Friends and family of Lorin Maurer, who died Feb. 12 in the crash of Continental Connection Flight 3407 near Buffalo, N.Y., filled the University Chapel on Friday for a memorial service in celebration of her life.
The Nassau Weekly and the student radio station WPRB have finalized their merger after more than six months of negotiations.
Much of the honor of an A-plus is the supposed difficulty of obtaining it, partly due to the requirement instituted in 2000 that professors submit a brief statement of justification. In spite of the policy revision, however, the distribution of the grade is not standardized, so some students and administrators question its significance.
A portrait of T. Ferdinand Wilcox, Class of 1900, disappeared Wednesday night from its usual location near the Wilcox seminar room.
Anthony Costanzo '04, a countertenor, was selected last Sunday as one of the four winners of the 2009 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.
University faculty and students will soon have the opportunity to join an investigation into the effects of foreign economic aid on political violence, thanks to an $8.4 million grant awarded to Wilson School professor Jacob Shapiro by the Department of Defense.
Eben Novy-Williams, associate editor for sports, and Vikram Rao, sports senior writer, break down the men's lacrosse team position by position, discuss the season and end with an analysis of Saturday's showdown against Johns Hopkins.
The Princeton University Press has seen a 7 to 8 percent decline in revenue from a year ago as a result of the economic downturn, director Peter Dougherty told The Daily Princetonian on Wednesday. Dougherty noted that the University Press is lucky: Many peer institutions have seen a 15 to 25 percent reduction.
A talk, titled “The Physics of Poetry” and organized by the Whitman College Council, provided a forum for students to hear Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon discuss the parallels between his art and seemingly unrelated fields.
Murray-Dodge Hall, home to the University’s Office of Religious Life (ORL), is beginning to be “too small to house Princeton’s religious community,” said Mariam Rahmani ’10, president of the Muslim Students Association (MSA). “Religious life has outgrown it."
The technological brainchild of a team that includes several Princeton computer science researchers has drawn recognition as a revolutionary way to expand internet access around the world. HashCache, an efficient data storage system, was featured as one of the top 10 emerging technologies of the year in Technology Review, a scientific magazine published by MIT.
Greening the Street brings together representatives from each eating club to exchange ideas about how clubs can incorporate sustainable practices into their operations.
As their classmates approach crunch-time for their senior theses, Thomas Chen ’09 and James Coan ’09 look to crunch some numbers unrelated to their independent work: survey results measuring student opinion. Coan and Chen said they are trying to contribute meaningful data to the campus dialogue as co-chairs of the USG’s new Analysis of Princetonian Attitude Committee (APAC).
Utensil-rich residential college serveries present students with a prime opportunity to pinch the odd fork or spoon to round out their dorm supplies. This trend, however, places a financial burden on Dining Services to compensate for the thefts.
Some members of the Class of 2013 will begin their Princeton careers abroad. The University's bridge year program, which will debut next fall, will send a group of five students to each of four different countries. Though other universities encourage their students to take a gap year before matriculating, Princeton is unique in offering a bridge year program to its incoming freshmen, said John Luria, the director of the pilot program.
The substance-free housing contract states, “No alcohol, illegal drugs, tobacco products or incense may be in a room designated as substance-free.” The reality of substance-free housing, however, is more complicated, students said.
Though global warming may not boil the oceans dry, a new study suggests that even small increases in temperature may have more catastrophic effects than researchers previously believed.
Julia ’11 said that after months of disagreeing with her roommate about how often her roommate’s boyfriend should sleep over, Julia chose to room next year with someone she thought would be easier to live with. Christine ’11 said that she plans to room next year with someone she has known since freshman year after room draw problems led to her being randomly placed with roommates for her sophomore year.
Many students are encountering difficulties connecting their iPhones and iPod touch devices to the University’s wireless network, according to the website of the Office of Information Technology (OIT).
Getting paid to help with a professor’s cutting-edge research is a rare opportunity for undergraduates, but some students say that all it requires is a little initiative.
