Developmental economist and Columbia University professor Jeffrey Sachs received the American Whig-Cliosophic Society’s James Madison Award for Distinguished Public Service on Tuesday evening in McCosh 50 before a crowd of more than 100 people.
As the University prepares for a projected 30 percent decrease in the value of its endowment, the Office of Admission is reassessing its travel funds while planning to cut 8 percent of its budget for the next fiscal year and another 8 percent the following year, Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye said in an interview.
Shannon Brink ’09 will receive the 2009 International Service Award from the Davis International Center today. The annual prize awards a student or student group for humanitarian work of a cross-cultural nature.
Dominick Pugliese will serve as Class of 2012 vice president next year after winning this week’s runoff against John Monagle with 315 votes out of the 508 votes cast.
The University is planning to admit students from its waitlist to fill the incoming Class of 2013, Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye said at a meeting of the Council of the Princeton University Community on Monday.
Stan Allen GS ’88, the dean of the architecture school, will formally receive an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters at the institution’s annual ceremony in New York on May 20. Allen, who is one of two architects to be honored, won because his designs highlight a compelling personal direction, according to a University statement. The two winners’ models and renderings will be on display in an exhibit at the Audubon Terrace in New York from May 21 to June 14.
For decades, it has been the predominant theory among scientists that dinosaurs began to die off when an asteroid collided with the Earth 65 million years ago. But a new study by geosciences professor Gerta Keller suggests that the mass extinction of life on Earth actually occurred 300,000 years after the collision and was likely due to volcanic activity in modern-day India.
Michael Oren GS ’86 has been selected by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to serve as Israel’s ambassador to the United States.
USG president Connor Diemand-Yauman ’10 announced last week that, based on the results of a referendum he proposed, funds from the fall USG social budget will be donated to the Pace Center. But the results have raised questions about the method used to count votes, as the USG constitution does not explictly outline how voting on referenda should be conducted.
The University will not participate in the U.S. Department of Veteran’s Affairs’ (VA) new Yellow Ribbon Program to partially waive tuition for veterans.
Judge Denny Chin ’75 ruled last week to delay a final hearing for Google and to allow authors four more months to choose whether they will participate in a settlement concerning the company’s online Google Book Search service.
Princeton’s debate team recently ended yet another successful season with a slew of top honors.Most notably, the team’s president emeritus Dan Rauch ’10 and current president Zayn Siddique ’11 won the American Parliamentary Debate Association’s (APDA) Team of the Year Award, the APDA’s highest honor.
The Graduate School admitted 10.5 percent of applicants to master’s and doctoral programs for the 2009-10 academic year, down from 13 percent last year.
Charter Club’s trial for charges of serving alcohol to minors and maintaining a nuisance resumed at 9 a.m. Thursday morning in Princeton Borough Municipal Court following a nine-day break. No ruling was reached, and the trial is scheduled to continue May 11.
The vast majority of prefrosh interviewed said the University’s grading policy is not a key factor in their consideration of whether to accept Princeton’s offer of admission. Some said they had never heard of the policy, but of the 22 who had, only two said it was a major deterrent, and they both added that they were set on going to graduate school.
Students voted to reallocate the USG social budget and $20,000 from the $27,000 USG Senate Pilot Projects budget to student-initiated service projects. The move will cancel the USG’s Lawnparties concert next fall and donate roughly $100,000 to the Pace Center.
This discrepancy between the number of students who said they cheated on in-class exams and the number who said they cheated on take-home assignments reflects the dramatic distinction at Princeton between these two types of academic work — a distinction which is highlighted by the jurisdictional divide between the University’s Honor Committee and its Committee on Discipline.
Thirteen days after University Health Services (UHS) alerted the student body to four cases of pertussis, eight more cases have been confirmed on campus, University spokeswoman Cass Cliatt ’96 said.
Three Princetonians are among President Obama’s picks for the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). Eric Lander ’78, director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Eric Schmidt ’76, chairman and chief executive of Google, and Wilson School professor Christopher Chyba, have all been appointed to serve on the council.
U.S. News & World Report released its 2010 graduate school rankings last week, placing the University first for its programs in politics, economics, history and mathematics.
