Research conducted by physics professor Zahid Hasan — in collaboration with researchers from Penn, UC Berkeley and institutions in Germany and Switzerland — may bring quantum computers one step closer to some lucky student’s dorm room.
New Jersey’s Democratic senators, Frank Lautenberg and Robert Menendez, recommended to President Obama on Friday that he appoint Paul Fishman ’78 as the next U.S. Attorney for New Jersey.
Diedrich Graham has been named Ombuds Officer, the University announced Monday. Graham, who has served as Associate Ombudsman since February 2008, is filling the vacancy left by Camilo Azcarate’s departure in October to become manager of mediation services at the World Bank.
Grumbling about courses may be a time-honored dining hall pastime, but 88 percent of student respondents said their fall 2008 courses were excellent, very good or good, according to the student course evaluation results from the fall semester that were made available online Feb. 11.
Some men may view scantily clad women as objects rather than as people, a recent study found. The research, conducted by Princeton psychology professor Susan Fiske, Mina Cikara GS and Stanford psychology professor Jennifer Eberhardt GS, was performed on 21 undergraduate male students at the University who identified themselves as heterosexual.
Former International Relations Council (IRC) president Rachel Jackson ’11 resigned last Thursday, explaining in an e-mail to the group that she felt she could no longer effectively serve as president without exacerbating “the tensions and polarization in [the IRC].” Kyle Trombley ’11, the former IRC vice president, will serve as president, and Maya Le Gall ’11 will serve as vice president.
Since graduating from Princeton in 1995, Signer has served as a political strategist or policy adviser to a governor, a congressman and two presidential candidates. But now the politics concentrator is throwing his own hat into the political ring, launching a bid to become Virginia’s next lieutenant governor.
Lorin Maurer, the athletic friends manager for the Department of Athletics and the Office of Development at the University, was on her way to her boyfriend’s brother’s wedding when her plane crashed in a Buffalo suburb six miles from the city’s airport.
Travel has always been an attractive aspect of membership in many campus extracurricular organizations. But as the economic downturn continues to affect every segment of the Princeton community, many of these organizations are struggling to make ends meet.
Charlotte ’10 and Henry ’11 represent opposite ends of a relationship spectrum that several undergraduates said spanned the two extremes of Princeton’s dating culture, in which students are involved in serious, long-term relationships, engage in serial hookups with strangers or are simply single.
Sociology professor Douglas Massey GS '78 will chair the recently formed committee charged with finding a replacement for Anne-Marie Slaughter ’80 as dean of the Wilson School, President Tilghman announced in an e-mail to Wilson School faculty, students and staff Tuesday afternoon.
As many companies are struggling to turn profits in the current economic downturn, infomercials are flourishing. The counterintuitive success of infomercials is directly correlated to a decrease in the price of media time, according to mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Dan Nosenchuck, who teaches a class on entrepreneurial engineering.
Former chemistry professor Walter Kauzmann GS ’40, an academic whose groundbreaking work offered deep insights into protein folding, died in his sleep on Jan. 27. He was 92.
Public Safety officers transported 16 intoxicated students to McCosh Health Center and the University Medical Center at Princeton (UMCP) this past weekend, marking a dramatic spike over the number of transports during Bicker pickup weekends from 1999 to 2008. During this decade, 6.8 students each year on average were transported for alcohol-related incidents.
Wilkinson was an executive vice president and general counsel of Fannie Mae, the nation’s largest mortgage buyer. She resigned shortly after the federal takeover of the firm in September 2008. While there was widespread support for the U.S. Treasury’s decision to place Fannie Mae and another mortgage giant, Freddie Mac, under a government conservatorship, Wilkinson said she thought the move was wrong.
The audience would have to do without the low D, rocker Ben Folds announced after he broke a string of the grand piano at McCarter Theatre on Wednesday night during the opening concert of his current tour. Fans did not appear to notice, dancing in the aisles and chanting the lyrics of his best-known tunes.
Public Safety is currently investigating an attempted fraud involving staff and undergraduates in the math department, University officials confirmed Wednesday.
As the University adapts its expansion efforts to the current economic environment, plans for the new Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment are proceeding on schedule: The University announced Wednesday that it has chosen Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects to design the new center.
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