Provost Christopher Eisgruber ’83 and Executive Vice President Mark Burstein updated the packed crowd at Monday's faculty meeting on the University’s financial standing in light of the global economic crisis.
Members of the USG Senate engaged in preliminary discussions Sunday evening to brainstorm ideas for improving communication between students and professors regarding written comments on end-of-term coursework.
Doctor and anthropologist Jim Yong Kim will become the first Asian-American president of an Ivy League school this summer when he begins his term as the 17th president of Dartmouth College on July 1. The college announced the appointment on Monday.
Young alumni trustee candidates are strictly forbidden to campaign or solicit votes in any fashion, but many students and alumni said that as a result, voters do not have enough information to make informed decisions and end up voting for already well-known student government leaders by default.
The University’s environmental studies program has recently seen a rise in enrollment, program director and public affairs professor David Wilcove GS ’85 said. The jump is in line with a nationwide trend increases in environmental studies programs at colleges and universities.
In the music world, the viola is seen as a second-class citizen. At age 22, David Carpenter ’08 says he is trying to change that. With his debut album set to be officially released in September, violist Carpenter is adding to his already extensive resume, to become what Princeton University Orchestra (PUO) director Michael Pratt calls a “dominating figure” in the musical world.
The $787 billion stimulus measure that President Obama signed into law on Feb. 17 may pour a significant amount of money into science research at the University, even as administrators impose budget cuts across all departments.
After the Senate passed the District of Columbia House Voting Rights Act on Thursday by a 61-37 vote, D.C. residents are one step closer to getting a voting representative in Congress. The House of Representatives will vote on the bill later this week. Several University students from D.C. said they were glad it may finally gain representation in Congress.
This summer, Whig Hall, home to the world’s oldest collegiate political, literary and debating society, will undergo its first large-scale renovation since 1972.
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.
