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News & Notes: MSNBC host Harris-Perry to take position at Wake Forest University

News & Notes: MSNBC host Harris-Perry to take position at Wake Forest University

Daily Princetonian Staff

Melissa Harris-Perry — who hosts thethe MSNBC weekend show “Melissa Harris-Perry” and taught at Princeton from 2006 until 2010 — is now switching academic homes once again, this time to her alma mater. Harris-Perry will leave herposition as a political science professor at Tulane University in order to become a presidential chair in the politics and international affairs department at Wake Forest University.

NEWS | 04/15/2014

U. and PPPL receive $3.5 million for nuclear disarmament research

Photo courtesy Elle Starkman/PPPL Office of Communications

U. and PPPL receive $3.5 million for nuclear disarmament research

Daily Princetonian Staff and Anna Windemuth

The University and the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory will be pursuing nuclear research under a five-year, $3.5 million grant as part of the Center for Verification Technology.They will use the grant to continue developing a protocol for testing whether a warhead has nuclear content. The Center is a consortium of 13 universities and eight laboratories funded by the National Nuclear Security Administration.The group investigates both the technological and policy dimensions of nuclear disarmament, and includes a strong educational component, Alexander Glaser,assistant professor in the department of mechanical and aerospace engineering and in the Wilson School, said. “One of the best things about it is that Princeton is very strong in having both scientific and technical capability along with the Woodrow Wilson School,” Vice President of the PPPL A.J.

NEWS | 04/15/2014

Recurring bed bug infestations displace Holder residents

Jacob Donnelly

Bed bugs continue to be a problem in Holder Hall and Forbes College. Following two reports of bed bugs last September, at least four reports were confirmed this March. The students have been temporarily moved to graduate housing, a move different from last year, when four students were moved to single rooms in 1915 hall, in Butler College. Only the infestation in Holder Hall was disclosed to students.

NEWS | 04/15/2014

Discussions ongoing on development of electronic meal exchange system

Ruby Shao

The USG is in discussions with the Interclub Council and Dining Services to develop an electronic meal exchange system for upperclassmen in eating clubs and dining halls. By digitizing the system, the USG is aiming to streamline the meal exchange process, University Student Life Committee chair Ella Cheng ’16 said.

NEWS | 04/15/2014

Citizen group that opposed AvalonBay will not appeal ruling

Ruby Shao

A group of local residents who oppose AvalonBay, the controversial developer that wants to build residential units at the former University Medical Center at Princeton site, will not appeal a decision that affirms the rights of the company to develop the zone. The Association for Planning at Hospital Site LLC had sued Avalon Bay on Sept.

NEWS | 04/15/2014

News and Notes: Gellman ’82 and Washington Post win Pulitzer Prize

Daily Princetonian Staff

The Washington Post staff and The Guardian staff were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for public service on Monday. The team of journalists, which includes Barton Gellman ’82,won for a series of articles based on classified National Security Agency documents whichrevealed the Agency’s widespread surveillance program.

NEWS | 04/14/2014

News and Notes: Free New York Times digital subscriptions now available to students

Daily Princetonian Staff

Faculty, students and staff at the University and the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratorycan now access the digital edition of The New York Times through an academic site license provided by the University’s Library, the Library announced on its website. The license does not include e-reader editions, tablet applications, or applications for the Times’ crossword puzzles.

NEWS | 04/14/2014

Low response rate for USG Midterm Evaluation survey

Sharon Deng

Only 171 students, approximately 26 percent of the students sampled, responded to the USG Academics Committee’s Midterm Evaluation Pilot program survey.The survey was available from April 3 to April 6 and allowed students to submit anonymous feedback about their classes. The 10 classes selected for the pilot program varied in size, department and type, but all received the same survey.Consisting of 14 questions, the survey was based on an existing midsemester course questionnaire template provided by the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning.

NEWS | 04/14/2014

Class Council and U-Council candidates announced

Anna Mazarakis

Thirty-four students are running for class council or U-Council positions this year, USG president Shawon Jackson ’15 announced in an email to the undergraduate student body on Monday. Of the 15 class council positions, nine are uncontested.

NEWS | 04/14/2014

In light of changes and unrest, Princeton monitoring investment policies across the Ivy League

James Evans

The University is monitoring sustainable investment developments across the Ivy League in light of recent demonstrations and policy changes across peer institutions, although it considers it is still too early to make a decision. Harvard President Drew Faust recently announced Harvard’s commitment to the United Nations’ Principles for Responsible Investment, aimed at tackling climate change.

NEWS | 04/14/2014

Bodine to take position at Georgetown

Bodine to take position at Georgetown

Do-Hyeong Myeong

Wilson School diplomat-in-residence and Directorof the Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative program Barbara Bodine intends to step down at the end of the academic year. The University is now searching for a director for the SINSI program, which was established in 2006. A job posting indicated the search was posted on the University website on April 7.

NEWS | 04/14/2014

News & Notes: Top 30 Thinkers Under 30

Jeron Fenton

The Pacific Standardnamed E. Glen Weyl ’07, Alisha Holland ’07, Eugene Yi GS '13, Andrew Kim GS and Nicholas Carnes GS '11 as members of the Top 30 Thinkers under 30.

NEWS | 04/13/2014

News & Notes: IP Commercialization Agreement

Konadu Amoakuh

The University signed an IP commercialization agreement with a UK-based intellectual rights commercialization company, IP Group PLC, on Wednesday. The company specializes in the commercialization of intellectual property rights developed at research universities around the world. The agreement will help develop “early stage” opportunities based on intellectual property developed at Princeton that IP Group will now have access to with this new agreement. The agreement has a pilot phase of 18 months and will cover a variety of subjects, including materials, clean technology, medical sciences, human sciences, information technology, electronics, communications and robotics. According to the IP Group website, John F.

NEWS | 04/13/2014

Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mullen to return to Princeton next fall

Jacqueline Gufford

Admiral and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Michael G. Mullen will be returning as a guest professor to Princeton this coming fall.

NEWS | 04/13/2014

USG social chair defends donation of Lawnparties proceeds

Durva Trivedi

USG social chair Logan Roth '15 defended the committee's decision to donate proceeds from Spring Lawnparties at the Senate meeting on Sunday. Responding to an audience member’s question, Roth replied that “that specific charity was chosen by a team of people on the social committee, and we chose it because it was local, education-based, and we thought they did very good work.” He cited TEAM Charter Schools’ high matriculation rates and work in extremely impoverished areas as examples of the "good work" they provide. “I understand it’s somewhat politically controversial but I’ve said this before, I didn’t think it would be sensational, but this is a pilot year,” Roth said.

NEWS | 04/13/2014

7 faculty members awarded Guggenheim Fellowships

Daily Princetonian Staff and Anna Windemuth

Faculty members Mung Chiang, Emily Thompson, Serguei Oushakine, Claire Vaye Watkins, Meghan O’Rourke, Andrew Cole and Devin Fore were among the 178 winners chosen from a pool of almost 3,000 applicants to receive fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation. Guggenheim Fellowships recognize accomplishments and propositions in academics, the arts or the sciences. Winners receive grants to further their work in time blocks lasting between six and 12 months.

NEWS | 04/13/2014

Tiger Admirers removed from Facebook

Ray Mennin

Tiger Admirers, a Facebook page that allowed University students to express love, affection and secret crushes for other members of the University anonymously, was recently removed from Facebook because it was found to be in violation of the website's policies. The page’s format was that of an ordinary Facebook user, and students would submit poems, YouTube links and confessions to the Tiger Admirers inbox as if they were instant messaging a friend.

NEWS | 04/13/2014

News and Notes: Flaherty ’70, former Canadian finance minister, dies at 64

Daily Princetonian Staff

Jim Flaherty ’70, who served as finance minister of Canada from 2006 through March of this year, died Thursday.

NEWS | 04/10/2014

University General Counsel Peter McDonough announces retirement

Paul Phillips

Peter McDonough, who has served as general counsel for the University since 2002 and provided legal advice to the University since 1990, intends to step down at the end of the academic year.

NEWS | 04/10/2014

Lawnparties charity has ties with USG

Durva Trivedi

The charity that will be featured at Lawnparties this year, TEAM Charter Schools, was selected because several people on the USG social committee liked the organization and had worked with it before, social committee chairLogan Roth ’15 said. He also said the social committee’s decision to contribute to a charity through Lawnparties had been floating around for several years, and he really wanted to move forward with it this year. TEAM Charter Schools, a region of schools in Newark and Camden, N.J., will benefit with proceeds from the sales of raffle tickets and merchandise, while no money originally budgeted for Lawnparties will be handed to the charity.

NEWS | 04/10/2014

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