Wilson School Dean and economics and public affairs professor Christina Paxson has been elected to serve as vice president of the American Economic Association for 2012.
Despite looming midterms, heavy workloads and late-night cram sessions, 42 bleary-eyed students and staff members woke up before the sun to meet in the lobby of Robertson Hall at 6:30 a.m. on Saturday morning.
African-American studies professor Cornel West GS ’80, along with 18 other protesters, was arrested on the steps of the Supreme Court on Sunday afternoon.
A coalition of animal rights activists protested the University’s alleged mistreatment of animals used in research at the intersection of Nassau Street and Washington Road on Saturday.
Two volunteer rescuers from the Princeton First Aid and Rescue Squad — Michael Kenwood and Peter Simon — were directed to get closer to the abandoned sedan to see if it was occupied. At 5:01 a.m., the rescuers, tied together and wearing life vests, slowly shuffled into the water.In seconds, the rescue attempt took a tragic turn.
Comedian and actor Steve Carell will speak at this year’s Class Day, scheduled for June 4, 2012, Class of 2012 president Lindy Li announced in an email to seniors on Sunday afternoon. “We are thrilled that Mr. Carell will be joining us as we bring our Princeton journey to a close,” said the email, which was signed by Li and the Class of 2012 Class Day committee.
Three people were hospitalized on Friday night after a 22-year-old local man, allegedly driving drunk, crashed into five cars on Bayard Lane near Nassau Street, police said.Moises Ortiz, of Lawrenceville, allegedly first drove his Ford Explorer into a Ford Thunderbird driven by a 77-year-old man, Borough police Lt. Robert Currier said.
When filmmaker Jennifer Siebel Newsom sought entry into the world of acting, she was told to lie about her age and to take the Stanford MBA off her resume to avoid “intimidating” potential employers.
Following in the footsteps of a number of American universities, University College London recently announced a plan designed to allay growing concerns about grade inflation at the school. In an effort to regularize the distribution of grades, UCL has stated that it plans to abandon the traditional class system of British academic markings and instead introduce an American-style GPA grading system.
Around 20 students from local high schools and the University gathered at the Frist Campus Center Rainbow Lounge on Friday evening to talk about their experiences with being openly LGBT or ally-identified in high school at an event titled “LGBT Youth Today.”
University alumnus Aaron Burr, Class of 1772, has been nominated to be a member of the New Jersey Hall of Fame Class of 2012.
Over a dinner of Thai food on Thursday night, students presented their experiences as part of a delegation to Cambodia sponsored by the Office of Religious Life from Aug. 26 through Sept. 9, 2011. The students were chosen to participate in the trip via an application process in February 2011.
Hannah Freed-Thall, Douglas Jones Jr., Joel Lande, Ellen Lockhart and Tey Meadow have joined the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts for the 2011-12 academic year.
African-American studies professor Cornel West GS ’80 criticized Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain for smoking a “symbolic crack pipe” after Cain’s suggestion that racism no longer matters in the United States.
While he was a senior at Northwestern University in 2000, Nick Ehrmann GS ’10 decided to apply for Teach for America out of what he called “a pretty abstract desire of wanting to do some good in the world.”
Director of the United States Office of Personnel Management John Berry spoke yesterday in Robertson Hall on the value of “Public Service in the 21st Century” and the large-scale impact individuals can have by working with the federal government.
When the U.S. News & World Report released its list of America’s best national universities for 2011-12 earlier this year, the spotlight was on the University’s return to number one. Tying with Harvard and forging ahead of Yale, the University made the top of the list for the first time since 2009.
Unbeknownst to many University students, the campus lies across two municipalities: Princeton Borough and Princeton Township.
One week after dispelling rumors about his own 2012 presidential run, New Jersey Governor and University ex officio trustee Chris Christie endorsed former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney’s bid for the Republican presidential nomination on Tuesday afternoon.
On Wednesday night in the James M. Stewart ’32 Theater in the Lewis Center for the Arts, author and translator Stephen Mitchell read excerpts from his new translation of Homer’s “Iliad,” released on Oct. 11.
