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.
Three months after an earthquake decimated his nation, Raymond Joseph, Haiti’s ambassador to the United States, offered a message of hope.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
A 26-year-old Plainsboro resident drowned in the Delaware & Raritan Canal on Sunday afternoon after his canoe capsized directly south of campus.
More than two years and 1,400 green handles later, dual-flush toilets have been installed in an estimated 95 percent of residence halls, facilities department administrators said.The toilets, which use 1.6 gallons of water when their handles are pushed down but only 1.1 gallons when pushed up, were first installed in Feinberg and Edwards halls in 2008.
While some students spent Sunday afternoon outside enjoying the long-anticipated spring weather, many seniors were stuck in the depths of Firestone Library, frantically adding the final pages to their theses. For most seniors, departmental deadlines are quickly approaching, with theses for history and English concentrators due on Tuesday.
USG vice president Sam Dorison ’11 presented the USG’s new grade deflation initiative, intended to study the impact of the University’s grading policy on students’ ability to secure summer internships and full-time jobs, at the USG Senate meeting on Sunday night.
In the wake of recent attention surrounding immigration reform laws, students at Princeton united to form DREAM Team, an organization dedicated to building support for immigration reform at the University. The group takes its name from the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, a bill currently before Congress that would enable children of illegal immigrants to earn permanent residency, provided that they earn a bachelor’s degree or serve in the armed forces for two years.
The University has admitted a record-low 8.18 percent of the 26,247 applicants to the Class of 2014, making this year’s admission process the most selective in University history. Only 2,148 students were offered admission, as the University experienced a 19.5 percent increase in applicants from the 21,963 students who applied for the Class of 2013.
University students now have access to what USG president Michael Yaroshefsky ’12 called “the Swiss Army Knife of course-selection tools.” The Integrated Course Engine, or ICE 2.0, which was launched on Wednesday, allows users to access multiple sources of information related to class scheduling all on the same webpage.
Though her thesis is due in just four days, Alexis Rodda ’10 isn’t spending much time in her carrel in Firestone Library. Instead, the English major is working onstage at Richardson Auditorium, preparing to perform in an opera that she wrote and directed, and that is unrelated to her senior thesis.
