The USG announced on Monday that it will launch the Academic Life Total Assessment project with the aims of gathering information and recommending ways to improve the educational experience of undergraduate students at the University.
House of Cupcakes on Witherspoon Street features around 20 different types of confections every day. Among all the sugar and spice, this House just won a war.
Despite the University’s recent abandonment of the Arts and Transit Neighborhood, local officials are looking to continue discussions about the project. A recent proposal by Princeton Township Mayor Chad Goerner would bring representatives from the Borough and the Township together with University administrators for a series of meetings aimed at finding a solution to the current disagreements over the construction plans.
According to a report released by the College Board, while more minority high school students are successfully taking Advanced Placement exams, the minorities are still underrepresented in the population of students who take AP exams.
A group of students is attempting to resurrect the University chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union after nearly five years as an inactive organization.
The USG is considering a proposal to organize buses to nearby cities such as Philadelphia, New York City and Washington, D.C., for students during breaks, USG president Michael Yaroshefsky ’12 explained at the USG Senate meeting held in Frist Campus Center on Sunday night. No final decisions were made on the proposition.
U.S. News & World Report included the University on its list of 63 out of more than 1,700 schools surveyed that claim to meet their students? full financial need.
The Religious Life Council hosted Coming Together 5, an annual interfaith conference, this weekend. The summit, which aimed to promote the importance of inter-religious engagement and understanding, attracted college students from 37 campuses around the country, including students from Stanford, Yale, the University of Chicago and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Four doctoral students who received the Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship will be honored as part of next Saturday’s Alumni Day ceremonies. The awards fund the students’ final year of graduate study but were not formally announced until Friday.
The mood in the University Chapel was somber on Sunday afternoon as over 100 students, friends and community members gathered to remember Khristin Kyllo ’14. Kyllo, from Vienna, Va., died of natural causes in her Forbes College dorm room on Jan. 13 after suffering a history of unexplained seizures. She was 18.
A variety of student dance, theater and a cappella groups performed at the eighth annual “This is Princeton” benefit concert on Friday night, raising over $1,000 for a youth theater company based in New York City.
Over 100 students and local residents gathered in Robertson Hall on Thursday afternoon for a panel discussion titled “Same Sex Marriage in the United States: Where We Are As a Nation.” The event was entirely student-generated and was directed by Wilson School graduate student P.J. Berg.
Frank Wisner ’61 was sent by President Obama to meet with then-President Hosni Mubarak during the Egyptian upheavals on Jan. 30.
A new review conducted by the National Academy of Sciences questions the conclusiveness of the Bureau’s forensic evidence in the 2001 Anthrax letters investigation.
The future location of the University’s dance community remains uncertain following the recent abandonment of the University’s proposed Arts and Transit Neighborhood.
Though University administrators have stated their dismay at the recent cancellation of the planned Arts and Transit Neighborhood, the news is receiving mixed reactions from residents of Forbes College.
According to a statement issued by Brown University President Ruth Simmons last Friday, Brown has become the first university to stop future investments in HEI Hotels & Resorts, a real estate company that has been under scrutiny for its treatment of workers.
A study coauthored by Sara McLanahan, professor of sociology and public affairs at the University, found that 5-year-old children who live in urban public housing on average spend 13 percent more time each day playing outdoors compared to other urban 5-year-olds.
The University has been asked to begin demolition of an abandoned Exxon gas station located on Washington Road along Route 1. The site, which sits on land owned by Princeton University, lies at the entrance to West Windsor Township and has been called an “eyesore” by a number of Township citizens and government officials.
Ivy Club elected its first female president, Caroline Shifke ’12, on Tuesday night. The club, which was founded in 1879, was the first eating club at Princeton and is the oldest on the Street.Shifke, whose brother John Shifke ’10 served as the president of Ivy two years ago, is the third woman to be elected an eating club president for the upcoming year.
