The quest for clues about how life-bearing worlds would look from afar has led astrophysics professor Edwin Turner from the far side of the moon to Australia, all in an effort to observe our planet’s reflection on the moon.
Syed Shimail Reza ’11 wanted to spend time away from the University studying abroad. But then he realized he couldn’t if he was going to complete the requisite courses for economics concentrators. Reza faced a common obstacle for students who hope to study abroad: satisfying departmental requirements while taking classes at foreign universities.
In fall 2009 the Princeton University Language Project (PULP) will expand to 25 college campuses across the country, just four years after Eugene Yi ’08 founded the program.
Several Princeton undergraduates currently studying abroad in France are experiencing a new kind of education, as the country enters the 10th week of strikes demanding the withdrawal of educational reforms.
Princeton Borough will present its case against Charter Club in a trial scheduled for April 20. Last fall, the Borough charged the club with two counts of serving alcohol to minors and two counts of maintaining a nuisance. The charges resulted from two separate incidents during the 2007-08 academic year.
Academic departments will cut back on guest speakers, class trips and catered parties in light of Monday's announcement that their budgets will be cut, as administrators work to reduce the 2010 fiscal year budget by $88 million and the next year’s budget by another $82 million. Departments will see an 8 percent decrease in restricted endowment incomes and a 5 percent cut in their non-personnel administrative budgets in each of the next two fiscal years.
As the economic climate worsens, representatives from several eating clubs said their plans for clubhouse renovation and expansion are being threatened. Some clubs, including Colonial Club, Tiger Inn and Cap & Gown Club, are struggling to fund their clubhouse improvement plans in the face of slowing alumni donations.
If she is elected to the open seat in Alabama’s 7th Congressional District, Terri Sewell ’86 will be the first African-American woman elected to Congress from Alabama.
Two Princeton alumnae — Elena Kagan ’81 and Sonia Sotomayor ’76 — are rumored to be on the short list for President Obama’s first appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court.
In an effort to cut costs, the administration will evaluate whether some University publications could be distributed online instead of in print, Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel said in an e-mail to The Daily Princetonian.
Upperclassmen had the opportunity to draw into all three of the planned four-year residential colleges, including the new Butler College, for the first time this year. Several students who entered residential college draws said they did so to ensure that even if they got a bad upperclass draw time, they would have other options, though some explained that they were drawn to the colleges’ superior housing facilities.
Revised projections that the University endowment will lose 30 percent of its value by the end of this fiscal year have forced administrators to cut next year’s budget by $88 million, President Tilghman announced in an e-mail to the campus community Monday morning. The administration will also eliminate raises for staff and tenured faculty earning more than $75,000 in a move the University predicts will save $4 million.
The University approved a new Program in Latino Studies at a faculty meeting on Monday, more than 10 years after the idea was conceived. The certificate program will be launched in the 2009-10 academic year. Requisite program courses will consist of a core class on “Latinos in American Life and Culture” as well as four courses in departments outside participating students’ areas of concentration, including social sciences, arts and humanities.
Over Fall Break, Haley White ’12 developed an unlikely interest in the University’s bananas.White was one of several students who took part in a Breakout trip organized by the Pace Center to Immokalee, Fla., where they learned about immigrants working in the tomato industry.
The microblogging format of Twitter — which has become increasingly popular on campus — may bring administrators and faculty members closer to students, as they divulge personal details of their lives in an informal setting.
Emory Elliott, a former chairman of the English department at Princeton and a distinguished professor at UC Riverside, passed away last Tuesday from a heart attack at age 66. A professor of American literature, he was director of the Center for Ideas and Society at UC Riverside. During his 17 years as a faculty member at Princeton, Elliott also served as chairman of the Program in American Studies.
"Admission," a novel by Jean Hanff Korelitz, will be released on April 13. Korelitz drew inspiration for the novel from her time working as an outside application reader for the Office of Admission to create her fictional main character Portia Nathan, a 38-year-old Princeton admission officer who is coming to terms with a painful secret that threatens both her professional and personal lives.
Houseparties was nearly cancelled, The Daily Princetonian printed its own money, and scores of Princetonians couldn’t afford to pay tuition as the Great Depression tightened its grip on the University during the early 1930s.
The University’s announcement last Wednesday of a 9.79 percent undergraduate acceptance rate, up from 9.25 percent last year, sparked a firestorm of heated online comments on The Daily Princetonian article reporting the news.
The University will postpone an estimated $695 million in construction projects due to severe endowment losses, President Tilghman said in an interview with Bloomberg News last Thursday. Princeton will delay buildings for neuroscience research, arts and engineering.
