Ramona Romero is the University’s new appointed general counsel, University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 announced onWednesday morning.
Harvard’s endowment grew to $36.4 billion in the 2014 fiscal year with a return of 15.4 percent, the Harvard Crimson reported. This endowment is just below the institution’s peak in endowment in June 2008 before it lost nearly $11 billion in the global financial crisis. Harvard’s return for the 2014 fiscal year is higher than the return of 11.3 percent it got during the 2013 fiscal year. The 2014 fiscal year marked the fifth consecutive year in which Harvard exceeded the benchmark it created for itself.
Europe faces the dual challenge of remaining credible while ensuring its own stability, President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy said at a panel discussion Tuesday. The panel, in addition to Van Rompuy, consisted of Renée Haferkamp, former director general of the European Commission; Peter Hall, a professor of European studies at Harvard; and Andrew Moravcsik, director of the European Union Program at the University. Van Rompuy advocated for more coordination and solidarity between the various constituent members of the European Union while maintaining that each country is ultimately responsible for its own well-being. When asked if the European Union countries which are better off should make fiscal transfers to weaker countries, Van Rompuysaid that they should.
The Princeton town council passed an ordinance banning fracking throughout the town at a council meeting on Monday. The ordinance, which was passed by a vote of 5-1, makes Princeton the first town in Mercer County and the second town in New Jersey to ban fracking, which critics say causes significant damage to the environment.
PHILADELPHIA — University President Christopher Eisgruber '83 urged alumni to consider expanding the size of the incoming freshman class at an alumni event here on Tuesday evening. “I’m proud of all the students who we have, but I know we can do better and do more by taking more students,” he said.
When David Pupa wanted to write a fictional book whose main character attends the University, he was told that he would have to gain official approval before it could be published. In order to get the approval, Pupa submitted a rough draft of his manuscript and was granted preliminary approval two weeks later.
The Witherspoon Institute — a conservative think tank based in Princeton that has many ties to the University — and a University-sponsored program for undergraduate students received substantial funding from the Koch brothers-backed DonorsTrust and the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation in the year 2012, according to Internal Revenue Service records. The Institute's ties to the University include politics professor Robert George, who helped found the Institute in 2003 and who is currently a senior fellow there, as well as history professor Harold James and politics professor John Londregan, both of whom are also senior fellows.
After edging out a win against Millersville on the opening day of the season, Princeton continued its winning ways with an impressive performance against Ivy League rival Columbia and secured a 38-29 victory.
An operations research and financial engineering professor arrested for stealing lawn signsearlier this summer might have his charges dropped if he completes community service at Trenton Central High School, according to a deal proposed by the Princeton municipal prosecutor. John Mulvey, who is teaching ORF 311: Optimization under Uncertainty, ORF 435: Financial Risk Management and ORF 535: Financial Risk Management this semester, was charged with allegedly stealing 21 lawn signs that advertised Princeton Computer Repairs, Tutoring and Digital Services over the course of last year. Mulvey did not respond to a request for comment. Ted Horodynsky, owner of the company, alleged that Mulvey stole the signs in retaliation for a traffic incident in which Horodynsky may have cut off Mulvey near a stop sign.
A train advocacy group, the New Jersey Association of Railroad Passengers, will not appeal a federal ruling in July that deemed New Jersey Transit immune from federal oversight.
The town of Princeton formally welcomed its first new police officers since the consolidation of the Borough and Township in January 2013, according to Times of Trenton. Donald Stephen Mathews and Dashawn J.
Town residents discussed concerns over preserving the historic and cultural charm of Witherspoon Street while considering the implications of current zoning regulations during a public meeting on Monday night. Although Witherspoon Street spans only about a mile in length, it includes eight different zoning areas.
A student at Rutgers was killed on Sunday by a bear. Darsh Patel, a Rutgers senior, was hiking with four friends in the Apshawa Preserve when they came across a 300-pound, 4-year-old bear. The hikers ran from the bear, but the bear fatally attacked Patel.
The death of a Rutgers student early Sunday morning might be alcohol-related, according to a preliminary investigation, though the cause of death has yet to be determined. Caitlyn Kovacs, a sophomore at Rutgers, had gone to a small gathering at the school's chapter of Delta Kappa Epsilon in New Brunswick Saturday night.
The University hired an important law firm last week to represent it ina mental health lawsuit in which a student was allegedly forced to withdraw following a suicide attempt.The student, who is unnamed in court filings, sued the University in March and is representing himself. The University is being represented by William F.
The Princeton University Investment Company and Chair of the University's Board of Trustees Kathryn Hall ’80 have both invested in Thrive Capital, aventure capital investment firm focused on media and Internet investments. Princo is the University department that manages $17.8 billion of the University's $18.2 billion endowment. In addition to her chairmanship, Hall is CEO of Hall Capital Partners, a hedge fund based in San Francisco that has over $29 billion in assets under management.
An online petition to reintroduce Sanskrit into the University curriculum has 240 student signatures as of Monday morning.
Five students from St. John’s College at Cambridge University visited Forbes College for a week-long residential college exchange this past week and left Monday night. Visiting students were originally supposed to stay with the five residents of Forbes College who completed a similar exchange duringspring break last year.
Career Services launched an alternative career fair called the HireTigers Meetup onFriday.
The Undergraduate Student Government Senate announced its budget and goals for the year in Sunday afternoon’s senate meeting immediately following the town hall meeting on sexual assault policy. The meeting was not held at its usual time or location and the change was not communicated to the student body, which funds the USG, nor to The Daily Princetonian.
