John Pardon ’11 will serve as this year’s valedictorian, and Veronica Shi ’11 will serve as Latin salutatorian, the University announced on Monday afternoon. Both of their addresses will be delivered at the Commencement ceremony on May 31.
Associate Dean of Religious Life Paul Raushenbush will leave the University to take on a full-time position at the Huffington Post as senior editor of the outlet’s religion section, HuffPost Religion, he confirmed on Monday.
The USG approved $6,300 for a summer technology intern to work on USG-related projects including a mobile calendar application and an improved meal exchange site at the USG Senate meeting held in Frist Campus Center on Sunday evening.
East Asian studies and history professor Benjamin Elman has been honored with one of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s three Distinguished Achievement Awards.
The Wilson School’s undergraduate program has long held a prestigious reputation derived at least in part from its status as the only selective major at the University, according to students, faculty and alumni interviewed by The Daily Princetonian following Thursday’s announcement that the concentration would no longer be selective.
The tragic death of Senior Lecturer Antonio Calvo last week has left many members of the community with a deep sense of loss. Those of you who knew Professor Calvo as a valued and beloved colleague, teacher and friend are seeking answers to the painful question of what could have driven him to take his life. This is natural, but in my experience it is never possible to fully understand all the circumstances that lead someone to take such an irreversible decision.
Two of the signers of the full-page advertisement supporting the University’s proposed construction of the Arts and Transit Neighborhood and moving of the Dinky in the April 15 Princeton Packet were fictional characters, according to a Letter to the Editor published by the Packet on Thursday.
Both referenda on the USG spring election ballot have passed, according to election results released on Friday night.The first referendum, proposed by Dan May ’11, will eliminate the Honor Committee seat traditionally reserved for the freshman class president and instead open a seat to a freshman representative who would be selected through an application process.
In the two weeks since lecturer Antonio Calvo took his own life, members of the University community and global news outlets alike have demanded explanations for Calvo’s abrupt departure from the University.
Sean Friar, a graduate student in the music department, has won a 2011 Samuel Barber Rome Prize in musical composition and is the youngest winner of the prize in over a quarter of a century.
Eight undergraduates have been awarded the Spirit of Princeton Award, the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students announced Friday. Established in 1995, the award recognizes students who have positively affected University life through their involvement in student organizations, community service, the arts and other extracurricular activities.
The Wilson School will end its selective admission process beginning with the Class of 2015, the University announced on Thursday. The Wilson School is currently the only selective major at the University.
Borough and Township residents and representatives say they are disappointed with the results of a legislative redistricting earlier this month that moved the Princeton area from its habitually Democratic district to a more conservative one, leading to conflict between the Princeton Community Democratic Organization and The New Jersey Democratic State Committee.
A panel of two professors and an outside artist spoke on the disappearance of glaciers in a public discussion held in Robertson Hall Bowl 016 on Thursday afternoon.
Lieutenant Colonel John Stark, director of Army Education and Commission for Princeton ROTC, will be deployed to Afghanistan this August.
Alissa Escarce ’11 and Lea Steinacker ’11 have won the Henry Richardson Labouisse ’26 Prize, the University announced on Tuesday. The prize is awarded annually to graduating seniors who intend to pursue a career devoted to the development and modernization of foreign countries and includes a $25,000 fellowship.
Eight members of the University faculty were elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Academy announced Tuesday. A total of 212 new members were inducted this year.
African American studies professor Cornel West GS ’80 held a discussion with Donna Brazile, a Democratic strategist and political commentator, on the topic of politics and their effects on African Americans in McCosh Hall on Thursday.
Five months after losing a House race to incumbent Rep. Rush Holt, D-N.J., former Republican candidate Scott Sipprelle is still looking to fix what he described as a “broken” political process.
