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Erie discusses China and its fight against corruption

Erie discusses China and its fight against corruption

Samuel Oh

Oxford University Professor Matthew Erie gave a lecture Tuesday afternoon about U.S.-China relations in the midst of China's bid to cut down on its corruption cases among domestic and foreign businesses.Erie’s talk highlighted the numerous challenges U.S.

NEWS | 09/27/2016

New GSG committee to conduct research on unionization

Marcia Brown, Rose Gilbert, and Jeff Zymeri

After the Aug. 23 ruling from the National Labor Relations Board allowing graduate students to form unions on private university campuses, the Graduate Student Government organized a Unionization Fact Finding Committee to provide answers to questions graduate students might have about the possibility of unionizing.“We’re trying to show students exactly what unionizing means,” Daniel Vitek, chair of the committee, said.Vitek is also the Academic Affairs chair of the GSG.While the GSG is constitutionally bound not to encourage graduate student unionization, Vitek noted, it has focused on providing impartial information on the issue of unionization for students interested in the issue.“We’re not unionizing, we’re fact-finding,” he said.Vitek added that there’s “not a lot of institutional knowledge among our peer private institutions about how do you go about unionizing.”The committee will conduct an impartial research on the relevant questions and compile the results into a report before the end of fall semester.

NEWS | 09/27/2016

Gray shares findings from SOCCOM program in lecture

Alexander Stangl

Alison Gray, a postdoctoral fellow at the program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, presented her work on the ongoing Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observations and Modeling program in a lecture Monday afternoon.SOCCOM seeks to fill in the gaps left by prior in situ studies of the Southern Ocean, which have had limited available windows for sampling, especially in the winter, due to the harsh conditions of the Antarctic.Gray noted that current estimates allot to the Southern Ocean approximately 50 percent of the total global ocean uptake of anthropogenic CO2, despite only accounting for 30 percent of the total global ocean surface area.

NEWS | 09/27/2016

University, community members respond to the first Presidential debate

Marcia Brown, Jeff Zymeri, Mashad Arora, Simone Downs, and Sarah Malik

University and community members gathered in Richardson Auditorium on the evening of Sept.

NEWS | 09/26/2016

Panelists provide context before Presidential debate

Marcia Brown, Jeff Zymeri, Mashad Arora, Simone Downs, and Sarah Malik

Before the first Presidential debate of the 2016 contest, the University hosted a panel discussion of six University affiliates in Richardson Auditorium to provide the University community with a better context for the debate.Panelists included Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School Cecilia Rouse, politics professor Amaney Jamal, politics department chair Nolan McCarty, classics professor Dan-el Padilla Peralta ’06, and former congresswoman Nan Hayworth ’81.

NEWS | 09/26/2016

CPUC establishes Committee on Naming, discusses diversity and inclusion

Marcia Brown

During the Monday's Council of the Princeton University Community meeting, University trustees referred West College and Robertson Hall atrium to the newly establishedCommittee on Naming.Director of Media Relations John Cramer deferred comment to the University’s statement.A new policy on naming programs, positions, and spaces that “do not currently bear names honoring donors or other individuals or groups” was established over the summer, the statement said.The statement noted that the atrium in Robertson Hall is the “principal entryway into the Woodrow Wilson School.” Moreover, West College, located west of Cannon Green near Nassau Hall, is not yet named to honor any individual, family, or group.

NEWS | 09/26/2016

George, Yusuf discuss Abrahamic faith

Sarah Malik

American Islamic scholar Sheikh Hamza Yusuf held a conversation with McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence Robert George at the University Chapel on Sept.

NEWS | 09/26/2016

News & Notes: U. S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera talks language, social change

Audrey Spensley

U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera encouraged students and community members to speak out on social issues on Thursday, Sept.

NEWS | 09/25/2016

News and Notes: Ted Cruz '92 says he will vote for Trump

Daily Princetonian Staff

On Friday, Texas Senator Ted Cruz ’92 wrote in a Facebook post that he will vote for Republican nominee Donald Trump.

NEWS | 09/25/2016

USG discusses voter registration initiatives, student communication

Jason Fu

The Undergraduate Student Government discussed initiatives to promote voter registration and better student communication in its first general meeting of the year on Sept.

NEWS | 09/25/2016

Barton, Lunney appointed as SINSI co-directors

Kevin Agostinelli

The University appointed Frederick Barton and Kathryn Lunney as co-directors of the Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, effective September 1.Barton and Lunney were named co-directors of SINSI on Aug.

NEWS | 09/25/2016

U. rolls out new wireless and printing services

Catherine Benedict and Charles Kyungchan Min

The University implemented student technology changes this fall, including a new printing system with a Google Cloud Print platform and a shift towards broader use of the eduroam service.The new PawPrint system enables students, faculty, and staff to print necessary documents with ease, University Media Relations Specialist Min Pullan said.

NEWS | 09/25/2016

News & Notes: Harvard Loses $1.9 billion in endowment value

Charles Kyungchan Min

Harvard University announced that its endowment fund suffered a $1.9 billion loss for the 2016 fiscal year, according to a reportfrom Harvard Management Company, which oversees the university's financial assets.This represents the largest decline since the financial crisis in 2008. Endowment funds allow colleges and universities to operate financial aid, and over one-third of Harvard’s operating income was obtained through the endowment. Harvard Management Companydescribed the results as “disappointing” in the report. “This has been a challenging year for endowments and clearly these are disappointing results,” wrote Paul Finnegan, chair of the Harvard Management Co. board, in the report. The company has seen numerous changes in leadership in recent years.

NEWS | 09/22/2016

Princeton resident campaigns for Trump in front of FitzRandolph Gate

Jessica Li

For the past eight weeks, Princeton resident Eric Lee Newton has spent hundreds of hours sitting outside the FitzRandolph gate, next to a canoe rental shack on Alexander Road, and in front of his house to rally support for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.

NEWS | 09/22/2016

U. announces new energy-based research projects

William Liu

The University has announced five new environmental and energy based research projects in joint release with the Princeton E-ffiliates Program and ExxonMobil.The Princeton E-ffiliates Partnership, founded in 2011, is an opportunity for corporate members to explore research possibilities engaging students and faculty to tackle energy and environmental issues through “technological advances and policy measures that can achieve these objectives cost-effectively.” The University and ExxonMobil announced the partnership last year and it is administered by the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment in collaboration with the Princeton Environmental Institute, the School of Architecture, and the Wilson School.Lynn Loo, director of the Andlinger Center, said that it is important to collaborate with practitioners outside academia to have an impact on energy and environmental challenges.“These challenges are complex and touch a variety of scientific, technological, economic, and social issues.

NEWS | 09/22/2016

Religion professor Pagels receives National Humanities Medal

Betty Liu

Elaine Pagels, professor of religion and bestselling author, was awarded the National Humanities Medal at Thursday noon by President Barack Obama.“I was very surprised,” Pagels said.

NEWS | 09/22/2016

Breaking: Four University Alumni Named MacArthur Fellows

Charles Kyungchan Min

Four University alumni were named 2016 MacArthur Fellows by the MacArthur Foundation. Branden Jacobs-Jenkins '06, Subhash Khot GS '03, José Quiñonez GS '98, and Julia Wolfe GS '12 were among the 23 individuals selected for this award. The fellowship awards each individual with a stipend of $625,000 over the course of five years, in which the fellows are allowed to pursue their creative activities and projects with no particular obligations or requirement Individuals are anonymous nominated through a pool of invited external nominators, who evaluate based on exceptional creativity, promise for future advances, and potential for the fellowship to facilitate subsequent work.

NEWS | 09/21/2016

News&Notes: PPPL and U. demonstrate physical technique with potential applicability

Claire Lee

A system that can compare physical objects while potentially protecting sensitive information about the objects themselves has been demonstrated experimentally at the U.S.

NEWS | 09/21/2016

Despite increased U. support for Latinx studies, decision on independent concentration not appealable

Jessica Li

When Arlene Gamio ’18 was told in the spring semester of their sophomore year that their application for an independent concentration in Latinx studies was not approved, they spearheaded a petition to challenge the decision. In the short week before Dean’s Date they launched the petition, and received more than 300 supporting signatures from University students.

NEWS | 09/21/2016

Panel discusses refugee resettlement, security

Charles Kyungchan Min

The issues surrounding refugee resettlement and Special Immigrant Visas require a delicate consideration of both the moral conundrum of admitting those seeking asylum and the security issues of admitting potential terrorists, said Jacob Shapiro, professor of politics and international affairs. Shapiro moderated the discussion panel, titled “Refugee Resettlement: Special Immigration Visas and National Security,” which included Michael Kelvington, a major in the U.S.

NEWS | 09/21/2016

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