On Sunday, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem announced that its Rothberg International School would accept a dozen American students whose studies abroad had been interrupted by turmoil in Egypt.
Research conducted by professor Ilhan Aksay at the University’s Ceramic Materials Laboratory, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Washington State University has revealed a way of combining nanoparticles and graphene to develop a material that is more stable and durable for use in fuel cells.
Timothy Searchinger, an associate research scholar in the Princeton Environmental Institute, the Wilson School and the Program in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy, has received negative feedback for arguing that biofuels have contributed to the world food shortage.
In keeping with past trends, the acceptance rates for University a cappella groups — whose spring auditions concluded this week — were extremely low, though fewer students auditioned for groups in the spring than last fall.
Students can rest assured that finding valentines will be easier this year — or at least that they will have one more procrastination outlet.
During a town hall meeting Wednesday night, residents of Princeton Township and Princeton Borough pledged their money and support to the Princeton Fair Tax-Revaluation Group which is aiming to overturn a property tax revaluation.
An Italian grocery market, a wine store and a dry cleaning service have recently opened their doors as part of a new shopping complex on Spring Street, which runs parallel to Nassau Street.
According to the recent results of “The American Freshman: National Norms Fall 2010,” an annual survey of student health, emotional well-being among college students is at its lowest in the study’s 25-year history.
Chemical and biological engineering professor Christodoulos Floudas and mechanical and aerospace engineering professors Richard Miles and Alexander Smits have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
George Harne GS ’08 has been appointed the president of The College of Saint Mary Magdalen in New Hampshire.
The Sigma Chi fraternity has established a chapter house on Witherspoon St., becoming the only Greek organization at the University to have a residence.
Against the backdrop of the 17th day of protest in the streets of Cairo, about 20 students considered the relative importance of stability and democracy in the Middle East at a debate sponsored by the American Whig-Cliosophic Society on Thursday evening.
More than a week after the University announced it was scrapping plans for the proposed Arts and Transit Neighborhood, the University, the Borough Council and the Township Committee have been forced to hit the reset button on their negotiations for the project, despite five years of planning.
Thanks to generous donations totaling over $115 million, Princeton HealthCare System is enhancing the new University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro and boosting its fundraising goal by $35 million. The new hospital will replace the existing University Medical Center at Princeton as part of PHCS.
Justine Drennan ’11 has received a scholarship from the Gates Cambridge Trust to study at the University of Cambridge for the 2011-12 academic year.
When Robert Joyce ’13 watched a CNN broadcast about the revolution in Egypt two weeks ago, he laughed. Joyce, who was studying abroad at Alexandria University in Egypt at the time, could hear bullets outside his dorm as the TV reported “peaceful protests and isolated violence.”
The University’s German department has partnered with the Bauhaus-Universitat Weimar to launch the first international Summer School for Media Studies this year.
President Obama has declared the aftermath of the blizzard of Dec. 26–27, 2010, a “major disaster” in New Jersey. Mercer County was included in a list of 13 counties affected by the president’s declaration.
According to a recent post on CBS’s MoneyWatch.com, the University has the second best four-year graduation rate for private colleges in the United States.
“There’s no such thing as a small change,” said Norman Augustine GS ’59 during a lecture in the Friend Center on Wednesday night.
