At Tuesday night’s Borough Council meeting, resident Charles Crider GS ’79 made a public presentation requesting that the Council ask the University to fund a long-term study of the local community’s transit options.
In a recent study published in Science magazine, Purdue University’s Jeffrey Karpicke and Janell Blunt suggested that students who “learn and recall” perform better on tests than those who use elaborate learning strategies such as concept-mapping. Some University faculty members, however, questioned the validity of the study’s findings about the best techniques for studying and testing.
Final exam procrastination reached chart-topping levels in January when the University placed in the top 10 colleges using the trivia website Sporcle.com.
Christodoulos floudas, the Stephen C. Macaleer ’63 Professor in Engineering and Applied Science, and Princeton engineering doctoral student Meghan Bellows-Peterson have developed a way of using mathematical models to identify potential drugs for fighting HIV.
A group of applied physicists, including Jiandi Wan, an associate research scholar in the mechanical and aerospace engineering department at the University, has demonstrated that it is possible to form semipermeable vesicles from inorganic clay.
Princeton Public Library patrons will soon be able to visit Firestone and other University libraries once a month. Announced on Monday, the Firestone Library Cards program will let Princeton Public Library members reserve passes for Firestone and other University libraries every month.
Despite the worldwide popularity of social networking websites, eating clubs have found little use for the services provided by sites such as Facebook or Twitter.
Jenny Ouyang, a graduate student in the ecology and evolutionary biology department, worked with scientists from the University of Edinburgh and the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Radolfzell, Germany to demonstrate that hormone levels in birds not only play a role during the breeding season but also can determine details about birds’ reproductive behavior weeks beforehand.
The science and technology distribution requirement for the Bachelor of Arts degree will change for students beginning with the incoming Class of 2015, announced Deputy Dean of the College Peter Quimby and Senior Associate Dean of the College Claire Fowler in an e-mail to the student body on Thursday. The changes also have implications for how currently enrolled students choose courses in the future.
Making a difference in society is more than simply seeing direct results; it is about pursuing a higher ideal of the good life, Mary Ann Glendon said in a lecture Monday evening in Whig Hall.
Speakers at the Cyril Black International Book Forum on Monday evening focused on the role of the dollar and the future of global currency. The discussion featured Barry Eichengreen, an economics and political science professor at the University of California, Berkeley and author of the recent book “Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary System.”
Discoveries made in Nilay Sethi GS ’10’s doctoral student thesis elucidate the processes that cause the spread of breast cancer and may lead to more effective treatments.
Eleven students required medical transports this past weekend for excessive alcohol consumption. Between Friday morning and Sunday morning, Public Safety confirmed, three students were taken to McCosh Health Center and eight to the University Medical Center at Princeton. These numbers represent a significant increase from those of the corresponding weekend last year.
According to a release from The Chronicle of Higher Education, 38.7 percent of individuals in Mercer County, N.J., have a bachelor’s degree, in comparison with 34.14 percent in New Jersey overall. The national average for bachelor’s degrees is 27.53 percent.
The 12th annual Oyster Bowl, New Jersey’s annual oyster eating contest and fundraiser benefiting Susan G. Komen for the Cure, was held on Sunday at Blue Point Grill.
Five juniors have been selected for Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative scholarships, the Wilson School announced last week. Marlise Jean-Pierre ’12, Lauren Rhode ’12, Kelly Roache ’12, Miriam Rosenbaum ’12 and Omar Muhsin Usman ’12 were selected for the fellowship program, which is designed to recognize, support and prepare students committed to careers in the U.S. government.
Lang Wang ’11 and Peck Yang ’11 launched a new website last month, PrincetonText.com, that allows students to compare prices for course books among a number of online retailers. The website aims to help students find course books at lower prices than at Labyrinth Books, the University’s official course book supplier on Nassau Street.
Cap & Gown Club broke Tower Club’s three-year streak as the most popular club on the Street with a total of 204 sophomore and junior bickerees, compared to Tower’s 169. Cap accepted 95 new members, according to sources within the club, or 47 percent of its bickerees, replacing Tower as the most selective club.
One year after both Colonial and Quadrangle Clubs experienced particularly low levels of sign-ins and the sign-in clubs faced questions about their long-term sustainability, the clubs saw at least 500 students join last week.
Robert J. Clark, a University professor emeritus of art and archaeology, passed away in his home in California on Jan. 4 after a lengthy illness at the age of 73.
