The University appointed Emily Carter, a mechanical and aerospace engineering professor, as the first-ever director of the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment. Carter began serving in the position Sept. 1.
Continuing a trend of major unveilings over the past three years, the new Frick Chemistry Building has now opened and will serve as the new home of the chemistry department, housing its research and teaching facilities. Several other major construction projects have been completed on the southern end of campus in recent years, including Lewis Library in 2008 and Butler College in 2009. Over the summer, Streicker Bridge, a pedestrian bridge spanning Washington Road, was also completed and now connects the new chemistry building to science buildings across the road.
B.o.B is slated to headline Fall Lawnparties, USG social chair Jake Sally ’12 said in an e-mail to the student body on Saturday evening. The announcement comes nearly two months after The Daily Princetonian reported on The Prox that the rapper would likely perform on campus next Sunday.
Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel will retire from her post at the end of the 2010-11 academic year, the University announced last week. Malkiel is widely known among current undergraduates and recent alumni as the architect of the University’s controversial revised grading policy, which limits the number of A grades that can be awarded to undergraduates in each department.
Starting this fall, Public Safety officers will not be the only individuals patrolling the hallways of residential colleges on weekends: Residential college advisers have been assigned to walk through the dorms, too.
Mathematics professor Elon Lindenstrauss received a Fields Medal — one of the most prestigious awards in the field of mathematics — at the International Congress of Mathematicians, which concluded today in Hyderabad, India. The medal is awarded at the quadrennial conference to between two and four mathematicians under 40 years old.
Princeton dropped to second place after Harvard in U.S. News & World Report’s ranking of America’s best colleges and universities, according to an Associated Press story posted around 4 p.m. on Aug. 16 at whiznews.com.
The Senate voted 63-37 to confirm Solicitor General Elena Kagan ’81 as the next Supreme Court justice, a historic move that marks the first time three women will serve simultaneously on the nation’s highest court.
University researchers provided inadequate amounts of water to lab primates and violated or failed to document compliance with pre-approved protocol, according to findings from a routine inspection of animal research facilities conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture at the University in late June.
Though the economy is still reeling after a few rough years, the 2009-10 Annual Giving campaign raised $48,582,819, the third highest total since its establishment in 1940. Surpassing this year’s initial goal of $46 million, the total was almost $4 million more than the $44.6 million raised during last year’s campaign. Undergraduate alumni participation also exceeded the 60 percent mark for the first time in a decade, with 60.8 percent of alumni making a donation.
“I’ll read a poem over and over,” W.S. Merwin ’48 said in an interview with The Daily Princetonian. “If you love it, read it everyday. It gets deeper. Poetry should wake up and touch parts of you that you never knew were there.” Merwin, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, was named the nation’s 17th poet laureate on July 1.
The nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan ’81 to the Supreme Court was endorsed by the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday in a 13-6 vote that went mostly along party lines.
Cottage Club's nine-year battle for tax-exempt status as a historical landmark received another setback this summer when the appellate division of the New Jersey Superior Court upheld a denial by state officials of the club's request to be exempted from paying local property taxes.
Gen. David Petraeus GS ’87, head of the U.S. Central Command, will replace Gen. Stanley McChrystal as the leader of coalition forces in Afghanistan, President Barack Obama announced June 23.
Despite threats of heavy rainfall, students gathered with their family and friends under the historic green elms in front of Nassau Hall to celebrate the University’s 263rd Commencement on Tuesday morning.The ceremony honored 1,175 bachelor’s degree recipients — 1,166 from the graduating Class of 2010 and nine undergraduates from previous classes — and 804 recipients of graduate degrees. Degree candidates were joined by roughly 7,500 family members and friends.
John Lewis, former dean of the Wilson School and economic adviser to three U.S. presidents, died of natural causes May 19 in Montgomery, N.J. He was 89.
Charlie Gibson ’65, former anchor of ABC’s “World News,” did not attend his own Class Day 45 years ago. He didn’t want his four years at the University to end, he explained during his Class Day speech Monday morning. But, Gibson assured the Class of 2010 that students remain connected to the University, even after graduation.
At the Class Day ceremony held on Cannon Green on Monday morning, members of the Class of 2010 were acknowledged for their service, leadership and athletic achievements at the University.
Amazon.com founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos ’86 opened the University’s 263rd Baccalaureate address with a story from his childhood. After watching a public service announcement about the health effects of smoking, he calculated that his grandmother’s addiction would likely take nine years out of her life. But rather than praising him for his mathematical prowess, his grandmother burst into tears.
Workers reported a leak of acidic waste water at the University’s cogeneration plant on Sunday morning. The plant, which generates electricity and heat for the campus, was shut down and the hot water supply to dormitories was disrupted from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday.
