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.
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.
