It remains unclear how the advising of applicants for postgraduate fellowships will be run after Associate Dean of the College Frank Ordiway ’81 leaves Princeton this June.
Students trying to choose courses for next semester have a new guide to turn to: the recently launched Princeton CourseRank website, princeton.courserank.com.
The percentage of tenured and tenure-track professors at the University has been decreasing slowly over the past decade, according to data from the Department of Education (DOE) provided by the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). Dean of the Faculty David Dobkin said in an e-mail, however, that data maintained by the University indicate different trends.
Gen. David Petraeus GS ’85 and former Iowa congressman Jim Leach ’64 will be honored on Alumni Day with the James Madison Medal and Woodrow Wilson Award, respectively.
While most students were relaxing over winter break, Suleika Jaouad ’10 was thousands of miles from her home in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., poised to enter a war zone.
Five juniors have been awarded Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative (SINSI) fellowships by the Wilson School.
Classics professor Harriet Flower has been appointed to succeed Antoine Kahn GS ’75 as master of Mathey College, and chemistry professor Michael Hecht will succeed Christian Wildberg as master of Forbes College. Flower and Hecht begin four-year terms at their respective colleges on July 1.
Students using the University’s wireless network should notice faster and more reliable internet performance on campus.
The USG will emphasize student participation and communication under the leadership of Michael Yaroshefsky ’12, who begins his term as USG president Feb. 1 and succeeds current president Connor Diemand-Yauman ’10.
Appiah, who opened the New Year’s Eve event, is the president of PEN American Center, a New York-based literary association devoted to defending freedom of expression.
The New Jersey Treasury Department’s decision to freeze committed funding to arts organizations could result in losses of as much as $500,000 for McCarter Theatre and threaten the successful execution of productions scheduled for its next season.
Two degrees may be all that distinguish a thriving coastal city from a deluged ghost town, according to a study led by University researchers that was the basis for an article in Wednesday’s issue of Nature.
While Princeton students were feasting on Thanksgiving turkey or taking advantage of Black Friday sales, Suraiya Baluch was having a remarkably different experience.
UHS has vaccinated 2,271 students, faculty, staff and dependents against the H1N1 flu during November and December.
Try to imagine the University without one of its most controversial and distinctive institutions — one that has endured for more than a century, even in the face of sharp criticism for its divisiveness and exclusivity.
Michael Yaroshefsky '12 narrowly won the runoff for USG president with 51.3 percent of the vote, defeating Jack Altman '11 by 41 votes.
Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel defended the grade deflation policy at a debate Wednesday evening hosted by the Whig-Cliosophic Society.
Yale has admitted 730 of the 5,261 applicants in its single-choice early action pool, the university announced on Tuesday. The acceptance rate for this applicant pool, 13.9 percent, is slightly larger than the rate from last year, 13.4 percent. Yale also received 5 percent fewer early applications this year than it did last year.
Civically engaged students interviewed for this article described Princeton as a campus where students organize lecture series and film screenings rather than protests and rallies.
Abiodun Azeez ’12 knew even before she arrived on campus last fall that she didn’t want to join an eating club. “I don’t think eating clubs are the place for me,” she said in an e-mail. “I guess part of it had to do with what I’d read about eating clubs — elitism, rich white kids —and I’m not elite, rich, or white.”
