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Secretary of Education Duncan speaks on future

Secretary of Education Duncan speaks on future

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan spoke on the importance of improving the American education system at Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall on Wednesday. The event, which was sponsored by the Wilson School, was free and open to the public.

NEWS | 04/20/2011

Malkiel: 24 years at the helm

Rockefeller College master Stanley Katz entered the Rocky dining hall to have dinner with Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel one April evening in 1984. Instead of the subdued meal he expected, he found the hall filled with most of the college’s students and faculty gathered together to celebrate his 50th birthday at a celebration organized by Malkiel herself.

NEWS | 04/20/2011

Borough to vote on zoning for Arts and Transit Neighborhood

The Borough Council will take action on the zoning ordinance requested for the University’s Arts and Transit Neighborhood in the next few weeks and the final decision may be resolved by mid-June at the earliest, the Borough Council and Township Committee announced at a joint meeting on Wednesday evening.

NEWS | 04/20/2011

News & Notes: University ranked 12th most stressful college in country

The University came in 12th in a recent ranking by The Daily Beast of the 50 most stressful colleges in the country.

NEWS | 04/19/2011

Bartels to leave for Vanderbilt

Politics and Wilson School professor Larry Bartels will leave the University to teach at Vanderbilt next fall, two politics professors confirmed to The Daily Princetonian.

NEWS | 04/19/2011

Qdoba to move into space once occupied by Ricky’s

After nearly two years of standing empty, the 140 Nassau St. storefront where Ricky’s Candy, Cones and Chaos once stood will gain a tenant this summer.

NEWS | 04/19/2011

News & Notes: Princeton Record Exchange named one of nation’s 10 best independent record stores

Princeton Record Exchange, located on South Tulane Street, was named one of the top 10 independent record shops in the country in a recent list by Time.

NEWS | 04/19/2011

Levy ’89 of The New York Times awarded 2nd Pulitzer Prize

Clifford Levy ’89 of The New York Times has won a Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, Columbia University announced on Monday afternoon. Levy, a former Moscow bureau chief and the recently inaugurated deputy editor of the Times’ Metro section, shared the accolade with Ellen Barry for their nine-part “Above the Law” article series that explored corruption, political and judicial misconduct and the abuse of power in post-Communist Russia, sparking heated discussion in the country.

NEWS | 04/19/2011

News & Notes: Assemblywoman Coyle decides not to move to Township for re-election

Despite having previously announced that she would move to Princeton Township to seek re-election in the 16th district of New Jersey, Republican State Assemblywoman Denise Coyle said she would remain in Bernards Township and retire at the end of 2011.

NEWS | 04/19/2011

Community members gather to mourn Calvo

On Tuesday, the Office of Religious Life hosted a gathering of remembrance for senior lecturer Antonio Calvo, whose sudden death last week has shocked and troubled students and faculty.

NEWS | 04/19/2011

West GS ’80, Radhanath Swami speak on religion

African American studies professor Cornel West GS ’80 and Radhanath Swami, a yoga practitioner and director of the Radha Gopinath Ashram, discussed their perspectives on religion and life at a talk titled “East Meets West: Hindu and Christian Perspectives on God, Love and Spiritual Activism” on Tuesday evening in Richardson Auditorium.

NEWS | 04/19/2011

University undergoing Title IX investigation

The University is currently under investigation by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights for various alleged Title IX violations regarding sexual assault reporting.

NEWS | 04/18/2011

News & Notes: Former president Bowen GS ’58 to speak at Indiana University commencement

Former university president William Bowen GS ’58 will deliver the graduate student commencement address at Indiana University Bloomington on May 6, the university announced last week.

NEWS | 04/18/2011

Plasma Physics Lab’s NSTX set to begin in July

Researchers working on the National Spherical Torus Experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory are planning to embark on a list of experiments that will run for eight months, starting in July. The experiments are centered around “scientific puzzles” of plasma and aim to “deepen understanding” of plasma so that its energy can be harnessed, according to a PPPL press release.

NEWS | 04/18/2011

News & Notes: University return on investment rated fourth-highest

Bloomberg Businessweek released its second annual ranking of U.S. colleges by return on investment on April 7. Following salary analyst company PayScale’s methodology, Businessweek’s rankings analyze how well schools prepare graduates for high-paying careers.

NEWS | 04/18/2011

Locals sign open letter to University over proposed construction

Borough and Township residents expressed their support for the University’s proposed Arts and Transit Neighborhood in local advertisements last week that urged the municipal governments to move forward on approving the University’s zoning requests.

NEWS | 04/18/2011

News & Notes: Researchers find technology to identify zebras based on stripes

Researchers at Princeton’s Equid Research and Conservation laboratory and at the Computational Population Biology laboratory at the University of Illinois have developed a new technology called StripeSpotter that allows biologists to identify and catalog zebras by reading their stripes like barcodes.

NEWS | 04/18/2011

3rd COMBO survey to be launched after final exams

Following the USG Senate’s rejection of incumbent Class of 2012 social chair Aparajita Das’ appeal for permission to run for re-election at Sunday night’s meeting, U-Councilor Steve Lindsay ’12 presented a progress report on the Committee on Background and Opportunity III Project.

NEWS | 04/18/2011

Questions raised about Calvo’s death

The University has not released further details about the recent passing of senior lecturer Antonio Calvo, a member of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures.However, former colleagues and friends of Calvo’s said that he took his own life last Tuesday in New York City.

NEWS | 04/18/2011

University sued by group of town residents

Borough residents are suing the University and the Borough to force the University to pay taxes on certain properties that are currently tax-exempt.

NEWS | 04/17/2011

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