At this week’s meeting, the USG discussed the Ideas Incubator, heard budget updates, and confirmed five new members to the Movies Committee.
Five undergraduate students received a prestigious fellowship to pursue public interest law internships this summer.
Test results are expected to be available on Sunday, March 8. The Mercer County patient is currently hospitalized at Capital Health Medical Center-Hopewell in Pennington, N.J. The other three possible cases include two people in Bergen County and one person in Union County.
Sarah Kliff stands among America’s preeminent health policy reporters. She sat down with The Daily Princetonian to discuss COVID-19, the price of healthcare, and former President Barack Obama.
Despite his mathematical contributions to the theories of quantum electrodynamics, Dyson did not receive the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics alongside Feynman, Schwinger, and Tomonaga. The theoretical physicist Steven Weinberg GS ’57, who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics, told the New York Times in 2009 that the Nobel Prize Committee “fleeced” Dyson by not awarding him a prize for his work on quantum electrodynamics.
Scheppele opened the conversation by discussing the recent proliferation of death threats toward journalists. In the United Kingdom, the number of annual recorded death threats against journalists has risen 14 times since 1980, Scheppele noted.
“No one has been tested for COVID-19 at McCosh [Health Center],” a University spokesperson confirmed. “We’re not aware of any member of the University community who has met the criteria for testing.”
“It is exciting, and it feels like this wonderful homecoming — the very place where I started my academic career,” Stanton said.
A day in the lab doesn’t only help scientists understand more about human interactions and how our brains develop and learn. It provides them as well with the joyful privilege of interacting with Princeton’s littlest tigers.
The 0.53-acre parcel contains 22 parking spots and a narrow field. Ivy sold it to the University for $7.29 million.
A point of pride for “Princeton for Bernie”: they’re the fastest growing campaign infrastructure on campus. “Everyone else seems to be dissolving,” Wittekind ’22 said.
On Wednesday, March 4, acclaimed healthcare reporter Sarah Kliff discussed the legacy of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), 10 years after it passed, on a panel hosted by the Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs.
On Feb. 23, seven student-run startups presented pitches before a panel of established venture capitalists in a competition for $6,000. The winning project, Adora Experiences, will provide self-guided tours to students as early as this May.
The guidebook is organized into seven parts: Counseling and Psychological Services, Off-Campus Care, Mental Health and Academics, Leaves of Absence, Helping Friends, Alternative Resources, and Advice from Students.
For his first experiment, Piroué was effectively on his own. For his last, he worked with the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC), and collaborated with more than 3,000 scientists.
“The code that will be used to randomly assign draw times has been extensively tested within Housing and its efficacy has been confirmed by campus information technology partners,” Hotchkiss wrote in an email statement to The Daily Princetonian.
“So far, the impacts of [COVID-19] on Princeton have been limited, but even limited impacts can cause real disruptions and inconveniences,” Eisgruber wrote.
“To be honest, I'm sure they're doing the best they can given these circumstances,” Nicolas Chae ’21 explained. “But the opportunities they've presented us are very underwhelming and don't provide me a lot of feasible or fulfilling options for this coming semester.”
Alimtas selects technologies discovered by researchers at the University, develops business plans, and then pitches these plans to venture capital investors and biotech firms.
Protesters criticized Hindutva and its targeting of Muslims, claiming that it undermines Hinduism’s most fundamental principles of equal citizenship and nondiscrimination.
