With the 2016 Presidential Election less than a month away, University student groups are encouraging students to engage with the electoral process through various events.On Friday, Sept.
The women’s volleyball team continues their 9-game win streak after two back-to-back 3-0 sweeps against Columbia and Cornell.The Princeton Tigers (11-3, 5-0 Ivy League) have once again demonstrated stellar performance and proved worthy of their title as reigning champions.
Oliver Hart GS ’74 has been awarded the 2016 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for his contributions to contract theory, according to a press release by the Nobel Foundation.Hart was jointly awarded the prize with Bengt Holmström, economics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.“Hart made fundamental contributions to a new branch of contract theory that deals with the important case of incomplete contracts,” the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said in its press release announcing the award.“Hart’s findings on incomplete contracts have shed new light on the ownership and control of businesses and have had a vast impact on several fields of economics, as well as political science and law," the press release stated.Hart’s studies focused on incomplete contracts and how they are unable to predict future conflicts.“[A] contract that cannot explicitly specify what the parties should do in future eventualities, must instead specify who has the right to decide what to do when the parties cannot agree.
Lauren Bush Lauren ’06 came out in support of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. Lauren posted an image on Instagram of Clinton with the hashtag #ImWithHer.
University professors Robert George and Cornel West GS ’80 discussed the goals of liberal arts education at a lecture on Oct.
This Sunday, the Princeton men’s water polo team (13-6 overall, 4-1 Northeast Water Polo Conference) handily defeated both No.
New York University professor of economics William Easterly discussed foreign aid and development programs and their effects on immigration and xenophobia in the developed world in a lecture delivered on Oct.
On Oct. 10 at noon, nearly 20 students gathered outside Stanhope Hall in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe movement currently working to prevent the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.Among those who met outside Stanhope Hall were members of the Graduate Women of Color Caucus, the Black Graduate Caucus, and Natives at Princeton.
Researchers at the University were recently awarded a grant from the Department of Energy to develop a sensor to detect methane leaks from pipelines, compressor stations, and other midstream infrastructure.
Oliver Hart GS '74 has been awarded the 2016 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for his contributions to contract theory, according to a press release by The Nobel Foundation.Hart was jointly awarded the prize with Bengt Holmstrom, economics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
University students and community students gathered in the Whig Senate Hall Sunday evening to watch the second of three debates of the 2016 presidential race. Democratic nominee Secretary Hillary Clinton and Republican nominee Donald Trump debated issues such as maturity in personal behavior and judgment, the crisis in Syria, domestic taxes, and energy policy.
The University ranked last among all Ivy League institutions in the total number of monthly Tinder matches, according to research published by Tinder. Tinder is a social, mobile application that allows users to “swipe right” on individuals they find attractive, and "swipe left" on individuals they don't. In other categories, including “Most Swiped Right Schools,” “Monthly Social Groups,” and “Monthly Super Likes,” the University ranked sixth, seventh, and sixth, respectively. The University of Pennsylvania ranked first in terms of “most swiped-right schools,” while Columbia earned the top spot in “most monthly matches.” The University, although ranked highest on the U.S.
The Princeton College Republicans will be maintaining their earlier position of neutrality on Donald J.
An undetermined number of niversity students received a pro-Donald Trump email from a probable member of a white supremacy group named “White GeNOcide Project” the afternoon of Oct.
The Undergraduate Student Government met with Executive Director of Campus Dining Smitha Haneef and Dean of Rockefeller College Oliver Avens to discuss dining plan options in their meeting on Sunday.Haneef and Avens are co-chairs of the Board Plan Review Committee, which is dedicated to creating options that meet the needs of a diverse student body.
The University reported that the endowment earned a 0.8 percent investment gain for the 2016 fiscal year, with the endowment standing at $22.2 billion.
The LGBT Center launched a major poster campaign presenting portraits and quotes from students about their experiences being LGBTQIA on campus.The campaign, which began on Oct.
Members of the Princeton University Latinx Perspectives Organization, among other University students, received a pro-Donald Trump email from a probable member of a white supremacy group named “White GeNOcide Project” Saturday afternoon. The email, which had the subject line “Vote against ‘NO CHILD LEFT WHITE’- Vote Trump!” was sent from a non-University email address by an individual using the name “John Albert Willis.” The email was addressed to the University community, stating that “Princeton teaches its White students that they are immoral and contemptable if they don’t support White Genocide,” among similar remarks. The email additionally read that “Princeton professors say they're anti-racist.
The University reported that the endowment earned a 0.8 percent investment gain for the 2016 fiscal year.
Classics Professor Dan-el Padilla Peralta ’06 discussed his book on the lives of immigrants in the United States in a lecture Thursday.Although Peralta’s memoir, Undocumented: A Dominican Boy's Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League, ends shortly after his graduation, he said that his struggle with American immigration authorities continues today.
