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Fellbaum GS '80 wins Humboldt Foundation prize

Fellbaum GS '80 wins Humboldt Foundation prize

Christiane Fellbaum of the University psychology department was one of 14 recipients of the prestigious Humboldt Foundation's Wolfgang Paul prize earlier this month.The Paul prize is "the most valuable award in the academic history of Germany," University physics professor Elliott Lieb said.Fellbaum will study the lexicon and lexical semantics."I am interested in the meanings of words, how these meanings are reflected in the syntactic behavior of the words and how the meanings of different words interrelate within the whole of the lexicon," she said.Winners use the money over three years to carry out projects at various institutions in Germany.

NEWS | 11/18/2001

The end of Ivy League domination?

Prestigious postgraduate fellowships like the Rhodes, Marshall and Fulbright can take students who win them a long way.

NEWS | 11/18/2001

University leads Ivies in percentage of black first-year students

Princeton University has the highest percentage of African-American freshmen in the Ivy League this year, according to a survey conducted by The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education.

NEWS | 11/18/2001

Dixon and Macisaac '02: Masterminds of JustATip.com

Ever had the urge to tip someone off about his big butt, lack of skills on the dance floor or obtrusive body odor?

NEWS | 11/15/2001

Actor Danny Glover speaks on death penalty in McCosh 50

Actor Danny Glover - most famous for his role in the Lethal Weapon movie series - spoke against the death penalty in a packed McCosh 50 last night.Glover said in many cases innocent men are sentenced to death.

NEWS | 11/15/2001

Borough Police issue warning to participants in anti-abortion demonstration near Marx

Borough Police issued a warning yesterday afternoon to members of a Philadelphia-area church involved in what police are calling an anti-abortion demonstration at the University.The demonstration, in part an anti-abortion protest, took place on the west side of Washington Road at McCosh Walk for about five hours before police intervened."There were five or six people holding up different posters," said by-stander Archer Batchellor '05.

NEWS | 11/15/2001

Council contemplates emergency phone plan

Princeton Borough Council is considering the implementation of a phone alert system that will spread information quickly among local residents in the event of an emergency.The system would be used in situations where important news or instructions must be disseminated to residents in a short period of time."In terms of getting information out to people, it's a great tool," said Princeton Borough Police Chief Charles Davall, who is directing emergency management planning in the Borough.

NEWS | 11/15/2001

Alumni, scholars to share success stories of entrepreneurship

The state of entrepreneurship in the 21st century, from globalization to the dominance of intellectual capital, will be the topic of discussion tonight at 7 p.m.

NEWS | 11/14/2001

Campus reacts to victory in Kabul

Taliban forces withdrew from the Afghan capital of Kabul in the past two days under intense military pressure from the Northern Alliance, which the United States has supported through air bombings and special ground forces.The Taliban reportedly rushed south to the stronghold city of Kandahar, and yesterday reports said the Taliban was also considering leaving that city to fight a guerrilla war on the southern outskirts of Afghanistan.

NEWS | 11/14/2001

Universities' admissions processes adjust to mail delays after recent anthrax cases

As discoveries of anthrax spores shut down post offices and slowed mail delivery throughout the nation, admissions offices at many universities, including at Princeton, have decided to be flexible with their deadlines.

NEWS | 11/14/2001

FBI questions University personnel to find possible sources of anthrax

As part of the investigation into the recent anthrax mailings ? a national search that has focused on the greater Trenton area ? officials from the FBI have questioned molecular biologists at Princeton.A spokeswoman for the FBI explained that agents have been visiting many laboratories in the Trenton area as part of their investigation.In Princeton itself, both BASF Agro-Research and Bristol-Myers Squibb operate research facilities.

NEWS | 11/14/2001

University withdraws from alliance to offer public free, Internet-based distance learning

The University will withdraw next month from the Alliance for Life-Long Learning ? of which it is a founding member ? to pursue an independent long-distance education venture.

NEWS | 11/14/2001

Leveling the playing field

This past summer, sociology professor and Wilson College master Miguel Centeno helped establish the Princeton University Preparatory Program, a mentoring program linking area high school students to University community members.

NEWS | 11/14/2001

Korean woman speaks on experience as Japanese 'comfort woman'

Hwang Keum-ju was an 18 year-old foster-daughter of a wealthy Korean family when she received a draft notice from the Japanese government during its wartime occupation of Korea.

NEWS | 11/14/2001

Politics professor Greenstein says Bush has become stronger leader since Sept. 11

Nearly one year after Election Day 2000 and two months after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, President Bush is experiencing the longest successive rally around a president since presidential approval rating polling was first conducted."Now for the seventh successive week he has been between 86 and 90 percent," politics professor Fred Greenstein said as he opened his "consumer reports" analysis of the Bush presidency in Dodds auditorium yesterday afternoon."This is a man, the 43rd President, about whom grave reservations have been or were raised before September 11," Greenstein said.

NEWS | 11/13/2001

Sky survey predicts lesser risk of asteroid collision with Earth

A recently published study that sought to more accurately pinpoint size, location and number of asteroids asserts there is a decreased probability of an asteroid colliding catastrophically with Earth in the next 100 years.Using data provided by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey ? of which the University is a member ? researchers have found that there are approximately 700,000 asteroids large enough to destroy Earth, as compared with a previous estimate of two million.

NEWS | 11/13/2001

Psychology professors study student reaction to tragedy

In light of the events of Sept. 11, psychology department chair Joan Girgus and researcher Gilda Paul have decided to conduct a study analyzing "how college students are feeling in the wake of the tragedies."On Nov.

NEWS | 11/13/2001

New administration faces absences at major posts

The inauguration of a new University president has traditionally signaled an administrative transition period campus-wide.

NEWS | 11/13/2001

Success measured in degrees: Dennis Keller '63 and DeVry Institute

With the computer's increasing importance in today's workplace, technology institutes such as DeVry are attracting more students than ever.This trend is no surprise.

NEWS | 11/13/2001

Lewis donates science library

Frank Gehry will soon be joining the ranks of I. M. Pei and Robert Venturi '47 GS '50 in the list of famous architects who have designed buildings on campus, thanks to a $60 million gift from Peter Lewis '55.Lewis' donation will fund the construction of a new science library, which will be designed by Gehry.

NEWS | 11/13/2001

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