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Students honored for academic achievementsThis year?s major academic awards, announced at the yearly Opening Exercises at the University Chapel on Sunday afternoon, were overwhelmingly claimed by international students.The Class of 1939 Princeton Scholar Award was shared by Susan Butler ?09 of Florida and Holger Staude ?09 of Germany.

NEWS | 09/07/2008

OSHA ruling favors University on gun policy

OSHA ruling favors University on gun policy

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has ruled in favor of the University in June, after reviewing a complaint by Public Safety?s Fraternal Orders of Police (FOP) union, who claimed that the University?s policy of not allowing Public Safety officers to carry guns was an occupational hazard.FOP president and Public Safety patrolman James Lanzi originally filed the complaint anonymously in early June after publicly pushing for the University to arm trained Public Safety officers since early 2008.?I?m not surprised, but I am disappointed.

NEWS | 09/07/2008

History professor Mahoney GS '67 dies after 46 years at University

Michael Mahoney GS ?67, a dedicated professor of the history of science who spent 40 years at the University, died Wednesday, July 23, at the University Medical Center at Princeton.

NEWS | 09/07/2008

Andlinger ’52 gives $100 million for environmental center

The University announced four alumni donations for expanding environmental research in July, the largest of which is a $100 million gift from investment manager Gerhard Andlinger ?52.

NEWS | 09/07/2008

FBI: Anthrax suspect Ivins obsessed with Kappa

Though investigators have named Bruce Ivins the sole actor in the 2001 anthrax attacks and declared the case solved on Aug.

NEWS | 09/07/2008

Judge pushes trial date back to January 2009

The six-year-old dispute over the Robertson Foundation?s $900 million endowment will face yet another delay.

NEWS | 09/07/2008

University awarded $10 million in insurance dispute

The University is entitled to nearly $10 million in insurance money to cover some of its legal fees in the Robertson case, a New York appeals court ruled on June 5.The decision requires the National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, Pa., to honor the full amount of the policy, which was purchased the same year in which two University-appointed Robertson Foundation trustees suggested the changes in the management of the Foundation?s endowment that eventually led the Robertson family to sue the University.The company had previously only been willing to pay up to a $5 million sublimit on the $15 million policy.The Appellate Division, First Department of New York?s Supreme Court unanimously denied an appeal by the company and upheld a September 2007 decision by Supreme Court Justice Helen Freedman that awarded Princeton just over $9.6 million.The company argued that the University wanted the funds to fight claims not covered under the insurance policy, but Freedman ruled that National Union had to advance costs for both covered and non-covered claims.

NEWS | 09/07/2008

Committee gives green light to bridge-year program

Incoming freshmen who seek a challenge at the start of their college careers will have a new, international opportunity available to them beginning in fall 2009.The University?s ?bridge year? program, originally proposed in February, has been given the green light by the working group appointed to study its feasibility.The new offering will enable students to defer matriculation for a year to participate in community service abroad either through University-affiliated programs such as Princeton-in-Asia or through other established service organizations that meet the University?s criteria.The committee ? a 14-person body made up of students, faculty and staff convened by President Tilghman ? identified several wide-reaching goals for the program, including preparing students for life in an increasingly globalized world, working group and comparative literature department chair Sandra Bermann said.?[The program] should challenge the students to begin to understand cultures other than their own, to think in new ways, gain maturity and begin a life in which service to others is an important ingredient,? Bermann said.

NEWS | 09/07/2008

Record $54 million raised in 2007-08 Annual Giving campaign

The University received $54.1 million in the 2007-08 Annual Giving campaign, amassing the highest total since the inception of yearly fundraising campaigns in 1940.This year?s total is a $5 million improvement from the 2006-07 campaign, which was also record-breaking.This year?s campaign saw participation from 59.2 percent of undergraduate alumni.

NEWS | 09/07/2008

Lupe Fiasco to play at Lawnparties

Grammy-winning rap and hip-hop artist Lupe Fiasco, best known for his hit song "Superstar," will be the headline act at fall Lawnparties on Sunday, Sept.

NEWS | 09/04/2008

On the Prox: Michelle Obama '85 at the DNC

Tonight was Michelle Obama '85's big moment in the Democratic convention's spotlight. How'd she do?

NEWS | 08/25/2008

Princeton loses number one spot in U.S. News ranking

After eight consecutive years as the champion of U.S. World and News Report's famed "America's Top Colleges" ranking, Princeton dropped to second place in the 2009 lineup as Harvard rose to take sole possession of the top spot.This is the first time in 12 years that Harvard was ranked as the sole number-one college by U.S.

NEWS | 08/20/2008

Fifteen-year-old remains in hospital after Frick lab accident

A summer program participant was seriously injured after ingesting liquid nitrogen in a University chemistry lab last Friday. The young man remains hospitalized.

NEWS | 08/13/2008

Gap year program gets go-ahead

Incoming freshmen who seek a challenge at the start of their college careers will have a new, international opportunity available to them beginning in fall 2009. The University's "bridge year" program, originally proposed in February, has been given the green light by the working group appointed to study its feasibility. The new offering will enable students to defer matriculation for a year to participate in community service abroad either through University-affiliated programs such as Princeton-in-Asia or through other established service organizations that meet the University's criteria. The committee ? a 14-person body made up of students, faculty and staff convened by President Tilghman ? identified several wide-reaching goals for the program, including preparing students for life in an increasingly globalized world, working group and comparative literature department chair Sandra Bermann said. "[The program] should challenge the students to begin to understand cultures other than their own, to think in new ways, gain maturity and begin a life in which service to others is an important ingredient," Bermann said.

NEWS | 08/12/2008

Updated Aug. 7 Anthrax suspect's lawyer: Kappa obsession is not proof

Though investigators have named Bruce Ivins the sole actor in the 2001 anthrax attacks and declared the case solved, Ivins' lawyer emphasized Thursday that there is no evidence proving Ivins' alleged obsession with the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority led him to Princeton, where anthrax-laced letters were mailed from a Nassau Street mailbox. In an interview with The Daily Princetonian, attorney Paul Kemp confirmed that Ivins had a fixation with the sorority but said that Ivins did not have anything to do with the deadly letters mailed from the Princeton mailbox just 300 feet from where the University's Kappa chapter keeps its rush paraphernalia, initiation robes and other materials. "The only thing that exists at 20 Nassau Street is a business office," said Kemp, an attorney at Venable LLP.

NEWS | 08/05/2008

China revokes visa for Olympic gold medalist Cheek '11

Olympic gold medalist Joey Cheek '11 said his visa to attend the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing has been revoked by the Chinese government over his efforts urging China to help make peace in the war-torn region of Darfur.The 2006 speed skating champion co-founded Team Darfur, an organization of Olympic athletes who seek to draw attention to violence in the Darfur region of Sudan.

NEWS | 08/05/2008

University appoints Hindu and Muslim chaplains

The Office of Religious Life has hired the University?s first Hindu chaplain and its first full-time Muslim chaplain.

NEWS | 07/30/2008

No hazardous material found after Borough Hall evacuation

An incident involving a suspicious package that sickened two employees at Borough Hall is over after investigators found no hazardous substances at the scene, Public Safety Deputy Director Charles Davall wrote in a Campus Safety Alert to the University community Wednesday afternoon. A package addressed to the mayor?s office led to the evacuation of Borough Hall and the closing of Stockton Street after two employees in the clerk?s office suffered allergic reactions, local news outlets reported.

NEWS | 07/29/2008

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