The Affordable Birth Control Act provides incentive for pharmaceutical companies to discount birth control rates for college health clinics. It remains unclear how the act will impact the University.
Solo cups. Beirut tables. Lights. Camera. Action! The Health Promotion and Wellness Services division of University Health Services (UHS) is holding a contest for original student videos that depict the social scene at Princeton and dispel myths about high-risk drinking on campus.
Officials from Princeton Borough and Princeton Township slashed the local agency budgets by more than $138,000 in a joint meeting of their governing bodies Tuesday evening.
The University has made 200 Islamic manuscripts available online as part of a new digital archive.
Three princeton professors and a postdoctoral fellow were awarded 2009 Sloan Research Fellowships, the University announced Tuesday.
Three juniors were selected by the Lewis Center for the Arts to receive the 2009 Alex Adam ’07 Award on Tuesday. The award, established in Adam’s memory by his family, provides up to $7,000 to students planning to pursue a summer project that will lead to the creation of a work of art.
Nearly five years after faculty approved a plan to curb grade inflation at Princeton, news of the University’s policy has yet to reach some employers and graduate school admission offices. “I honestly have to say I was totally unaware of that policy,” said Jeffrey Rabek GS ’76, assistant dean for student affairs and admissions at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB).
Students eating at the Forbes dining hall last night experimented with trayless dining, a system that the environmental group Greening Princeton says could save both energy and water. In conjunction with Dining Services, the college decided to forego the use of trays at dinner, marking the first trial run of an initiative aimed at reducing food and water waste.
In just a few years, people may be able to get their complete genetic codes as well as medical treatments tailored specifically to their needs for only $100 — or so promises an up-and-coming technology developed by Princeton faculty and researchers.
By the end of freshman year, Maria ’11 was living off nothing but vegetables and no-calorie hot beverages from the Rocky-Mathey dining hall.
Melanie Kirkpatrick ’73, a deputy editor of The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page, was found in contempt of court by Singapore High Court Justice Tay Yong Kwang on March 19.
John Forbes Nash GS ’50, a Nobel laureate and subject of the 2001 film “A Beautiful Mind,” is looking to shake things up in another field: mental health care. The prominent mathematician and his wife Alicia are trying to use his famous story to advocate for better mental health care in New Jersey and the protection of existing programs whose funding is threatened by the economic downturn.
Denny Chin '75, a judge for the Southern District of New York, is currently adjudicating the trial of Bernard Madoff, who plead guilty on March 12 to charges stemming from his operation of a $65 billion decades-long Ponzi scheme.
On top of managing their academic workloads, a number of University students also volunteer as EMTs, taking on tremendous responsibility while benefiting from an invaluable experience, students said.
While many seniors struggle to find employment in these troubled economic times, international students interested in finance may be forced to alter their career plans entirely, as new regulations prohibit some financial institutions from hiring foreign workers.
Students registered in Princeton Borough who were hoping to be able to vote on campus will have to wait at least another year to cast their ballots on University grounds. A student initiative launched last fall proposed moving the polling place for Borough District 1 to the Frist Campus Center from its current location in Trinity Church. But Frist cannot meet the Borough Council’s parking requirements for a polling place, students and administrators involved said.
Xiaohang Quan ’09 was working on her senior thesis when she found a miscalculation in a detector attached to the world’s largest particle accelerator.
This year, Princeton Project 55, an organization that matches recent Princeton graduates with year-long fellowships in nonprofits, saw a drop of more than 50 percent in the number of partner organizations that offer placements and a 24 percent increase in fellowship applications.
After 31 years of covering everything from the Soviet Union to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and drinking martinis with a former president, Jim Kelly ’76 announced on March 13 that he will step down from his post as managing editor of Time magazine on April 1.
Mendy Fisch ’11, a self-proclaimed “townie,” is tossing his hat into the ring as a candidate for Borough Council in the Democratic primary on June 2.
