Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker '49 has been chosen to head a new economic advisory board for President-elect Barack Obama.
One afternoon midway through the fall of her freshman year, Mary ?10 was walking through her common room when her roommate turned to her and said, ?It?s great how you?re so happy all the time, Mary.
The number of citations issued in Princeton Borough for driving while intoxicated (DWI) dropped 23 percent in 2008 compared to the same period last year, raising concerns about the effectiveness of the Borough?s policing.The Borough issued 89 DWI citations between Jan.
The construction of a satellite art museum in the Arts and Transit Neighborhood has been delayed after administrators decided that it is not critical to the University?s immediate academic needs.
Editor's note appendedThough the University is still on track to meet its Annual Giving (AG) and Aspire capital campaign goals, the ongoing economic downturn presents a potentially challenging situation, Vice President for Development Brian McDonald ?83 said on Tuesday.
After working in South Korea and Chile in the year and a half after he graduated from the University, Michael Solis ?07 is now taking off for Ireland.Solis, one of the 12 winners of this year?s George J.
Many students do not seek advice from their assigned residential-college academic advisers, even as the start of spring 2009 course selection approaches for freshmen and sophomores.Nathan Brown ?12, a Wilson College resident, said that because his four freshman-year classes were required, he had little need to discuss class choices with his adviser.
Christina Romer, an economics professor at UC-Berkeley who taught at the Wilson School from 1985 to 1988, has been appointed the chairman of President-elect Barack Obama?s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA).The CEA, established in 1946, is tasked with ?[providing] the President with objective economic analysis and advice on the development and implementation of a wide range of domestic and international economic policy issues,? according to the White House?s website.Romer received her undergraduate degree from the College of William & Mary in 1981 and her doctorate from MIT in 1985.
Despite the leaky basements in the Spring Street parking garage, its developer, Nassau HKT, has been given the green light to begin construction on another building next door.
While the current economic climate continues to affect institutions and businesses, student agencies seem to be getting away with little hardship to speak of
Peter Orszag ?91, Congress? budget office chief, is rumored to be President-elect Barack Obama?s choice for director of the Office of Management and Budget.The New York Times and the Associated Press both reported Democratic sources saying that Orszag is likely to accept Obama?s offer despite his initial reluctance to leave the budget office midway through his four-year term.An economics major at Princeton, Orszag was an economist in Bill Clinton?s administration and later founded an economic consulting firm.Projections for the fiscal year, which began Oct.
The late Sir John Templeton, a billionaire investment broker who has been accused of renouncing his U.S.
The brisk November wind could not keep University students from the Carl Fields Center on Sunday afternoon, where they were paired with children with Down syndrome to play games and listen to stories.
Three Princetonians ? Timothy Nunan ?08, Scott Moore ?08 and Stephen Hammer ?09 ? are among this year?s winners of the Rhodes Scholarship, awarded to 32 Americans to complete graduate work at Oxford.
There is no evidence that grade deflation has harmed students? employment or graduate school opportunities, Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel said at Sunday night?s USG Senate meeting, at which she agreed to appear at the USG?s request.?All the data we have for the last period of time since the grading policy went into effect tell us that there are no negative, worrying results in terms of fortunes of Princeton students in the post-graduate world in which people wish to pursue opportunities,? she said.She noted, ?medical school [acceptance] rates went up slightly? since the policy was implemented.
Wu Hall turned 25 in style on Friday when a formally dressed crowd of students and faculty celebrated with a panel discussion, lunch and toast in the Wu dining hall.Butler College sponsored the panel, which featured University trustee and the building?s namesake Gordon Wu ?58, former University Architect Jon Hlafter ?61 and Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, who designed the building.
Freshman should not have the right to walk on Princeton?s sidewalks, supporters of Princeton Proposition 8 (PP8) said Thursday in a demonstration on Firestone Plaza.?We?re not froshophobes.
When 17 students staged a sit-in on Nassau Hall in April 1995 to protest the lack of academic offerings in Asian-American and Latino studies, they easily got the attention of University administrators.After the 36-hour sit-in, the University pledged to create four to seven new professorships and to increase its library holdings and course offerings in the two areas of study.
Students picked up more than 1,000 energy-efficient light bulbs on Frist North Lawn on Wednesday and Thursday through a project aimed at reducing the University?s energy consumption.
