March 2011 report of the Steering Committee on Undergraduate Women’s Leadership, Mathey College is currently piloting a mentoring program specifically geared toward female students.
Ecology and evolutionary biology professor David Wilcove GS ’85, who also teaches at the Wilson School, has been named a recipient of the 2011 Pioneers of Science Award in recognition for his work as an ecologist. The award recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions to their respective fields and who live, or have lived, in western New York. The Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute of Buffalo, N.Y., sponsors the award.
Downloads of iPrinceton, a free mobile web application for the University community, continue to rise since its launch in December 2010.
When the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering — previously known as the Department of Chemical Engineering — officially adopted its revised name on July 1, 2010, department administrators said they hoped that the change would more accurately reflect the department’s goals in recognition of surging student interest and the nationwide growth of the field.
