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University to offer financial aid forms, application sections online

University to offer financial aid forms, application sections online

Internet technologies are playing a growing role in University functions, and future applicants may soon be able to submit some forms online.Part of the college application, financial aid forms and student billing information are all planned to be transformed into web services, said Tim Hogan, OIT information specialist.As web services, these forms could be filled out and sent in electronically over the Internet, without the use of paper forms.

NEWS | 05/12/2002

Surges in Graduate School enrollment lead to housing shortage and rising rents

Zena Hitz GS walks down paved paths lined with peeling beech trees everyday to get back home. For the last few weeks, the idyllic Princeton lifestyle has been offset by a growing anxiety about housing next year.Hitz lost her Hibben apartment off Faculty Road, where she lived for four years in this year's room draw.

NEWS | 05/12/2002

Bush to honor mathematics professor Stein with National Medal of Science

University mathematics professor Elias Stein will receive the National Medal of Science next month at the White House.

NEWS | 05/12/2002

Dance, theater, music, comedy shows to entertain students during final weeks

The humdrum of reading period and examinations will be broken by several campus productions over the next month ? including performances of BodyHype Dance Company, the University Concert Choir, Triangle Club and the Student Playwrights' Festival.BodyHype will hold their spring show this weekend at Frist Theatre.

NEWS | 05/09/2002

Arson suspected in recent dumpster fires

A wave of dumpster fires seemingly caused by arson has struck campus during the past two months, including three incidents in the last five days, said Barry Weiser, Public Safety crime prevention specialist.The fires have occurred most frequently around Spelman Hall and the "junior slums" dormitories."At this time, there is what is perceived to be a problem with dumpster fires," University Fire Marshall Bob Gregory said.

NEWS | 05/09/2002

Finding a sense of strength and community at a pro-Israel rally

This past April 15th finds me at the pro-Israel rally in Washington, D.C. The first truly hot day of spring.

NEWS | 05/09/2002

Bernanke nominated to two-year seat on Federal Reserve Board

Ben Bernanke, chair of the economics department, made national headlines Wednesday when President Bush nominated him to one of seven positions on the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors.Bernanke, 48, will represent the Atlanta District on the board.

NEWS | 05/09/2002

History professors given 'Prince' award for response to Sept. 11

History professors Anthony Grafton, Hendrik Hartog and Robert Tignor received The Daily Princetonian Award at the newspaper's annual banquet Wednesday night.The professors won the award for their efforts to engender intellectual discussion after Sept.

NEWS | 05/09/2002

A different reality: Podrasky copes with having a handicap on campus

On a drizzly spring afternoon, David Podrasky '05 leads a group of 20 prospective students and their families across the University campus, guiding them through the muddy greenery.In most respects, this tour is like any other.

NEWS | 05/07/2002

Bush taps Bernanke for Federal Reserve

Ben Bernanke, chair of the University's economics department, will today move one step closer to the desk of Alan Greenspan.The White House is expected to announce officially today that Bernanke has been nominated for the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors, senior White House officials said yesterday.President Bush has decided to nominate Bernanke to one of two vacant positions on the seven-member board.

NEWS | 05/07/2002

Professors make annual trip to study Galapagos finches' beaks

Peter and Rosemary Grant would fare well on "Survivor."Living alone on a small, uninhabited island, communicating with the mainland only by radio and relying on a national park service's monthly delivery of drinking water have become second nature for this husband-and-wife research team.Since 1973, the University ecology and evolutionary biology professors have made a yearly trip to Daphne Major in the Galapagos Islands, staying anywhere from six weeks to six months each time.Part of the archipelago originally made famous by Charles Darwin, Daphne Major provided the Grants an ideal location for tracking evolutionary patterns in native animal populations.With the help of the Darwin Research Station and the Galapagos National Parks authority, they gathered data with relatively few obstacles or interruptions.Their resulting study, recently published in the journal Science, is "one of the true classics of evolutionary biology," John Burke, an Indiana University professor, said in the article.Over three decades, the Grants focused their study on two indigenous species, the cactus finch and the ground finch."They were already famous in evolutionary biology before we started our work, and they seemed to us the most suitable group of birds for our ecological and evolutionary studies," Peter Grant said in an e-mail from Switzerland.They found that the average beak size of the ground finch changed slightly according to food availability.In 1977, a major drought hit the island, and many small-seeded plants were killed.

NEWS | 05/07/2002

Fourteen years of darts on Wall Street lead Malkiel to reassert stock theory

Journalists are not monkeys, but they are pretty close. For the last 14 years, Wall Street Journal reporters have thrown darts at NASDAQ stock listings, choosing stocks to compete against the picks of professional investors.The test is an extension of University economics professor Burton Malkiel GS '64's book "A Random Walk Down Wall Street."The book states, "A blindfolded monkey throwing darts at a newspaper's financial pages could select a portfolio that would do just as well as one carefully selected by the experts."The Journal accorded Malkiel the honor of throwing the first dart and, 142 contests later, the experiment concluded last month.

NEWS | 05/07/2002

Student conservative groups decry liberalism, political apathy on campus

Though the University's long history gives it an air of traditionalism that contributes to the school's somewhat conservative reputation, conservative groups on campus disagree with the notion that Princeton is a conservative school.Peter Hegseth '03, publisher of the Princeton Tory, a conservative newsmagazine that prints several times each semester, said compared to the opinions of the average American, the views of University students are very liberal."Compared to a Harvard or a Brown, we have a conservative student body," he said, adding, however, that the leftist movements at those schools have become "very radicalized."Allison Ball '04, president of the College Republicans, agreed."Obviously a lot of the student body is liberal, and obviously a lot of the student body is apathetic about politics," she said, noting that the College Republicans have between 25 and 30 active members with an e-mail list of several hundred names.Another group, the Princeton Committee Against Terrorism, which was founded in response to the attacks of Sept.

NEWS | 05/05/2002

Parties result in 10 medical transports

Nearly a dozen students required medical transport by University and Borough authorities for intoxication during Houseparties weekend.Ten University students ? six females and four males ? were transported for intoxication, said Public Safety Sgt.

NEWS | 05/05/2002

Historian considers Wilson's view of today's Princeton for exhibit opening

A century ago, the appointment of Woodrow Wilson 1879 as University president signaled the greatest period of reform in the University's history and brought forth a vision that has come to define the institution.At his inauguration in 1902, Wilson saw a college trailing its rivals in academic prestige and helped transform it into a university unmatched in its focus on undergraduate education.

NEWS | 05/05/2002

Dining services adds student contest winners' recipes to menu

While FristFest gatherers waited in line for free cotton candy and popcorn on the South Lawn Thursday, Rosa Poetes '05 took center stage and raised a large cardboard check as an award for her mother's Mediterranean chicken recipe.As winner of dining services' "There's No Place Like Home!" recipe contest, Poetes won $250 toward the cost of flying her mother from Germany to Princeton to sample dining services' preparation of her family recipe on May 14, when all four award-winning recipes will be served.Dining services director Stuart Orefice said the purpose of the contest ? co-sponsored by the USG and open to undergraduate and graduate students who have purchased a meal plan with dining services ? was to add variety to meals as well as gain feedback from students."It's nice to hear from our customers ? our students," he said.

NEWS | 05/05/2002

Flower Market alleviates Houseparties anxiety with expert bouquet advice

For any University student attending a Houseparties ball, Marie DePinto is the fairy godmother of flowers.DePinto, who works at The Flower Market off Witherspoon Street, offers motherly wisdom to girls on boutonniere selection and helps boys decide whether to buy a corsage or a bouquet ? corsages are out, she says: relics of the '70s."Irises, Gerber Daisies, and Orchid buds will fall apart," she said.

NEWS | 05/02/2002

Prizes, awards given to students, faculty

Princeton students, faculty and a former president of the University have been collecting a bevy of honors, gaining recognition and financial support for a wide variety of projects.History professor Peter Lake, electrical engineering professor Vincent Poor GS '76 and politics professor Howard Rosenthal received the annual Guggenheim Fellowship.

NEWS | 05/02/2002

Professors discuss unexpected results of recent French primary election

A panel met yesterday to discuss and evaluate the recent presidential primary election in France, in the second bowl of Robertson Hall.In a vote that shocked French citizens and people around the world, Jean Marie Le Pen ? the far-right candidate with a history of staunch nationalism and Nazi sympathy ? defeated the popular Socialist candidate Lionel Jospin.

NEWS | 05/02/2002

University groundskeeper Consolloy has a tale for every tree

Ask Jim Consolloy about any plant on campus. The University grounds manager since 1989, he knows the stories behind virtually every tree and shrub.He is charged with envisioning and executing beautiful landscapes ? and making sure they are protected.He said proudly that he has bought every tree since he became grounds manager."It's a living campus.

NEWS | 05/02/2002

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