WPRB News sits down with the commander of United States Central Command General David Petraeus GS '85 for a twenty-minute conversation about military issues in the Middle East, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, drones and cybersecurity.
Google has just released a service poised to challenge Facebook and Twitter’s supremacy over social media. It opens in Gmail, integrates directly with your contacts and launches you into a Google-sponsored world of social media feeds, followers and comments. It’s a fusion of the Twitterverse and Facebook’s newsfeed. And yet, in some fundamental ways, it’s totally new and different.
Nestled away on the University’s Forrestal Campus, dozens of the world’s top geoscientists are revolutionizing our understanding of global climate change. Though unknown to most Princetonians, researchers at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) produce mathematical models that track atmospheric, oceanic and climate patterns, providing vital information for scientists and policymakers.
President Tilghman said in an interview with The Daily Princetonian on Monday that she personally supports the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act, proposed legislation that would enable children of illegal immigrants to become permanent residents upon receiving a bachelor’s degree or completing two years of military service.
Since December, China has banned roughly 16,000 websites based on the claim that they were of pornographic nature, according to the Shanghai Daily and official reports, as part of an effort to impose more stringent restrictions on online content.
As part of an effort to reach out to urban youth, undergraduates will travel to Trenton Central High School every other week to teach high school students about competitive debate. A subsidiary of the Whig-Cliosophic Society, the Princeton Trenton Debate Partnership — led by Rush Doshi ’11 — will train students to debate topics that have been previously discussed at national debate competitions, such as government policies and moral questions.
At Princeton, the saying is revised, as if by a natural translation, and gains unlikely import: You are not what, but where you eat.
Four students traveling to South Padre Island, Texas, over winter break is nothing unusual. But instead of catching some sun, Haonan Zhou ’13, Atanas Petkov ’12, Jack Hutton ’13 and Daniel Minkin ’12 competed in the Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship.
Roughly 25 Native American undergraduates are currently enrolled at Princeton, according to a Univesity estimate. Because of its small size and the mixed ethnicities of Native American students, the Native American community on campus has had limited visibility in recent years, several Native American students said.
Princeton students fall victim to the “stereotype threat,” according to a study led by Adam Alter GS ’09. The “stereotype threat” is the phenomenon in which reminding people of negative stereotypes associated with their group identity can encourage the fulfillment of those stereotypes.
Just four months after the Office of Information Technology (OIT) implemented printing quotas, printing has decreased by roughly 13 percent, saving the University roughly $27,000, OIT senior manager Leila Shahbender said.
An admission rate less than 10 percent may seem low to applicants for undergraduate degrees, but it’s safety-school territority compared to the hurdle that students must overcome to study at Princeton as exchange students. Only 17 visiting students entered the University this year, all admitted through exchange programs between Princeton and their home schools.
Allan Kornblum GS ’73, who was director of Public Safety from 1969 to 1975, died of cancer at age 71 last Friday at the University of Florida Shands Cancer Center in Gainesville, Fla.
A recent international survey of academics confirmed the love-hate relationship between universities and high-profile annual rankings like those issued by U.S. News & World Report. Perhaps surprisingly, the survey also found that U.S. News’ rankings, which are by far the most well-known in the United States, command relatively little respect abroad.
Rep. Robert Andrews (D-N.J.) gave a talk on “Healthcare Reform and the State of the Economy” at the Wilson School on Monday afternoon. He discussed the stress on the current healthcare system and the need for healthcare reform.
Colleges and universities across the country reacted positively this month to President Obama’s proposed expansion of the Pell Grant program, which provides the most common form of federal financial aid for low-income college students.
Though also a gateway into the education field, the University’s Program in Teacher Preparation attracts significantly less attention from undergraduates than Teach for America (TFA).
Do college students have curfews?” a curious sixth-grader asked a panel of five Princeton undergraduates Friday morning. The answer, “no,” came as a surprise to the middle schooler. The panel discussion was part of several activities led by Students for Education Reform (SFER), a group of undergraduates that volunteered on a campus expedition which brought roughly 25 middle-school students from Global Neighborhood Secondary School (GNSS), in New York City’s East Harlem neighborhoods to campus.
Only two years after following in Princeton’s footsteps by instituting a no-loan financial-aid policy, Dartmouth announced last week that it will be reinstituting loans in the financial-aid packages of families with incomes higher than $75,000, starting with the Class of 2015.
George Boxer ’10, David Karp ’10 and Scott Arcenas ’09 won scholarships to study at Cambridge University this fall, the University announced on Friday.
