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National Science Foundation renews funding for U. Center for Complex Materials

National Science Foundation renews funding for U. Center for Complex Materials

Katherine Oh

The National Science Foundation this week renewed its funding for the Princeton Center for Complex Materials until October 2020.The funding for the University totals about $6.4 million.NSF awards follow a six-year cycle, and the grant is conditional on following the research rules associated with the funding.

NEWS | 02/26/2015

Lakeside Graduate Housing project to open on June 1 after delays

Do-Hyeong Myeong

While the Lakeside Graduate Housing project is scheduled to open on June 1 after a year-long delay, some graduate students say that lack of communication, financial burden and less-than-optimal living conditions in temporary housing for the affected students have been problematic.The Lakeside complex was originallyslated to open in July 2014, but was delayed to September, then to December and finally to June 2015.Students who originally planned to live at Lakeside in the 2014-15 academic year were instead offered temporary housing at Butler Apartments, which were slated to be demolished during summer 2014, and at Stanworth Apartments.The delays were rooted in the complexity of the contractual relationships among the parties working to build the project, according to an October 2014 article in The Daily Princetonian.Christine Philippe-Blumauer GS, chair of the Butler Committee and a Butler Apartments resident, said that although the complex has many advantages, such as cheap rent, good location for some purposes and a family-friendly atmosphere, the insulation and furniture are in suboptimal conditions.“[The] Butler [Apartments complex] was always supposed to be temporary housing,” Philippe-Blumauer said.

NEWS | 02/26/2015

Black History Month: Looking back at the 1980s and 1990s

Shriya Sekhsaria

Affirmative action was the political backdrop of African-American student life on campus in the 1980s, with some students and alumni questioning its place.

NEWS | 02/25/2015

Q&A: Former Texas state senator Wendy Davis

Ruby Shao

FormerTexas state senator and former Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis gave a public lecture on campus on Wednesday addressing her recent campaign and women's rights.

NEWS | 02/25/2015

News & Notes: Two Princeton residents charged in connection to crash

Grant Golub

A Princeton resident has been charged in connection to a car crash on Saturday in which the pair’s vehicle allegedly struck two houses on Hamilton Avenue after flipping over, the Times of Trenton reported. Kyle Froehlich, 18, the driver of the vehicle, was charged with filing a false police report in relation to the accident, which took place at 2 a.m.

NEWS | 02/25/2015

Simpson GS '60 donates funds for new macroeconomics center

Pooja Patel

Louis Simpson GS ’60 donated $10 million to the University to establish the Louis A. Simpson Center for the Study of Macroeconomics, the University announced on Monday. The center will be formally dedicated in October with a lecture featuring Ben Bernanke, former chair of the Federal Reserve, who chaired the University’s economics department from 1996-2002. “We already have an excellent [macroeconomics] program," economics professor Gene Grossman, chair of the economics department and director of the International Economics Section, said.

NEWS | 02/25/2015

Davis discusses gubernatorial campaign, women's rights at lecture

Do-Hyeong Myeong

Politicians need to stop damaging women’s lives in their political games and instead design policies to support women’s rights and true gender equality, formerTexas state senator and former Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis said at a lecture on Wednesday. Davis gained nationwide attention for her 11-hour filibuster in June 2013 to block a bill restricting abortion rights that was ultimately signed into law by Texas Governor Rick Perry. Gender equality, despite some remarkable advances during the past century, is currently losing ground in the U.S., Davis said.

NEWS | 02/25/2015

News & Notes: Columbia hires former Penn football coach

Daily Princetonian Staff

After retiring from his position of football coach at the University of Pennsylvania three months ago, Al Bagnoli has just been hired by Columbia as their new Patricia and Shepard Alexander Head Coach of Football. Bagnoli joins Columbia after a 23-year career at Penn, where he led the team to winning nine Ivy League titles and maintained an overall record of 148-80, including 112-49 in the conference.

NEWS | 02/24/2015

Gabbard speaks on faith, public office, military service

Ruby Shao

The spirit behind the word “aloha” is key to solving many of today’s challenges, Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard said at a Tuesday lecture.

NEWS | 02/24/2015

U. Carillonneur plans to experiment musically

Christina Vosbikian

University Carillonneur Lisa Lonie believes there is room for modern experimentation in the art form of carillon playing, which originated in the late medieval period. A carillon is a musical instrument composed of at least 23 carillon bells, tuned to produce harmonic notes when many bells are sounded together, according to the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America.The carillon, usually installed in a tower, is played from a keyboard that allows expression through variation of touch, although the larger bells are connected to foot pedals. “At a college, musically, you have a lot more leeway,” Lonie said.

NEWS | 02/24/2015

Smith to leave U., will become president of Swarthmore

Linda Song

Dean of the College Valerie Smith will leave her position to become the president of Swarthmore College on July 1. Swarthmore’s Board of Managers named Smith on Feb.

NEWS | 02/24/2015

Black History Month: Looking back at the 1970s

Shriya Sekhsaria

In the 1970s, the African-American community on campus expanded to include women. The Third World Center was also developed as a social space for the community, which helped to organize a number of protests and sit-ins for anti-apartheid divestment campaigns. 1970s: Women are welcomed on campus In the fall of 1969, women were officially admitted into the University's first coeducational program.

NEWS | 02/23/2015

News & Notes: Suspected drug overdoses send 12 to hospital at Wesleyan University

Daily Princetonian Staff

Twelve students were sent to the hospital after showing symptoms consistent with a drug overdose, the CBS affiliate WFSB reported. Students allegedly overdosed on the drug MDMA, a variant of Ecstasy that is also known as "Molly," at a party on Saturday night at the Eclectic Society House, a coeducational group. Multiple calls were placed to police, and police and Wesleyan continue to investigate the incident, although police are treating the MDMA used at the party as a "bad batch," WFSB reported. Wesleyan President Michael Roth said the patients were 10 Wesleyan students and two visitors. As of Monday evening, eight people were still in the hospital, and four were expected to be released late Monday.

NEWS | 02/23/2015

Garza talks creation of Black Lives Matter movement

Jacob Donnelly

The Black Lives Matter movement has aimed not only to effect policy change but also to make structural racism a kitchen-table conversation, Alicia Garza, one of the original organizers of the movement, said in a lecture on Monday.Although perhaps best known as a hashtag, Black Lives Matter began as an organizing project in part spurred by Garza’s reflections on the shooting of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed African-American 16-year-old, and the acquittal of George Zimmerman, who was charged with Martin’s murder, she said.The first thing she thought about when she heard Zimmerman was acquitted was her brother and how he could have been in a situation similar to Martin’s, she said.

NEWS | 02/23/2015

Black History Month: Looking back at the 1960s

Shriya Sekhsaria

In the 1960s, the African-American community at the University expanded in size under the mentorship of Carl Fields and went on to establish a series of organizations and conferences.

NEWS | 02/23/2015

Beard '84 wins NAACP Image Award

Beard '84 wins NAACP Image Award

Linda Song

Hilary Beard ’84 won a 2015 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Image Award earlier this month for a book she coauthored in 2014, "Promises Kept: Raising Black Boys to Succeed in School and in Life."The book, a companion to the Sundance award-winning documentary American Promise, is part of that film’s campaign to support young African-American men in fulfilling their potential and closing the educational achievement gap.

NEWS | 02/23/2015

Undergraduate Law Review launches

Olivia Wicki

The Princeton Undergraduate Law Review published its first collection of articles online on Feb. 16. Anthony Sibley ’16, the former president of the Pre-Law Society, said he reached out to Mengyi Xu ’13, a former Program of Law and Public Affairs co-director and Pre-Law Society president, about the idea. Since the Pre-Law Society’s founding in 2008, the concept of a publication for the organization had never been fully developed, Xu explained. The Editorial Board consists of Editor-in-Chief Charlotte Chun ’16, Ella Cheng ’16, Carol Gu ’17, Martha Jachimski ’17and Selena Kitchens ’17. Chun is a former columnist and Cheng is a former staff writer for The Daily Princetonian. “It just so happened that the entirety of the PULR board is female, which is something that I have personally taken a lot of pride in,” Chun said.

NEWS | 02/23/2015

News & Notes: Cornell hosts Ivy League Vegan Conference

Jasmine Wang

Cornell hosted the fourth Ivy League Vegan Conference, with over 300 anticipated visitors, this past weekend. The event, hosted by Cornell for the first time, was free for Cornell students. The conference is the only Ivy League conference dedicated to discussions about vegan diets, academics, policy and bioethics.

NEWS | 02/22/2015

USG senate discusses Mental Health Week, access to the arts in NYC

Katherine Oh

Committee applications, Mental Health Week and increased access to New York City were among the topics discussed by the Undergraduate Student Government at their weekly senate meeting on Sunday night. Members of the senate discussed the recently received committee applications, and members noted that the number of applications received was lower than the numbers from the previous semester. “I think it was much higher in the fall; I tried to maximize the amount of responses to the committee app,” USG president Ella Cheng ’16 said.

NEWS | 02/22/2015

Black History Month: Looking back from 1792 to 1950s

Shriya Sekhsaria

Race relations at the University have transformed significantly from a time when admitted students were turned away because of their race to a time when multiple diversity initiatives and ad hoc committees have been created to make students feel comfortable on campus. According to sources, the history of African-American students at the University has been complex starting from 1792. 1792: The potentially first African-American University student Although John Chavis, a young African-American man, was nominated for the Leslie Fund Scholarship set aside for poor and pious students who wanted to get a Presbyterian education, he does not appear in contemporary class rolls, andthere are no records of him having ever attended the University. Melvin McCray ’74, who has spent considerable time preserving campus African-American history, said Chavis’ nomination for the Leslie Fund Scholarship is recorded in the minutes of the meeting of the Board of Trustees in 1792. “All the history in his family places him at Princeton as a student,” McCray said.

NEWS | 02/22/2015

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