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Self-driving car reaches DARPA competition finals

Self-driving car reaches DARPA competition finals

Prospect 11 ? the completely autonomous vehicle designed by a group of Princeton engineering students ? has qualified for the finals of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) competition, contest organizers announced Wednesday at a ceremony in Fontana, Calif.The modified GMC Canyon pickup will compete Saturday against 22 other autonomous vehicles, all of which navigate without a driver or remote control, at the DARPA Grand Challenge in the Mojave Desert near Primm, Nevada.Eight students from the Prospect 11 team have been in California this week competing against 42 other teams in the semifinals.

NEWS | 10/05/2005

CIEE seeks integrated approach to learning

In its first semester, the Center for Innovation in Engineering Education (CIEE) is offering two courses to integrate engineering into other disciplines.

NEWS | 10/05/2005

Tilghman chosen to join Google board

Google Inc. announced Wednesday that it has named President Tilghman to its board of directors. Tilghman is now "literally one of the bosses" at Google, according to Eric Schmidt '76, chairman and CEO of the popular search engine, who also serves as a University trustee."She is a natural leader," Schmidt said in an interview.

NEWS | 10/05/2005

Socioeconomics, bicker led to Campus decline

For Leslie-Bernard Joseph '06, the cost of his eating club just wasn't worth it.The former Campus Club member liked having a club to call his own, but Joseph, who serves as USG president, became an RCA his junior year.

NEWS | 10/05/2005

Ice cream competition heats up downtown

With the opening of The Bent Spoon last summer, downtown Princeton acquired its fourth ice cream and sweets shop.

NEWS | 10/05/2005

'Princetern' Wolman '07 lives it up at Maxim

Scott Wolman '07 spent the summer assembling an electric bike without an instruction manual, putting together a toy rock crawler, trying to find a Rolls Royce keychain in Chinatown and placing copies of Maxim magazine in random locations throughout Central Park.

NEWS | 10/04/2005

Friedberg returns from government post

After two years in the White House as deputy assistant for national security affairs and director of policy planning, Aaron Friedberg has returned to his joint post as a professor of politics and international affairs in the politics department and the Wilson School."I came back because I wanted to have the freedom to write about the things that most interest me and because I missed teaching," Friedberg said in an email.Friedberg began his government post in June 2003 on a National Service leave, which allows faculty members to serve in the government or in international organizations, and after one year was asked stay on until 2005.The transition back to Princeton has been "relatively painless," Friedberg said.

NEWS | 10/04/2005

Festival to mark Hans Christian Andersen's bicentenary

Two centuries after the birth of famed Danish storyteller Hans Christian Andersen, his legacy lives on in children's fairytales and Disney movies such as "The Emperor's New Clothes" and "The Little Mermaid." In honor of Andersen's bicentenary next month, the Cotsen Children's Library will host an international conference to bring together scholars, actors and filmmakers in celebration of his achievements.Titled "Hidden But Not Forgotten: The Legacy of Hans Christian Andersen in the Twentieth Century," the conference will feature presentations of numerous scholarly papers on Andersen's writings and legacy, as well as film screenings, theatrical renditions of Andersen's tales and live storytelling.Cotsen's celebration, scheduled for Nov.

NEWS | 10/04/2005

Professors research diversity

A group of University professors has finished collecting data from the Campus Life in America Student Survey (CLASS), launched last year to explore the issue of racial and ethnic diversity on college campuses.

NEWS | 10/04/2005

Drinking Liberally at the Annex

Students and community members gathered in the basement of The Annex restaurant last Thursday for the third meeting of Drinking Liberally, one the newest political associations for both students and community members.

NEWS | 10/04/2005

Gaming goes global

Paul Nelson '06 has been doing a great deal of file-sharing recently ? and the administration doesn't mind.

NEWS | 10/03/2005

Lending a hand to victims of hurricane

Making his way through the halls of headquarters with a military bearing and brisk manner, Red Cross volunteer John Green looked like a man on a mission ? except for the slightly confused look on his face.

NEWS | 10/03/2005

Community House lacks volunteers

An increase in the number of tutoring programs offered at Community House ? a student-run organization that reaches out to community youth and adults ? has led to a shortage of volunteers this fall, especially in the Big Brother program, which doesn't have enough male volunteers."The [Princeton] community is relying more heavily on volunteers than [on public school] teachers," Laura Collins '06, a Community House volunteer and chair of the Student Executive Board, said.

NEWS | 10/03/2005

Suspect remains at large

A day after the attempted assault of a female undergraduate student in a Frist Campus Center bathroom Sunday night, little new information about the attack has been made available and the assailant is still at large.The Department of Public Safety continued to search for the assailant on and around campus Monday.

NEWS | 10/03/2005

Lander '78 leads genomics research

When Eric Lander '78 graduated from Princeton with a degree in mathematics, he still believed in learning for its own sake.

NEWS | 10/03/2005

Initiatives to be relaunched

Two popular Inter-Club Council (ICC) initiatives ? A Taste of Prospect and Prospect Initiative ? will be launched this month after slight delays.The ICC hopes that it will be ready to offer A Taste of Prospect, a program through which freshmen are invited to a random eating club for dinner, by mid-October."We were hoping to do it earlier this year, but we ran into some technical difficulties," said ICC President Jamal Motlagh '06, who is also the president of Quadrangle Club.Last year the event took place during the first full week of classes, but was repeated two months later because freshmen in Forbes College were accidentally excluded.

NEWS | 10/03/2005

Smagorinsky, pioneer in field of meteorology, dies at 81

Joseph Smagorinsky, founder of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) in Princeton, died Sept.

NEWS | 10/03/2005

Course guide to be redesigned

Though the USG hoped to deliver a newly revamped Student Course Guide this fall ? after hiring two students for the project ? most of the intended updates will not be completed until December, as the group looks for new designers for the task.The changes, funded by the USG, will bring the website's code up-to-date and make the SCG, an online resource that offers student-written reviews of course offerings, more user-friendly.

NEWS | 10/03/2005

Petraeus says Iraqis need time

Lt. Gen. David Petraeus GS '85 '87, who served until recently as head of the U.S. military command responsible for training Iraqi military, spoke Saturday about the importance of setting up independent Iraqi security forces and emphasized that there is still much work to be done.Before a packed McCosh 50, Petraeus, who commanded both the Multinational Security Transition Command and the NATO training mission in Iraq, gave a presentation outlining the current situation in Iraq."Iraqi security forces are in the fight ? the Iraqi lead and Iraqi coalition force backup are the keys," he said.There are currently 115 Iraqi military battalions, Petraeus said, 16 of which emerged over the course of one year.

NEWS | 10/02/2005

Assault attempted in Frist bathroom

An unknown man attempted to assault an undergraduate female student Sunday night in the women's bathroom on the 100-level of Frist Campus Center.

NEWS | 10/02/2005

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