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One of over 4,000 global Climate Strikes to be held in Hinds Plaza

One of over 4,000 global Climate Strikes to be held in Hinds Plaza

Zachary Shevin

On the evening of Sept. 19, around 20 students gathered in the basement of Murray-Dodge Hall to prepare for the Princeton Climate Strike on Sept. 20, turning used cardboard boxes into sustainable protest signs.

NEWS | 09/20/2019

Mario Moore’s exhibit featuring black campus staff members opens

Mario Moore’s exhibit featuring black campus staff members opens

Leo Vassallo

On Sept. 19, the Lewis Center for the Arts unveiled a new exhibit, “The Work of Several Lifetimes,“ by Mario Moore, a renowned artist and a 2018-2019 Hodder Fellow. The featured works, the culmination of Moore’s year-long fellowship, render visible the black men and women working blue collar jobs at the University.

NEWS | 09/20/2019

18th-century building Bainbridge House reopens as contemporary art gallery

18th-century building Bainbridge House reopens as contemporary art gallery

David Veldran

On Saturday, Sept. 14, the University formally reopened Bainbridge House, one of the oldest surviving buildings on Nassau Street, dating back to 1776, as an art gallery.

NEWS | 09/19/2019

University admits most diverse graduate class in history

University admits most diverse graduate class in history

Claire Silberman

The University’s Graduate School’s latest admissions cycle welcomed “the most diverse group of incoming graduate students to Princeton,” according to a Sept. 12 University press release.

NEWS | 09/18/2019

McCosh 50 renovations to modernize technology, infrastructure

McCosh 50 renovations to modernize technology, infrastructure

Zoya Amir Gauhar

The renovation is intended to preserve the historic architectural design and character of McCosh 50, while still providing needed updates to improve learning conditions.

NEWS | 09/18/2019

Tiger Tea Room opens in Firestone Library

Benjamin Ball

The Tiger Tea Room, the newest café on campus, has opened in Firestone Library.

NEWS | 09/18/2019

Menstrual Products Task Force provides free products to campus bathrooms

Menstrual Products Task Force provides free products to campus bathrooms

Yael Marans

Free menstrual products are now supplied in campus bathrooms, marking the implementation of the Menstrual Products Task Force’s initiative, which was approved by University administrators last semester.

NEWS | 09/17/2019

Acclaimed theoretical physicist and U. professor Steven Gubser ’94 dies at 47

Allan Shen

Prominent theoretical physicist and professor of physics Steven Scott Gubser ’94 died in Chamonix, France, on Saturday, Aug. 3.

NEWS | 09/17/2019

Celebrated author, professor Jhumpa Lahiri named Director of Program in Creative Writing

Celebrated author, professor Jhumpa Lahiri named Director of Program in Creative Writing

Paige Allen

The Lewis Center for the Arts recently named Professor Jhumpa Lahiri Director of the University’s Program in Creative Writing.

NEWS | 09/17/2019

Yield rate for Class of 2023 increases from last year

Yield rate for Class of 2023 increases from last year

Rebecca Han

The University’s yield — the percentage of students who accepted their offer of admission to join the University’s first-year class — rose to 70.6 percent this year from 69 percent last year.

NEWS | 09/17/2019

U.S. News ranks U. No. 1 in America

U.S. News ranks U. No. 1 in America

Marissa Michaels

The rankings are based on six factors: student outcomes, faculty resources, expert opinion, financial resources, student excellence, and alumni giving.

NEWS | 09/16/2019

Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell ’75 faces increasing scrutiny, political pressure following July rate cut

Governor Jerome H. Powell Testimony, April 14, 2016

Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell ’75 faces increasing scrutiny, political pressure following July rate cut

Catherine Benedict

On July 31, Powell announced that the Federal Open Market Committee, which sets U.S. monetary policy, had voted to lower the central bank’s 2019 federal funds rate for the first time since the 2008 financial crisis.

NEWS | 09/16/2019

USG hosts Lawnparties on Prospect Avenue

USG hosts Lawnparties on Prospect Avenue

Benjamin Ball

Alongside the previously announced headliners, other artists who were featured included Acid Dad and Kalbelles at Terrace Club, DJ CTE at Cottage Club, Emily Vaughn at Tower Club, Concept at Cannon Dial Elm Club, Avante at Ivy Club, Sage the Gemini at Colonial Club, and Cedric Gervais at Tiger Inn.

NEWS | 09/15/2019

Tigerbook removes information on students’ campus residence, hometown

Tigerbook removes information on students’ campus residence, hometown

Naomi Hess

In the past, Tigerbook showed every student’s name, picture, email, residential college, dorm building, room number, hometown, state, country, roommates, and major.

NEWS | 09/12/2019

‘Beloved’ author and U. professor Toni Morrison dies at 88

Katie Tam

Toni Morrison, Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities, Emerita, renowned author, and Nobel laureate, died on the evening of Aug. 5, 2019. She was 88 years old.

NEWS | 09/12/2019

University Catholic chaplain Father Gabriel Zeis resigns in light of sexual abuse allegation

University Catholic chaplain Father Gabriel Zeis resigns in light of sexual abuse allegation

Marie-Rose Sheinerman

Zeis was not employed by the University and no allegations have been put forth relating to his time at the Aquinas Institute.

NEWS | 09/11/2019

Class of 2023 kicks off the year with opening exercises, Pre-Rade

Benjamin Ball

Opening exercises, held this past Sunday, marked the beginning of the academic careers of members of the Class of 2023.

NEWS | 09/10/2019

USG announces CupcakKe, 3OH!3, Rich Homie Quan as co-headliners for Lawnparties

Benjamin Ball and Zachary Shevin

USG social chair Heavyn Jennings confirmed that electronic music duo 3OH!3 and rapper Rich Homie Quan will join Chicago rapper CupcakKe to perform at Lawnparties.

NEWS | 09/10/2019

Q&A with James Williams, author of the Class of 2023 Pre-read

Q&A with James Williams, author of the Class of 2023 Pre-read

Sarah Warman Hirschfield

The Daily Princetonian spoke with James Williams, author of the Class of 2023 Pre-Read, “Stand Out of Our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy,” about his book. Williams worked as a technology and business strategist at Google for ten years and recently received his Ph.D. from the University of Oxford. The interview has been edited for clarity and length.

NEWS | 09/10/2019

Fresh out of frosh: Interclub Council to enforce eating club ban on first-years through frosh week

Fresh out of frosh: Interclub Council to enforce eating club ban on first-years through frosh week

Linh Nguyen and Zachary Shevin

This restriction follows last year’s frosh ban, which prohibited first-year students from entering eating club parties on the final night of frosh week. In the days prior to the 2018 ban, University Public Safety had evacuated 28 students to either Princeton Medical Center (PMC) or McCosh Health Center for alcohol-related emergencies.

NEWS | 08/30/2019

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