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Bernanke defends field of economics

Bernanke defends field of economics

Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve and former chair of the University’s economics department, defended his home discipline in a high-profile speech on Friday in which he argued that the field of economic research remains valid despite the widespread criticism it has faced since the global financial crisis began in 2008.

NEWS | 09/26/2010

Charter Club's new sign-in system attracts widespread support

Charter Club’s new weighted sign-in policy has garnered generally positive reactions from the campus community in the week since it was announced in The Daily Princetonian. But questions remain about how the logistical details of the system, which have yet to be finalized, will align with Charter’s goals.

NEWS | 09/26/2010

Sinn Fein president: Dialogue is key

Thirty years ago, arguments for a nonviolent end to the conflict in Northern Ireland might have been labeled naive. But now, when Gerry Adams, one of the key architects of the Northern Ireland peace process, says that “no conflict is intractable,” his words carry weight.

NEWS | 09/26/2010

Cause of wireless outage still unknown

The Office of Information Technology has not yet determined what caused Wednesday's unprecedented wireless network outage, which knocked out wireless Internet service Wednesday afternoon and evening, according to Steven Sather, associate chief information officer and director of support service for OIT.

NEWS | 09/23/2010

Bendheim Center will celebrate 10th anniversary

A decade ago, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke helped start the Bendheim Center for Finance on campus. He will return to Princeton on Friday to commemorate the center’s 10th anniversary.

NEWS | 09/23/2010

Kornfeld Simpson ’14 wins $25K award

As the calendar turns to October, seniors in the Engineering School will be finalizing plans for independent research projects. Meanwhile, Anna Kornfeld Simpson ’14 will be cashing a $25,000 check from the Davidson Institute for prize-winning research she completed before she had even applied to Princeton.

NEWS | 09/23/2010

University begins search for new dean

As the 24-year tenure of Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel comes to an end, the search has begun for her successor. University Provost Christopher Eisgruber ’83 is heading a search committee that will offer recommendations on candidates to President Shirley Tilghman. Tilghman will then select a candidate to present to the University’s Board of Trustees.

NEWS | 09/23/2010

Life on the Hill: Dogs, bills and baseball

While interning with Rep. Jared Polis ’96 this summer, Samson Schatz ’13 wrote constituent letters, researched bills — and walked a dog. The dog, Gia, who Schatz described as “really cute,” belonged to the Colorado Democrat, one of two congressmen that Schatz worked for this summer.

NEWS | 09/23/2010

Students design smartphone applications for college campuses

The latest word on parties, study breaks and impromptu campus events will soon be at students’ fingertips — literally. This is the promise of two new smartphone applications, Fountainhop and Scoop, being launched by University students.

NEWS | 09/23/2010

A first-hand look at subcontinental poverty

After weeks of teaching children at an orphanage in India, Ben Cogan ’12 turned to his students for a lesson. He asked them how to say “nice to meet you” in Hindi. They readily obliged with a phrase that turned out to be “an incredibly insulting curse word.”

NEWS | 09/22/2010

Pace Center partners with PICS summer internship program

The Class of 1969 Community Service Fund, which supports the Princeton Internships in Civic Service program, will partner with the Pace Center for Civic Values to increase the PICS program’s accessibility and meet the steadily increasing demand for the program’s internships.

NEWS | 09/22/2010

A new option for the 21-plus crowd

Princeton residents are accustomed to the high-end boutiques that line the streets of town, giving it its trademark upscale image. But the owners of the Princeton Sports Bar & Grill, a newly opened restaurant on Nassau Street, aim to chip away at that reputation.

NEWS | 09/22/2010

Outage hits University wireless network

The University faced an unscheduled wireless network outage on Wednesday afternoon that lasted at least seven hours, forcing students to rely upon Ethernet cables to connect to the Internet.

NEWS | 09/22/2010

At the top of the world: Folkerts ’11 summits Mount Everest

On her final ascent through the Khumbu Icefall, Vanessa Folkerts ’11 remembers the stillness being broken by a growing rumble. A red helicopter zoomed past on its way to a Himalayan peak, only to re-appear with a long rope swinging a loaded body bag.

NEWS | 09/22/2010

Local politician Diane Weeks ’75 passes away at 57

Diane Kathryn Weeks ’75, an attorney from nearby Mendham known for her civic engagement and love for the University, passed away Sept. 6. She was 57 years old.

NEWS | 09/21/2010

Study: $75K is upper limit to link between money, happiness

Can money buy happiness? Two prominent scholars at the Wilson School say “no.” Psychology professor emeritus Daniel Kahneman, who won the Nobel Prize in economics in 2002, and Wilson School professor Angus Deaton, a past president of the American Economic Association, collaborated on a study of this classic question using survey data from roughly 450,000 respondents on income and measures of happiness.

NEWS | 09/21/2010

Paid to play: Internships at Google and Microsoft

At many office buildings, mid-afternoon lethargy is fought with trips from the cubicle to the coffee maker. At Google, Joshua Newman ’11 learned, the battle is waged with Nerf guns.

NEWS | 09/21/2010

Mercer County schools receive $12M in federal funding

The New Jersey Department of Education announced on Monday its plans for allocating $268 million in federal education funds to school districts across the state, including $12 million for those in Mercer County.

NEWS | 09/21/2010

A business in biking

When Nick Frey ’09 began building a bamboo bicycle for a group project in 2008, the professional cyclist thought he was channeling his passion into schoolwork. He didn’t know it at the time, but he was also launching a second career as a bicycle designer.

NEWS | 09/21/2010

White House economic adviser Larry Summers will return to Harvard

White House economic adviser Larry Summers is set to depart the Obama administration and return to a professorship at Harvard at the end of the year, the White House announced Tuesday.

NEWS | 09/21/2010

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