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.
Last week, the U.S. Senate confirmed Harvard Law School dean Elena Kagan ’81 as the 46th solicitor general of the United States. She is the first woman to hold the position since it was created in 1870.
Edward “Ned” Kelly ’75 is slated to replace Chief Financial Officer of Citigroup, Gary Crittenden, who has been reassigned to manage the sale of $850 billion of the bank’s assets in the wake of last year’s $18.7 billion loss.
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.
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.
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.
To hire workers — both faculty and staff — administrators must not only assess the qualifications of applicants but also comply with a number of state and federal laws, as well as union contracts that govern the process through which the University chooses new employees.
“I remain very grateful for the opportunity to have studied at Princeton,” Petraeus said in an e-mail to the ‘Prince.’ “The prospect of returning to do the Baccalaureate address is a true thrill.”
Sixty-four percent of students said they would like to see changes made to the University’s calendar. Only 25 percent of the 1,504 respondents to the survey said they would like the calendar to remain unchanged.
The March 7 University-wide alert of an armed male on campus has provided a new opportunity for advocates of arming Public Safety officers to make their case.
Bernard Madoff, the man behind the multi-billion-dollar, decades-long Ponzi scheme, plead guilty Thursday to U.S. District Court Judge Denny Chin ’75.
For many black students, Princeton presented the first opportunity for them to interact with a large African-American community in an academic setting.
After being pushed from September 2008 to April 2009, the opening of Campus Club has been postponed again, this time to next fall. Officials anticipate a "soft opening" in late April and an official opening after the start of the next academic year.
The University offers an extensive repertoire of free programs for all campus faculty and staff, from job training to personal development to financial aid for continuing education. In light of the financial downturn, these programs may assume a greater significance for workers struggling to qualify for advancement in their professions and maintain their standard of living.
Wilson College Master Marguerite Browning will leave the University to become the vice president for student affairs and dean of students at Harvey Mudd College.
They cook your food, fix your computer and teach your courses. They manifest themselves in the forms used to approve your independent projects, the flowers that appear on an April afternoon and the vomit that disappears on Sunday morning.They are Princeton University employees.
Last month marked the 30th anniversary of Sally Frank '80's 12-year legal battle against the last all-male eating clubs on Prospect Avenue. A look back at that fight and the Street today.
Wilson school professor Cecilia Rouse has been named to President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisors. The U.S. Senate confirmed Rouse’s appointment on March 10. Rouse will be granted a two-year leave for government service by the University and will return to Princeton after her term is completed.
The Graduate School’s recent efforts to expand the enrollment of underrepresented-minority students are commendable, but it may be several years before these initiatives produce significant results, several graduate students said.
The University’s recently launched Transportation Demand Management (TDM) program will now provide monetary incentives for commuting faculty, staff and students to use mass transit.
