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.
University Curator of Numismatics Alan Stahl received the Medal of the Royal Numismatic Society for 2010 in London on Jan. 18.
Alex Shih ’11 burned through much of his bank account and all of his summer internship money to pay for last weekend’s Intercollegiate Taiwanese American Students Association conference, which did not qualify for University funding.
Lindsey Breuer ’11 received the 2011 Elmer Adler Undergraduate Book Collecting Prize for her essay “If Only I Could Apparate, My Harry Potter Collection Would Truly Appreciate” at a dinner on Jan. 29, 2011.
Former music professor Milton Babbitt GS ’92, one of the most influential and controversial composers of the second half of the 20th century, died of natural causes on Jan.29 at the age of 94.
The University will install one of the largest solar collector fields at any U.S. college as early as summer 2012, according to a University statement released Wednesday.
In January, the Princeton University Press published “The Princeton Reader: Contemporary Essays by Writers and Journalists at Princeton University,” an anthology of nonfiction essays by 75 contributors who have written for publications from The Washington Post to Vogue.
According to a report from the NACUBO-Commonfund Study of Endowments, university endowments are rising again as the economy recovers from a severe recession.
Politics and African American studies professor Melissa Harris-Perry left her position at the University following the fall semester. She will relocate to Tulane University in New Orleans where she will teach political science and head a new program at the Newcomb College Institute to examine the influences between politics and race and gender in the South beginning in July.
While a restoration of high membership numbers may have returned one club to normalcy in first-round sign-ins, for two others, this year’s sign-ins were an experiment in breaking tradition.
