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Sophomores required to be on unlimited meal plan starting fall 2019

Students eating dinner in Rockefeller College dining hall

Sophomores required to be on unlimited meal plan starting fall 2019

Kris Hristov and Walker Stamps

The University announced a shift in policy such that sophomores, like first-years are currently, will be required to be on the unlimited meal plan starting the 2019–2020 academic year. The shift is an attempt to include more sophomores in the “residential college experience” the unlimited plan fosters.

NEWS | 04/03/2019

Visiting scholar Uhlenbeck awarded Abel Prize for work in mathematics

Visiting scholar Uhlenbeck awarded Abel Prize for work in mathematics

Allan Shen

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters announced on March 19, 2019, that it has awarded the 2019 Abel Prize to mathematician Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck. She is the first woman to receive the prize.

NEWS | 04/03/2019

Association of Black Seminarians’s petition demanding reparations gathers 572 signatures

Association of Black Seminarians’s petition demanding reparations gathers 572 signatures

Karolen Eid

The Association of Black Seminarians of Princeton Theological Seminary has released a petition for the institution to annually set aside 15 percent of the portion of the endowment used on operating expenses to fund tuition grants for black students. This would amount to $5.3 million a year, based on an estimate derived from the seminary’s expenses in the 2017–2018 school year. The petition also asks for the establishment of a Black Church Studies program.

NEWS | 04/03/2019

U.S. Deputy Solicitor General discusses upcoming Supreme Court cases

U.S. Deputy Solicitor General discusses upcoming Supreme Court cases

Marie-Rose Sheinerman

Principal Deputy Solicitor General of the United States and constitutional lawyer Jeffrey Wall discussed on Tuesday the potential importance of upcoming Supreme Court cases and shared experiences from his decades-long career.

NEWS | 04/03/2019

Q&A with Kimberly Bryant, founder of Black Girls Code

Vedika Patwari

Kimberly Bryant, founder of Black Girls Code (BGC) and one of Business Insider’s “25 Most Influential African-Americans In Technology” has been working with young female coders, aged between 7–17 years, through her pioneering nonprofit since 2011. During Bryant’s recent visit to the University, The Daily Princetonian had the opportunity to speak with her about her journey of educating over 8,000 female technologists with BCG and her dream to reach one million young girls by 2040.

NEWS | 04/02/2019

Housing hosts dorm furniture fair in Frist

Housing hosts dorm furniture fair in Frist

Zoya Amir Gauhar

In an effort to encourage students to take part in the voting process, associate director for housing facilities and planning Michael Stillwagon wrote, “we also paid a great deal of attention to the process used in selecting this final list of vendors … [and] sought out opportunities to include minority, women, and veteran-owned businesses.”

NEWS | 04/02/2019

University staff member, renowned poll worker Laura Wooten dies at 98

University staff member, renowned poll worker Laura Wooten dies at 98

Taylor Sharbel

Laura Wooten, a University staff member and lifelong poll worker, died on March 24 at the age of 98.

NEWS | 04/01/2019

Scammer's scheme goes up in smoke

Suspect identified after defrauding Small World, Bent Spoon, and Dunkin'

Scammer's scheme goes up in smoke

Rebecca Han

On March 23, the man entered Dunkin’, Small World Coffee, and the Bent Spoon and posed as a worker for “Metro Fire Prevention” — a fictitious company — which was supposedly located at 1485 State Street, Trenton, NJ.

NEWS | 04/01/2019

USG discusses Honor Committee selections, replacing Blackboard

USG discusses Honor Committee selections, replacing Blackboard

Jacob Gerrish

Assistant Dean of the College James Alexander Dun said that evaluation and planning for a shift to a new learning management system would continue over the next year and that there would be a gradual transition to the selected platform in 2021 and 2022.

NEWS | 03/31/2019

Maria Ressa '86 arrested again in the Philippines

Marissa Michaels

The Philippine government arrested Filipina journalist and Time Person of the Year Maria Ressa ’86 as she disembarked from her flight from San Francisco.

NEWS | 03/31/2019

Michael Kratsios ’08 nominated as US Chief Technology Officer

Michael Kratsios ’08 nominated as US Chief Technology Officer

Bill Huang

President Donald Trump recently announced that he would nominate Michael Kratsios ’08 to serve as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the United States. Initially created by Obama in 2009, the CTO role is part of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and focuses on using data and technology to inform effective policy.

NEWS | 03/31/2019

Former Palestinian Authority prime minister, former diplomats discuss Israeli elections in panel discussion

Naomi Hess

In the March 28 event, “Up to the Minute Panel: Implications of the Israeli Elections,” Ambassador Ryan Crocker, former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Syria, Kuwait, and Lebanon; Salam Fayyad, former prime minister of the Palestinian Authority; and Kurtzer discussed the upcoming Israeli election and the worldwide effects it could have.

NEWS | 03/28/2019

Coffee club to open student-run coffee shop on campus

Mina Lee

Many University students are more than willing to hike uphill to Small World Coffee or Starbucks and cough up as much as four or five dollars for a cup of joe. Starting April 14, however, an alternative option will be celebrating its grand opening. A coffee shop named The Coffee Club, run and staffed entirely by University students, will be taking over the taproom in Campus Club.

NEWS | 03/28/2019

Henry Horn, founding director of the Program in Environmental Studies, dies at 77

Henry Horn, founding director of the Program in Environmental Studies, dies at 77

Katie Tam

Henry Horn, Professor Emeritus of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and founding director of the Program in Environmental Studies, died in Princeton on March 14 at the age of 77.

NEWS | 03/28/2019

U. accepts 5.77 percent of applicants to the Class of 2023

U. accepts 5.77 percent of applicants to the Class of 2023

Roberto Hasbun

At 7 p.m. tonight, the University will accept 1,152 new students to the Class of 2023, who, along with the 743 students offered admission during the single-choice early action, will comprise the accepted class. Overall, the University accepted 1,895 students out of an applicant pool of 32,804, representing a 5.77 percent acceptance rate.

NEWS | 03/28/2019

Q&A with Dr. Raj Panjabi, CEO of Last Mile Health

Vedika Patwari

Dr. Raj Panjabi co-founded Last Mile Health, an organization dedicated to bringing healthcare to rural communities in Liberia and around the world.

NEWS | 03/27/2019

Former Ambassador William J. Burns critiques Trump administration foreign policy

Claire Silberman

Burns claimed that the Trump administration is “squandering” its diplomatic abilities and resources.

NEWS | 03/27/2019

Federal Elections Commission fines Ted Cruz '92 $35,000

Taylor Sharbel

Cruz has been fined for inaccurately disclosing over $1 million in loans from Goldman Sachs and Citibank in 2012.

NEWS | 03/27/2019

Student journalist panel reflects on time spent reporting abroad

Student journalist panel reflects on refugee reporting in Greece, Canada

Student journalist panel reflects on time spent reporting abroad

Mina Lee

“Inside the Orange Bubble [of the University] is not necessarily the best place to cover international events,” said Joe Stephens, as he opened for the panelists during Session IX of the Mellon-Sawyer Journalism Seminar Series. The panelists were four University undergraduate students who spent their time abroad reporting on the refugee and migrant crises there.

NEWS | 03/26/2019

TPUSA president alleges assault at Democratic Socialists of America meeting in Frist

Frist Campus Center, a significant hub of social activity on campus.

TPUSA president alleges assault at Democratic Socialists of America meeting in Frist

Benjamin Ball

The president of the University chapter of Turning Point USA (TPUSA), a youth right-wing non-profit organization, has alleged assault at a meeting of the Central New Jersey chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) in Frist Campus Center.

NEWS | 03/26/2019

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