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Class day speaker not yet announced

Class day speaker not yet announced

Every year, the graduating class invites a star speaker to give a speech on Class Day, the day before Commencement. In recent years, seniors have learned who will address them before turning in their theses. But the identity of this year’s guest still remains a mystery.

NEWS | 04/08/2010

Kreisler ’95 elicits laughs, political discussion at event

On a warm Thursday night, Jeff Kreisler ’95 managed to elicit near-constant laughter from a crowd of roughly 60 people in McCosh 10 during an event dubbed “Comedy Against Evil,” sponsored by the College Democrats.

NEWS | 04/08/2010

Freshmen explore the art of motorcycle design

Instead of completing their science and technology distribution requirement with beakers and scales, 14 freshmen are disassembling and overhauling a 50-year-old motorcycle in FRS 108: Art and Science of Motorcycle Design.

NEWS | 04/07/2010

News & Notes: Educational program for minority students receives Shell grant

The W.E.B. DuBois Scholars Institute at Princeton University, a leadership program for minority high school students, received a $100,000 donation from Shell Oil Company on Monday, The Princeton Packet reported

NEWS | 04/07/2010

Alumni work on developing site to stream live concerts

After working at a consulting company during his first year out of college, Michael Rudoy ’07 decided that he “wanted to do something more entrepreneurial.”Talking with a representative of Live Nation, a major concert promoter, Rudoy learned that the company was looking to expand into online concerts. However, Rudoy explained, it “couldn’t figure out the best viewing environment for a concert.”

NEWS | 04/07/2010

News & Notes: University ranked sixth most stressful in U.S.

Princeton is the sixth most stressful college in the United States, according to The Daily Beast, a news and opinion website.The top five most stressful colleges are Stanford, Columbia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Penn, and Harvard, the website said.

NEWS | 04/07/2010

University and Google Books move forward with digitization

Around 70 percent of the 1 million books that will eventually be included in the Google Books digital archive have already been digitized, University Librarian Karin Trainer said in an e-mail. The initiative for digitization began in early 2007, when the University Library and Google agreed to a six-year contract to make less than one-tenth of the University’s 11 million holdings — which include manuscripts and periodicals as well as books — available online through Google Book Search.

NEWS | 04/07/2010

University plans more shelving in Firestone

As part of an ongoing renovation process that will take at least 10 years, the University plans to begin construction on the A- and C-floors of Firestone Library this summer to increase the amount of shelving space available for special collections.

NEWS | 04/07/2010

Annual Giving tops $24 million

The University’s Annual Giving fundraising campaign is making good progress toward its goals of raising $46 million and reaching a 60 percent participation rate among undergraduate alumni.

NEWS | 04/07/2010

Haitian ambassador speaks at University

Three months after an earthquake decimated his nation, Raymond Joseph, Haiti’s ambassador to the United States, offered a message of hope.

NEWS | 04/06/2010

Global Zero aims for elimination of nuclear arsenals

Though less than two months old, a newly formed student organization, Global Zero, is already fully committed to fulfilling its mission of sparking grassroots activism and raising questions about nuclear disarmament.

NEWS | 04/06/2010

Dunlay ’11 wins Elmer Adler Prize for literature collection

Book collecting is a common pastime — but rather than just gathering dust, books can earn University students thousands of dollars. The Friends of the Princeton University Library annually awards several undergraduates the Elmer Adler Undergraduate Book Collecting Prize, which is open to undergraduates who collect any item generally found in a library. Candidates for the prize submit an essay describing their collection, along with a bibliography listing of all its pieces.

NEWS | 04/06/2010

A culture of doubt: Sexual assault reporting on campus

The U.S. Department of Justice estimates that one in five college women is a victim of sexual assault. Yet few of these students choose to report incidents to their universities.

NEWS | 04/06/2010

Duggal ’87 promotes use of organic LEDs as lighting source

Anil Duggal ’87 thinks that organic light-emitting diodes may be the brightest bulbs in the bunch. An advanced technology leader for electronic materials systems at General Electric’s Global Research Headquarters in Niskayuna, N.Y., Duggal has been at the forefront of the company’s research in organic LED technology since 1999.

NEWS | 04/06/2010

U. approves termination of 13 courses at faculty meeting

The University approved dropping eight English and five politics courses and adding two engineering courses at the faculty meeting on Monday.The cuts come at a time when the total number of courses offered by the University has decreased over the last few semesters. The faculty members also discussed a memorial resolution on the death of politics professor Stanley Kelley Jr., changes to the graduate school’s curriculum and faculty nominations to various committees during the meeting.

NEWS | 04/05/2010

Professors knighted by Italian government

The Italian government knighted professors Pietro Frassica and Gaetana Marrone-Puglia of the French and Italian department, the University announced on Monday.In a ceremony last month held at Prospect House, Frassica and Marrone-Puglia were granted the title of “Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic” by Italian consul Andrea Barbaria.

NEWS | 04/05/2010

Census head speaks about methodology

Americans living in neighborhoods with poor census return rates had better watch out. Armed with signs, bullhorns and the sirens of local fire trucks, 250 of the Census Bureau’s local partner groups across the United States will begin the “March to the Mailbox” this Saturday. The march is an effort to urge residents of neighborhoods with low response rates to send in their forms, Robert Groves, director of the U.S. Census Bureau, said in a lecture on Monday.

NEWS | 04/05/2010

Study finds textbooks often go unused

One in seven times, students never use a textbook purchased for a class, according to a new study published by social learning company Koofers, Inc. “We were surprised at how high this number is,” Koofers CEO Glynn LoPresti said in a statement. “If textbooks go unused this frequently, that’s something students really deserve to know.”

NEWS | 04/05/2010

Off-campus summer housing offers convenience, lower cost

For Yevgeniy Leypunskiy ’11, the end of finals period will not signal a trip home. Instead, he will stay on campus for the summer to conduct independent work for his senior thesis. “I’m a chemistry major, and almost all of us stay on campus the summer before senior year,” Leypunskiy said.Unlike during the school year, when staying on campus means living in a dorm, a substantial contingent of students like Leypunskiy chooses to live off campus, citing cost and convenience.

NEWS | 04/05/2010

Students baptized on Easter Sunday in Dillon Pool

When Ben Farkas ’10 lowered himself into Dillon Pool on Sunday morning, it was not to swim laps, but rather to embrace Christianity through baptism.Along with Farkas, Natalie Kim ’12, Jinju Pottenger ’10, Victoria Tan ’11 and Carola Hernandez-Cappas ’11 also submerged themselves in the waters of Dillon Pool for the annual baptismal celebration on Easter Sunday, sponsored by Manna Christian Fellowship, Princeton Evangelical Fellowship and Princeton Faith and Action.

NEWS | 04/04/2010

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