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PLO activist Ashrawi discusses human rights in Middle East

PLO activist Ashrawi discusses human rights in Middle East

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.”

NEWS | 03/22/2011

Student Facebook website shuts down

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.”

NEWS | 03/22/2011

News & Notes: Anti-abortion flyers stir up Theological Seminary

Supposed anti-abortion literature has sparked a controversy at the Princeton Theological Seminary, CBS 2 reported on Monday.

NEWS | 03/22/2011

News & Notes: University researchers develop new type of sensor

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.

NEWS | 03/22/2011

Myhrvold '11, Ousterhout '11 win Hertz

Kay Ousterhout ’11 and Cameron Myhrvold ’11 have been awarded Hertz Fellowships to support graduate work for applied physical and biological science. The award is regarded as the most prestigious fellowship in the applied sciences and provides funding for up to five years of doctoral study.

NEWS | 03/22/2011

Butler speech escalates University-town tensions over zoning

In a speech on the University’s Arts and Transit Neighborhood zoning request at Tuesday’s Borough Council meeting, Councilmember Jo Butler predicted that the Borough risked losing the University’s voluntary financial support if it did not grant the University its requested zoning.

NEWS | 03/22/2011

Seale ’13 and Dai ’13 featured in book on robotics competition

Luke Seale ’13 and Angela Dai ’13 were featured in “The New Cool,” a book released earlier this month by New York Times best-selling author Neal Bascomb. The book details the story of the Dos Pueblos Engineering Academy’s FIRST robotics team on their way to the division finals of the national competition in 2009.

NEWS | 03/21/2011

U.S. News rates grad programs

The University’s graduate programs are among the best in the world, according to the 2012 rankings recently released by U.S. News & World Report. The rankings examined core areas of study as well as several specialized subcategories.

NEWS | 03/21/2011

Yaroshefsky meets with Biden in Russia

Over spring break, USG president Michael Yaroshefsky ’12, along with student body presidents from 14 other schools, traveled to the Russian Federation on a trip sponsored by the Russian Federation’s Federal Agency for Youth Affairs.

NEWS | 03/21/2011

Student, Diplomat, Soldier: Asker ’13

Of the 90 recently accepted Wilson School concentrators, one is entering the policy school with a yearlong diplomacy credit already to his name. Swedish international student David Asker ’13 is not just an avid cross-country skier and a studied martial artist, but also a trained military interrogator, soldier and former diplomat at only 22.

NEWS | 03/21/2011

Fire department receives grant to recruit new members

The Princeton Fire Department received a $361,500 grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security earlier this month, partly in light of the uncertain future of the University’s volunteer firefighter program.

NEWS | 03/21/2011

Report examines gender gap in campus leadership

The Steering Committee on Undergraduate Women’s Leadership released its final report today after a year and a half of workshops, surveys and examinations of data on academic leadership and participation of female students in University extracurriculars.

NEWS | 03/20/2011

USG works to help relief efforts in Japan

The USG announced several new initiatives at its meeting on Sunday night, including a collaboration with the Projects Board and the Japanese Student Association to aid victims in Japan. The groups are planning to sell T-shirts and possibly wristbands to show unity throughout the Princeton community.

NEWS | 03/20/2011

Councilman Goldfarb recuses self from Arts and Transit talks

As the Borough Council continues heated debate with the University over the Arts and Transit Neighborhood, 20-year Council member David Goldfarb — who announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Borough mayor earlier this month — recused himself from discussions due to a conflict of interest.

NEWS | 03/20/2011

Creative writing eliminates applications for intro courses

Beginning this fall, enrollment in creative writing workshops in poetry, translation and screenwriting will no longer require applications for courses at the 201 level and below.

NEWS | 03/20/2011

News & Notes: Americans have worse health than people in England

Americans have worse health than do the British from birth through old age, according to a new study that was conducted in part by University researchers.

NEWS | 03/20/2011

University community responds to devastation in Japan

On March 11, East Asian Studies professor David Leheny was sitting on the second floor of a Starbucks in Japan, writing a presentation for a conference that afternoon. He did not think that what started as a modest earthquake would a few moments later turn into a catastrophic natural disaster. The 9.0-magnitude earthquake, which struck off the coast of Japan, is the largest earthquake to hit the country on record and resulted in tsunamis of up to 33 feet in height and the deaths of over 8,000 people. Current estimates include around 3,000 injured residents and 13,000 missing people.

NEWS | 03/20/2011

Former visual arts professor Takaezu passes away at 88

Former visual arts professor and ceramic artist Toshiko Takaezu passed away Wednesday in Hawaii. She was a faculty member with the University’s Visual Arts Program from 1967 to 1992. She was 88 years old.

NEWS | 03/10/2011

Slaughter ’80 leads delegation to Liberia, Sierra Leone

Wilson School professor Anne-Marie Slaughter ’80 led a women’s technology delegation under the U.S. Department of State to Liberia and Sierra Leone from Feb. 27 to March 5. Formerly the department’s director of policy planning, Slaughter returned to the University in February to teach an undergraduate seminar on national security policy and a graduate seminar.

NEWS | 03/10/2011

Gill '09 forms congressional exploratory committee in California

Ricky Gill ’09 launched an exploratory committee on March 1 to examine his potential run for Congress as a Republican representative for California’s 11th district in San Joaquin County.

NEWS | 03/10/2011

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