Last night, the University’s Center for Jewish Life (CJL) hosted a packed vigil for the victims of the Oct. 27 shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pa.
In the weeks prior to the 2018 midterm elections, the focus on political discourse and civic engagement has heightened throughout the nation, particularly on college campuses. However, a small minority of the University’s undergraduate student body — international students — experiences this focus in vastly different ways.
A new exhibit on campus is casting spells from the Cotsen Children’s Library. Wizarding 101, an exhibit commemorating the 20th anniversary of J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone,” features supernatural picture books with a wizarding world twist.
A global expert on national sovereignty said he believes recent changes in U.S. diplomacy and trade won’t disrupt the foundations of the country’s democracy.
While campus was dead silent over fall break, the creature of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s renowned Gothic novel “Frankenstein” came to life in East Pyne Hall, just in time for Halloween.
From MAE to chemistry, Nobel laureate Frances H. Arnold ’79 said her mindset was to “keep it simple, stupid.”
On Nov. 1, President Eisgruber, Rutgers President Robert L. Barchi, and University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank sent a letter to Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos in support of legal protections for transgender individuals.
Samvida Sudheesh Venkatesh ’19 was one of five recipients from India awarded a 2019 Rhodes Scholarship to pursue graduate studies at the University of Oxford, according to a University statement.
Art has become one of the most important ways to combat climate change, according to world-renowned environmental activist Bill McKibben. He discussed the role of art within the anti-climate change movement as a part of the series that promotes the “Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment” exhibit at the University Art Museum.
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Over the past 50 years, 1,042 students have graduated from the University’s Program in Teacher Preparation, which earns them a Princeton certificate and leads to New Jersey teaching certification.
Over the past year, the Trump administration has placed increasing scrutiny on Chinese nationals studying at U.S. universities, particularly those in scientific and technological fields.
Professor of Art History Emeritus Wen Fong, one of the world’s most renowned scholars in Chinese art history, left an indelible legacy both within the University and beyond. He died of leukemia on Oct. 3, at the age of 88.
Tuning political struggles toward urban art gave serious political powers to black South African performers, according to Witwatersrand University anthropology professor David B. Coplan.
In an interview with The Daily Princetonian, Rouse explained that test scores and grades are flawed and aren’t capable of predicting someone’s future success. She believes in the importance of other personal factors that emerge through Harvard’s consideration, like persistence, aspiration, and grit.
On Wednesday, Oct. 17, Rockefeller Head of College Clancy Rowley sent an email to Holder Hall residents about “human feces found in the trash can in the men’s bathroom.”
Improvements to learning spaces and honor code confirmations were on the discussion table in the Undergraduate Student Government Senate meeting meeting on Oct. 21.
“I started Workshop No. 1 because there wasn’t a venue on campus where people could reflect on how to build more fulfilling lives,” Gewirtz said.
In the annual protest against solitary confinement, students stood in an outlined box smaller than their dorm rooms, persisting day and night to demonstrate a reality that, for many, does not end when the sun comes up.
“In the past, we noticed a lot of instances of people choosing to go to service academies rather than coming to Princeton,” said Cadet First Lieutenant Caleb Visser ’20. Recently, that has changed drastically.
Three photographers trekked to the midst of the Sandinista conflict in Nicaragua, to the most violent years of the Iraq War, and to the home of a fatally ill man and his wife in China for their work.
