Graduate students Thomas Clark, Vasily Pestun, Kellam Conover and Ning Wu were awarded the Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship at the Alumni Day luncheon on Saturday.
One is devoted to music and the other is a mechanical and aerospace engineer. Sarah Vander Ploeg ?08 and Landis Stankievech ?08 may differ in terms of their academic interests, but both received the Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize at the Alumni Day luncheon on Saturday.The Pyne Prize is awarded to the senior(s) who most clearly displays excellent academic achievement, leadership skills and strength of character.The recipients were selected by Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel, Dean of Undergraduate Students Kathleen Deignan, President Tilghman and Vice President and Secretary Bob Durkee ?69 based on faculty recommendations at a meeting on Feb.
The University announced its campus Sustainability Plan on Thursday, pledging to reduce carbon emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2020.
One is devoted to music and the other is a mechanical and aerospace engineer. Sarah Vander Ploeg ?08 and Landis Stankievech ?08 may differ in terms of their academic interests, but both received the Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize at the Alumni Day luncheon on Saturday.The Pyne Prize is awarded to the senior(s) who most clearly displays excellent academic achievement, leadership skills and strength of character.The recipients were selected by Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel, Dean of Undergraduate Students Kathleen Deignan, President Tilghman and Vice President and Secretary Bob Durkee ?69 based on faculty recommendations at a meeting on Feb.
The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina is a convincing reason to emphasize the need for creating strong communities and for planning in advance for natural emergencies, Evangeline Franklin ?76 said in her lecture on Friday.Franklin, who serves as emergency preparedness manager of the city of New Orleans, was the medical director in the Superdome, a stadium which served as a temporary housing facility for people fleeing their homes before the hurricane.?A community prepared requires the personal commitment of each individual,? she explained.The presentation, entitled ?The City of New Orleans in Disaster and Recovery,? focused on the hurricane-caused devastation in New Orleans and the various efforts to manage the aftermath.Franklin began by pointing out various disasters that could occur or have occurred near audience members? hometowns and reminded students that everyone could potentially be affected by a mass disaster.
The USG voted unanimously last night to confirm several amendments to its constitution, which required a second consecutive vote of approval to take effect, and inducted two new members to its ranks. Phil Stern ?09 and Braeden Kepner-Kraus ?10 will fill the roles of IT chair and senior elections manager, respectively.?Take a lot of leadership in project management and project development,? USG president Josh Weinstein ?09 said to the convened senators.
Ralph Nader ?55 announced his decision to run for president as an independent candidate yesterday.
Students expressed concerns about the relationship between students and Public Safety at the second Alcohol Coalition Committee (ACC) workshop on Friday.The workshop, entitled ?Structures That Affect High-Risk Drinking,? was held in Wu Dining Hall with about hundred student, staff, faculty and community members in attendance, many of whom filtered in and out during the four-hour event.?I think from all indications the workshop went really well ... everyone there seemed really engaged in the conversation,? Public Safety director and co-chair for Friday?s workshop Steven Healy said.The workshop opened with a lecture given by Linda Langford, associate center director of the U.S.
The University?s financial aid policy may no longer be the single ?strongest need-based financial aid program in the country? as advertised on the University?s financial aid website, Undergraduate Financial Aid Director Robin Moscato said in an interview.
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Yale?s Resource Office on Disabilities has announced a new peer mentoring focus to be added to its disabilities services in fall 2009, raising questions as to whether Princeton?s own program should be more aggressive in helping disabled students. Yale will formally link incoming students with disabilities to older students with disabilities, though the Yale Office of Freshman Affairs remains unsure exactly how it will pair freshmen and older peer mentors. ?A program like Yale?s would be a step in the right direction for Princeton.
"C?mon. Give us the juice,? beckons juicycampus.com, a website that allows anyone with access to the internet to anonymously post comments about other people.
Yale?s Resource Office on Disabilities has announced a new peer mentoring focus to be added to its disabilities services in fall 2009, raising questions as to whether Princeton?s own program should be more aggressive in helping disabled students. Yale will formally link incoming students with disabilities to older students with disabilities, though the Yale Office of Freshman Affairs remains unsure exactly how it will pair freshmen and older peer mentors. ?A program like Yale?s would be a step in the right direction for Princeton.
In the busy haze of Princeton life, many students might ask: Who hasn?t missed a class? Beneath this reality, a variety of factors, some far removed from the quality of the course, impact students? decisions, while faculty members employ a growing number of techniques to ensure their weekly presence.Lack of sleep appears to be the prevailing student explanation for missing class, in addition to class size, department and quality of the course.Jahnabi Barooah ?11 said she recently missed her 9 a.m.
In a celebration of the 60th anniversary of the desegregation of New Jersey?s schools, students from high schools around the Garden State debated issues surrounding the racial integration of its public schools.
The Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk) has received an Innovation Award totaling $238,000 from the MacArthur Foundation?s Digital Media and Learning Competition.Co-founded by music professor Daniel Trueman GS ?99 and computer science professor Perry Cook in 2005, PLOrk is a musical performance group of 15 laptop-based instruments.The award money will allow the currently technologically limited PLOrk to become more portable, stylish and harmonious, Trueman said.
The University will submit its application for membership in the Worker Right Consortium (WRC) within the next few days, said Vice President and Secretary Bob Durkee ?69, after years of debate by the Resources Committee of the Council of the Princeton University Community (CPUC).
Frank Luntz, a pollster, Fox News commentator and political consultant, said he believed Bill Clinton has ruined his wife?s political campaign, leaving the 2008 presidential campaign in the hands of Sen.
The nearly 3,000 students who were vaccinated against influenza by the University this year may be less protected than they thought, since this year?s nationally distributed flu vaccine is unusually ineffective at protecting against the most common flu viruses.
Before Keerthi Shetty ?09 went to study abroad at King?s College London in fall 2007, she participated in room draw and chose to live in a Spelman suite with three of her friends.
