The University’s graduate programs are among the best in the world, according to the 2012 rankings recently released by U.S. News & World Report. The rankings examined core areas of study as well as several specialized subcategories.
Over spring break, USG president Michael Yaroshefsky ’12, along with student body presidents from 14 other schools, traveled to the Russian Federation on a trip sponsored by the Russian Federation’s Federal Agency for Youth Affairs.
Of the 90 recently accepted Wilson School concentrators, one is entering the policy school with a yearlong diplomacy credit already to his name. Swedish international student David Asker ’13 is not just an avid cross-country skier and a studied martial artist, but also a trained military interrogator, soldier and former diplomat at only 22.
The Princeton Fire Department received a $361,500 grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security earlier this month, partly in light of the uncertain future of the University’s volunteer firefighter program.
The Steering Committee on Undergraduate Women’s Leadership released its final report today after a year and a half of workshops, surveys and examinations of data on academic leadership and participation of female students in University extracurriculars.
The USG announced several new initiatives at its meeting on Sunday night, including a collaboration with the Projects Board and the Japanese Student Association to aid victims in Japan. The groups are planning to sell T-shirts and possibly wristbands to show unity throughout the Princeton community.
As the Borough Council continues heated debate with the University over the Arts and Transit Neighborhood, 20-year Council member David Goldfarb — who announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Borough mayor earlier this month — recused himself from discussions due to a conflict of interest.
Beginning this fall, enrollment in creative writing workshops in poetry, translation and screenwriting will no longer require applications for courses at the 201 level and below.
Americans have worse health than do the British from birth through old age, according to a new study that was conducted in part by University researchers.
On March 11, East Asian Studies professor David Leheny was sitting on the second floor of a Starbucks in Japan, writing a presentation for a conference that afternoon. He did not think that what started as a modest earthquake would a few moments later turn into a catastrophic natural disaster. The 9.0-magnitude earthquake, which struck off the coast of Japan, is the largest earthquake to hit the country on record and resulted in tsunamis of up to 33 feet in height and the deaths of over 8,000 people. Current estimates include around 3,000 injured residents and 13,000 missing people.
Former visual arts professor and ceramic artist Toshiko Takaezu passed away Wednesday in Hawaii. She was a faculty member with the University’s Visual Arts Program from 1967 to 1992. She was 88 years old.
Wilson School professor Anne-Marie Slaughter ’80 led a women’s technology delegation under the U.S. Department of State to Liberia and Sierra Leone from Feb. 27 to March 5. Formerly the department’s director of policy planning, Slaughter returned to the University in February to teach an undergraduate seminar on national security policy and a graduate seminar.
Ricky Gill ’09 launched an exploratory committee on March 1 to examine his potential run for Congress as a Republican representative for California’s 11th district in San Joaquin County.
While the fate of the Arts and Transit Neighborhood hangs in the balance as University and local officials continue negotiations over zoning and the proposed relocation of the Dinky, Lewis Center for the Arts students and faculty say they are still hoping for the construction of the new facilities.
Aku Ammah-Tagoe ’11, Nikhil Basu Trivedi ’11 and Alex Rosen ’11 have been voted finalists in the Young Alumni Trustee primary election, Associate Director of Alumni Education Leslie Rowley announced in an e-mail to candidates Friday afternoon. A total of 31 seniors ran in the primary election, which was open to members of the Class of 2010.
After plans to reopen in the springs of 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 were all delayed due to reasons ranging from a failure to obtain building permits to the economic recession, Cannon Dial Elm Club looks set to open its doors to undergraduates in February 2012. Officials said the club will select its members through a Bicker process that would take place next February for members of the Class of 2014. Because the club has no junior or senior membership, the graduate board plans to choose between 10 and 20 of this year’s freshmen to conduct Bicker for their own classmates.
Borough Mayor Mildred Trotman will not be seeking re-election, she announced at a meeting of the executive board for the Princeton Democratic Community Organization on Saturday.
At Tuesday’s meeting, the Borough Council reviewed this year’s municipal budget and discussed the difficulties it might face if the University chooses not to make a voluntary contribution this year. During its closed session, the Council also prepared for negotiations with the University regarding its Arts and Transit Neighborhood zoning proposal.
A panel discussion sponsored by the Wilson School titled “Yemen: Thinking Outside the [al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula] Box” was held in Dodds Auditorium on Monday. The panel featured Wilson School lecturer Barbara Bodine, a former U.S. Ambassador to Yemen; Michael Ryan, senior research associate at the Jamestown Foundation; and Wilson School professor Jacob Shapiro.
The University’s Global Seminars initiative accepted 75 students out of a total of 215 applicants this year, according to Mark Beissinger, acting director of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.
