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New honor society aims to reward science research

The Daily Princetonian

New honor society aims to reward science research

Ariel Chen

The Princeton Biomedical Engineering Society hosted an informational presentation on Feb. 22 with Elise Mochizuki, investment analyst at the Akemi Capital family office. She is the founder of the honor society Epsilon Alpha Mu and the nonprofit organization The Elise Foundation, which aims to make available new sources of funding for STEM research and pursuits on campus. 

NEWS | 02/23/2017

Q&A with former SEC Official Norm Champ '85

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Q&A with former SEC Official Norm Champ '85

Norman Xiong

The Daily Princetonian sat down with the former Director of the Division of Investment Management of the Securities and Exchange Commission Norm Champ ’85 to discuss his role in the regulation of the finance industry after the Great Recession. Champ’s recent book, “Going Public: My Adventures Inside the SEC and How to Prevent the Next Devastating Crisis,” details the process of financial reform both by and within the SEC after the crisis, and is set to be published in March. Champ is currently a lecturer at Harvard Law School and a partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP Investment Funds Group.

NEWS | 02/23/2017

Latino Coalition files complaint against town charter school

Princeton Charter School

Latino Coalition files complaint against town charter school

Sarah Warman Hirschfield and Jeff Zymeri

On Feb. 16, the Latino Coalition of New Jersey (LCNJ) filed a complaint against the Princeton Charter School (PCS) with the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division and the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. In a press release that explains the filed complaint, the LCNJ urged these two departments “to investigate segregation at the Princeton Charter School and to review state policies that permit charter schools to serves as ‘enclaves of segregation.’”

NEWS | 02/23/2017

Independent students seek improvements in living conditions

Spelman

Independent students seek improvements in living conditions

Kevin Agostinelli

“It’s kind of perverse that cooking for yourself, something any 21- or 22-year-old should be capable of, is the exception rather than the rule at Princeton,” McIntosh said. “I don't know if that's the work-hard-play-hard culture or what, but independent life never felt like it was part of the ‘Princeton Experience,’ whatever that's supposed to be.”

NEWS | 02/23/2017
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Speaker advocates for friendly U.S.-Russia relations under Trump administration

Trump US-Russian relations talk

Speaker advocates for friendly U.S.-Russia relations under Trump administration

Samuel Oh

“Contact with Russians have become suspect in some way, and efforts to work with the Russians to find solutions in our differences have been construed as selling out to the Russians," Graham said. "It is particularly dispiriting for people like me who have engaged in this relationship for well over 25 to 30 years.”

NEWS | 02/23/2017

Eisgruber '83 Discusses Annual Letter at CPUC

Eisgruber '83 Discusses Annual Letter at CPUC

Audrey Spensley

“In the case of this executive order on immigration, I have spent much of my life as a scholar of religious freedom, and it mattered to me that this order was, in my judgment, a threat to religious freedom and a betrayal of principles that define this polity and should define this polity, and I thought I was able to speak to that,” he said. “I was also able to speak to it on the basis of my personal experience as the child of immigrants to this country.”

NEWS | 02/20/2017

U.-funded expert explains 'vaccine court'

U.-funded expert explains 'vaccine court'

Samvida Venkatesh

In response to an audience question on whether the government was being unethical in forcing children to be given vaccines that could harm their bodies, Kirkland explained that any vaccines approved for use must go through a rigorous approval process mandated by the FDA and were deemed to be safe in clinical trials run on tens of thousands of children. She agreed with an audience member who noted in response that the diseases that the vaccines were preventing children against, such as measles, pertussis and whooping cough, were themselves incredibly harmful and often caused death.

NEWS | 02/20/2017

U. affiliates contribute to C-SPAN historians’ survey of presidential leadership

The Daily Princetonian

U. affiliates contribute to C-SPAN historians’ survey of presidential leadership

Daily Princetonian Staff

C-SPAN released its third annual survey by historians of presidential leadership. The survey polled 91 historians, include three University historians, to rank the “43 former occupants of the White House on ten attributes of leadership,” according to a press release from Media Relations Specialist Robin Newton. University affiliates who participated include Politics Professor emeritus Fred Greenstein, author and Edwards Professor of American History, emeritus Nell Irvin Painter, and George Henry Davis 1866 Professor of American History, and Professor of History Sean Wilentz.

NEWS | 02/20/2017

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