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Seeing stripes: Professors create GPS zebra tracker

Seeing stripes: Professors create GPS zebra tracker

Princeton engineers and evolutionary biologists are hard at work creating new technology that will track the smallest movements and interactions of - zebras?The Engineering School and the EEB department have collaborated to create a biological tracking device named ZebraNet that may well change the face of zoology.ZebraNet is a system in which zebras are fitted with collars containing a GPS chip, flash memory and a radio transceiver that can broadcast information from multiple zebras to scientists at a base station.

NEWS | 12/02/2002

AIDS week focuses on student awareness and activism

If the University were in Botswana, what proportion of the student body would be infected with HIV?

NEWS | 12/02/2002

From WWS to PAW: Marks GS '86 writes her way back to Nassau Hall

Marilyn Marks GS '86's life has taken her from the hallowed halls of the University's Wilson School to the intifada-ridden streets of Jerusalem in the late 1980s to the semitropical environs of Miami.

NEWS | 12/02/2002

Good sports: Alumni organizations offset shortages in athletic funding

How much does it cost the University to train the Tigers, put jerseys on their backs and maintain campus pools, fields, tracks and arenas?

NEWS | 12/02/2002

Gay students seek understanding from campus community

Some homosexual students come to the University only to return to the "closet" they may have left or hoped to leave while still in high school.

NEWS | 12/01/2002

Penn Police release names of assailants

University of Pennsylvania Police on Wednesday named the five students arraigned for allegedly assaulting a Princeton debate team member Nov.

NEWS | 12/01/2002

A gem in the rough: One senior's search for the perfect class

Since freshman year, and especially since becoming a history major, I have tried to prove the merits of classroom education to my father.

NEWS | 12/01/2002

Don't forget your own interests, and other course enrollment tips

I remember the first time I sat down with a Course Offerings and began my scrupulous attack on those newspaper-thin pages: fall of freshmen year, on my brand-spanking-new shag carpet from Home Depot, while the hum of students bracing for the burgeoning academic year filtered through my gothic window.As I pored over every reading list and classroom requirement, my excitement grew.

NEWS | 12/01/2002

Senior thesis funding applications rise, funding availability lags

The number of students requesting senior thesis research funding has increased nearly 50 percent over the past three years, causing some students to walk away with little money.In past years, 115 to 120 seniors generally requested money in the fall to fund their senior thesis work, said Richard Williams, associate dean of the college.

NEWS | 12/01/2002

The 'Prince' highlights the Spring 2003 course offerings

ART 371: American Art and Modernism (John Wilmerding) Wilmerding's lectures are not to be missed.

NEWS | 12/01/2002

West expected to draw crowds to new AAS classes

When an administrative error let 606 Harvard University students enroll in Professor Cornel West GS '80's "Intro to Afro-American Studies" course in 2001, West stood before his overflowing lecture hall and vowed that no student would be turned away.After considering several venues, the course was ultimately held in the lower level of a nearby parish.West's lecture this spring, AAS 369/REL 369: Philosophic, Religious and Literary Dimensions of DuBois, Baldwin and Morrison, may prove to be as popular as its Harvard predecessor.The course lists 32 potential precepts and a maximum enrollment of 400.

NEWS | 12/01/2002

Going back: Fleming picks spring classes

Presuming that I am ineligible for freshman seminars, and therefore not allowed to take the six or eight that most intrigue me, my wish list would include the following:ANT 321: Ritual, Myth and Worldview (Isabelle Clark-Deces). I know nothing about the subject or the professor, but it sounds great, and I want to find out what "compassionate cannibalism" is, among other things.ARA 102: Elementary Arabic II (Staff). For obvious reasons, but it's my tough luck that 101 doesn't seem to be taught in the spring.ART 332: The Landscape of Allusion: Garden and Landscape Architecture, 1450-1750 (John Pinto). The richness of the topic, taken together with the dynamism of the professor, puts this course high on my wish list.AST 402: Interstellar Matter and Star Formation (Gillian Knapp and David Spergel). My motive?

NEWS | 12/01/2002

Federal law forces University to send data on international students to INS by federal regulation

The University will start reporting new information on international students to the INS by Jan. 31 to comply with new government regulations, University officials said.Because of a timeline set by last year's Patriot Act bill ? passed in response to the Sept.

NEWS | 11/26/2002

Penn police arrest fifth student for alleged assault

A fifth suspect in the alleged assault of a Princeton student turned himself in to University of Pennsylvania Police yesterday, said Lori Doyle, vice president of Penn communications.All five suspects are male undergraduates at Penn, authorities have said.

NEWS | 11/26/2002

University weighs upperclass dining facility proposal

At the same time as sophomores begin deciding which eating club, if any, to join, Laura Chiang '05 proposed that the University create an upperclass dining hall for those students who wish to remain on the school's meal plan.While upperclass students have always had alternative dining options ? including signing up for a University dining plan, signing into a eating coop and going independent ? they have lacked a centralized dining hall.

NEWS | 11/26/2002

Students send giant 'Blondie' cartoon greeting cards to American servicemen

This Thanksgiving giant greeting cards featuring the cartoon "Blondie" and signatures of University students will try to brighten the lives of deployed American troops overseas.To show appreciation to the country's armed forces, the White House Commission on Remembrance has organized Operation Grateful Nation, a pilot program in which 100 greeting cards will be sent overseas."We hope that this token of appreciation and touch of home will show them that they are remembered and will boost their morale," Carmella LaSpada, the commission's executive director, said in a statement.Various groups held card signings for the effort.

NEWS | 11/26/2002

University receives $225,000 for inter-group diversity

The Bildner Family Foundation has awarded a $225,000 grant to the University, as one of eight schools receiving funds to increase intergroup discussion of diversity.The three-year grant allocates $30,000 for student and faculty diversity programming efforts, and a committee of seven faculty members, staff and students will meet Dec.

NEWS | 11/26/2002

E-mail sparks rumor of Campus Club coup

What began as an attempt to find a new dining option resulted in a rumored takeover of Campus Club earlier this week when a series of emails among several minority groups were misinterpreted."The term takeover has been misconstrued as a political statement and movement, which is not the goal of the original people joining," said Hassina Outtz '04, who is trying to recruit friends to join Campus.This fall Campus began a new process for admitting members in response to low sign-in numbers during the past few years.

NEWS | 11/26/2002

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