The Wilson School will end its selective admission process beginning with the Class of 2015, the University announced on Thursday. The Wilson School is currently the only selective major at the University.
Borough and Township residents and representatives say they are disappointed with the results of a legislative redistricting earlier this month that moved the Princeton area from its habitually Democratic district to a more conservative one, leading to conflict between the Princeton Community Democratic Organization and The New Jersey Democratic State Committee.
A panel of two professors and an outside artist spoke on the disappearance of glaciers in a public discussion held in Robertson Hall Bowl 016 on Thursday afternoon.
Lieutenant Colonel John Stark, director of Army Education and Commission for Princeton ROTC, will be deployed to Afghanistan this August.
Alissa Escarce ’11 and Lea Steinacker ’11 have won the Henry Richardson Labouisse ’26 Prize, the University announced on Tuesday. The prize is awarded annually to graduating seniors who intend to pursue a career devoted to the development and modernization of foreign countries and includes a $25,000 fellowship.
Eight members of the University faculty were elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Academy announced Tuesday. A total of 212 new members were inducted this year.
African American studies professor Cornel West GS ’80 held a discussion with Donna Brazile, a Democratic strategist and political commentator, on the topic of politics and their effects on African Americans in McCosh Hall on Thursday.
Five months after losing a House race to incumbent Rep. Rush Holt, D-N.J., former Republican candidate Scott Sipprelle is still looking to fix what he described as a “broken” political process.
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan spoke on the importance of improving the American education system at Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall on Wednesday. The event, which was sponsored by the Wilson School, was free and open to the public.
Rockefeller College master Stanley Katz entered the Rocky dining hall to have dinner with Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel one April evening in 1984. Instead of the subdued meal he expected, he found the hall filled with most of the college’s students and faculty gathered together to celebrate his 50th birthday at a celebration organized by Malkiel herself.
The Borough Council will take action on the zoning ordinance requested for the University’s Arts and Transit Neighborhood in the next few weeks and the final decision may be resolved by mid-June at the earliest, the Borough Council and Township Committee announced at a joint meeting on Wednesday evening.
African American studies professor Cornel West GS ’80 and Radhanath Swami, a yoga practitioner and director of the Radha Gopinath Ashram, discussed their perspectives on religion and life at a talk titled “East Meets West: Hindu and Christian Perspectives on God, Love and Spiritual Activism” on Tuesday evening in Richardson Auditorium.
On Tuesday, the Office of Religious Life hosted a gathering of remembrance for senior lecturer Antonio Calvo, whose sudden death last week has shocked and troubled students and faculty.
Despite having previously announced that she would move to Princeton Township to seek re-election in the 16th district of New Jersey, Republican State Assemblywoman Denise Coyle said she would remain in Bernards Township and retire at the end of 2011.
Clifford Levy ’89 of The New York Times has won a Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, Columbia University announced on Monday afternoon. Levy, a former Moscow bureau chief and the recently inaugurated deputy editor of the Times’ Metro section, shared the accolade with Ellen Barry for their nine-part “Above the Law” article series that explored corruption, political and judicial misconduct and the abuse of power in post-Communist Russia, sparking heated discussion in the country.
Princeton Record Exchange, located on South Tulane Street, was named one of the top 10 independent record shops in the country in a recent list by Time.
After nearly two years of standing empty, the 140 Nassau St. storefront where Ricky’s Candy, Cones and Chaos once stood will gain a tenant this summer.
The University came in 12th in a recent ranking by The Daily Beast of the 50 most stressful colleges in the country.
Politics and Wilson School professor Larry Bartels will leave the University to teach at Vanderbilt next fall, two politics professors confirmed to The Daily Princetonian.
