It’s an exciting time to be an ecologist, said visiting lecturer Jonathan Levine from STEM university ETH Zurich who stood in front of an eager crowd of students, postdocs, and faculty gathered to hear him speak.
On Jan. 30, University President Christopher L. Eisgruber ’83 announced that current Dean of the Faculty Deborah Prentice will become University Provost on July 1. Prentice - who was formerly the Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of Psychology - will replace current Provost David Lee GS '99, who plans to return to full-time teaching and research.
Trump’s attorney, Matthew Blackett, said in a statement that Tarpley had agreed to retract the blog post and apologize to the Trump family. Blackett added that Tarpley had also agreed to pay Mrs. Trump a “substantial sum."
Coming from Beijing, I grew up in what Chinese people would call a “dayuan.” Translated directly, it means “big courtyard”. It specifically refers to a kind of self-sufficient residential community for retirees from state-owned companies or the military.
August Flentje ’92 argued Feb. 7 on behalf of the Justice Department in favor of the executive order banning immigration from seven countries in front of a panel of three judges, which included Senior Judge Richard Clifton ’72 of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Four seniors, five juniors and one sophomore have been chosen as members of the Wilson School’s Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative (SINSI). This program is designed to help students gain opportunities in public service and later work in the federal government.
The Pink House plans to establish a vegetarian co-op out of its kitchen starting in the fall of 2017.
Stereotypes associating brilliance with men more than women emerge in girls by age six, according to a paper published in Science on Jan. 27.
On Feb. 2, University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 and 47 other American college and university presidents sent a letter to President Donald Trump urging him to “rectify or rescind” his Jan. 27 executive order.
The University should divest itself from private prisons, argued three speakers at a panel hosted by SPEAR (Students for Prison Education and Reform) and Princeton Private Prison Divest. The panelists discussed the history of prison privatization, the results of privatization in terms of efficiency and human rights, and the ethical implications of incentivizing incarceration.
“What’s interesting about these results is that under cool conditions it’s one set of body parts that dominates, and in warm conditions it’s another set that dominates,” said Arens.
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Dean of the Faculty Deborah Prentice sent an email to University faculty members Saturday morning advising against travel outside the United States in the coming days.
Seven nationally recognized playwrights will write plays about the history of slavery at the University, to premiere with the launch of the Princeton and Slavery Project on Nov. 18.
“I think a long-term goal just for the year is to transform the anger that we have, that right now is pretty much limited to Facebook posts and arguments on those threads, into actual action, rather than just sitting at home being angry."
In a packed town hall meeting for the municipality of Princeton, a resolution urging that the acting New Jersey Commissioner of Education deny Princeton Charter School’s application to expand passed with only one vote against. Princeton Charter School educates local children from kindergarten to 8th grade.
Democracy around the world is being distorted by external forces and corroded from within by officials who fail to conform to its processes and values, according to politics professor and University Center for Human Values director Melissa Lane, who presented the argument at a panel on Friday, Jan. 20.
No official estimate of attendance has been released, but pictures and estimations suggest significantly lower attendance than that of President Barack Obama’s first inauguration in 2009.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In a strong response to yesterday’s inauguration, hundreds of thousands of marchers descended on the capital. Due to the crowd’s size, the march could not proceed as planned. Attendees instead gathered to hear artists, speakers, meet with each other, and march through city streets in a less organized fashion.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President-elect Donald Trump welcomed supporters to inaugural festivities at the Make America Great Again welcome concert Thursday afternoon. The festivities centered around themes of unity that speakers emphasized and reflections on the campaign.
