When students, faculty and administrators woke up yesterday and remembered the emotions and horrors of Tuesday's events in New York and Washington, many hoped it had just been a nightmare.
Just in time for the beginning of the new admissions season, the University was ranked number one last week among 249 similar institutions by U.S.
Amid the whirlwind of the first day of classes and the lingering effects of Tuesday's disaster, the University continues to prepare for a series of other major changes ? including the construction of a new residential college and the integration of 500 additional students."We are pushing along [with the University Board of Trustees' plan to increase the size of the student body] in a major way," said Vice President and Secretary Thomas Wright '62."We're building on a strong report approved last spring," Wright added.Earlier this month, President Tilghman took her first presidential retreat with her entire senior cabinet, Wright said.
The University announced this week that it has succeeded in increasing workers' wages months ahead of the schedule planned last spring.As of Sept.
It seemed like another world ? the bright sun, air buzzing over manicured flowers in Prospect garden.
University politics professor Amy Gutmann assumed the position of provost this month after her appointment by President Tilghman and approval by the Board of Trustees in July."This a wonderful time in Princeton's history to serve," Gutmann said.
In the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks against the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., several University professors called the attacks monumental both in scope and emotional impact.Wilson School professor Frederick Hitz said, "This may be our generation's wake up call," calling the attacks unprecedented in their order of preparation and magnitude.
In an apparent parallel attack on U.S. financial and military institutions, two hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Center around 9 a.m.
Princeton Borough Council's first meeting of the school year was cancelled last night because of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.
As the economy deteriorates, the landscape of opportunities for Princeton graduates is undergoing radical change.A few years ago, with the unemployment rate below four percent and employers unable to fill even some of their most attractive positions, students could pick and choose between competing offers.
In the wake of yesterday's sobering events in New York and Washington, D.C., the first impulse of many at Princeton and across the country was to get in touch with loved ones in these two targeted areas.
In response to the horrific attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, University administrators spent Tuesday organizing relief efforts for students, faculty and staff.Though local universities such as the University of Pennsylvania and Rutgers University have canceled classes and closed offices, Princeton University remained open Tuesday."We made the decision that we would continue to operate the University on a normal schedule, for the very simple reason that the express purpose of terrorism is to disrupt people's lives.
Welcome to the world of advanced electronic resources.While your parents are still struggling to program the DVD player, at Princeton you will be able to research your term paper, send email to your friends or tour a museum in Paris ? all from the comfort of your own dorm room.All you need is a computer and a network connection to tap into the University's Dormnet system.So instead of becoming a "have-not" on an information-driven campus, overcome your computational phobias and learn about the electronic resources available to you as soon as you arrive at Princeton.
If you thought you came to college to learn something practical, forget it. Princeton is one of the last bastions of the high-minded, esoteric and abstruse ? the liberal arts education.Come September, when you arrive at this small liberal arts university in central New Jersey, it will be time to begin your new life as an A.B., a candidate for Princeton's Bachelor of Arts degree.Ignore your calculator-toting roommates when they casually mention their course load of "Electromagnetic Field Theory and Optics" or "Mechanics of Solids and Fluids," ad nauseam.
Kiera Duffy can't escape the music. In her world, it's everywhere.Tenors and sopranos echo in the chapel as an audience waits attentively upon every rise and fall in intonation.
Singles (and even attached) females in search of a good-looking, educated male beware.Millions of people saw him each week, and he has been hailed as the universal, ideal boyfriend.
Shirley Tilghman was named the 19th president of Princeton University by the board of trustees in a special meeting held May 5 in Nassau Hall.Tilghman is the first woman to hold the University's highest office and the first president not to hold a degree from Princeton in more than a century."It is a deep honor and privilege to be able to serve the University I love so much," Tilghman said during a press conference following the annoucement in the Nassau Hall Faculty Room, where she was elected by acclamation less than an hour earlier.
If you thought getting into Princeton was hard, wait until you see what you have to do to get out.Every spring, college seniors across the nation break out the sunglasses, play frisbee, drink beer and work on their tans.
Kerry Walk jokes that her new favorite color is orange. Walk, former assistant director of the writing program at Harvard University, is surrounded by it since she took her new post as director of Princeton's writing program last semester.Beginning this fall, freshmen ? and sophomores who have not yet completed the existing writing requirement ? will be required to take one course through the new writing program, which Walk will head, to fulfill the University's new writing requirement.
Princeton boasts a large and high-powered faculty worthy of its reputation as one of the best in the nation.These famous scholars, unlike their research-oriented counterparts at other Ivy League schools, often teach undergraduate courses ? maybe even yours. Nobel PrizesIn the past few years, Princeton has consistently produced Nobel Prize winners in various departments.Electrical Engineering professor Daniel Tsui won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1999 for his discovery of the fractional quantum Hall effect.Molecular biology professor Eric Wieschaus shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1995 with two other researchers for their work on fruit fly genetics.In 1994, senior research mathematician John Nash shared the Nobel Prize for Economics with two research teammates for their work on game theory.Creative writing professor Toni Morrison, physics professor Joseph Taylor and researcher Russell Hulse, who works at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, all won Nobels in 1993.Morrison, who also won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel "Beloved," coordinates the Princeton Atelier, a program that gives undergraduates the chance to collaborate with famous professionals in the creative world such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez.Physics professor Val Fitch won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1980 for his discoveries about high-energy subatomic particles.
