Google announced last Tuesday that it will award five Princeton professors combined grants of $500,000 for their promising research on Internet energy efficiency and privacy.
Sheryl WuDunn GS '88 and New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof spoke about their new book “Half the Sky” before a packed crowd in Dodds Auditorium on Thursday afternoon. The nonfiction work identifies gender inequity as the moral challenge of the century.
Thousands of students apply every year for the opportunity to study engineering at Princeton. But roughly 40 students bypassed the application process altogether and began their first class Thursday night. The select few were eight-year-olds who spent an hour building cars out of Legos at the Princeton Public Library, under the mentorship of four undergraduate engineers.
The Princeton University Art Museum’s portrait of George Washington at the Battle of Princeton went missing last night. But it was found within the hour, thanks to the detective work of roughly 45 undergraduates participating in the museum’s scavenger hunt Thursday evening.
Raucous chanting, door-banging and shaving cream spraying have routinely ushered in the first Friday of the spring semester in recent years, as bicker clubs pick up new members from their dorm rooms.
Long after the eating clubs have stopped serving dinner and the dining halls have turned off their lights, hungry students in search of a late-night snack still have many places they can turn to to satisfy their cravings.
The University is planning to build a new data center facility to accommodate its growing computing needs. Set to open in 2011, the new facility will house general administrative and academic computing systems, as well as the Terascale Infrastructure for Groundbreaking Research in Engineering and Science Center (TIGRESS).
The University announced last week that New South, the high-rise administration building next to the Dinky Station, will be renovated to accommodate programming for the Lewis Center for the Arts.
“Frantic” is how Gabrielle Haigh ’13 describes her experience in the four-course Humanities Sequence, HUM 216-219, an intensive year-long introduction to the Western canon.
Jenna Hauca ’11 was studying in Green Library when her pager went off. Within an hour, she had donned a firefighter’s uniform and put out a garage fire in Princeton Township.
On Sunday evening, Colonial Club picked up its smallest first-round class in at least a decade. With only 13 members joining, the club saw a drop of 74 from the previous year.
While many students scrounge and scramble for summer internships and jobs, this year’s eight Adel Mahmoud Global Health Scholars already have research grants lined up.
For students locked out of popular courses, their enrollment prospects are determined at the discretion of individual professors — one of the few areas of academic life not regulated by official University policy.
After a $500 million loss to its endowment, Williams College announced on Sunday that it will be ending its no-loan financial aid policy.
Mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Michael McAlpine and his team developed a new type of energy-generating device that can be powered by the human body. Their rubber films, made of silicone and a ceramic material known as lead zirconate titanate (PZT), capture mechanical energy from body movements and convert it to an electric current.
As the spring semester begins, several study abroad students — both those returning from fall semesters abroad and those going abroad in the spring — have said they had problems communicating with the Housing Department. Though these students said they received delayed or incomplete information regarding their new rooming assignments, administrators maintained that they communicate with students throughout the process.
Starting this June, some students may be able to legally smoke marijuana in New Jersey. The New Jersey Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act, which was passed by the state legislature and signed by then-governor Jon Corzine (D) in January, will make New Jersey the 14th state in the nation and only the fourth on the East Coast to legalize marijuana for people with certain medical conditions.
A group of University undergraduates have made use of a ubiquitous device — cell phones — to provide a solution to the challenge of obtaining accurate survey information in developing countries. Colin Ponce ’10, Peter Schulam ’11 and Woongcheol Yang ’10 developed a cell phone-based survey system in COS 597E: Advanced Topics in Computer Science: Civic Technologies.
The Office of the Dean of the College is creating a new director position which will focus exclusively on postgraduate fellowship advising, the University announced on Monday. The new director, who will start next fall, will take on the role currently held by Associate Dean of the College Frank Ordiway, who was dismissed from the University effective this June.
Over a four-day period last May, Carlos Roque ’10 trekked across campus from “Scully, to Bloomberg, then all the way to Holder,” collecting more than $15,000 worth of textbooks. Roque wasn’t hoping to start a library, but rather to make some cash.Roque, a buyer for third-party vendor Belltower Books, made $1,000 last spring by purchasing students’ used textbooks with money provided by Belltower and then shipping them to the distributor.
