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The Integrated Approach: Studying Science Without Borders

The Integrated Approach: Studying Science Without Borders

Kristin Qian

Since its formation, Integrated Science Curriculum has undergone several subtle changes, the most notable being the elimination of the two-year sequence and the addition of two 300-level courses for upperclassmen, according to Professor of Physics Joshua Shaevitz.ISC Curriculum ChangesThe change in curriculum largely came about in response to student comments, Shaevitz said.The original two-year sequence consisted of an intensive double course in physics and chemistry in the first year with a bit of biology motivation, and then a single, less intensive course in the second year covering molecular biology, biochemistry and organic chemistry, using tools developed in the first year, he explained.For the students who completed the two-year track, it was very successful, he said.

NEWS | 04/07/2016

U. community shares reactions to Wilson Legacy Committee Report

Andie Ayala

Following Monday’s release of the Wilson Legacy Committee’s report, many members of the University community expressed that the decisions of the University Board of Trustees, especially the decision to keep the name of Woodrow Wilson, Class of 1879, on the Wilson School and the Wilson College, were not a surprise. Anchal Padukone ’16 said she thought it was necessary to have a conversation about Wilson's legacy and what we encourage when we honor figures by naming a building or program after them. “While there were some people who were vocal about the importance of the name change, there were many others who were indifferent,” she said. Briana Payton ’16, a previous board member and a current senior advisor of the Black Student Union, said that she was disappointed, but not surprised, by the recommendations in the report. “I think it would have been amazingly progressive and noble to rename the [Wilson] School; it would have been a huge symbolic victory,” Payton said. She said she understands why the University cannot feasibly rename every building that was named after a historic figure.

NEWS | 04/07/2016

Princeton Clay Project raises funds, awareness to help Syrian refugee youth

Kevin Agostinelli

Avigail Gilad '19 and Maria Chiara Ficarelli ’19 recently co-founded the Princeton Clay Project, a fundraising and awareness initiative dedicated to sending Syrian refugee youth to Al Albayt University in Jordan through the Amal Scholarship Fund.The group has so far raised upwards of $3,000, according to Ficarelli and Gilad.Ficarelli is an associate photo editor for the Daily Princetonian.The Amal Scholarship Fund was started by Julie Whittaker GS of the Wilson School, who also co-founded the Princeton Refugee Project.The Amal Scholarship Fund was named for “amal,” the Arabic word for hope, and offers needy students four-year university scholarships to study at Al Albayt, a public Jordanian university located ten minutes away from Za’atari Refugee Camp, according to the Amal Scholarship Fund website. The website notes that the cost of a four-year bachelor’s degree in Jordan – including tuition, books and living stipend – is $19,000.The Clay Project is working in close conjunction with the Princeton Refugee Project, the Nassau Presbyterian Church and the Social Justice Committee of the Center for Jewish Life, with the goal of raising $10,000 – enough to support two years of study at Al Albayt University for one student.

NEWS | 04/07/2016

Fishman '78 reveals visa fraud conspiracy involving fake university with logo resembling U. shield

William Liu

Paul Fishman ’78, U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey, unveiled a sting operation in which 21 defendants were charged with enabling student visa fraud this past Tuesday. In an effort to expose conspirators, most of whom are naturalized U.S.

NEWS | 04/06/2016

Farmer's market to have new sustainability guidelines

Marcia Brown

The Office of Sustainability, aided by multiple undergraduate and graduate students, will launch the 2016 Farmer’s Market on April 13 with new sustainability guidelines.According to Lisa Nicolaison, program coordinator at the Office of Sustainability, the market will run from 11 a.m.

NEWS | 04/06/2016

23 town residents join tax-exemption lawsuit against U.

Hannah Waxman

23 residents in the Witherspoon-Jackson neighborhood of downtown Princeton have joined a lawsuit filed against the University’s tax-exempt status on April 1.Every year by April 1, a new suit has to be filed to continue the preexisting proceedings,Bruce Afran, an attorney who represents the plaintiffs, said.The original suit was filed in 2011 by several residents of Princeton, and was subsequently challenged by the University in February 2015, but was overturned by Judge Vito Bianco of the New Jersey State Tax Court.Bianco’s office did not respond to a request for comment.Robert Durkee ’69, University vice president and secretary, wrote in an email that neither the University nor the tax management office have received filing of the update to the new suit yet.He declined to comment further until such information is provided.Media relations specialist Min Pullan and General Counsel Ramona Romero did not respond to a request for comment.The New Jersey Tax Court clarified in November 2015 that the University must carry a burden of proof to ensure tax exemption.

NEWS | 04/06/2016

Emily Carter named Dean of SEAS

Caroline Lippman

Emily Carter, the University’s Founding Director of the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment and a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and applied and computational mathematics, has been appointed the next Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, effective July 1.Carter said that she is hoping to make the Engineering School an even more welcoming place for all members of the University.“I'm hoping we’ll get students so excited at the undergraduate and graduate level about the work going on and the kinds of ways in which students can contribute and create and invent — and contribute to serving society — that it’ll draw in a very broad demographic that looks like the rest of the population,” Carter explained.Carter said she believes that part of what makes the Engineering School special is that it is deeply embedded in the University, where it can have an impact beyond engineering.Regarding the role of the Dean, she said, “One very important aspect within Princeton is to continue to build bridges between the School of Engineering and the rest of campus.

NEWS | 04/05/2016

U. staff members honored for years of service, dedication

Kristin Qian

Winners of the President’s Achievement Award and the Donald Griffin ’23 Management Award were recognized at the annual Service Recognition Luncheon on March 24. 516 members of the University staff and administration were also honored at the luncheon for their service.

NEWS | 04/05/2016

Mehdi discusses portrayal of Islam, Muslims in media

Maya Wesby

In a lecture on Tuesday, Emmy Award-winning journalist Anisa Mehdi examined the Western media’s portrayalof Muslims and how that portrayal impacts Americanattitudes towards Islam. “Who are we afraid of?

NEWS | 04/05/2016

Pride Alliance to celebrate Pride Month with a variety of events

Marcia Brown

Since the Pride Week at the University expanded to Pride Month last year, the number of activities offered and number of participants during the month has grown. This year, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Center and the Pride Alliance are organizing 16 events in April, according to Jean Bellamy '19 and Nicolas Freeman '18, co-presidents of the Pride Alliance board. Pride Alliance is a group that representsthe interests of the LGBT and questioning members of the University community.Andy Cofino, the Center's program coordinator, explainedthe LGBT Center advises, supports and checks in with the program every week, though the group is very student-run. This year’s Pride Month has many more events, as well as considerably larger expenditures and bigger ticket items, according to Freeman. “We want to reach out more to the Princeton campus,” they said. The events include workshops from writer Sinclair Sexsmith on gender, sexuality and trigger warnings, speed-friending and karaoke, film screenings, art exhibits, lectures and cupcake decorating with the Princeton Aces, a group for asexual and questioning students, according to Freeman. For most events, attendance typically ranges from 40 to 70 people, with heavier attendance for the ticketed events like karaoke, Bellamy said. Pride Month events kicked off with the “We Are Here” Queer monologues in Wilson College Blackbox Theater April 1 and 2. “I always think the Queer monologues are very impactful and are able to bring the community together,” Cofino said.

NEWS | 04/05/2016

Lindy Li ’12 withdraws from Congressional race

Kevin Agostinelli

Democrat Lindy Li ’12 has withdrawn from Pennsylvania’s sixth District Congressional race, following a verdict from the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania last Friday.Li had been contesting Chester County businessman Mike Parrish for the Democratic nomination in order to face Republican incumbent Ryan Costello in the 2016 November election.

NEWS | 04/04/2016

Carter named Dean of Engineering School

Daily Princetonian Staff

Emily Carter, founding director of the University's Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, will serve as the new dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton, effective July 1. In a press release, Carter noted that she is immensely grateful to her colleagues and the University administration for their faith in her ability to lead the prestigious School of Engineering and Applied Science to even greater heights. Carter will replace H.

NEWS | 04/04/2016

Planet Princeton sues town over OPRA denial

Catherine Wang

Local community news site Planet Princeton filed a lawsuit in Mercer County Superior Court last Tuesday, seeking the records of the policing agreement between the town of Princeton and the University, after the municipality of Princeton denied prior requests for access to the agreement.University Media Relations Specialist Min Pullan noted that the University is unable to comment on active or pending cases.The agreement sets the jurisdiction of the University’s Department of Public Safety, which is larger in size than the police force of Princeton township.

NEWS | 04/04/2016

U. technician Pierce donates books to Nicaraguan library to foster children's literacy

Maya Wesby

William Pierce, theater operations technician at Richardson Auditorium, sent books collected from his book drive at the University to Puedo Leer Library in Granada, Nicaragua last Wednesday.

NEWS | 04/04/2016

Updated: U. to keep Woodrow Wilson's name on buildings, change informal motto

Amber Park

The University Board of Trustees announced Monday morning that it had approvedrecommendationsfrom the Wilson Legacy Committee’s report.Included among the decisions was that the Wilson School and Wilson College will continue to be named after Woodrow Wilson, Class of 1879, and that the University will change its informal motto.Other approved recommendations include establishing a pipeline program to encourage more underrepresented students to pursue doctoral degrees and diversifying campus art.

NEWS | 04/04/2016

Wilson School to hold exhibition on Woodrow Wilson's legacy

Christopher Umanzor

The Wilson School will be holding a public exhibit in Robertson Hall titled “In the Nation’s Service?

NEWS | 04/03/2016

USG discusses the Passport to the Performing Arts program

Katherine Oh

The Undergraduate Student Government senate discussed the Passport to the Performing Artsprogram during their weekly meeting onApr.

NEWS | 04/03/2016

HackPrinceton brings in around 500 student programmers, entrepreneurs

Kevin Agostinelli

HackPrinceton, the University’s biannual hackathon hosted by the Princeton Entrepreneurship Club, drew around 500 student programmers and entrepreneurs from more than 100 universities this past weekend.Participants faced the challenge of creating functioning software or hardware projects from scratch in 36 hours, with the best teams earning prizes such as printing pens and Bluetooth keyboards at the closing ceremonies on Sunday afternoon.“HackPrinceton provides students with the unique opportunity to learn new technical skills and take advantage of mentorship and hardware resources, all while being surrounded by hundreds of like-minded students,” Zachary Liu '18, a co-director of HackPrinceton and computer science major at the University, said.Liu, who organized his fourth HackPrinceton this semester, said that he is motivated to continue improving the already successful hackathon."My personal goals for HackPrinceton are trying to focus even more on the attendee experience and providing the best possible outlet for hackers to not only to learn more, but also to simply connect with other people at the hackathon," he said.Monica Shi '18, another HackPrinceton co-director, did not respond to requests for comment.After the 36 hour deadline passed, ten teams were selected as finalists and presented their projects in front of a large crowd to a panel of judges from various business and technological backgrounds.The following projects reached this final stage: Windsong, Cliqur, Lucy, Moralit.ai, Chrono | Emergency, SafeWalk, EIR, StockTalk, EyePhone and Spin to Win.

NEWS | 04/03/2016

U. responds to congressional inquiry on endowment spending

Marcia Brown

University President Christopher Eisgruber '83 released a letter in response to an inquiryfrom several members of the U.S.

NEWS | 04/03/2016

Angela Davis discusses gender violence, historical erasure of women's activism

Kevin Agostinelli

Political activist, scholar and writer Angela Davis said that violence is an indication of the impossibility of imagining livable futures in a lecture Thursday.Davis described several harrowing experiences of gender and sexual violence in the United States, including both instances that she has witnessed firsthand and others that were experienced by victims for which she has worked to defend and raise awareness."I ... remember, as a child, a late night walk on our front door by a woman who was fleeing a man, who I later found out had raped her," she said.Recalling whispered conversations in elementary school about children who were the victims of sexual assault, Davis said she found it strange that these children were perceived as partly responsible for the sexual assaults.Davis noted that she also picked up a woman from the side of the road who had been raped in another situation."A police [officer] had come by, and she thought that she was going to get help from the police officer, but he had also sexually assaulted her and left her there," she said.A Professor Emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Davis was closely affiliated with the Black Panther Party through her participation in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement.

NEWS | 03/31/2016

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