The University is currently under investigation by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights for various alleged Title IX violations regarding sexual assault reporting.
Former university president William Bowen GS ’58 will deliver the graduate student commencement address at Indiana University Bloomington on May 6, the university announced last week.
Researchers working on the National Spherical Torus Experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory are planning to embark on a list of experiments that will run for eight months, starting in July. The experiments are centered around “scientific puzzles” of plasma and aim to “deepen understanding” of plasma so that its energy can be harnessed, according to a PPPL press release.
Bloomberg Businessweek released its second annual ranking of U.S. colleges by return on investment on April 7. Following salary analyst company PayScale’s methodology, Businessweek’s rankings analyze how well schools prepare graduates for high-paying careers.
Borough and Township residents expressed their support for the University’s proposed Arts and Transit Neighborhood in local advertisements last week that urged the municipal governments to move forward on approving the University’s zoning requests.
Researchers at Princeton’s Equid Research and Conservation laboratory and at the Computational Population Biology laboratory at the University of Illinois have developed a new technology called StripeSpotter that allows biologists to identify and catalog zebras by reading their stripes like barcodes.
Following the USG Senate’s rejection of incumbent Class of 2012 social chair Aparajita Das’ appeal for permission to run for re-election at Sunday night’s meeting, U-Councilor Steve Lindsay ’12 presented a progress report on the Committee on Background and Opportunity III Project.
The University has not released further details about the recent passing of senior lecturer Antonio Calvo, a member of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures.However, former colleagues and friends of Calvo’s said that he took his own life last Tuesday in New York City.
Faculty member Antonio Calvo passed away in New York City last week. Calvo was a senior lecturer in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures and served as director of both the department’s Spanish language program and the Princeton in Spain summer program in Toledo, Spain.
In addition to the referendum on the Honor Committee proposed by Dan May ’11, the USG spring elections ballot will include a referendum proposed on the Congressional Employment Non-Discrimination Act. A planned third referendum will be removed from the ballot, USG president Michael Yaroshefsky ’12 said.
The Princeton Community Democratic Organization held a public meeting on Sunday night, advertised as a forum on “Commun-Adversity,” to discuss the recent difficulty of negotiations between the University and the Borough and Township.
Borough residents are suing the University and the Borough to force the University to pay taxes on certain properties that are currently tax-exempt.
Politics and African American studies professor Melissa Harris-Perry delivered the keynote address at the annual Take Back the Night event held on Friday on Frist Campus Center’s South Lawn. Despite the cold weather, roughly 100 people turned out for the open-air event, which featured several survivors of sexual assault who shared their stories alongside Harris-Perry’s talk.
Incumbent Class of 2012 social chair Aparajita Das will not be able to run for re-election after her appeal was rejected at the USG meeting on Sunday night. Das was eliminated from the race by election managers Laura Eckhardt ’14, Stephen Stolzenberg ’13 and John Zumpetta ’11 after she failed to turn in her candidate forms on time due to a miscommunication about a change to election rules.
Re-verb Apparel, a clothing company cofounded by University alumni and current students, officially launched its spring line, “Re-lease,” on April 1. The company aims to raise awareness about different issues through creative clothing designs.
Two members of the University faculty, history professor Michael Gordin and music professor Simon Morrison, have received 2011 Guggenheim Fellowships, the University announced this week.
By summer 2014, the University said it hopes to open a new graduate student residential community south of campus, increasing the area’s capacity by more than 200. The plans for the site, named Hibben-Magie, were presented to the Princeton Township Regional Planning Board last week.
The spring USG elections ballot will feature a referendum proposed by Dan May ’11 which would end the current practice of automatically granting the freshman class president a seat on the Honor Committee.
President Barack Obama is expected to sign a bill today that includes only modest cuts to scientific research funding, a major victory for scientists and activists who feared that extensive reductions would significantly affect the United States’ scientific productivity.
Karen Katz, president and chief executive of the Neiman Marcus Group, delivered a talk Thursday night before a packed audience in Robertson 001. Her talk, which provided an introduction to Neiman Marcus in the context of the broader retail world, was a part of the Business Today seminar series.
