Last summer, Virginia Pourakis '05 received a large, cylindrical package with a return address listing the sender as former Dean of Admission Fred Hargadon.
At a time when many college students across the country face the prospect of rising tuition, President George W.
University Vice Provost for Administration Joann Mitchell will serve as the next vice president and chief of staff for the University of Pennsylvania, officials there announced Thursday.
When George Reis '01 returned to the University last fall as a first-year doctoral student in the electrical engineering department, he noticed a few changes.
When Francis Bellamy wrote the "Pledge to the Flag" in 1892, the now-ubiquitous wording was quite different than what children are familiar with today: "I pledge allegiance to my Flag, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all."The pledge, which underwent several major revisions ? including the addition of the phrase "under God" in 1954 ? now faces an ideologically-charged constitutional test at the Supreme Court.
The second annual Princeton Colloquium on Public and International Affairs, to be held April 23 and 24, will address the significance of nongovernmental organizations in domestic and international relations across the globe.The event, titled "In the Service of All Nations?
If the space science community were the night sky, Princeton might just be the North Star. From the conception of space telescopes to rocket propulsion, the University has contributed seminal advancements to the study of space for decades.
Though life sometimes seems picture-perfect inside the Princeton bubble, things are not necessarily so just outside our doorstep.
University Provost Amy Gutmann approved a policy on Monday to switch all office-use paper to 100 percent post-consumer waste (PCW) recycled materials on April 1, up from the current 42 percent PCW paper.The policy was advocated by the Princeton Environmental Oversight Committee, a group established by President Tilghman in 2002 to monitor the University's relationship with the environment.According to many of the people involved in the passage of the policy, the move to all recycled paper is a small but important step for campus environmental policy, and will raise awareness for other issues Greening Princeton ? the main student group pushing for the change ? is pursuing.The University is ahead of the pack in adopting the 100 percent PCW recylced paper.It is, in fact, one of the first academic institutions in the country to make the switch, said Ilya Fischoff GS, a member of Greening Princeton.
To examine the intersection between the issues of race and sexual orientation, the USG and the LGBT Peer Educators cosponsored a forum Wednesday night at Frist Campus Center."Students of color and LGBT persuasion know the reality," said Matt Margolin '05, USG president, during the event's opening speech.
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in a multi-million dollar mansion with a bunch of your best friends, where you could spend your days dining on food prepared by a professional chef and otherwise use the space to throw gigantic parties for hundreds of kids on a weekly basis?For a select few University students ? also known as eating club officers ? this dream is a reality.
As part of new series, the 'Prince' will feature interviews with prominent people on campus. Religion professor Cornel West GS '80, is today's feature.Prince: What is your favorite food?West: Potatoes.P: What one book do you think everyone would benefit from reading?W: The Book of Job.P: What one piece of music do you think everyone would benefit from listening to?W: John Coltrane, My Favorite Things P: What is your favorite way to relax?W: Reading.
Annual Giving, the University's flagship fundraising campaign, has collected more donations this fiscal year than at the same point last year, University officials said Monday."It's encouraging to be ahead, but it's sort of like having a two-run lead in the seventh inning," said Bill Hardt '63, director of the Annual Giving.
Two highly regarded professors of cultural studies, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., of Harvard University, and Murray Friedman of Temple University, led a public discussion Tuesday night on African American-Jewish American relations.The McCosh 50 event marked the beginning of "Black-Jewish Relations Week," a project organized by the Princeton Committee on Prejudice."I think that horizontal discrimination between minority ethnic groups is overlooked sometimes and it's important that we're calling people's attention to this issue," said Lauren Phillips '04, moderator of the discussion.The audience was a racially diverse group, primarily of non-students.Both professors spoke of the particular, peculiar relationship between blacks and Jews."Black America needs allies more than it needs absolution," said Gates, chair of the African and African-American studies department at Harvard.
The face of Firestone Library is looking drastically different this spring, its usually prim fa
In a wide-reaching discussion Monday on the University's future, President Tilghman pledged to keep all main University buildings within a 10 minute walk from the center of campus, praised the coming four year residential college as a third option for undergraduates and reaffirmed her commitment to improving the engineering school and expanding the University's creative arts program.
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.
