A seven-member committee has been appointed to find a new dean for the University’s School of Architecture by the beginning of the next academic year.
Former U.S. Ambassador Thomas Pickering spoke about the need for diplomacy in addressing Iran’s growing nuclear capabilities to a full audience in Robertson Hall on Monday night. The public lecture was titled “Iran’s Nuclear Program: Can Diplomacy Help?” and was co-sponsored by the Wilson School’s Program on Science and Global Security.
A former Princeton Club of New York payroll manager, 51-year-old Jo-Ann Garcia, filed a $10-million lawsuit against her former employer in early August, contending that she was dismissed from her job due to her age and race.
Total reported campus crime has reached its lowest levels in over a decade, according to annual crime data for 2010 released by the Department of Public Safety at the end of last week.Most significantly, judicial referrals — cases that are sent to the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students — for on-campus alcohol offenses fell 73 percent in the last three years. Public Safety issued 33 judicial referrals related to alcohol in 2010, a substantial decline from the 120 issued in 2007. In all but two cases in 2010, the referrals resulted from an incident in a dormitory. The cause of the decline is unclear.
If Princeton residents vote to consolidate the Princeton Borough and Township this November, they can expect to receive aid from the state to cover 20 percent of the transition costs, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie announced on Friday. Christie also endorsed the consolidation measure and announced his support for pending legislation that would allow municipalities in the process of consolidation to spread their transition costs out over five years.
Both the number of students participating in fall Bicker and the overall numbers of students accepted to eating clubs declined significantly this year compared to last October. The decline was mostly due to the steep decrease in the number of students accepted to Cap & Gown Club, while the number of students gaining admission to Tower Club and Ivy Club increased slightly from last fall.
“Flying” carpets, once an image of myth, fantasy and science fiction, may soon be the innovation of the future, thanks to electrical engineering graduate student Noah Jafferis who has developed a sheet of plastic material that can propel itself forward and backward without touching the ground.
A study by Massimo Bollasina in the Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and Yi Ming and Venkatachalam Ramaswamy of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory have found that the dry period that occurred in South Asia during the second half of the 20th century can be attributed largely to aerosol pollution.
In direct response to the recommendations of the March 2011 report of the Steering Committee on Undergraduate Women’s Leadership, Mathey College is currently piloting a mentoring program specifically geared toward female students.
Ecology and evolutionary biology professor David Wilcove GS ’85, who also teaches at the Wilson School, has been named a recipient of the 2011 Pioneers of Science Award in recognition for his work as an ecologist. The award recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions to their respective fields and who live, or have lived, in western New York. The Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute of Buffalo, N.Y., sponsors the award.
Downloads of iPrinceton, a free mobile web application for the University community, continue to rise since its launch in December 2010.
When the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering — previously known as the Department of Chemical Engineering — officially adopted its revised name on July 1, 2010, department administrators said they hoped that the change would more accurately reflect the department’s goals in recognition of surging student interest and the nationwide growth of the field.
Yale showed double-digit gains in its endowment performance this year, posting a return of 21.9 percent for the fiscal year ending on June 30. This puts Yale’s endowment gains ahead of Harvard’s 21.4 percent return. The University has yet to report its return.
Stop Animal Exploitation Now!, a volunteer group with the stated aim of ending animal abuse in laboratories, has filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Agriculture about the University’s alleged mistreatment of animals.
The darkest planet in the known universe would look as bright as a full moon if it were located in Earth’s solar system. Unfortunately, this planet is located 718 light years away from our solar system.
The USG approved funding for a free monthly Zumba event for undergraduates and discussed issues such as improvements to TigerApps, Lawnparties and the Summer Storage Initiative at the USG Senate meeting on Sunday night.
Last Monday, the University formally adopted a new policy of open access for Princeton-produced scholarly publications. This policy will authorize Princeton faculty members to post their published articles on their own websites, an online University repository or other free archives for the general public.
Twenty-four-year-olds aren’t supposed to be able to raise $450,000. Yet Ricky Gill ’09, the Republican candidate for Congress in California’s 9th Congressional District, has done just that as he mounts a threatening campaign against a well-liked third-term incumbent.
Last week, Princeton’s Council for International Teaching and Research announced four new Global Scholars who have been awarded three-year appointments at the University beginning in the years 2011-12 and 2012-13. The four individuals are scholars of different academic disciplines and all are from different parts of the globe.
The campaign team of Jill Jachera, the Republican candidate for the Princeton Borough mayorship, held a meeting at 9 p.m. on Wednesday in Guyot 10. Around 20 University students attended the meeting. A community leader and former lawyer, Jachera is running in what will be the first contested election in 12 years.
