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Tennis matches up against Cornell and Columbia

Miranda Hasty

Both the men and women’s tennis teams faced off against Cornell and Columbia this past Friday and Sunday. While the men lost both of their matches in their first round of Ivy League competition, the women were able to pull out a win against the Lions after a loss to the Big Red to stand 2-1 in the Ivy League.

NEWS | 04/10/2017

In Palmer Square, a guitarist protests U.S. missile strike on Syrian airbase

Rose Gilbert

At noon in Palmer Square, a lone guitarist stood next to an anti-war sign to protest the U.S. missile attack on Syria.

NEWS | 04/10/2017

Impact Journalism Day: Medical student's NGO supports STEM education in Nigeria

Impact Journalism Day: Medical student's NGO supports STEM education in Nigeria

Emily Liu

A Duke medical student's NGO aims to expand career development options in science, technology engineering and math for youth in Nigeria. Teminioluwa Ajayi, a third-year medical student at Duke, co-founded Grow with Nigeria three years ago after moving to the United States when he was 15 years old.

NEWS | 04/10/2017

Impact Journalism Day: Princeton Citizen Scientists aim to renew civic engagement

Katie Petersen

“In order to talk about science, we can’t just talk about it in a vacuum...We need to connect it to the other social issues that are dividing us as a nation and as an international community.”

NEWS | 04/10/2017

Sciences Po Refugee Help

Melissa Godin

Though rising populist leaders, spreading Islamophobia and isolationist tendencies have threatened refugees around the world, students at leading French university Sciences Po have created an organization to provide emergency and integration aid to asylum seekers in France.

NEWS | 04/10/2017

Impact Journalism Day: SafeSpace startup connects students to mental health resources

Pressly Pratt

UC Berkeley students are developing a website and mobile app to connect campus students experiencing mental health issues with other students who face similar experiences. The startup, called SafeSpace, placed first in the Improving Student Life category of UC Berkeley’s 2016 Big Ideas contest, an annual competition aimed at providing students with startup ideas and resources to help turn ideas into realities.

NEWS | 04/10/2017

Bioengineers Without Borders brings medical technology where it’s most needed

Bioengineers without borders team David Peeler, Timmy Lee, Philip Walczak, Conner Pitts, Eric Swanson, and Gabrielle Pang (center).

Bioengineers Without Borders brings medical technology where it’s most needed

Monica Mursch

Eric Swanson wasn’t planning to be so involved in Bioengineers Without Borders (BWB) when he first joined.

NEWS | 04/10/2017

Gorsuch confirmed despite questions of plagiarism

Rebecca Ngu

Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch was confirmed as a Supreme Court Justice by the Senate with a 54-45 vote yesterday over accusations of plagiarism in his book “The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia,” according to POLITICO.

NEWS | 04/08/2017

Wilson, Rockefeller Colleges name new heads

Allie Spensley

Professor of Religion AnneMarie Luijendijk and Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Clancy Rowley ’95 were named the new heads of Wilson and Rockefeller Colleges.

NEWS | 04/06/2017

Former CIA director promotes translucence, not transparency

Ruby Shao

Espionage defends liberty by promoting national security, former Central Intelligence Agency director Michael Hayden argued on Thursday. “The secret pursuit of secret truth is not only compatible with, but essential to, American democracy,” he said.

NEWS | 04/06/2017

Journalism course exposes students to trials of refugees

Rose Gilbert

Last summer University students went to the front lines and reported on an ongoing story — the refugee crisis in Greece.

NEWS | 04/06/2017

Spring Lawnparties headliner announced

Marcia Brown

J.I.D will open for Jeremih at the 2017 Spring Lawnparties, as announced by the Undergraduate Student Government Social Committee on April 6 at 9:30 p.m.

NEWS | 04/06/2017

Four U. engineering students receive Goldwater Scholarship

Hunter Campbell

Four University students: Jonathan Lu ’18, Omkar Shende ’18, Sally Jiao ’18, and Lamia Ateshian ’18, will be recipients of the 2017 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship.

NEWS | 04/06/2017

Whig-Cliosophic Society debates private prison divestment

Audrey Spensley

The American Whig-Cliosophic society hosted a debate on Wednesday, April 5 on whether the University should divest from private prisons.

NEWS | 04/05/2017

Former Buzzfeed president Steinberg '99 discusses future of media

Abhiram Karuppur

Steinberg, the former Buzzfeed president and chief operating officer, discussed the future of media and how viewership habits among millennials are changing the media landscape. In a lecture titled “The End and The Beginning of Television,” Steinberg began by explaining how quickly technology has come to impact people’s daily lives since the time he first arrived on campus.

NEWS | 04/05/2017

Slaughter ’80, Gast GS ’84, Rubin ’65 to receive honorary degrees

Slaughter ’80, Gast GS ’84, Rubin ’65 to receive honorary degrees

Claire Thornton

Three University alumni — Anne-Marie Slaughter ’80, Alice Gast GS ’84, and Donald B. Rubin ’65 — will receive honorary degrees and speak at commencement ceremonies this May at Indiana University, the University of Notre Dame, and the University of Chicago, respectively.

NEWS | 04/05/2017

Rebecca Traister discusses single women throughout history in new book

Samuel Garfinkle

Traister, a writer for New York Magazine, was invited to discuss the theme of her most recently released book. Published in 2016, All the Single Ladies discusses the history of single, unmarried women in the United States from its inception to the modern day.

NEWS | 04/04/2017

PHMC sponsors "FLI is Fly" week to raise awareness of first-generation low-income student experience

Audrey Spensley

From April 3rd to April 7th, the Princeton Hidden Minority Council (PHMC) is holding a “FLI [first-generation low-income] is Fly” week to raise campus awareness about the specific experiences and challenges low-income and first-generation students face. “With this week, we really wanted to bring visibility to FLI students and get everyone to know what FLI is,” Council Co-Chair My Bui ‘18 said.

NEWS | 04/04/2017

A financial giant’s last speech

Jackson Caputo

Top financial regulator Daniel Tarullo gave his last speech as a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve yesterday at the University. In his talk, Tarullo expressed his support for the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and spoke out against financial deregulation.

NEWS | 04/04/2017

Animal Equality surveys students' eating habits outside Frist

Sam Oh

The international organization Animal Equality began a three-day survey of the University student community's eating habits on Monday outside the Frist Campus Center. Invited by the Princeton Animal Welfare Society (PAWS), Animal Equality investigated University students’ responses to international meat agriculture based on different modes of presentation.

NEWS | 04/04/2017

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