The University tied with Yale for the second-worst Research Misconduct Score in the Ivy League in a report released yesterday by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.
This school year began with a changing of the guard among residential college directors of student life, with new faces in Whitman, Butler, Rockefeller and Forbes colleges.
The military had never been in the long-term goals of Brig. Gen. Mark Milley ’80. But 31 years later, Milley is the University’s highest ranked alumnus in the armed forces.
Peter Hessler ’92 was named one of 22 new MacArthur Fellows for 2011 by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation on Tuesday. He will receive $500,000 in “no strings attached” support over the next five years, which will be paid out in equal quarterly installments.
Politics professor Robert George and four recent alumni shared stories and advice with 30 students during a panel session Wednesday night in Frist Campus Center, discussing life on a campus that the panelists deemed relatively diverse but nevertheless a difficult environment for conservative students.
Students gathered on the south lawn of Frist Campus Center on Wednesday to discuss the changing landscape of the Middle East and issues related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as part of “Talk Israel: Join the Conversation.”
Candidates for Princeton Borough mayor spoke out on issues of municipal consolidation, the upcoming Valley Road School decision, and ways to reform the Borough’s budget management in a community forum on Tuesday evening. In an overwhelmingly Democratic Borough, this November’s election is the first competitive race for mayor in decades.
Undergraduates waiting for the first seminar of Political Science 291: Citizenship and Democratic Development at the University of Pennsylvania last week received some unexpected news as they waited for class to begin: Their professor, Henry Teune, had passed away five months previously, and the University had forgotten to cancel the class, according to the email students recieved in the middle of the uncancelled class.
One of the cosmology’s greatest unsolved mysteries is the nature of dark matter, a mysterious and invisible substance that dominates over 20 percent of the universe’s observable mass. But recent findings by the University’s Shravan Hanasoge, a post-doctoral student in the geosciences department, and New York University’s Michael Kesden about primordial black holes — theoretical remnants of the Big Bang and one of a handful of potential sources for dark matter — may give scientists a new way to unlock the secrets of the elusive substance
A local man claiming to be part of the Knights Templar was arrested on Saturday night after allegedly interrupting a Muslim Student Association welcome back dinner and telling students that “Muslims are going to hell."
Peter Singer, a professor with the University Center for Human Values, presented a talk on “Rationing Health Care” on Tuesday. The event, open to the public, was sponsored by the Student Bioethics Forum.
On Tuesday night in McCosh 50, journalist and television producer David Simon delivered a lecture titled “The End of the American Century and What’s in it for You?” Simon was the first of this year’s three Belknap Visitors in the Humanities.
This week, men in red and orange robes, the Tibetan Monks of the 2011 Drepung Gomang Monastery Sacred Arts Tour, will construct an interfaith sacred sand mandala — a three-dimensional drawing made of sand.
University students are likely familiar with yawning as a sign of sleepiness — or boredom — but new research by Andrew Gallup, a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, has shown that yawning may also be a method for cooling down the brain.
At the end of the 2010-11 school year, 12 faculty members from a range of departments were transferred to emeritus status by the University’s Board of Trustees.
Catherine Ashton, vice president of the European Commission and high representative for foreign affairs and security policy for the European Union, discussed the foreign and economic policy issues binding the 27 EU member states in a talk at Robertson Hall on Monday.
The U.S. Intelligence Community has made “important progress” implementing the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission, but institutional culture and potential budget reductions pose growing challenges to the government’s intelligence efforts, said Christopher Kojm GS ’79, the commission’s former deputy executive director, in a lecture Monday afternoon.
While little progress has been made in the Google digital books case, which was adjudicated by U.S. Circuit Court Judge Denny Chin ’75, Chin proposed a schedule for the trial against Google last week, setting the case to go to court next year.
University students and community members alike know Thomas Sweet as an ice cream store that serves rich, homemade ice cream in a family-friendly atmosphere.
Catharine Bellinger ’13 and Alexis Morin ’13 are taking a year away from their studies at the University to expand Students for Education Reform, a nonprofit organization they founded whose goal is to mobilize student leaders on college campuses to close the educational achievement gap.
