The University will lay off 43 employees across various offices and job levels and involuntarily reduce the hours of 18 other employees.
The 2009 Trojan Sexual Health Report Card, released earlier this week, ranked the University 61st out of the 141 colleges and universities assessed nationwide, a steep drop from the University’s 29th-place ranking in 2008. The fourth annual report card evaluates access to sexual health resources and information on the campuses of major NCAA colleges and universities.
The Pace Center has finalized plans for distributing an estimated $90,000 in USG funds, nearly half of which will be spent on a week-long service initiative in Trenton for between 150 and 200 students over Intersession, the center announced in a statement on Thursday.
A member of the Class of 2013 is suing the University for refusing to grant her extended time on examinations.
The University expects to receive a shipment of the H1N1 vaccine next week and will begin to distribute the vaccine to students shortly after, the University announced Thursday afternoon in an e-mail to the campus community. University Health Services will distribute the vaccine as doses are received from the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services throughout the fall and winter.
Most graduates return to campus only occasionally, for Reunions or Homecoming. But for a small number of alumni who also choose to pursue graduate degrees at the University, Commencement is not the end of their academic pursuits at Princeton.
The University made a formal agreement with West Windsor Township to make a Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILOT), under which the University will pay the Township $50,000 instead of paying taxes on land the University owns in the Township.
Since the 2008 USG constitutional amendment instituting the independent position of senior elections manager, three students have filled the post. Each has resigned before the end of his or her term, raising concerns about the ability of the USG to manage elections.
The separate governing bodies representing Princeton Borough and Princeton Township have formally agreed to explore the possibility of merging or sharing some of their overlapping services and resources, The Times of Trenton reported on Tuesday.
Albert Einstein’s wrinkled visage is again visible in Princeton. Hidden for years in a secret vault, a set of 14 black-and-white photographs of the incomparable scientist remained unknown and unseen — until archivists at the Institute for Advanced Study discovered them this past summer.
“It’s like another class,” Kathleen Li ’10 said of the time commitment associated with interviewing for software engineering positions. For the past several weeks, the computer science major has had seven to eight interviews per week that “typically range from half an hour to one hour.”
While many American high school seniors were sending in their college applications, Ori Daniel ’12 was preparing to don a uniform for a very different post-high school experience. Daniel, like most other Israelis his age, completed high school and then entered compulsory military service.
Princeton is the best place to work in academia in the United States, according to rankings by Scientist magazine readers released Tuesday. The survey, the full results of which will be published in the November issue of the magazine, contained separate rankings for U.S. academic institutions and international academic institutions.
The USG is in disussions with the Committee on the Course of Study to revise the pass/D/fail policy, Registrar Polly Griffin said in an e-mail to The Daily Princetonian on Monday.
In a move that will help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the University has added 10 new fuel-efficient TigerTransit vehicles to its fleet, the University announced in a press release on Tuesday. Travel services have been extended on certain lines to include new stops and new hours of operation.
Alumni may donate money to highly selective universities in hopes of improving their children’s chances of admission, according to a study by economics professor Harvey Rosen and Texas A&M economics professor Jonathan Meer. Rosen and Meer have written a series of papers on college donation habits based on the frequency and quantity of tens of thousands of alumni gifts between 1983 and 2007 at an unidentified selective private university they called “Anon U.”
Early Monday morning, Penn students turned on Princeton to forge an alliance with Yale, quartermaster general Dan Humphrey ’12 said in an e-mail to The Daily Princetonian.The move is part of an online battle, waged among the eight Ivy League schools over their virtual campuses as part of gocrosscampus.com, an internet strategy website that was founded two years ago.
When the renovated Wu and Wilcox dining halls opened this fall, the most noticeable changes may have been the updated decor and new dining options. But while there were lots of new elements to the renovated dining halls, there was also something missing: trays.
Princeton will be one of 45 universities participating in an effort sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies to give new humanities Ph.D.s a much-needed boost in their search for employment. This program will offer 50 two-year fellowships around the country that would guarantee $50,000 to finalists, along with an annual $5,000 research or travel allowance, health insurance and a one-time $1,500 moving allowance.
Current climate legislation laws are based on incomplete emission assessments, according to a study by 13 authors, including two Princeton professors, that was published in the journal Science on Oct. 23.
