The following is the first installment of “Keeping Faith,” a six-part series of conversations between politics professor Robert George and University professors of various faiths.
The USG Community Service Committee is revamping community service on campus with a new Campus Community Challenge, or 3C, initiative.
Molecular Biology professor Bonnie Bassler is the second Princeton recipient of the For Women in Science Award, which is presented by UNESCO and L’Oreal. President Shirley Tilghman was the University’s first recipient in 2002.
Andrew Blumenfeld ’13, who is running for a position on the La Canada Unified School District governing board, is 12 votes behind incumbent Jeanne Broberg as of Wednesday night in the election that took place on Tuesday.
A group of upperclassmen spanning all available campus eating plans has been gathering in Lockhart’s kitchen at 8:30 each morning from Tuesday to Friday to share their morning meal.
The Borough Council discussed the possibility of zoning the area where the train track currently lies as a rail-transit-use-only zone at a meeting on Tuesday night.
Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye announced on Wednesday that 3,547 students applied to Princeton’s single-choice early action program, the first year of the program’s reinstatement since it was canceled four years ago.
On Tuesday night, sociology professor Paul Starr and history professor Keith Wailoo gave an informal talk on the different perspectives of the current healthcare situation in America. Both professors presented introductions of their previous works on the topic and shared their insights on past, present and future issues involving American healthcare.
In two close votes cast on Tuesday, Borough residents elected Yina Moore ’79 as their next mayor and voted to merge with the Township into a single municipality, according to unofficial results.
Around 70 Harvard students walked out of their Economics 10 class last Wednesday afternoon to show solidarity for the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations in New York City and to express their displeasure with the conservative “bias” they perceive in the class, which is taught by economist Gregory Mankiw ’80.
Voters reelected incumbent Democrats Bernard Miller and Sue Nemeth to the Township Committee. Miller received 2,739 votes, and Nemeth received 2,682.
Nir Barkat, the mayor of Jerusalem and founder of the software company BRM, nonprofit company Snuneet and educational website Start Up Jerusalem, spoke about his experiences and plans as mayor of Jerusalem in a ticketed talk on Tuesday in Robertson Hall.
Democrats maintained their sizable majorities in both houses of the state legislature in quiet statewide elections Tuesday night, emerging victorious in a pair of vicious state Senate races in Atlantic and Bergen Counties.
Recently released campaign finance reports revealed that the campaigns of New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg and Representative Rush Holt paid $19,500 each to settle charges by a former election worker who claimed he was fired for hiring minorities.
In the fall of 1967, a team of “special scouts” from The Daily Princetonian and Tiger Magazine went on a trip to eight women’s liberal arts colleges along the East Coast. Their goal: “to select go-go girls for the 1967 ‘Prince’-Tiger Dance,” the ‘Prince’ reported in an article on Nov. 3 of that year. Below the text, the paper had printed the pictures of two of the top candidates — both from Connecticut College — along with self-submitted captions.
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory have spent the last 16 years trying to understand the process of magnetic reconnection, a natural phenomenon that occurs when magnetic lines of force break apart and reconnect with a violent burst of energy. In huge bodies such as the Sun and other stars, magnetic reconnection has a very high explosive power.
Cannon Club will be opening earlier than previously announced, according to updates made to its Facebook page and an email sent out to members of the Classes of 2012, 2013 and 2014 early Monday morning.
University researchers have discovered new ways to pinpoint the amount of destruction that might be brought by a giant meteorite slamming into the Earth.
“The government has to play a smart investment role in expansion and economic recovery, or we’ll be facing a new normal,” said Jared Bernstein, former chief economist and economic policy adviser to Vice President Joe Biden, before a crowd of roughly 80 students, faculty and local residents yesterday in Dodd Auditorium.
Two alumni are launching an online service intended to provide college applicants with a more accurate method of assessing the quality of a particular institution and deciding which college is right for them.
