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Berman GS ’94 explains market swings

Berman GS ’94 explains market swings

When Gregg Berman GS ’94 decided to get a Ph.D. in physics at the University, he did not expect to then spend 16 years working in finance. But the skills he gained as a physicist helped him as he played a critical role in two federal regulatory agencies’ investigation into one of the wildest stock price swings in recent years.

NEWS | 10/07/2010

Nobel Prize-winning chemist recounts accidental discovery

The discovery for which Peter Agre won the 2003 Nobel Prize in chemistry was somewhat of an accident, the researcher said before a capacity crowd in Dodds Auditorium on Thursday afternoon.

NEWS | 10/07/2010

Holt, Sipprelle enter final weeks of congressional race

In a little over three weeks, Rep. Rush Holt will face off against Republican challenger and Princeton venture capitalist Scott Sipprelle in the midterm elections. Holt, the former assistant director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, is the five-term Democratic congressman for New Jersey’s 12th district, which stretches across five counties and includes Princeton and part of Trenton.

NEWS | 10/07/2010

No longer just the doctor’s daughter: Oz '08

Daphne Oz ’08 is writing her way out of the shadow cast by her television star father, Dr. Oz.

NEWS | 10/07/2010

Vargas Llosa wins Nobel Prize in literature

NEW YORK — For the third time in four years, a professor has won a Nobel Prize while teaching at the University. Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, a visiting professor with the Program in Latin American Studies and the Lewis Center for the Arts, was named the sole winner of the 2010 literature prize Thursday.

NEWS | 10/06/2010

Quimby to leave post in June

Deputy Dean of the College Peter Quimby will be stepping down at the end of this academic year to become headmaster of The Governor’s Academy, the Massachusetts boarding school announced on Wednesday.

NEWS | 10/06/2010

Rawr-ing for the Tigers

Bianca Reo ’12 and Adeline Brown ’13 led a group of students wearing orange and black paint on a lively march across campus to encourage their classmates to support the football team at its Sept. 25 game against Lafayette.

NEWS | 10/06/2010

Study reveals racist tendencies among lenders

Predatory lenders targeted African-Americans and Hispanics for subprime mortgages, revealing “institutional racism” in the financial crisis, two Princeton academics argued in a paper published on Monday.

NEWS | 10/06/2010

Science distribution requirement to change next year

Freshmen next year will no longer have to take two lab courses to fulfill their science distribution requirements, the faculty decided at a meeting on Sept. 20.

NEWS | 10/06/2010

Halligan '88 nominated to appeals court

President Barack Obama nominated Caitlin Halligan ’88 for a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on Sept. 29. Halligan is currently general counsel for the Manhattan district attorney's office.

NEWS | 10/06/2010

Wilson School to conduct review of operations

Eighty years after it opened as an academic center to prepare students for leadership in public service, the Wilson School is conducting a formal review of whether its undergraduate program is living up to its mission.

NEWS | 10/05/2010

Senate candidate O'Donnell accused of falsely claiming she pursued master's at University

Princeton has made an unexpected appearance in Delaware’s Senate race.Christine O’Donnell, the Tea Party-backed Republican candidate, came under scrutiny in recent weeks when political opponents and media outlets said she falsely implied that she pursued a master’s degree at the University.

NEWS | 10/05/2010

Peer institutions’ endowments rise across the board in 2010

The University’s peer institutions have seen signs of economic recovery, reporting investment returns of between 8.9 and 17 percent for their endowments in recent weeks. Princeton is the only Ivy League institution that has not yet released its endowment figures for the 2010 fiscal year, which ended June 30. At the end of the 2009 fiscal year, the University endowment was valued at $12.6 billion.

NEWS | 10/05/2010

Performance groups reject hundreds in auditions

Auditions for performing arts groups are always competitive, but the heads of a cappella, dance and theater groups said that this was an especially tough year for freshmen.Shere Khan was one of the most selective groups, admitting only one new member out of the 130 students who auditioned. Roaring 20 accepted four out of 120 auditioners. None of the five a cappella groups that spoke to The Daily Princetonian accepted more than seven new singers.

NEWS | 10/05/2010

Amid scandal, county takes over Township police

The Princeton Township Police Department, which has jurisdiction over part of campus, has been taken over by the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office amid a criminal investigation of the department’s leadership.

NEWS | 10/05/2010

Multi-club Bicker outlined to CPUC

University Vice President and Secretary Bob Durkee ’69 presented a progress report on the implementation of last spring’s recommendations by the eating club task force at a meeting of the Council of the Princeton University Community on Monday.At the meeting, Durkee also discussed the plans of the recently announced task force on campus and social life.

NEWS | 10/04/2010

Uncensored comics bring tour to McCarter

“You guys ready not to think?” Felipe Esparza asked a near-capacity audience at McCarter Theatre on Monday night.Esparza, the winner of NBC’s Emmy-winning comedy contest “Last Comic Standing,” closed a two-hour, five-man stand-up routine that drew regular laughs with jokes about college drinking and a number of politically incorrect references.

NEWS | 10/04/2010

Weber follows task force report at CPUC with optimistic update on sustainability

The University “turned a corner” in greenhouse gas reduction, Sustainability Manager Shana Weber said while presenting the University’s 2010 sustainability report at the Council of the Princeton University Community meeting on Monday afternoon.The challenge facing the University when it comes to sustainability is “both institutional and individual,” Weber said as she described the University’s progress on sustainability efforts in greenhouse gas reduction; resource conservation; and research, education and civic engagement.

NEWS | 10/04/2010

Women now receive majority of doctorates, report shows

The dying joke about women following college with an “Mrs. degree” may have received its fatal blow this year.Women now earn more Ph.D.s than men, the Council of Graduate Schools announced in its annual report last month. The trend has yet to reach Princeton, where there are still three men for every two women.

NEWS | 10/04/2010

Chabad celebrates Judaism on the Street

At the end of September, some students celebrated the Jewish holiday of Sukkot with a Sukkah party at an unexpected location: Terrace Club.The Sukkah party was the first event sponsored by a new student group, Jews on the Street, which is funded by the Jewish organization Chabad and aims to further the presence of Jewish life at the eating clubs.

NEWS | 10/04/2010

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