The concept of taking care of others is at the core of the Asian-American identity, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Labor Christopher P.
Carly Bonnet '19, Susan Liu '19, Chelsea Ng '19, Eric Sklanka '19 and Christopher Umanzor '19 have been elected to the class council for the Class of 2019. According to Undergraduate Student Government chief elections manager Grant Golub ’17, Umanzor received 245 votes, Ng received 220 votes, Sklanka received 198 votes, Liu received 193 votes and Bonnet received 166 votes.
W. Rochelle Calhoun, who started as vice president for campus life in September, explained that she puts in a special effort to get to know students because while her job is centered around students, her office is in Nassau Hall and students don’t go to Nassau Hall just to hang out. “I’ve really spent many of my afternoons and evening ... going and visiting student groups,” Calhoun said.
Princeton has been ranked the best college town of 2015, according to financial technology company SmartAsset. According to the company's2015 study, Princeton’s violent crime rate is second lowest within college towns, and its property crime rate is third lowest.
The University will launch a new website next July, according to Christian Knoebel, Digital Manager at the Office of Communications. The project will be completed in collaboration with the University’s Office of Information Technology, with each department leading different initiatives, Knoebel said.
Housing developer AvalonBay began removing covered piles of contaminated soil from its construction site on Witherspoon Street in Princeton on Tuesday.The contamination had stalled construction on the 280-unit AvalonBay apartment complex since its discovery through environmental testing in August and September.
Cornel West GS ’80, a former African American studies professor at the University, and Revolutionary Communist Party member Carl Dix are organizing #RiseUpOctober, a march with a goal to end police brutality against black individuals and seek justice for police murder victims. The event's organizers have invited 100 families of victims of police killings to take part in the march, Dix said.
American Enterprise Institute resident fellow J. Matthew McInnis spoke on current affairs in Iran at a Wednesday lecture.
Iran’s foreign policy actions come from its insecurity and desire to uphold its unique ideology, American Enterprise Institute’s resident fellow J.
U.S. News & World Report ranked Rutgers University at Newark the most diverse institution among national colleges this month, Fox News reported. To create the list, U.S.
The decision to make rifles available to sworn Department of Public Safety officers reflects national best practice about how to keep campus secure right now, DPS Executive Director Paul Ominsky said.“We wanted to come up with a specific protocol for emergency response,” Ominsky explained, adding that getting an armed responder to the scene quicklyis key to the safety of the community.The new policy was announced at the Council of the Princeton University Community meeting on Monday by Ominsky.
Everyone has a responsibility to address the lack of education for women worldwide, First Lady Michelle Obama ’85 said at the Fortune’s 50 Most Powerful Women Summit Tuesday, according to a transcript provided by the White House.Obama noted that 62 million girls worldwide are not in school and that though there has been some progress in primary education, girls still lag behind in the field of secondary education, with fewer than 10 percent of girls completing high school.She added that while the problem sometimes comes down to a lack of resources, it is often about attitudes, with girls being subjected to the belief that they should get married and have children or stay home and do household work rather than pursue an education.Obama also noted that she and President Barack Obama launched Let Girls Learn last spring to support girls’ education in conflict zones and that they have partnered with the Peace Corps.
Anyone with the right determination and perseverance can start a successful company, Tom Leighton ’78 said at the Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education Symposium, which was held to commemorate the Keller Center’s 10th anniversary.Leighton, an MIT applied math professor turned CEO of Akamai said he never would have guessed he would start a company 20 years ago.
A majority of students, faculty and staff on campus are comfortable with sworn Department of Public Safety officers having access to rifles during an emergency, according to a survey conducted by the Daily Princetonian.The survey respondents do not necessarily feel safer now than before knowing that the officers will be able to access these rifles, though.DPS Executive Director Paul Ominsky announced on Monday at the Council of the Princeton University Community meeting that sworn DPS officers will soon have access to rifles in case of campus emergencies involving active shooters or armed suspects.The survey received a total of 641 responses from graduate and undergraduate students, faculty and staff.
Charles Gillispie, the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History, Emeritus died on Oct. 6.
Interest in entrepreneurship among students at the University has grown dramatically, and the Keller Center has responded to this by providing opportunities to explore these interests and pursue innovative ideas beyond traditional settings in the classroom and laboratory, Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science Vincent Poor GS ’77 said. The Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education celebrated its tenthanniversary with a symposium on Tuesday featuring keynote speaker Tom Leighton ’78, who is an applied math professor atMIT turned CEO of Akamai, and an introduction by University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83. Director of the Keller Center Mung Chiang said that innovating education has been a core mission of the Keller Center since its founding in 2005.
A “vicious cycle” plagues America’s ineffective government by causing frustrated Americans to vote based on empty promises for candidates who still do not serve the people, retired U.S.
A Hamilton Township woman was charged with driving while intoxicated after allegedly hitting a cyclist on Alexander Street on Friday, according to a report by the Princeton Patch.Stephanie Mulryne, 23, was allegedly driving north on Alexander Street toward Dickinson Street in a 1998 Ford Windsor when she hit Arthur Diringer, 66, of Princeton, as he was riding his bicycle along Alexander Street at 1:35 a.m.
The Council of the Princeton University Community discussed university policy updates with regard to emergency response and preparedness, sexual misconduct and student diversity on campus at its meeting on Monday.Executive Director of Public Safety Paul Ominsky announced that sworn Department of Public Safety officers will soon have access to rifles in the event of emergency situations on campus.Though the University had been discussing the policy for several months, the announcement comes soon after shootings at Texas Southern University in Houston, Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff and Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore.In response to data from the “We Speak: Attitudes on Sexual Misconduct at Princeton” survey, Professor Deborah Nord addressed the issues surrounding sexual misconduct at Princeton.The “We Speak” report, released last month, found that approximately one in three undergraduate women have experienced inappropriate sexual assault behavior.The Council said administrators should consider the effects of bystander intervention and alcohol with regard to sexual assault.
Sworn Department of Public Safety officers will have access to rifles in the event of emergency situations on campus, DPS Executive Director Paul Ominsky announced at the Council of the Princeton University Community meeting on Monday.“The national best practices for responding to an active shooter have evolved,” Ominsky said.
