For a few weeks in October 2003, hundreds of Virginia Tech students congregated not for a protest, but to create "Big Mac," a supercomputer made of 1,100 Apple G5s.
The area of Witherspoon Street closest to the University is home to some of Princeton's most expensive restaurants and stores.
Ten campus groups will perform in Richardson Auditorium Friday evening to raise money for genocide victims in Darfur, Sudan.Amity Weiss '07 envisioned "An Evening for Darfur" more than two months ago and, with help from fellow sophomore Dustin Kahler, coordinated a committee of 11 other undergraduates to make it a reality."There's always lectures on issues, but there's very rarely anything that tries to bring in a larger part of the community," Weiss said.
Mary Prabha Ng was an undergraduate English major at the University of Buffalo until she accepted a bet from her then-boyfriend over whether or not she could learn how to work with computers.Several years later, that boyfriend is her husband, and Ng is on the front line of defense in protecting the University's computer network from of hackers, viruses and worms.Her expertise and skills in developing and enhancing computer security systems led OIT to hire her last year.Ng previously worked at the Department of Defense's Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Rhode Island.There, she helped to design computer programs, research inscription methods, and enhance security systems on unarmed underwater vehicles.At Princeton, Ng focuses on protecting the University's network security, improving intrusion protection systems and performing security risk assessments.With the help of two Intrusion Prevention Systems ? which examine traffic coming into the network, ? Ng and her colleagues can detect harmful viruses and worms.The mysql-slammer worm is especially problematic because it is, as Ng explained, "very prevalent in networks.""A big thing we're working on now is spam," Ng said.
A pre-law conference kicked off Thursday with a talk by American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) President Nadine Strossen, who described her affinity for the legal profession."Since I've gotten out of law school, I did many things," Strossen said, "but . . . I really, really love being a lawyer."The half-hour talk in Robertson Hall was attended by roughly 40 people.The talk and conference was one of the first major initiatives of the Pre-Law Society, begun last year."This [conference] has been in the works for a very long time," society president and founder Derek Raphael '06 said.
Jordan Amadio '05 is a physics major. He loves science, but his interests do not end there. Amadio spent last summer traveling throughout Sub-Saharan Africa, getting a glimpse of life in a very different world, one which he knows can be aided by the miracles of the science he studies.But "science and engineering students aren't given a societal perspective," Amadio said, which is why he has become a leading force behind a new University program called the Global Science Initiative.The initiative came about through a "convergence of people with similar aspirations," Amadio said.The backers include President Tilghman, who has been involved with practical implications of science throughout her career, and Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science Maria Klawe.In addition to administrators, students, faculty and outside organizations are contributing ideas for the initiative.There are three components to the initiative, Amadio explained: a University-led component, a student-led component and a component led by outside partners.The University-sponsored component, called the Global Science Program, is led by professor Wole Soboyejo of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.Plans for the program include new courses stressing science from a policy perspective, new science-based study abroad opportunities and partnerships with both the Woodrow Wilson School and the engineering school, Amadio said.In partnership with the Tanzanian NGO Aang Serian, the program will sponsor the Tanzania Village project, which will educate local peoples about the relevance of science to their lives and focus on health, nutritional and environmental issues.The University will provide financial support to Aang Serian and will get students involved in planning curricula and teaching, largely during the summer.Amadio has spearheaded the student-led component of the initiative which he hopes will form an independent organization called the Global Science Corps, "a Peace Corps for scientists and engineers."The last component of the initiative will incorporate scientific organizations outside the University.
"Super Size Me" filmmaker Morgan Spurock spoke at the University on Thursday. The film follows Spurlock as he eats nothing but McDonald's food for 30 days.Speaking to a large Princeton audience at McCosh Hall six months after his movie's release at the invitation of the Student Health Advisory Board, Spurlock described his adventure to documentary stardom.He said he got the idea for "Super Size Me" on Thanksgiving Day of 2002 as he was lying on the couch watching television.At the time, two obese girls were suing McDonald's for causing their health problems, and Spurlock watched as a reporter interviewed a McDonald's spokesperson for the evening news.The spokesperson denied any link between McDonald's and obesity, calling fast food "perfectly healthy.""I said, come on," Spurlock told the McCosh audience.
Operations research and financial engineering professor Alain Kornhauser GS '71 plans to run his 13th New York City Marathon on Sunday in an interactive way."I'm going to be a real geek.
Researchers from Princeton's Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics and Computer Science Department have developed a new tool to systematically identify the chromosomal alterations that cause cancer.Olga Troyanskaya, assistant professor of computer science at the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Chad Myers GS and fellow researchers created a computer algorithm that works to measure gene expression and pinpoint where chromosomal amplifications and deletions that cause cancer occur."Most types of cancer involve cells growing too fast according to some capacity and not dying when they are supposed to," Myers said.
Throughout his career, Gerald Parsky '64 has consistently risen to the top in a variety of interests.
An imposing figure stands poised behind the grill as students flood into Wilcox Dining Hall. He is 6'3" and 47-years-old and wears checkered pants and a long white apron spattered with grease.
Democratic victors in the Borough Council race said Wednesday that they were impressed by the campaign of the Republican candidate Evan Baehr '05.Koontz won the race with 2,613 votes, followed by Martindell with 2,512 and Baehr trailed behind with 1,514 votes."I didn't know what to expect," Koontz said.
Just a few hours after the outcome of the presidential election became clear, congressional economist Wendell Primus, a Democrat, faced a tough task as he spoke Wednesday on the likely legislative changes that will occur in the United States over the next few years.Primus currently serves as the minority staff director of the Joint Economic Committee for Congress.
Several sophomores took a break from their studies on Wednesday to honor the memories of Melissa Huang '07 and Alan Ebersole '07.The officers of the Class of 2007 handed out small orange and black lapel ribbons, much like the well-known cancer awareness ribbons, in Frist Campus Center from 1 to 4 p.m."We wanted people to look up from their studies and realize that there is more going on in the world," Class of 2007 President James Williamson said.The tragic deaths of Huang in early September and Ebersole over Fall Break left many students shocked.
Borough Police are on heightened alert after receiving a tip regarding the possibility of gang-related violence in the area.Princeton High School was put on lockdown Nov.
When he assumed the Senate's top job after only eight years in public office, the political ascent of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist '74 ranked among the most impressive in decades.
As news of Sen. John Kerry's concession of the election to President Bush spread across campus Wednesday, students contemplated the idea of a second term with disbelief, despair or uninhibited elation.Declaring the end of a bitter election that remained unresolved well after the polls closed, Bush said on Wednesday, "America has spoken, and I'm humbled by the trust and the confidence of my fellow citizens."Early Wednesday morning, results in a handful of states ? including pivotal Ohio ? remained unclear, meaning neither candidate held an electoral college majority.
Republican student candidate Evan Baehr '05 lost his bid for Borough Council on Tuesday, claiming 24 percent of the total vote.
New Jersey's 12th District Congressman Rush Holt won his fourth consecutive election to the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday, defeating his Republican opponent Bill Spadea by a margin of over 50,000 votes out of about 275,000 cast.
Five teenagers. One car. Plenty of snacks. People squabbling over radio stations. Miles of highway.All these elements came together starting Monday night as a group of University students embarked on a road trip to Florida.But this was no ordinary road trip.
