There is at least one community on campus that will welcome anyone who wants to join it, yet, in a way, is extremely selective.
After 43 years of helping shape his field and standing up to University administration, geosciences professor Lincoln Hollister will retire this July.
Goldfarb, who is a member of the Joint Consolidation/Shared Services Study Commission of Princeton Borough and Princeton Township, said he has not yet made a firm decision about whether he believes the Commission should recommend that a referendum on consolidation be added to the November ballot.
The Joint Consolidation/Shared Services Commission of Princeton Borough and Princeton Township gave a public presentation on the options for Borough and Township consolidation Wednesday evening.
Representatives of all 14 fraternities and sororities have come together to form the Princeton Greek Council.
President Shirley Tilghman is currently co-chairing a National Institutes of Health review board examining problems with the biomedical career path. Tilghman was appointed as co-chair in December along with NIH Deputy Director for Extramural Research Sally Rockey. NIH announced the remaining 10 members of the board late last month.
The Borough Council, community residents and University representatives met at the Council meeting on Tuesday to discuss the University’s requested zoning for the proposed Arts and Transit Neighborhood, the future of the Dinky train and the memorandum of understanding released last week as a result of negotiations between the Borough and the University.
The Wilson School held a panel titled “After bin Laden: The Implications for Foreign Relations and Policy” in Robertson Hall on Monday.
Four University faculty members were elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the University announced last Tuesday. The Academy is often considered the nation’s most prominent elected body of scientists, and The New York Times has described the distinction of being elected as “an honor considered second only to a Nobel Prize.”
Former university professor Harold Garfinkel passed away from congestive heart failure last month at his Pacific Palisades, Calif., home at the age of 93.
Wilson School professor emeritus Daniel Kahneman and Wilson School professor Alan Blinder ’67 were among four economists named to the American Economic Association’s list of 2011 Distinguished Fellows.
The University has not made any changes to its recognition of the campus ROTC program despite decisions by several of its peer institutions to reinstate official college-sponsored corps.Several Ivy League universities have reconsidered their relationships to their ROTC programs in the wake of the December repeal of the U.S. military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. The 17-year-old policy forbade the military from asking men and women serving in the military about their sexual orientation and forbade gays, lesbians and bisexuals from revealing their sexual orientations.
President Barack Obama nominated General David Petraeus GS ’87 to serve as director of the CIA on April 28, two weeks after a White House leak noted that the nomination would be forthcoming.
In an effort to combat grade inflation, the Faculty Council at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill approved a new policy that would include median grades for courses on students’ transcripts.
In honor of Teacher Appreciation Day on May 3, President Barack Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan presented Michelle Shearer ’95 with the 61st annual National Teacher of the Year award. Shearer, an AP Chemistry teacher at Maryland’s Urbana High School, received the honor at a ceremony held at the White House Rose Garden.
After a legal fight that has spanned more than the entire length of the school year, Joshua Vandiver GS and his husband Henry Velandia can finally breathe a temporary sigh of relief. On Friday, a Newark immigration judge suspended the deportation of Velandia, a native of Venezuela, until at least December.The ruling came after United States Attorney General Eric Holder intervened in a similar case involving a same-sex couple in New Jersey.
The USG Senate approved the appointment of six students to the Honor Committee and three to the Committee on Discipline at the last USG Senate meeting of the semester on Sunday evening.
Students in fraternities and sororities, along with nonaffiliated allies, are taking steps to try to dissuade the University from banning freshman rush. The ban, which was recommended in a report issued Monday by the Working Group on Campus Social and Residential Life, would need the approval of the Office of the Vice President for Campus Life and the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students in order to be implemented.
Steven Orszag GS ’66, who taught mathematics at Princeton from 1984 to 1998, passed away on Sunday at the age of 68. Those who knew him said he was a brilliant thinker who found joy in sharing his love of learning.
A memorandum released by the Borough Council yesterday — after two months of negotiations between the Borough, Township and University over community transit issues — outlines a plan for a right-of-way easement that would allow for a potential light rail system running all the way to Nassau Street should a new system ever replace the Dinky.
