ReachOut 56-81 — a partnership between the classes of 1956 and 1981 that offers funding for graduating seniors to complete yearlong public service projects — has chosen three seniors for fellowships.
The patches of grass peaking through fields of white will disappear. The once-proud creatures that have nearly melted away will bulk up with an extra coat. The murmurings of hope for another day of canceled classes will amplify.
A Nassau Street mailbox has secured its place in the FBI’s books. Last Friday, the Amerithrax Task Force issued its final report on the 2001 anthrax scare last Friday, closing an investigation that lasted more than eight years. The task force, which included FBI special agents, U.S. postal inspectors and other law enforcement officials, alleged that Bruce Ivins committed the bioterrorist attacks.
The decrease in alcohol-related transports by Princeton Borough Police during pickups weekend this year featured prominently in Borough Police Chief Robert Dudeck’s monthly crime report, which he presented at the Borough Council meeting Tuesday evening.
Van Jones, a former adviser in the Obama Administration, has been appointed a visiting fellow in the Center for African American Studies and the Program in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy at the Wilson School, the University plans to announce today.
Seven University professors, representing disciplines ranging from economics to neuroscience to mathematics, have been awarded 2010 Sloan Research Fellowships. Princeton ties with Harvard for the school with the most fellowship winners this year.
In 74 countries around the world, Peace Corps volunteers support local development while promoting America’s image. Helping to lead the charge is a pack of tigers.
For students looking to explore their inner artists, several residential colleges offer free materials and facilities without the formality of an academic class.Tucked away in the basement of 1938 Hall is one of these spaces, the Wilson College ceramics studio. Though it was mostly empty during its open hours on Sunday, the walls were lined with half-finished pieces, from thrown pots to chess pieces.
Motivated by the recent attention highlighting the lack of female leadership on the Street, four former eating club presidents spoke on a panel on Friday about their experiences as women leaders in the male-dominated Street environment. Former female club presidents noted that their decisions to run for office were not motivated by existing gender stereotypes.
Vice President for Development Brian McDonald ’83 will leave his post on March 1, midway through the University’s five-year Aspire fundraising campaign, the University announced Monday afternoon. He will be succeeded by Elizabeth Boluch Wood, who is currently assistant vice president of development for capital giving.
Michael Steele, chair of the Republican National Committee, spoke about the Republican Party and its relationship with black Americans in a conversation with Eddie Glaude, chair of the Center for African American Studies, on Monday.
Only his close friends know that Marty Topol ’10 hunts.“I don’t walk around campus in camo stuff, but if you get to know me, and you’re a friend of mine, then you would know it is something I like to do,” he said.While student groups like the Princeton Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) criticize hunting on moral grounds, hunters argue that their pastime can be ethical in certain circumstances.
The University awarded Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowships to graduate students Vaneet Aggarwal, Melinda Baldwin, Charles Conroy and Joseph Moshenska on Saturday.
The University’s e-reader pilot program, which experimented with the use of the Kindle DX in three courses last semester, reduced the amount of paper students printed for their respective classes by nearly 50 percent, the University plans to announce today.But in spite of the cost savings, some students and professors said they found the technology limiting.
More than 1,000 alumni flocked to campus with family and friends on Feb. 20 for Alumni Day, a fixture in the Princeton calendar since its inception in 1915.
Students submitted competing business plans to judges on Saturday at the annual TigerLaunch Business Competition, which pitted prospective proprietors head-to-head on the stage of McCosh 10. Students entered submissions in one of two categories, business entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship, each of which awarded a total of $10,000 to award winners.
The University awarded U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus GS ’87 and former U.S. Rep. Jim Leach ’64 two of the highest alumni honors on Alumni Day on Saturday.Petraeus, who currently serves as commander of the U.S. Central Command, received the James Madison Medal, the top honor awarded annually to a graduate alumnus. Leach, the chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, received the Woodrow Wilson Award, the highest distinction for an undergraduate alumnus.
Twenty-four seniors have been approved as candidates in the annual election for Young Alumni Trustee (YAT), the University confirmed on Thursday afternoon. The winner of this year’s race will join the 40-member Board of Trustees for a four-year term beginning on July 1. Candidates were required to submit petitions signed by at least 50 members of the Class of 2010 by Monday night, and the Alumni Association completed verification of submissions on Thursday. This year’s applicant pool is smaller than last year’s pool of 30 seniors, which was the largest since 2004.
A sense of adventure, commitment to service and willingness to sacrifice corporate salaries are all characteristics that might come to mind when imagining the typical applicant to public-interest jobs. But data show that there is another trait the majority of these applicants share: a pair of X chromosomes.
Arab men holding machine guns stand in front of an image of Osama Bin Laden as a plane soars above them, in a collage hanging in the Bernstein Gallery in the basement of Robertson Hall. This piece of artwork is part of a new and controversial exhibit, “As the World Turns Then & Now,” which has been on display since Jan. 23.
