In October, Bezos briefly fell to number two on the list before regaining the number one spot. Bezos first topped the Bloomberg Billionaires Index in October 2017.
About 36.9 million people around the world live with HIV today.
On Sunday, Oct. 20, H. Alonzo Jennings GS ’72 was awarded the Expression Award for Radio at the third annual Cammy Awards, which commended his program, “Jazz from an Eclectic Mind.”
“USG spends around half of its budget on party planning and movie nights,“ Presidential candidate David Esterlit ’19 wrote. “The USG of today has abdicated its responsibility, and, on election day, with your help, I mean to restore it.”
In the first installment of Tiger Tots, the Daily Princetonian interviews Annabel and Rosemarie Luijendijk, the six-year-old twin daughters of Professor of Religion and Head of Wilson College, AnneMarie Luijendijk.
The University Art Museum permanently acquired five new works for their collection by artists including Ruth Cuthand and Mario Moore.
At the University, drinking water quality is monitored by the Office of Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) to ensure compliance with federal, state, and local guidelines. The standards used by the Environmental Working Group raise some doubt from both EHS and other University professors.
“Whether it's energy, whether it's insurance, whether it's medical, I'm always someone that's been on the side of consumers versus the big people,” said Sean Shaw ’00, the 2018 Democratic nominee for Attorney General of Florida, when he sat down with The Daily Princetonian.
Interested participants completed a form with questions about their personality and had the opportunity to go on a date with their match to local restaurants and receive a discount.
Maria Ressa ’86, an acclaimed journalist and 2018 Time Magazine Person of the Year, has been announced as the Class of 2020 Baccalaureate speaker, according to an email sent out to the members of the 2020 graduating class by the 2020 class government.
Through Team Impact, an organization that “connects children facing serious and chronic illnesses with local college athletic teams,” Matyas was invited to join the University’s swim team. As a member of the team, Matyas is welcomed to attend team-related events.
On Thursday, Nov. 21, Joshua Bolten ’76, former White House Chief of Staff under President George W. Bush, current CEO and President of Business Roundtable, and a University Trustee, spoke on campus at a public event organized by the Cliosophic Party.
After a brief hiatus for the summer, the Forbes Vertical Farm is set to reopen this month.
Serena Alagappan ’20 and Ananya Malhotra ’20 have been selected as two of the 32 U.S. students who have been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship. The scholarship will provide all expenses for two or three years of postgraduate study at the University of Oxford.
In 1936, the Veterans of Future Wars began on the University campus as a joke between a handful of students, but soon exploded into a nation-wide phenomenon before collapsing, all in a little over a year.
The 140 tenants of 20 Nassau Street, recently sold for $32 million to the hotel chain Graduate Hotels, are not just shocked by the news that they will soon lose their long-held office spaces and storefronts in downtown Princeton — they are outraged.
Businesses react to Alexander Road closure. Only 16 of the estimated 135 days of construction have passed and the effects are being felt.
The University has confirmed that the Triangle Club has not been at risk of asbestos exposure while rehearsing at 171 Broadmead, despite misleading signage early this year.
On May 31st, 2019 Netflix released the series “When They See Us,” which captured the attention over 23 million viewers worldwide and became the United States most-watched series in the months following, portrays the harsh trial that posited him and the others as predators ravenous for the white female jogger.
“This is about far more than me or a couple of individuals,” Yovanovitch said. “As Foreign Service professionals are being denigrated and undermined, the institution is also being degraded. This will soon cause real harm, if it hasn’t already.”
