At the age of three, Laurie Kaufmann '99 was "the bag lady" to her grandmother, who coined the prescient nickname because Kaufmann loved to walk around carrying handfuls of bags.
After years of detective work, University geosciences professor Gerta Keller and her colleagues have found that an intensive period of volcanic eruptions and a series of asteroid impacts likely ended the dinosaurs' reign on Earth, challenging the dominant theory that a single cataclysmic asteroid hit caused their extinction.Though an asteroid or comet could have struck Earth at the time of the dinosaur extinction, it most likely was, Keller said, "the straw that broke the camel's back" and not the sole cause.For more than a decade, scientists have believed the Chicxulub crater ? submerged off Mexico's Yucatan peninsula and and more than 110 miles wide ? was the remnant of the dinosaur-killing event.The time of the dinosaur extinction is known as the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary (K-T). Keller's team, working on the problem since the Chicxulub was identified as the K-T impact crater, accumulated data and evidence from more than 100 localities that simply did not fit the popular K-T impact theory."We wanted to find out just what the kill-effect of this impact was, how quickly the mass dying occurred and whether there were environmental changes preceding it that may have contributed to the mass extinction," Keller said.Keller's findings revealed that the asteroid which formed the Chicxulub crater crashed 300,000 years before dinosaurs died out.
Any veteran of an Orange Key tour can rattle off a few historical high points for the University.
The Housing Department announced Monday that it will guarantee a room for every undergraduate, provided that students meet certain conditions.As explained on the department's website, this policy was made "in support of the academic mission of the University and in recognition that residential living is an integral part of the Princeton educational experience."While Princeton has traditionally provided all students with housing for the past 25 years, the new policy makes this common practice official, said Lisa DePaul, assistant director of undergraduate housing.The statement was issued in direct response to the large number of students who were wait-listed last year.
The Department of Near Eastern Studies has recommended assistant professor Michael Doran GS '97 for tenure, department chair Andras Hamori confirmed Monday.Although Hamori could not give any details regarding the department's decision, the announcement is particularly significant because Doran was recently offered a tenured position at Brandeis University.Once a tenure candidate has earned his department's approval, the next step in the process is review by the Committee of Three, composed of six faculty members, the senior deans and the provost.Doran, who received his masters and doctoral degrees from Princeton, teaches courses in "political Islam, Middle Eastern nationalisms, U.S.-Middle East relations and the Arab-Israeli conflict," according to his profile on the NES website.In recent years, Doran, an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City, has become an increasingly influential figure in Middle East policy.
DENVER ? Early on, at least, everything was going right for the men's basketball team.Midway through the first half, the No.
DENVER ? The sign Becky Farbstein '04 held up said it all:"Plane Ticket From Jersey: $400 Tickets to NCAA Game: $50 Blowing Off Your Thesis To Dance In Denver: Priceless" Sure, the men's basketball team was playing almost 1,800 miles away from campus.
Though the Princeton Shopping Center on Harrison St. is only a stone's throw from campus, Rutgers University students redesigned the complex last semester, and now the township is considering implementing their vision.The students worked on plans to transform the shopping center into a higher density community center.
As of March 1, 180 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) infringement complaints had been filed with the University this school year.
The Russian presidential race ended with Vladimir Putin's landslide victory on March 14, ending weeks of international media speculation surrounding several unprecedented events.In early February a presidential candidate mysteriously disappeared and reappeared in Kiev, only to later drop out of the race.On Feb.
As Zinzi Bailey '06 left for class at Madrid's Universidad Complutense on March 11, her host's cleaning lady told her there had been a train bombing and that at least 30 people had been killed."I was completely horrified," Bailey said in a telephone interview.
President Bush held his first rally of the 2004 campaign in Florida on Saturday, attacking Democratic nominee Sen.
Four computers worth nearly $8,000 were stolen from the office of the Educational Technology Center in Frist Campus Center between March 5 and 8, authorities said."It's rare to have a multiple number of computers taken at the same time," said Duncan Harrison said, associate director of operations for Public Safety.The computers ? a silver IBM ThinkPad, a large-screen Dell, a white Apple iMac and an IBM notebook ? are valued at $7,645, according to a Princeton Borough police report.Office staff reported the burglary on Monday, March 8.
Editor's noteThe lawsuit that was eventually filed against the University was dismissed in November 2006 when a Court did not find evidential support for gender bias in the record, and the case did not go to trial.
When Princeton firefighters determined that an Apple computer was the cause of a fire in Moffit Hall over two years ago, the University's insurance reimbursed the school for over $2 million.
As senior White House aides go, Joshua Bolten '76, the man who puts together the budget of the president of the United States, is an awfully modest guy.When reminded that The New York Times last year reported that he "has his fingerprints all over 'just about every . . . domestic policy concocted in his powerful little corner of the West Wing,' " Bolten responded with the weary sarcasm of a man who has heard it all before."Geez, I'm surprised they left out international," he muttered.In fact, when the 'Prince' called his West Wing office for an interview last week, he professed surprise that his his alma mater's newspaper would want to talk to the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget and former deputy chief of staff."You guys must really be scraping the bottom of the barrel," he said. Life at the White HouseLike many White House staffers, Bolten constantly steers the topic of conversation away from himself and back to his boss, President George W.
Many University students on Saturday are planning to leave the stresses and sleeplessness of midterm week to embark on spring break 2004.
Finally, the magic word flashed onto the screen.Sure, each member of the sizeable crowd gathered in the Rockefeller College common room Sunday evening had seen those nine letters spelled out millions of times before.
Michael Davenport '06 was working on a paper at 1:30 a.m. Thursday morning when he received an instant message from a friend containing an apology and a web address.
The Department of Near Eastern Studies will hold a meeting Friday to discuss the career of assistant professor Michael Doran GS '97, a well-liked scholar of the Middle East known for his post-Sept.
