Academics

Bodine to take position at Georgetown

Bodine to take position at Georgetown

Do-Hyeong Myeong

Wilson School diplomat-in-residence and Directorof the Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative program Barbara Bodine intends to step down at the end of the academic year. The University is now searching for a director for the SINSI program, which was established in 2006. A job posting indicated the search was posted on the University website on April 7.

NEWS | 04/14/2014

Zelizer takes students to see Cranston play

Zelizer takes students to see Cranston play

Do-Hyeong Myeong

History professor Julian Zelizer went with 48 students to Broadway on Wednesday to see "All the Way," a play about former President Lyndon B.

NEWS | 03/27/2014

Disputes arise over postgraduate fellowship program name

Sharon Deng

The use of the construction “Princeton in” in a recently launched postgraduate fellowship started by a group of University alumni is being questioned by University officials.

NEWS | 03/13/2014

Cherskov '14 wins Gates Scholarship

Lorenzo Quiogue

Adriana Cherskov ’14 has been awarded a 2014 Gates Cambridge Scholarship, making her the sixth Princeton student or alumnus to receive the award this year.

NEWS | 03/06/2014

Committee on Discipline open to considering publication of total number of cases heard

Luc Cohen

The Faculty-Student Committee on Discipline may for the first time provide transparent information about the total number of disciplinary cases adjudicated each year, Dean of Undergraduate Students and Committee on Discipline Chair Kathleen Deignan told The Daily Princetonian. The Committee — together with the student-run Honor Committee, which adjudicates allegations of cheating on in-class examinations — has in the past issued annual discipline reports detailing the number of students found responsible for violations of University policy.

NEWS | 03/05/2014

Meck ’00 donates $150,000 to fund philanthropy seminar

Do-Hyeong Myeong

Terrence Meck ’00, co-founder and president of The Palette Fund, donated $150,000 to FRS 157: Philanthropy to sustain the course for three more years.

NEWS | 02/26/2014

Humanities sequence sees large drop in second-semester enrollment

Joseph Sheehan Joe

Only 24 students enrolled in the second-semester component of the Humanities Sequence — listed as HUM 216-219 — compared with 47 students who were enrolled in the class for the fall semester.

NEWS | 02/24/2014

Green Hall to be used as swing space

Sheila Sisimit

Following the psychology department’s move from Green Hall to Peretsman-Scully Hall, Green Hall is now being used as “swing space,” Provost David Lee GS ’99 said.

NEWS | 02/20/2014

U. lecturer argues global warming doesn’t cause polar vortex

Elizabeth Paul

University lecturer Isaac Held and his colleagues published a letter in "Science"on Feb.

NEWS | 02/19/2014

Wilson School to offer study abroad program in Israel

Warren Crandall

The Wilson School has partnered with the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel, to offer Wilson School students the chance to study abroad while completing a mandatory task force.

NEWS | 02/18/2014

Survey is first step in reevaluation of grade deflation

Chitra Marti

A survey sent out to all undergraduate students on Feb.

NEWS | 02/16/2014

McGraw sees increase in number of student visits

The McGraw Teaching and Learning Center expects to see an increase of 31 percent in student visits this academic year, compared to last year.

McGraw sees increase in number of student visits

Jacob Donnelly

The McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning has received over 3,800 visits since the start of the academic year and is expecting to receive over 7,600 visits by the end of the year.

NEWS | 02/12/2014

Despite report, departments say diversity was already of importance

Elizabeth Paul

Though areportreleased this past September by theTrustee Ad Hoc Committee on Diversityfound that white males dominated in faculty, administrator, graduate student and postgraduate populations, representatives from several departments on campus said that they had paid attention to the diversity among their populations before the report was released. The Committee’s report reviewed statistics of the racial and gender demographic trends in undergraduate, graduate, postdocs, faculty and staff populations.

NEWS | 02/05/2014

Pogrebniak ’14 named Churchill Scholarship winner

Sheila Sisimit

Katherine Pogrebniak ’14 was awarded a Churchill Scholarship to study for a master’s degree at the University of Cambridge. The Churchill Scholarship, funded by the Winston Churchill Foundation, is awarded to at least 14 students each year who wish to pursue studies in engineering, mathematics or the sciences, according to its website. Pogrebniak, a computer science concentrator, said she is planning to obtain a Master of Philosophy in computational biology and is excited for the classroom-based learning and the research component of her studies. There were two phases of the application process — applying for the Princeton nomination and then competing at the national level.

NEWS | 02/03/2014

Petition challenges Pourdavoud Chair candidate

Chitra Marti

A petition organized by Columbia professor Ehsan Yarshater surfaced challenging the University’s current candidate for the position of the Ibrahim Pourdavoud Professorship in Persian Studies.The petition, which has been taken down, argued that having the name of Pourdavoud, a pioneer in the field of pre-Islamic Iranian studies, meant that the professor who occupies the Pourdavoud Chair should continue his work in the field of pre-Islamic studies.

NEWS | 01/07/2014

Updated: 5 juniors awarded SINSI scholarship

Lorenzo Quiogue

Five members of the Class of 2015 have been awarded Scholars in the Nation's Service Initiative fellowships by the Wilson School, allowing them to pursue two-year Master in Public Affairs degrees at the Wilson School in preparation for careers in the U.S.

NEWS | 12/11/2013

Course brings new perspective on American Muslims to campus

Elizabeth Paul

A new seminar course, AMS 339: Religion and Culture: Muslims in America, will be offered next semester and has already become overenrolled with interested students.

NEWS | 12/11/2013

Three years after program restructuring, number of Marshall and Rhodes scholars remains unchanged

Ruby Shao and Regina Wang

In December 2009, the University drew criticism when it fired then-Associate Dean of the College Frank Ordiway ’81, who oversaw postgraduate fellowship advising.

NEWS | 12/11/2013

Appiah to leave U. for NYU

Appiah to leave U. for NYU

Joseph Sheehan Joe

Kwame Anthony Appiah, currently the Laurance S.

NEWS | 12/10/2013

Updated: Dubbs '14, Lloyd-Damnjanovic '14 awarded Sachs Scholarships

Sheila Sisimit

Katie Dubbs ’14 and Anastasya Lloyd-Damnjanovic ’14 were awarded Sachs Scholarships. Dubbs received the Sachs Global Scholarship and will spend next year studying in Vienna, Austria, and Lloyd-Damnjanovic won the Sachs Scholarship to study at Worcester College, Oxford. Following their first interviews this past Saturday, both received a phone call from a committee member on Sunday morning asking them to head to Frist Campus Center to answer additional questions.

NEWS | 12/10/2013

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