When the Air Force wanted to learn more about the interactions between electrodes and plasma in jet propulsion systems, it turned to mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Edgar Choueiri GS ’91.
Tony Kadyhrob, the man accused of luring women on local campuses, was banned on Tuesday from entering any school property in New Jersey as a condition of his bail.
Students and community members gathered on Tuesday night in McCosh 50 for a talk titled “The Neurobiology of Drug Addiction” given by Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
University students protested congressional re-approval of an agricultural bill that would grant another round of subsidies to some of the nation’s biggest farms on Tuesday.
The University’s Center for Information Technology Policy sponsored an all-day conference on Tuesday titled “The U.S. and China: Great Nations, Evolving Technology and Challenging Policy.” According to CITP’s website, the conference aimed to answer questions regarding policy, innovation and cooperation that arise from the “rapid evolution” of technology.
At an event run by Princeton Future on Tuesday morning, students from the Rutgers University Graduate Urban Design Studio presented their research on economic development and transportation along the Alexander Street corridor, the site of the University’s proposed Arts and Transit Neighborhood, to an audience of roughly 20 community members at the Princeton Public Library.
Borough Administrator Robert Bruschi presented the Borough Council with a revised version of the 2011 operating budget at the Council meeting on Tuesday night. The new budget contains no tax increase.
Globally recognized author and University professor emeritus Jose Arguelles passed away on March 23 at the age of 72.
When French professor Francois Rigolot, one of the world’s most prominent scholars on Renaissance literature, received the Paul Oskar Kristeller Lifetime Achievement Award in late March, many of his colleagues and students said they could think of few other people who deserved such a distinction.
Nearly one month after the deadly earthquake and tsunami in Japan, several campus initiatives have started up to try to aid the victims of the disaster.
The report and recommendations of the Joint Revaluation Study Commission of Princeton released on Monday contained a proposal for an unprecedented municipal public loan program that would allow qualifying homeowners to defer the burden of rising property taxes until a later date and give struggling residents more time to plan a way to repay their loans.
Public Safety Captain Donald P. Reichling sent out a campus-wide safety alert on Monday afternoon cautioning that a suspicious individual has been targeting young women at local college campuses.According to the University’s Campus Safety alert, the individual, 68-year-old Tony Kadyhrob, has not been linked to Princeton’s campus and the email was merely precautionary.
D. Michael Lindsay GS ’06 has been named the president of Gordon College, a Christian liberal arts college in Wenham, Mass.
The Princeton Joint Revaluation Study Commission concluded that a legal challenge of a property tax revaluation would not likely succeed and makes recommendations for how public communication of the revaluation process could be improved in future years.
Rebecca Gomperts, a visiting fellow in the Wilson School, has been honored by Women Deliver as one of the 100 “Most Inspiring Individuals Delivering for Girls and Women.”
Rutgers University will pay Princeton Council of the Humanities professor emeritus Toni Morrison $30,000 to speak at Rutgers’ commencement ceremony on May 15.
The Student Design Agency hosted its fourth-annual graphic design conference, titled “Reach: Design Across the Social Spectrum,” on Saturday in McCormick Hall.
The University’s first Relay For Life was held from Friday to Saturday from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. at Dillon Gymnasium. Organized by the student group Relay for Life at Princeton, the event raised over $23,000 to be donated to the American Cancer Society.
A recent Chronicle of Higher Education report revealed that 9.9 percent of students at the University were recipients of Pell Grants in 2008-09.
Largely as a result of the three-candidate race, Borough Councilman David Goldfarb, who has served as a Borough councilman for 20 years and also represents the Borough on the Borough-Township Joint Consolidation/Shared Services Study Commission, fell short of receiving the Princeton Democratic Community Organization’s official nomination for the June Democratic primary for Borough mayor.
