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As the author of such celebrated novels as “Middlesex” and “The Virgin Suicides,” creative writing professor Jeffrey Eugenides is an intimidating figure for many students.But Thatcher Foster ’14 sees him quite differently.“He and I are bros,” Foster said. “It’s kind of cool.”Foster, the son of art and archaeology professor Hal Foster, started college with many similarly close relationships, having spent time with faculty and staff for most of his childhood.

NEWS | 11/08/2010

Faculty approves ending 2 courses at meeting

Faculty approves ending 2 courses at meeting

The University faculty approved the removal of two chemical and biological engineering courses from the curriculum at its monthly meeting Monday. About 25 faculty members attended the meeting, during which the faculty also approved a report by Registrar Polly Griffin detailing the University’s fall semester opening enrollment and delivered a memorial resolution commemorating Robert Tucker, emeritus professor of politics, who died at the age of 92 in July.

NEWS | 11/08/2010

Running ahead of thousands

Left foot, right foot, left foot, right foot. This was the solid thumping sound echoing throughout New York City on Sunday morning as thousands of racers in the ING New York City Marathon wove their way through the city’s five boroughs.Peter Bartlett ’09 was not running just to finish, which he did. And he was not running just to win a $500 bet from a coworker, which he did, too.The 23-year-old finished the race in a blistering 2 hours, 30 minutes, 5 seconds, running the 26.2 miles at an average pace of 5 minutes, 44 seconds per mile. In his first marathon, the New York City resident placed 44th in a field of 45,000.

NEWS | 11/08/2010

Walsh ’06 launches website for local reusable item exchange

Ryan Walsh ’06 hoped to remain frugal and environmentally conscious as he furnished his apartment in Connecticut shortly after graduation. Instead, he found his efforts frustrated. Walsh attempted to join the local chapter of Freecycle, a national nonprofit organization that allows members to receive free furniture and appliances from other members who choose to give away used items rather than discard them. For reasons unknown to Walsh, however, his application was rejected.“I’m not sure why they reject anyone ... and why reviewing ‘applications’ takes them weeks,” Walsh said in an e-mail. “It seemed crazy to me that there wasn’t a convenient way for people to participate in the ‘local reusing’ movement right away, very easily.”

NEWS | 11/08/2010

Presidential award goes to professors

President Barack Obama awarded electrical engineering professor Andrew Houck ’00 and physics professor Joshua Shaevitz the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the U.S. government’s highest honor for young researchers, on Friday.Houck was nominated for the award by the Department of Defense, while Shaevitz’s name was put forward by the National Science Foundation in recognition of his work in both physics and genomics. Houck joined the University faculty in 2008, while Shaevitz joined in 2007.

NEWS | 11/08/2010

USG sponsors free classes for students at Dillon Gymnasium

The USG will sponsor free group fitness and spinning classes at Dillon Gymnasium four days a week through the end of the semester, USG president Michael Yaroshefsky ’12 announced in an e-mail to the student body Sunday night. Two classes — Body Attack and Body Pump — will each be offered twice a week, while spinning will be offered Monday through Thursday evenings. The first classes were held Monday.

NEWS | 11/08/2010

Rush Holt keeps seat with 7-point margin

Democrat Rush Holt won his seventh consecutive term as representative for New Jersey’s 12th Congressional District in last Tuesday’s election. It was his slimmest margin of victory since 2002.

NEWS | 11/07/2010

Breakout participants learn about public affairs over fall break

The five-year anniversary of the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s investigation of the 1979 Greensboro Massacre, in which members of the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party went unconvicted after killing five people at a political march, sparked 11 undergraduates to journey to Greensboro, N.C., over fall break through the Pace Center’s Breakout program.

NEWS | 11/07/2010

Princeton's 1st Rubik's Cube competition draws crowd

At 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, nearly 100 excited competitors, along with family and friends, packed Richardson Auditorium to the sounds of techno music. For the next nine hours, they participated in Princeton’s first Rubik’s Cube competition.

NEWS | 11/07/2010

Suspect caught following armed robbery in town

A suspect in an alleged armed robbery near Hoagie Haven last month was caught Thursday by the U.S. Marshals Service in his hometown of Chester, Pa.

NEWS | 11/07/2010

Alumni lose major races nationally

Alumni won five of 12 races in last week’s midterm elections. But in a year in which Republicans took control of the House of Representatives, gained a majority of the nation’s governorships and picked up positions in the Senate, some high-profile alumni failed to catch the Republican tidal wave in several major races nationwide.

NEWS | 11/07/2010

Felten appointed chief technologist for FTC

The Federal Trade Commission has appointed computer science and Wilson School professor Edward Felten to a year-long post as its first chief technologist, the agency announced Thursday. Felten, who will help the FTC navigate technology policy issues, is also founding director of the University’s Center for Information Technology Policy.

NEWS | 11/07/2010

Web Update: Felten appointed to post at Federal Trade Commission

The Federal Trade Commission has appointed computer science and public policy professor Edward Felten to a year-long post as its first chief technologist, the agency announced Thursday. Felten, who will help the FTC navigate technology policy issues, is also founding director of the University’s Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP)Felten will assume his position in January, and computer science professor Margaret Martonosi will serve as acting director of CITP during his one-year leave of absence.

NEWS | 11/04/2010

Web Update: Princetonians win 5 of 12 major races

The number of Princetonians in Congress will increase by one following an election in which Republicans pummeled Democratic incumbents across the country, taking control of the House of Representatives. But the Republican tidal wave was not enough to sweep high-profile alumni to victory in several major races.Winners: Rep. John Sarbanes ’84, D-Md.; Rep. Jared Polis ’96, D-Colo.; Rep. Leonard Lance GS ’82, R-N.J.; Terri Sewell ’86, D-Ala.; and Nan Hayworth ’81, R-N.Y.Losers: Meg Whitman ’77, R-Calif.; Robert Ehrlich ’79, R-Md.; Kenneth Buck ’81, R-Colo.; Rep. Jim Marshall ’72, D-Ga.; Randy Altschuler ’93, R-N.Y.; Ravi Sangisetty ’03, D-La.; and Timothy vanBlommesteyn ’75, I-N.H.

NEWS | 11/02/2010

Web Update: Holt wins close race

Democratic Rep. Rush Holt defeated Scott Sipprelle, his Republican challenger, by 7 percentage points in Tuesday’s election. Holt received 53 percent of the vote, while Sipprelle had 46 percent.Holt, the former assistant director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, earned a seventh term in Congress and will represent the state’s 12th District, which includes Princeton and other parts of central New Jersey.

NEWS | 11/02/2010

Diemand-Yauman ’10 authors font study

It was only after hours of photocopying required readings that Connor Diemand-Yauman ’10, then a junior, realized that he had accidentally cut off the last few letters of each line.Little did he know that through deciphering these readings, he would formulate an idea for his thesis that would ultimately be written about in The Economist, featured on BBC News and published in the psychology journal Cognition.

NEWS | 10/28/2010

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