Since 1987, astrophysics professor and associate chair of the astrophysics department David Spergel has investigated elusive scientific phenomena, such as dark matter and the origins of the universe.
It will be at least two more days before the University finds out whether a suspicious powder found on a keyboard in the Frist Campus Center Monday night contained anthrax.Meanwhile, some members of the University community and health professionals are questioning the University's response to the incident.Lauren Robinson-Brown, the University's director of communications, explained that the suspicious powder is now waiting to be tested for the presence of anthrax at a state facility.
I wasn't afraid of the needles.That was what I told Charlotte, and it was the truth. Charlotte was a robust, beautiful blonde nun with blue eyeshadow and a southern drawl; she was a beacon of contented serenity.She was also a licensed acupuncturist, and on the day in question, she was about to pierce my tender flesh with half a dozen sharp needles.
It may seem that a door handle isn't a big deal. But David Podrasky '05 knows differently.Just like the rest of his freshman classmates, Podrasky tackles the challenges of navigating around a campus setting.
The Class of 2005 leadership is now in place. Results in the runoff election were announced to the freshman class via e-mail yesterday afternoon.
The recent national and local anthrax scares ? including the incidents of multiple letters containing anthrax postmarked in West Trenton and Monday night's scare at the Frist Campus Center ? have brought to light the ease with which the substance can be produced and used as an agent of bio-terrorism.It has also prompted a flurry of citizens and University students to seek more information about its effects.University molecular biology professor Bonnie Bassler, a specialist in pathogens, said that producing small, or even large, quantities of anthrax is not very difficult."A person with some microbiology skills could grow it in a flask," Bassler said.
Ed Tenner '65 majored in history and even went on to get his Ph.D in European history at the University of Chicago.
When the Princeton Model Congress holds its annual conference this fall in Washington, D.C., fewer high school delegations will attend than usual.Five or six schools ? representing about 10 percent of the attending student population ? have withdrawn from the program following the events of Sept.
The University Environmental Safety and Risk Management Committee recently created the Emergency Preparedness Task Force to review and update the University's policy of responding to emergencies on campus.According to director of environmental health and safety Garth Walters, one of seven staff members on EPTF, the task force was created to ensure the University is ready to handle emergencies that might surface."The world has changed since Sept.
More than 30 years ago, at the height of the Vietnam War, Harvard University sent its Reserve Officer Training Corps program into exile.
During senior year, it's the thesis. During junior year, it's junior independent work. During freshman year, it's the freshman and writing seminars.
In what remains a timely piece today, Whitney Seymour '45 wrote a column on the morality of war in his booklet 'Carpe Diem.' The following is the entirety of his essay.When most of us went off to war we were very young ? 20 or 21 years old on average.
September 11 may be a date that will be remembered by many after this year's events, but Dec. 7 was the original day of infamy in American history.On that faithful date in 1941, Pearl Harbor was attacked, precipitating the deaths of thousands at the U.S.
Parts of the Frist Campus Center were closed and evacuated last night due to an anthrax scare after a male University graduate student spotted a suspicious white substance on the 100-level of the building.At 9:00 p.m.
Ramesh Ponnuru '95, a senior editor at National Review magazine, spoke last night in the Senate Chamber of Whig Hall about "Politics in Wartime."The talk was part of a speakers program organized by the University's American Whig-Cliosophic Society.In his speech, Ponnuru focused on how American politics has been affected both domestically and internationally by the Sept.
A third letter containing anthrax was postmarked in Trenton and processed in the Hamilton Township mail facility that handled the letters sent to NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw and Sen.
Each September, the incoming class gathers in Richardson Auditorium to be welcomed by University officials.
Four of the five races for freshman class office will go into runoff elections as all but one candidate, who ran unopposed for secretary, failed to win a majority of the vote.A two-day runoff election to determine the president, vice president, treasurer and social chair began early Sunday and will end tonight at 11:59 p.m.
Throughout his lifetime, University philosophy professor David Lewis incorporated his love of the discipline into every aspect of his existence.As a 16-year-old undergraduate at Swarthmore College in the 1950s, and later as a graduate student at Harvard University, Lewis began to explore such philosophical "hot topics" as causation, metaphysics, the philosophy of language and the idea of possible worlds.Lewis, 60, died last Sunday from complications from diabetes. While traveling on trains in various parts of the globe ? one of his favorite hobbies ? Lewis's mind would inevitably turn to philosophy, as the scenery raced by him.Even during the last year of his life, when illness caused him stay in the hospital, Lewis pondered philosophical concepts as he lay in bed.
The four candidates for the Princeton Borough Council spoke to approximately 25 students in a nearly empty Frist 302 last night.
