A government panel in India has proposed a special class of universities called Navratna universities that would have a standing similar to the American Ivy League.
Ray lee, technical director of the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, has developed the world’s first dual-headed fMRI scanner.
Princeton appears to be an exception to the December findings of the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council’s 15th annual “Small Business Survival Index,” which ranked New Jersey as the least hospitable state for small businesses. New Jersey ranks ahead of only the District of Columbia.
Professor emeritus Milton Babbitt of the University’s music department passed away yesterday at the University Medical Center at Princeton at the age of 94.
The Princeton board of education is currently facing a $2 million deficit in its operating budget and is examining ways to close the gap, including extending a six-year payment in lieu of taxes agreement with the University that is set to expire this year.
Former Wilson School dean Anne-Marie Slaughter ’80 will return to the University for the spring semester after a two-year tenure as the director of policy planning at the State Department.
University professor Alexander Nehamas GS ’71 was received in Greece by President of the Hellenic Republic Karolos Papoulias last Wednesday.
The University will likely abandon its plan to build an Arts and Transit Neighborhood, Vice President and Secretary Bob Durkee ’69 said after a special joint meeting that the Borough Council and Township Committee held to discuss the proposed construction on Monday night.The meeting was a culmination of five years of conflict over the 2006 University plan that sought to expand the University’s art facilities and reduce congestion in the area around the Dinky station by moving the station and developing a series of new arts buildings to the west of campus.
Princeton Township officials are criticizing the secrecy and the roughly $100,000 cost of a corruption probe that implicated the leadership of the Township police department and resulted in criminal charges against the chief. At the same time, officials are working to find a new chief and determine the makeup of the department in the future.
Alumnus Eric Schmidt ’76 has stepped down as CEO of Google. Schmidt’s departure will be rewarded with $100 million in stocks and options, and he is expected to retain 9.1 percent of Google’s voting power.
Michael Bloomberg, the third-term mayor of New York, will deliver the Baccalaureate address on May 29, Class of 2011 president Alex Rosen announced in an e-mail to seniors Jan. 14.
Undergraduate tuition and fees will increase by 1 percent next year, the University announced on Monday. The cost increase will be the lowest one in 45 years.
Anti-government protests that have caused over 100 deaths during the past week are posing a serious threat to the five Princeton students currently studying abroad in Egypt.
Molecular biology professor Bonnie Bassler will receive the Richard Lounsbery Award from the National Academy of Sciences.
The University received 27,115 applications this year for admission to the Class of 2015, it announced Wednesday, Jan. 19.
The total number of students placed into their first-choice eating club during the first round of sign-ins is almost 70 students higher than it was last year, according to data released to the club presidents by the Princeton Prospect Foundation on Saturday night. The significant increase is primarily the result of a dramatic rise in first-round sign-ins at Colonial Club. None of the clubs saw a drop in first-round interest, and a few saw modest increases.
Former eBay CEO and Princeton alumna Meg Whitman ’77 has joined Hewlett-Packard’s board of directors.
Leonard Milberg ’53 has contributed his third donation of prose written by Irish writers to the University. Milberg’s previous donations of poetry and theater materials were made in 1994 and 2006, respectively.
Every seat in the Garden Room of Prospect House was occupied Saturday afternoon as friends, family and members of the University community gathered to remember Bill Zeller GS, who passed away Jan. 5.
When Charles Ryskamp was appointed the director at New York City’s prestigious Pierpont Morgan Library in 1969, he did not leave his post as an English professor. When he then took over as director of the renowned Frick Collection art gallery in 1987, he continued to stay. So when he passed away last March, it was no surprise to those who knew him that Ryskamp included in his will a way to extend his 55-year affiliation with the University.
