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Column: The electromagnetic magic inside a prox

Column: The electromagnetic magic inside a prox

It’s 3:15 a.m. Friday morning, and you’ve just gotten back from the Street. Approaching your dorm, you pull out your prox and slap it across the sensor. A light turns green, and, with a click, the door unlocks. For a hazy moment, as the door shuts behind you, you wonder what kind of magic enabled your piece of orange plastic to open doors with a wave.

NEWS | 02/24/2010

Professors blog to explore ideas, reach wider audience

In 2007, when art and archaeology professor Chika Okeke-Agulu wanted to address controversy surrounding the 52nd Venice Biennale — a global exposition of contemporary art held in Venice, Italy — he took to the Internet.

NEWS | 02/24/2010

Alumni create web service to teach kids personal finance

Raising five children has taught Bill Dwight ’84 that lecturing kids about money is futile. So the computer science concentrator from Palo Alto, Calif. decided to devise a more interactive approach. He is now the CEO of FamZoo, a money management and education website that he launched as a subscription-based service last month after working on it for five years.

NEWS | 02/24/2010

Three win ReachOut 56-81 Fellowships

ReachOut 56-81 — a partnership between the classes of 1956 and 1981 that offers funding for graduating seniors to complete yearlong public service projects — has chosen three seniors for fellowships.

NEWS | 02/24/2010

Cleaning up a snowy mess

The patches of grass peaking through fields of white will disappear. The once-proud creatures that have nearly melted away will bulk up with an extra coat. The murmurings of hope for another day of canceled classes will amplify.

NEWS | 02/24/2010

FBI closes anthrax letters investigation

A Nassau Street mailbox has secured its place in the FBI’s books. Last Friday, the Amerithrax Task Force issued its final report on the 2001 anthrax scare last Friday, closing an investigation that lasted more than eight years. The task force, which included FBI special agents, U.S. postal inspectors and other law enforcement officials, alleged that Bruce Ivins committed the bioterrorist attacks.

NEWS | 02/23/2010

Dudeck discusses pickups at Borough Council meeting

The decrease in alcohol-related transports by Princeton Borough Police during pickups weekend this year featured prominently in Borough Police Chief Robert Dudeck’s monthly crime report, which he presented at the Borough Council meeting Tuesday evening.

NEWS | 02/23/2010

Former White House adviser will teach in 2011

Van Jones, a former adviser in the Obama Administration, has been appointed a visiting fellow in the Center for African American Studies and the Program in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy at the Wilson School, the University plans to announce today.

NEWS | 02/23/2010

Seven awarded Sloan grants

Seven University professors, representing disciplines ranging from economics to neuroscience to mathematics, have been awarded 2010 Sloan Research Fellowships. Princeton ties with Harvard for the school with the most fellowship winners this year.

NEWS | 02/23/2010

Peace in the nation's service

In 74 countries around the world, Peace Corps volunteers support local development while promoting America’s image. Helping to lead the charge is a pack of tigers.

NEWS | 02/23/2010

Free art facilities attract few in residential colleges

For students looking to explore their inner artists, several residential colleges offer free materials and facilities without the formality of an academic class.Tucked away in the basement of 1938 Hall is one of these spaces, the Wilson College ceramics studio. Though it was mostly empty during its open hours on Sunday, the walls were lined with half-finished pieces, from thrown pots to chess pieces.

NEWS | 02/22/2010

Women eating club presidents discuss leadership

Motivated by the recent attention highlighting the lack of female leadership on the Street, four former eating club presidents spoke on a panel on Friday about their experiences as women leaders in the male-dominated Street environment. Former female club presidents noted that their decisions to run for office were not motivated by existing gender stereotypes.

NEWS | 02/22/2010

McDonald '83 leaves job as vice president for development

Vice President for Development Brian McDonald ’83 will leave his post on March 1, midway through the University’s five-year Aspire fundraising campaign, the University announced Monday afternoon. He will be succeeded by Elizabeth Boluch Wood, who is currently assistant vice president of development for capital giving.

NEWS | 02/22/2010

RNC chair Michael Steele discusses bipartisanship

Michael Steele, chair of the Republican National Committee, spoke about the Republican Party and its relationship with black Americans in a conversation with Eddie Glaude, chair of the Center for African American Studies, on Monday.

NEWS | 02/22/2010

Tigers on the hunt

Only his close friends know that Marty Topol ’10 hunts.“I don’t walk around campus in camo stuff, but if you get to know me, and you’re a friend of mine, then you would know it is something I like to do,” he said.While student groups like the Princeton Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) criticize hunting on moral grounds, hunters argue that their pastime can be ethical in certain circumstances.

NEWS | 02/22/2010

Four graduate students awarded Jacobus Fellowship

The University awarded Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowships to graduate students Vaneet Aggarwal, Melinda Baldwin, Charles Conroy and Joseph Moshenska on Saturday.

NEWS | 02/21/2010

U. releases Kindle pilot data

The University’s e-reader pilot program, which experimented with the use of the Kindle DX in three courses last semester, reduced the amount of paper students printed for their respective classes by nearly 50 percent, the University plans to announce today.But in spite of the cost savings, some students and professors said they found the technology limiting.

NEWS | 02/21/2010

Back for the weekend, alums reminisce

More than 1,000 alumni flocked to campus with family and friends on Feb. 20 for Alumni Day, a fixture in the Princeton calendar since its inception in 1915.

NEWS | 02/21/2010

Student inventors compete for cash

Students submitted competing business plans to judges on Saturday at the annual TigerLaunch Business Competition, which pitted prospective proprietors head-to-head on the stage of McCosh 10. Students entered submissions in one of two categories, business entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship, each of which awarded a total of $10,000 to award winners.

NEWS | 02/21/2010

Petraeus GS '87, Leach '64 accept top honors

The University awarded U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus GS ’87 and former U.S. Rep. Jim Leach ’64 two of the highest alumni honors on Alumni Day on Saturday.Petraeus, who currently serves as commander of the U.S. Central Command, received the James Madison Medal, the top honor awarded annually to a graduate alumnus. Leach, the chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, received the Woodrow Wilson Award, the highest distinction for an undergraduate alumnus.

NEWS | 02/21/2010

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