News & Notes: University creates digital Islamic manuscript archive
The University has made 200 Islamic manuscripts available online as part of a new digital archive.
The University has made 200 Islamic manuscripts available online as part of a new digital archive.
By the end of freshman year, Maria ’11 was living off nothing but vegetables and no-calorie hot beverages from the Rocky-Mathey dining hall.
Melanie Kirkpatrick ’73, a deputy editor of The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page, was found in contempt of court by Singapore High Court Justice Tay Yong Kwang on March 19.
John Forbes Nash GS ’50, a Nobel laureate and subject of the 2001 film “A Beautiful Mind,” is looking to shake things up in another field: mental health care. The prominent mathematician and his wife Alicia are trying to use his famous story to advocate for better mental health care in New Jersey and the protection of existing programs whose funding is threatened by the economic downturn.
Denny Chin '75, a judge for the Southern District of New York, is currently adjudicating the trial of Bernard Madoff, who plead guilty on March 12 to charges stemming from his operation of a $65 billion decades-long Ponzi scheme.
On top of managing their academic workloads, a number of University students also volunteer as EMTs, taking on tremendous responsibility while benefiting from an invaluable experience, students said.
While many seniors struggle to find employment in these troubled economic times, international students interested in finance may be forced to alter their career plans entirely, as new regulations prohibit some financial institutions from hiring foreign workers.
Students registered in Princeton Borough who were hoping to be able to vote on campus will have to wait at least another year to cast their ballots on University grounds. A student initiative launched last fall proposed moving the polling place for Borough District 1 to the Frist Campus Center from its current location in Trinity Church. But Frist cannot meet the Borough Council’s parking requirements for a polling place, students and administrators involved said.
Steven Healy, the University’s director of Public Safety since 2003 and a nationally respected expert on campus safety issues, will leave his position in June.
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.