The Schmidts hope that the central location on campus, across from Frist Campus Center, will promote collaboration in computer science on campus.
The fire was contained to a cubicle in the “E” wing. Emergency responders used a fire extinguisher to put out the blaze.
In a press release from the Faculty-Student Committee on Sexual Misconduct and the University Student Life Committee, the Committees additionally said they anticipare releasing a final report in fall of 2019.
Of the 13 accepted students, eight come from military backgrounds. Five of the students are women and the other eight are men. Additionally, eight are first-generation college students.
The statement comes after almost four days of the Title IX office sit-in outside of Nassau Hall in which students have demanded a list of eleven reforms. External review is the second demand in that list.
The draft of the proposal will be presented at the meeting of the Council of the Princeton University Community (CPUC) on Monday, May 6, and then voted on at CUAFA’s May 13 meeting. The final decision as to whether to approve or revise the committee’s recommendation will lie with President Christopher Eisgruber ’83.
The amount, $2,723, was based on the fine that an anonymous student received for writing “Title IX Protects Rapists” on University walkways in April.
On April 12, the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions announced their selected fellows for the coming academic year, a list that includes Dr. Marianna Orlandi.
The University and Google held an inaugural event for the new Google AI lab located just north of campus in Palmer Square on Thursday, May 2. The event hosted speakers such as Professor of Computer Science Elad Hazan, New Jersey Governor Philip Murphy, New Jersey Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman, alumnus and former Google Chairman Eric Schmidt ’76, and President Christopher Eisgruber ’83.
University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 partnered with other leaders in higher education across the state of New Jersey to send a letter to Congress expressing concerns about immigration delays and policy.
“There are some pretty blatant errors in the room draw randomization process, yet numerous attempts to bring this to the administration had very little impact, especially proportional to the problem,” said Betsy Pu ’22, one of the students spearheading the petition.
The Gala was a time for students to show their gratitude to professors who have influenced them through their time at the University.
According to the University’s Office of Engineering Communications, Carter will become “the university’s second-ranking officer and serve as the chief operating and academic officer,” a position meant to “[bring] broad vision and executive leadership to campus-wide policy, planning, initiatives and operations.”
“It’s just shocking that this is actually something that’s happened, that somehow housing failed to randomize according to weight something, which seems like something that anyone in COS 126 could have coded up,” Natalie Collina ’19 said.
Upperclass room draw processes were not completely randomized this year, according to an email sent to the dorm-undergrads listserv by Director of Housing Dorian Johnson. Johnson wrote that $1,000 would be deducted from the 2019–20 housing fees of rising seniors directly affected by the issue and in the lower half of their class’s draw.
On Thursday, April 25, the Office of Communications announced that the University trustees have “adopted an operating budget for the University totaling $2.3 billion for 2019–20.” Of this total budget, $187.4 million — up 7.2 percent from last year’s $174.2 million — will go towards undergraduate financial aid.
The proposed Culture and Difference distribution would require students to take a course that exposes them to diverse identities.
The Council of the Princeton University Community’s (CPUC) Committee on Naming recommended the name "Rivers Way" to the Board of Trustees.
Professor of history Kevin Kruse and professor of Slavic languages and literature Ilya Vinitsky are among 168 recipients of 2019 Guggenheim fellowships, from a pool of almost 3,000 applicants.
This year’s Pre-read, “Stand Out of Our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy,“ focuses on the ethical questions raised by an increased reliance on technology.
