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Futurity.org addresses decline in university research coverage

Futurity.org addresses decline in university research coverage

In early 2009, University Vice President and Secretary Bob Durkee ’69 met with communications representatives from a handful of universities in Washington, D.C. The meeting’s purpose was to discuss the sharp decline in coverage of University-based research following steep newsroom cutbacks in science and research reporting.

NEWS | 03/02/2010

News & Notes: Penn recruits gay students

Penn plans to launch a new recruitment effort focusing on gay and lesbian applicants, according to a report in The Huffington Post. In doing so, Penn hopes to make the school appear more welcoming to LGBT students.

NEWS | 03/02/2010

Chile earthquake affects students

For Princeton students with close connections to those affected, the aftershocks of the recent earthquake in Chile continue days later.

NEWS | 03/02/2010

News & Notes: Caro ’57 wins National Humanities Medal

On Thursday, Feb. 25, President Obama presented Robert Caro ’57, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and biographer, with a 2009 National Humanities Medal. Caro was awarded the medal “for capturing the subtle machinations of political influence in America,” according to a statement issued by the National Endowment of the Humanities.

NEWS | 03/02/2010

$10,000 worth of belongings stolen from Pyne Hall

Between 10 a.m. and 1:08 p.m., someone went into a student’s unlocked room in Pyne Hall and stole two computers, an “expensive” watch and gaming equipment, Public Safety Deputy Director Charles Davall said Wednesday afternoon.

NEWS | 03/02/2010

Teenagers arrested for thefts

Borough Police charged four local teenagers last week in the theft of students’ laptops and iPods from Tiger Inn, Terrace Club and Frist Campus Center.

NEWS | 03/02/2010

Retirement incentive program offers bonus to faculty

Dean of the Faculty David Dobkin outlined a new retirement incentive program at the monthly faculty meeting on Monday afternoon. The program will offer professors a bonus equal to at least one-and-a-half times their annual salary if they agree to transition to half-time teaching upon reaching age 65 and retire completely by age 68.

NEWS | 03/01/2010

Cross-country cross-examination

Jake Nebel ’13 and David Chen ’13 have fairly typical part-time jobs for college students, but they don’t have typical commutes. Driving to weekend tournaments — like most assistant high school debate coaches — would be pretty difficult, considering that Nebel coaches for The Greenhill School in Dallas, Texas, and Chen works for Palos Verdes High School near Los Angeles.

NEWS | 03/01/2010

Physics quandary breakthrough, 80 years later

In a breakthrough discovery, mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Emily Carter and physics graduate student Chen Huang have solved an 80-year-old physics problem.

NEWS | 03/01/2010

Resilient Youth Foundation to hold benefit concert at Cloister

When a friend of Josh Miller ’12 was killed in a drive-by shooting his sophomore year of high school, Miller knew he wanted to do something — but he had no clue that the project would carry on into his years at Princeton.

NEWS | 03/01/2010

USG funds group's porn screening and discussion

The student group Let’s Talk Sex (LeTS) plans to hold an event that will include screening clips from pornographic films and a discussion with a porn industry director or actor sometime this semester, LeTS president Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux ’11 said.

NEWS | 03/01/2010

NJ Transit price hikes proposed for May

Students and faculty who rely on the Dinky and New Jersey Transit buses may face fare increases of up to 30 percent by May, NJ Transit Executive Director James Weinstein said on Feb. 18, Bloomberg News reported. To minimize the fare increase, NJ Transit is considering eliminating some bus and rail routes and making staff and salary reductions, Weinstein added.

NEWS | 02/28/2010

Princeton will host Ivy Council meeting in fall

Roughly 20 Princeton students traveled to Yale last weekend for the Ivy Council’s tenth annual Ivy Leadership Summit, “Fearless Leadership in the 21st Century,” to participate in panels, workshops and networking events. At the conference, the Ivy Council announced that Princeton will host next year’s summit, council attendee Stephen Stolzenberg ’13 said at Sunday night’s USG meeting.

NEWS | 02/28/2010

USG discusses environmental and service initiatives, grading policy at Senate meeting

On Sunday, The USG released the results of its online long-term priorities survey — which students could answer from Feb. 16 to 19. Also on Sunday, USG officials discussed environmental protection and community service at their weekly Senate meeting.

NEWS | 02/28/2010

Cotsen Children's Library gives local kids glimpse of India

Traveling to India usually involves a long plane ride and maybe even a rickshaw. But for two hours on Saturday, local children journeyed to the subcontinent without leaving Princeton.

NEWS | 02/28/2010

Building bridges abroad

While many students who were admitted to the University last spring are buried in books, Andrew Finkelstein ’14 is building a cow shelter in India.Finkelstein is one of 20 participants in the University’s pilot Bridge Year Program, which began in August 2009.

NEWS | 02/25/2010

Brown proposes engineering school

Brown is on the verge of establishing a school of engineering. Provost David Kertzer approved the school at a meeting in early February, The Brown Daily Herald reported on Wednesday. Faculty members will vote on the proposal in April, and the Corporation of Brown University will make the final decision in May.

NEWS | 02/25/2010

After four months, Taproom Cafe sees little traffic

Though it offers free coffee and has been open since October, the Taproom Cafe is still struggling to lure students into its nook in the Campus Club basement.

NEWS | 02/25/2010

Yale to raise fees

Yale will increase undergraduate tuition and room and board fees by 4.8 percent, from $47,500 for the current academic year to $49,800 for 2010-11, The Yale Daily News reported.

NEWS | 02/25/2010

New medical schools to give applicants more options

As they advance through the pre-med path — completing rigorous science courses, volunteering at hospitals, maintaining GPAs and, of course, taking the MCATs — students know that their acceptance into medical school is uncertain. The 93 percent acceptance rate among applicants at the University is among the best in the country, but one in 15 applicants still ends up with a stack of rejection letters.

NEWS | 02/25/2010

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