In his cluttered corner office in the Wilson School, professor Richard Falk hangs a large black-and-white poster of a giraffe.
The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory ? a government-funded University research effort to turn particle fusion into a harnessable source of energy ? has created a Website to explain plasma physics in laymen's terms.The site, called the Internet Plasma Physics Education eXperience, is geared toward the general public, according to PPPL Science Education Program lead scientist Andrew Zwicker.Designed to be comprehensible to students at the middle school level, teh Website has been used by college students and even physicists for research purposes.The site was created by a team that includes University physicists.
The University recently pledged $155,000 to the Princeton First Aid and Rescue Squad ? a group that provides emergency services for Princeton Borough and Township.
As the "e-volution" spirals into its golden age, net privacy is increasingly a salient concern for computer scientists and civil rights experts.
Scholars everywhere owe their livelihood to the invention that is commonly attributed to Johann Gutenberg.
Princeton students may soon graduate with certificates in construction.The campus has been infiltrated with construction projects that are rebuilding, revamping, refurbishing and recreating the historic campus.
A group of more than 100 professors from Princeton, Rutgers and the Institute for Advanced for Advanced Study signed a petition last week that was sent to Russian Premier Alexei Kosygin requesting revocation of the sentences given Soviet authors Andrei D.
While journalists and reporters crammed the White House briefing room, firing questions and scribbling notes, Michael McCurry '76 stood behind the podium "facing about a billion cameras the day the Lewinsky story broke," he said.On the receiving end of the fusillade of clamoring media, this was only one day, though undoubtedly one of the most memorable, in McCurry's three-year tenure as President Clinton's press secretary from 1995-98."Scandals were easy," McCurry candidly said, recalling the Lewinsky events via e-mail.
Five students reported Sunday that their property was stolen while at Quadrangle Club and Tower Club last weekend, according to Borough Police Capt.
Though U.S. News and World Report still has the University at the top of its list, another national publication has Princeton far from first.In its Feb.
When Wayne Van Citters '69 was about to walk out of FitzRandolph Gate at the end of the last all-male academic year in Princeton's history, the looming Vietnam War and all of the social turmoil it caused threatened to suffocate the post-graduate academic ambitions of many of the students in his class.
Princeton graduates from all parts of the United States will be on campus tomorrow for the 45th Annual Midwinter Meeting of the Princeton National Alumni Association.
Authorities arrested the two teenagers wanted for the murders of Half and Susanne Zantop at around 4 a.m.
Duke University recently announced its plan to require all undergraduate students to own a portable computer by fall of 2005 ? a plan that Princeton has not yet considered.To begin implementing this initiative, all undergraduates entering fall 2002 and after will be required to own a portable computer.
Last Tuesday, Joseph Mesa, a 20-year-old Gallaudet University freshman, was arrested and charged with two counts of felony murder in connection with two separate murders in the past four-and-a-half months.His arrest came 10 days after the body of former dorm-mate Benjamin Varner, a 19-year-old freshman, was found stabbed to death, according to a Gallaudet University press release.Last September, Eric Plunkett ? a freshman with cerebral palsy who also lived in the same dorm as Mesa ? was found beaten to death.
University Vice President for Development Van Zandt Williams '65 announced his retirement this week following the conclusion last June of the record-setting Anniversary Campaign that raised approximately $1.14 billion for the University.His announcement comes several months after President Shapiro made public his own decision to step down.Williams, who has worked in his current capacity since 1980, said he would continue to work through the transition period under Shapiro's successor.
While new eating club presidents get comfortable with their new positions, the threat of an alcohol crackdown at the 'Street' may loom closer after incidents that occurred during initiations weekend prompted a resurgence of discussion at last week's Borough Council meeting.At the Feb.
Professor Robert Kaster and his colleagues in the classics department have a "door code." They keep their doors open when they're in their offices and happy to meet with students and other faculty.When their doors are closed almost all the way, but not shut, that means to knock: they're busy, but might still be able to meet with people.
Posters and buttons distributed by the Workers Rights Organizing Committee last night gave a swift reminder to students heading out to Prospect Avenue of some of the realities the group claims are faced by Princeton's low-wage workers.Members of WROC said they hoped the posters, which lined the gates of various eating clubs, would give a new perspective on the issue.
Students should not be surprised if they notice their classmates discussing race and women's issues around campus during the next few weeks.
