Venture capitalist and principal at Highland Capital Partners Alex Taussig presented a talk titled “Entrepreneurship from the Trenches: 10 Things Every Hacker Should Know About Venture Capital” in Jones Hall on Thursday afternoon.
Eboo Patel, founder and executive director of the Interfaith Youth Core, discussed religious pluralism in a talk titled “Defeating Intolerance: Social Science Research and Strategies for Interfaith Cooperation” in a lecture in Guyot Hall on Thursday afternoon.
Political activist and 2010 New York gubernatorial candidate Jimmy McMillan spoke in Whig Hall on Thursday as the final guest in the Whig-Cliosophic Society’s Distinguished Speaker Series. McMillan, the founder of the Rent Is Too Damn High Party, discussed his party’s views and his campaigning platform for his planned 2012 presidential run.
Two local women allegedly snuck into 1903 Hall on April 16, got into a fight with several students and proceeded to “ransack” a room, Borough Police said.
Henry Posner III ’77, a private rail investor, has proposed that the Borough Council condemn the University’s ownership of the Dinky station using its power of eminent domain and has offered the Borough the financing needed for the purchase.
Edward Luck, special adviser to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, delivered a lecture titled “The Risk of Relevance: Libya, Cote d’Ivoire, and the Responsibility to Protect” to around 35 attendees in Robertson Hall on Thursday afternoon.
A recent study published by Charles Varner, a Princeton doctoral candidate in sociology, and Christobal Young, an assistant professor of sociology at Stanford, has shed doubt on New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s claim that the proposed “Millionaires’ Tax” would encourage wealthy residents to leave the state.
University Counsel Clayton Marsh ’85 will serve as Deputy Dean of the College beginning July 1, the University announced Wednesday. Marsh will join Valerie Smith — the next Dean of the College — as members of a new team that will lead West College starting in the coming academic year.
Neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene, author of the book “The Number Sense,” and Steven Strogatz ’80, author and mathematician, discussed the relationship between mathematics and the human mind in front of a nearly full audience in McCosh 10 on Wednesday evening.
The graduate board of the Cannon Dial Elm Club has begun reviewing the applications of potential members with the goal of selecting the Bicker committee before the end of the school year.
Aparajita Das has been appointed Class of 2012 secretary by the class government, Class of 2012 president Lindy Li confirmed on Wednesday.
A commission of representatives from the Borough and the Township met on Wednesday evening to consider the possibility of merging to form one municipality.
Barbara Ibrahim, the founding director of the John D. Gerhart Center for Philanthropy and Civic Engagement at the American University in Cairo, gave a lecture titled “How Young Egyptians Made History: New Public Space in Cairo and Alexandria” before an audience of roughly 30 students and faculty on Tuesday afternoon in Robertson Hall. Her discussion marked the final lecture in an annual series hosted by the Workshop on Arab Political Development.
Sukrit Silas ’11 will join Justine Drennan ’11 as a recipient of a scholarship from the Gates Cambridge Trust to study at University of Cambridge for the 2011-12 academic year.While Drennan was among the 30 U.S. scholars selected for the award in New York in early February, Silas, as an Indian citizen, is among the 60 international scholars selected after an interview at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University, in late March.
The Center for Jewish Life sponsored a panel on Tuesday in Guyot Hall examining the question, “What are the limits of religious freedom in a Democratic society?” in honor of the last day of Passover. The panel was moderated by Dean of Religious Life Paul Raushenbush and featured African American studies professor Cornel West GS ’80, Provost Christopher Eisgruber ’83 and William Westerman, a lecturer in the writing program.
One week after the deadline for members of the Class of 2013 pursuing A.B. degrees to select concentrations, departments are reporting steady — and in some cases dramatic — growth and declines in numbers. Though the numbers are still being finalized and are likely to change, several departments reported notably different numbers from what was expected.
Last week, a group of residents also announced a lawsuit to challenge several of the University’s tax-exempt properties in court.
Chicago is roughly 760 miles from Philadelphia. Yet for nearly two years, Daniel ’07, who worked in Philadelphia after graduation, and his partner Andres, who worked in Chicago, took turns to make the long journey every weekend, or at least every other weekend, to see each other.
Students for Education Reform, an national organization launched by Catharine Bellinger ’12 and Alexis Morin ’12 in September 2009 that strives to engage student leaders with issues surrounding education reform, recently announced its expansion onto 13 new college campuses this year.
Carlos Ghosn, chairman and chief executive of Renault-Nissan Alliance, spoke on the continued sustainability of the car manufacturing industry in the Friend Center on Monday. The event was hosted by the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment and sponsored by the G. S. Beckwith Gilbert ’63 Lecture Fund.
