Mathematician John Milnor GS ’54 has won the the 2011 Abel Prize, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters announced on March 23.
The Princeton Regional Schools Board of Education unanimously approved a $80.3 million 2011-12 spending plan on Tuesday night.
The Korean American Students Association political board hosted a screening of the documentary “Hiding,” made by the humanitarian organization Liberty in North Korea, in the Class of 1970 Theatre in Whitman College on Thursday night. After the screening, North Korean defector Jinhae Jo recounted her experience escaping from North Korea to China and eventually to the United States.
The sound quality was poor, but the voice on the other end of the line was unmistakable: Mumia Abu-Jamal, a death row inmate, author and cultural icon, was phoning in from Greene State Correctional Institution in Waynesburg, Pa., to speak about the harsh disconnect prisoners face from society.The phone call kicked off “Imprisonment of a Race,” an all-day conference aimed at examining mass incarceration and racial tensions in the justice system, which was cosponsored by the Center for African American Studies and took place on Friday.
Wilson College announced that it was beginning a college listserv in an email to students on Wednesday.
Skipper, Dean Nancy Malkiel’s beloved miniature schnauzer and a campus icon, passed away from illness on Wednesday morning. She first joined the Malkiel family in October 2001 and has been a fixture in Malkiel’s West College office ever since.
The Wilson School hosted a faculty panel discussion titled “After the Earthquake: Japan’s Nuclear Plant Crisis” on Thursday afternoon in Dodds Auditorium.
U.S. Circuit Court Judge Denny Chin ’75 rejected a proposed settlement between Google, The Authors Guild and The Association of American Publishers that would have allowed the leading Internet search engine company to proceed with its Google Books Search project on Tuesday. The decision has major implications for the University’s digitization efforts.
Despite what appears to be 216 fewer courses offered in the fall term compared to this spring’s offerings, the number of courses offered in the fall will be approximately the same, several departmental representatives confirmed.
Public Safety will now notify the Princeton Borough Police Department on all calls for assistance from the eating clubs, Department of Public Safety Deputy Director Charles Davall confirmed in an email. Public Safety will still respond to calls from students or club officers to help intoxicated students, but it will now inform the police of the call and expect them to respond as well.
Political philosopher and professor emeritus Michael Walzer spoke about the philosophical implications of choice in a lecture called “Humanitarianism: What is it?” on Wednesday night in Lewis Library.The lecture was sponsored by the Center for the Study of Religion as the fifth annual Doll Family Lecture on Religion and Money.
While many students may think that miracles don’t exist, Robby Dawkins wants to change their mind.Dawkins, a pastor at the Vineyard Aurora Church in Aurora, Ill., gave a demonstration of miracles Wednesday night in McCosh 10 in a seminar sponsored by Princeton Faith in Action.
Residents Anne Waldron Neumann and Yina Moore ’79 have both announced that they will be seeking the Democratic nomination for Borough mayor.
President Tilghman led a panel discussion Wednesday night with members of the Steering Committee on Undergraduate Women’s Leadership about the 114-page report the committee published on Monday after a year-and-a-half investigation into women’s campus leadership.
A commission currently studying the possible consolidation of the Borough and the Township met Wednesday night to discuss merging the municipalities’ debts and public services.For the past several months, the Joint Consolidation/Shared Services Study Commission has been working with the Center for Governmental Research, a nonprofit public management consulting firm, to examine the possibility of a merger.
Students recently locked out of their rooms have received cards announcing an updated lock out policy. The cards feature the fees that will be charged when students are let into their rooms by Public Safety officers and promise “disciplinary action for repeat offenders.”
Hanan Ashrawi, activist and spokesperson for the Palestine Liberation Organization, delivered the annual Edward Said Memorial Lecture to a full crowd of students and community members on Tuesday night in McCosh 10. Her speech was titled “The Dislocation of Palestine.”
The Princeton Online Facebook closed on Friday after six years of operation. According to a message on the website, “The service is no longer supported by the University’s new IT infrastructure.”
Supposed anti-abortion literature has sparked a controversy at the Princeton Theological Seminary, CBS 2 reported on Monday.
Researchers at the University have developed a new sensor, the “disk-coupled dots-on-pillar antenna-array” or D2PA, with unprecedented sensitivity and a wide range of uses, from finding concealed explosives to detecting early signs of cancer.
