Princeton dropped to second place after Harvard in U.S. News & World Report’s ranking of America’s best colleges and universities, according to an Associated Press story posted around 4 p.m. on Aug. 16 at whiznews.com.
The Senate voted 63-37 to confirm Solicitor General Elena Kagan ’81 as the next Supreme Court justice, a historic move that marks the first time three women will serve simultaneously on the nation’s highest court.
University researchers provided inadequate amounts of water to lab primates and violated or failed to document compliance with pre-approved protocol, according to findings from a routine inspection of animal research facilities conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture at the University in late June.
Though the economy is still reeling after a few rough years, the 2009-10 Annual Giving campaign raised $48,582,819, the third highest total since its establishment in 1940. Surpassing this year’s initial goal of $46 million, the total was almost $4 million more than the $44.6 million raised during last year’s campaign. Undergraduate alumni participation also exceeded the 60 percent mark for the first time in a decade, with 60.8 percent of alumni making a donation.
“I’ll read a poem over and over,” W.S. Merwin ’48 said in an interview with The Daily Princetonian. “If you love it, read it everyday. It gets deeper. Poetry should wake up and touch parts of you that you never knew were there.” Merwin, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, was named the nation’s 17th poet laureate on July 1.
The nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan ’81 to the Supreme Court was endorsed by the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday in a 13-6 vote that went mostly along party lines.
Cottage Club's nine-year battle for tax-exempt status as a historical landmark received another setback this summer when the appellate division of the New Jersey Superior Court upheld a denial by state officials of the club's request to be exempted from paying local property taxes.
Gen. David Petraeus GS ’87, head of the U.S. Central Command, will replace Gen. Stanley McChrystal as the leader of coalition forces in Afghanistan, President Barack Obama announced June 23.
Despite threats of heavy rainfall, students gathered with their family and friends under the historic green elms in front of Nassau Hall to celebrate the University’s 263rd Commencement on Tuesday morning.The ceremony honored 1,175 bachelor’s degree recipients — 1,166 from the graduating Class of 2010 and nine undergraduates from previous classes — and 804 recipients of graduate degrees. Degree candidates were joined by roughly 7,500 family members and friends.
John Lewis, former dean of the Wilson School and economic adviser to three U.S. presidents, died of natural causes May 19 in Montgomery, N.J. He was 89.
Charlie Gibson ’65, former anchor of ABC’s “World News,” did not attend his own Class Day 45 years ago. He didn’t want his four years at the University to end, he explained during his Class Day speech Monday morning. But, Gibson assured the Class of 2010 that students remain connected to the University, even after graduation.
At the Class Day ceremony held on Cannon Green on Monday morning, members of the Class of 2010 were acknowledged for their service, leadership and athletic achievements at the University.
Amazon.com founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos ’86 opened the University’s 263rd Baccalaureate address with a story from his childhood. After watching a public service announcement about the health effects of smoking, he calculated that his grandmother’s addiction would likely take nine years out of her life. But rather than praising him for his mathematical prowess, his grandmother burst into tears.
Workers reported a leak of acidic waste water at the University’s cogeneration plant on Sunday morning. The plant, which generates electricity and heat for the campus, was shut down and the hot water supply to dormitories was disrupted from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday.
Josh Grehan ’10 was elected Class of 2010 Young Alumni Trustee, Anne Sherrerd GS ’87, president of the Alumni Association, announced at an annual meeting of the Alumni Council on Friday.
It wasn’t until 1969 that the University first began admitting women — and four decades later, members of the graduating classes from the early 1970s have looked back on their undergraduate years and said that, while the transition was challenging, they are proud to be members of the first classes that graduated following the arrival of women on campus.
The yield for the Class of 2014 stood at 56.9 percent as of Wednesday. The University has accepted 137 of the 1,415 students it placed on the waitlist, yielding a current 8.71 percent overall acceptance rate. Of the students admitted from the waitlist, 108 have accepted the offer.
The Annual Giving campaign has raised nearly $32 million with 44 percent alumni participation as of this week — falling short of its goal of $46 million and 60 percent participation — but is on track to meet its target, those involved in the campaign said, emphasizing that contributions made by alumni during Reunions weekend will likely add substantially to the fundraising totals.In the last four years, alumni made an average of 8,500 gifts totaling roughly $13 million each June, William Hardt ’63, assistant vice president of development for Annual Giving, said in an e-mail.
The timeworn volumes of The Daily Princetonian in the basement of Mudd Manuscript Library will soon be excused from further wear and tear as the Larry DuPraz Daily Princetonian Digitization Project launches the first available online index of ‘Prince’ archives at the newspaper’s annual Reunions barbecue on Saturday.The ‘Prince’ Board of Trustees partnered with Mudd Library to digitize the archives, which date back to the paper’s founding in 1876 and consist of roughly 85,000 pages.
Journalist Charlie Gibson ’65, former anchor of ABC’s “World News,” will deliver this year’s Class Day address. Rebecca Foresman ’10 and Zach Zimmerman ’10 will also address their class after being selected from a pool of 11 finalists.
