Engineer explores structural reasons for WTC collapse
Noted structural engineer and visiting University lecturer, Dr. Charles Thornton, spoke yesterday about the engineering analysis of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.
Noted structural engineer and visiting University lecturer, Dr. Charles Thornton, spoke yesterday about the engineering analysis of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.
When Dennis Specht, founder and chairman of the network software company dynamicsoft, speaks on campus tonight, part of his audience should be especially attentive.
No one would guess, upon first meeting her, that she is responsible for a cancer-fighting vitamin, soon to hit drug stores across the country.
University Provost Amy Gutmann announced the immediate promotion of three administrators to the position of vice provost and the appointment of one associate provost on Monday.Associate Dean of the Faculty Katherine Rhorer will serve as vice provost for academic programs.
The Princeton Pride Alliance, in conjunction with LGBT Student Services, is subsidizing and organizing a series of activities starting tonight for Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Awareness Week to build awareness of and support for the gay, bisexual and transgender community.A number of other student organizations, including the USG and the Program in African-American Studies, are also co-sponsoring events, which will run through next Thursday.LGBT Student Service, Pride Alliance and the Frist Campus Center will be kicking off the events tonight with a speech by James Dale, the Boy Scout leader who was expelled because of his homosexuality.Other activities range from more social, bonding events, such as "First Fridays at Frist" and a BBQ Picnic on Sunday, to academic panels like Monday's discussion on African-American sexuality and Saturday's trip to New York city to return to the roots of the gay pride movement.Pride Alliance Publicity Chair Kevin Simmons '03 said, "The activities allow for different levels of involvement and center around providing a comfortable atmosphere for people to talk about homosexuality in their lives and the community."Awareness Week will be celebrated Tuesday with "Gay Jeans Day." All members of the University are invited to wear jeans to show their support and awareness of the gay community."Being gay shouldn't be anything strange or unusual.
The first day of October was a day of new beginnings for Georgia Nugent '73, who spent her first day on the job as the first dean of the Harold McGraw Jr.
Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Students Maria Flores-Mills arrived on campus in August to begin her new job.
Robert Accordino '03 is living out a dream. In 1997, Accordino attended the most recent installment of the Trilogy Series: a charity concert series that features three a cappella groups: the Princeton Tigertones, Harvard Krokodiloes and Yale Whiffenpoofs.
The road less traveled has been particularly long and rocky for University computer science professor Edward Felten.Since developing an innovative method of breaking the code intended to protect digital music files from being copied, Felten has been involved in a complicated legal battle with some of the record industry's most powerful forces who threatened to sue if he published his research.On Nov.
The Board of Trustees appointed new faculty members earlier this year to accommodate new areas of research and fill vacancies in several departments.
University Public Safety reported year 2000 crime statistics last week.With American patriotism surging in the wake of the terrorist attacks last month and University pride swelling with the installation of the academy's 19th president Shirley Tilghman, Princetonians are riding high on a wave of freedom and seem unconcerned with petty thefts and larcenies.But the increasing numbers in this year's crime report reveal it may be the campus' relative openness that allows these statistics to grow.
For several years, University Public Safety has used student workers to respond to the numerous lock-out calls it receives each day.Director of Public Safety Jerrold Witsil said that for as long as he has worked at the University ? 26 years ? his department has used student workers to help with lockouts at night.However, the use of students in this capacity might become more common this year.
Princeton is famous for scientific innovation, but few people know that the University runs one of the most efficient power plants in America.The plant, an unassuming structure just south of the MacMillan building on Elm Drive, was built just to power campus.
As next month's elections draw near, the heat is beginning to turn up on Steven Abt '04's run for Princeton Borough Council.
In their daily travels to and from classes, practices and meetings, Princeton students cannot help but encounter a myriad of construction projects in various quarters of the Princeton campus.
Wilson School Dean Michael Rothschild announced yesterday that he will step down this summer, after six years as head of the School of Public and International Affairs.
Twelve-year-old Janet bounded through the aisles of the public library on Witherspoon Street. She muttered to herself in Spanish.
If anything can be concluded from last night's American Whig-Cliosophic Society forum on a possible Borough ordinance concerning underage drinking, it is that controversy over campus drinking problems is far from dead.Representatives from the Borough government, Borough Police, eating clubs and counseling agencies all met for the first time in a formal setting to discuss the ordinance.
For Li Shaomin GS '88, a brief passport check by an immigration officer in Shenzhen, China, turned into a five-month journey through the Chinese legal system.Li discussed the Chinese legal system and his "participatory observation" of it with a crowd of more than 200 in a speech at the Frist Campus Center last night.
Wilson School visiting professor Christopher Wren had not originally planned to broach the topic of terrorism in his class, HUM/WWS 447: Politics and the Media: Covering International Intrigue, until four or five weeks into the semester.After the horrific events of Sept.