Say you're a student passionate about a specific environmental issue ? renewable energy sources, for instance ? but you don't want to be another face in the crowd.
P-Votes, a bipartisan, student-run organization founded in 2004 to get more Princetonians to the polls, has broadened its voter registration campaign to include all 50 states, not just New Jersey.The move represents a shift for the group, which previously focused on registering students to vote in New Jersey elections.
The University will break ground next fall on a sleek new chemistry building, pending approval by the regional planning board in the coming weeks.The new, cutting-edge building will be funded largely by royalties from the sale of Alimta, a potent cancer drug developed by chemistry professor emeritus Edward Taylor and patented by the University, President Tilghman wrote to alumni last year.The chemistry department has long wanted to vacate Hoyt Laboratory and the aging Frick Laboratory, its home since 1927.
President Tilghman said this afternoon that the University will end its early admission program next year.
Old Graduate College, Aug. 11, 1:21 a.m.A Borough police officer reported an individual unconscious in a car in parking lot 19.
Meet Evan, an Indiana University alumnus and facebook.com member.
Members of the USG hand out free bagels to students Thursday morning as they begin their first day of classes.
J. Brady Kiesling, the U.S. diplomat who publicly resigned his post in 2003 after disagreeing with President Bush's foreign policy, was awarded the George F.
Correction appendedA play thought lost for the past 80 years ? even by its own author, well-known Irish playwright Sean O'Casey ? resurfaced last month when Leonard Milberg '53 donated his extensive collection of Irish theater works to the University.Milberg, an entrepreneur and philanthropist, spent the past five years gathering over 1,000 pieces for the collection.
In the five years since 19 young men boarded U.S. jet airliners and changed the course of history, the country has seethed, grieved, sought solace, ached for revenge, been afraid, celebrated victories and ultimately, changed.In "Focus," a special section published with today's paper, The Daily Princetonian looks back on the five years since the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States, exploring the lives of Princetonians, from the victims' families to soldiers to Muslim students. How we changed In interviews with several Princetonians, Sophia Ahern Dwosh explores how the attacks of 9/11 shifted the course of our lives.
Though Rihanna released her first album, "Music of the Sun," just one year ago, the pop-reggae artist's star has risen quickly, with her distinct melodies already topping charts.The Barbados native was only 16 when rapper Jay-Z signed her to his label, Def Jam Records, and she has since released two top-10 singles, received numerous awards and appeared in films and on television shows.Following the announcement that she will play at Quadrangle Club during Lawnparties Sunday, Rihanna spoke to Princetonian staff writer Amanda Toy.Daily Princetonian: Since you just turned 18, do you play at a lot of colleges?Rihanna: No, not at all, actually.
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Dan-el Padilla Peralta '06, the student who revealed himself to be an illegal immigrant in a front page story in The Wall Street Journal earlier this year, spent the summer attending Washington press conferences and brokering book and movie deals.But even as the young man's name has gone from obscurity to the front pages of national newspapers and as politicians pledge to support his case, the question of his immigration status remains in limbo.
Five years ago, computer science professor Ed Felten challenged the music industry by cracking the codes designed to stop music from being copied.
The International Mathematics Union named professor Andrei Okounkov and Terence Tao GS '96 among the four Fields Medal winners announced last month.The award, often described as mathematics' equivalent of the Nobel Prize, is given once every four years and is considered the discipline's highest honor.
Nassau Hall yesterday announced its plan to transform the former home of Campus Club, which closed its doors last fall, into a new social spot open to all University students.Campus will be a "place where student organization dinners could be held, parties and precepts scheduled as well as a place to just hang out," Amy Campbell, special assistant to Vice President for Campus Life Janet Dickerson, said in an email.The University, which took ownership of the club on Aug.
The University has chosen architect Jose Rafael Moneo to design a joint neuroscience and psychology complex that will displace the parking lot at the southeast corner of Poe Field.The 200,000 sq.
Arie Israel is spending his first week at Princeton like most of the other 18-year-olds on campus.
The smoke has cleared, but the effects of Sept. 11, 2001, are still being felt at universities around the country, according to a survey done by the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities.The web survey, "September 11: Effects on My Campus Five Years Later," polled 133 college presidents and found that 9/11 still has a "moderate impact" on visa rules for students and faculty, campus security management, curriculum offerings and increased student interest in Middle Eastern studies.President Tilghman did not participate in the survey but agrees with some of its findings."There has been a sustained increase in students in politics, international relations, Islamic studies, Near Eastern Studies and Arabic language," she said in an email.As for the impact on international students at Princeton, Tilghman said that visa availability problems mostly affect graduate students from Russia and China.
Sitting in her quiet Alabama home on a Friday afternoon in July, Betty Saxon grew increasingly worried as the minutes passed.
