Claiborne Pell ?40, the shy student from a powerful political family who went on to help create the largest federal college-grant program to date, died of Parkinson?s disease on New Year?s Day at his home in Newport, R.I.
University researchers, led by molecular biology professor Yibin Kang, announced their discovery on Tuesday of Metadherin, a gene linked to breast cancer deaths.In an article published in the Jan.
Yale?s endowment is down roughly 25 percent since the fiscal year that ended June 30, Yale president Richard Levin, announced on Dec.
On, Dec. 15, President Tilghman met Speaker of the House Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Rep. Rush Holt (D-N.J.) and other leaders in the sciences in Chancellor Green for a roundtable discussion about science and technology in the United States and its ability to stimulate the national economy.A meeting between Tilghman and Pelosi earlier this year inspired the discussion.
Correction appended A new integrated campus transit system, TigerTransit, was launched Monday after a year of discussion between the Graduate Student Government (GSG), the USG and the Office of Parking and Transportation.
An estimated 600 people, both Israeli and Palestinian, have been killed, and 3,000 have been wounded since the start of Israeli air strikes in Gaza on Dec.
While most students were hitting the slopes, lounging on cruise ships or sleeping unnaturally long hours at home, some students spent the holidays on campus, bonding with each other in the season for family reunions.
Sequoia Voting Systems and computer science professor Andrew Appel ?81 have continued to butt heads in recent weeks over Gusciora v.
Computer science professor Andrew Appel '81 has been ordered to apologize and pay attorney's fees after a Mercer County Superior Court judge ruled that he twice violated the conditions of a protective order regarding an expert report he prepared on the security of Sequoia Voting Systems' voting machines.
Rocky and Mathey College residents were encouraged to ?Do It in the Dark? this week as part of a competition to determine which residential college could reduce its energy consumption by the greatest amount before winter break.
Sociology major Alex Barnard ?09 received the Daniel Sachs ?60 Scholarship, one of the highest awards given to Princeton undergraduates.?I?m just blown away.
The United States? and Russia?s joint failure to engage in effective diplomacy and collective action has made and continues to make the world less safe, former New Jersey senator and 2000 Democratic presidential candidate Bill Bradley ?65 said Thursday afternoon in a packed Dodds Auditorium.He cited Georgia as an example of the United States? flawed approach to relations with Russia.?Senator John McCain [R-Ariz.] proclaimed that ?we are all Georgians,? ? Bradley said, referencing the former presidential nominee?s response to Russia?s invasion of Georgia this past summer.He added, ?To that, I would respond, ?No, senator, we are all Americans.? ?Bradley said McCain?s response, in addition to the Bush administration?s subsequently providing almost $2 billion in aid to Georgia, was part of a long chain of blunders in America?s relations with Russia.?We can?t afford to be stuck on Cold War paradigms that make us automatically view Russia as an enemy,? he explained.
Class of 1967 Hall is the second of the four buildings in the new Butler College to be named, the University announced Thursday.?This new dormitory will stand as a tribute to the commitment of the Class of 1967 to Princeton and to each other,? President Tilghman said in a statement.
At the annual meeting of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology in Scottsdale, Ariz., on Wednesday, psychology professor Bart Hoebel presented his innovative research that suggests sugar is an addictive substance that affects rats similarly to how drugs and alcohol impact humans.Hoebel and researchers in the department of psychology and the Princeton Neuroscience Institute have demonstrated patterns of craving and relapse, the third and final stage of addiction, that had previously gone unobserved in rats.
Thanks to an imaginative group of University alumni, a man in Los Angeles can now buy a drink for a woman in a New York City bar.
Yale's endowment is down roughly 25 percent since the fiscal year that ended June 30, its president, Richard Levin, announced today.
On Monday, President Tilghman met Speaker of the House Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Rep. Rush Holt (D-N.J.) and other leaders in the sciences in Chancellor Green for a roundtable discussion about science and technology in the United States and its ability to stimulate the national economy.A meeting between Tilghman and Pelosi earlier this year inspired the discussion.
President-elect Barack Obama announced Monday that he will nominate Elena Kagan ?81, dean of Harvard Law School, to the post of solicitor general in the Department of Justice.The Office of the Solicitor General argues all cases on behalf of the U.S.
