Students will vote on a referendum to separate the Senate and Class Governments in addition to voting for Class Council and U-Council positions.
Gene Katsevich ’14 is one of 15 students nationwide to be awarded a Hertz Fellowship this year.
The Office of Information Technology sent an email to students on Friday asking them to change their passwords in response to "Heartbleed," a security flaw in software used to protect private information on the Internet. Vice President for Information Technology and CIO Jay Dominick said Heartbleed is a function of a particular version of OpenSSL, a piece of software that encrypts Internet traffic.
The traditional brick-and-mortar college experience is still valuable because of the broad array of interactions it allows students to have with faculty members, University President Christopher Eisgruber’83said Thursday in a lecture that was a part of the “Last Lecture” series. Eisgruber explained that students may be more motivated to learn when immersed in an environment that offers opportunities to engage with the people who teach and grade them.
Author and Nobel Laureate in literature GabrielGarcía Márquezdied Thursday at age 87. The exact cause of death was unspecified, but he had recently returned to his home in Mexico City after a hospitalization. Born in Colombia and widely considered one of the best Spanish-language authors of the 20th century, García Márquezpopularized magical realism, a literary genre that combines supernatural elements with the every day.
No Truman scholarships were awarded to the University this year, and no Princeton student made it to the final round of the application process for the second consecutive year, the Foundation announced. The scholarship was awarded this year to one student at Harvard and two students at Duke, but none of the scholars came from Yale.
The creators of a class art project that seeks responses to the question, "What can you not say at Princeton?” have reported two incidents against their project. Known as The Surface, the creators reported one incident of "aggressive intervention” and a second incident where the University removed part of their project due to "graphic content." Both incidents allegedly happened on April 15. The University has denied any involvement in the first incident and said the second incident was in response to a complaint it had received. The Surface is a literal white surface where people can write and express their answers to the overarching question.
The relationship between carbon emissions and climate response is much more complicated than previously thought, according to research published by scientists at the University's geosciences department andthe Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory on April 1in Geophysical Research Letters. The scientists' findings imply that current methods of comparing carbon emissions with temperature change are not effective. John Krasting, a physical scientist at the GFDL, which is associated with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, led the study. He explained that the researchers used a physical climate model coupled with a carbon cycle model to conduct the study.
A fire was reported in the third-floor kitchen of Wendell Hall in Whitman College at around 1:50 p.m.
Former University President Shirley Tilghman, University trustee Charlie Gibson ’65 and current Purdue University President Mitch Daniels ’71 were recently elected directors to the Commission on Presidential Debates. Their addition brings the total number of Princeton-affiliated directors on the commission to six. Co-chair of the commission Mike McCurry ’76 and former Senator Jack Danforth ’58 are also directors on the commission.
Three University student groups were awarded $10,000 from the Davis Projects for Peace to launch their ideas for peace this summer in Jordan, the Philippines and India, according to the University website. Wardah Bari ’16 and Farah Amjad ’16 will pursue their project “Children's Playground: Fostering Peace Between Native and Refugee Communities” in Jordan.
Princeton Mock Trial was ultimately titled the National Champion Runner Up for the 2014 competition of the American National Mock Trial Tournament, losing to University of California, Los Angeles in a 3-2 ballot decision.The team also received three individual All-American Awards for best witnesses and attorney and placed first in its division with an undefeated record, the first team to do so in the 30-year history of the national competition. This year was Princeton’s first championship round appearance.
Complexity and decentralization are two of many factors that exacerbate the criminality and corruption in financial institutions, professor of politics in the Wilson School Nolan McCarty said in a lecture on Wednesday. McCarty began his lecture by discussing the main thesis of his newly co-authored book, “Political Bubbles: Financial Crises and the Failure of American Democracy.” His discussion focused on financial crimes, such as money laundering and bank fraud, as systematic problems that shed light on the relationship between the financial sector and the federal government.
The Keller Center will begin offering a new introductory entrepreneurship course, EGR 201: Introduction to Entrepreneurship, in fall 2014 to give students early exposure to entrepreneurship in their university career. The course, which is co-taught by Keller Center professors John D.
The Peer Health Adviser programpartnered with Campus Recreation to start a new initiative called Princeton Fitness Buddies earlier this month.
TEAM Charter Schools, the charity chosen by the USG that will receive merchandise proceeds from spring Lawnparties, is linked to the controversial “One Newark” plan, which involves transferring the management of some public schools to charter organizations. The program was planned by Newark Schools Superintendent Cami Anderson, who announcedin March that TEAM would operate grades K-4 at the Bragaw Avenue Elementary School and K-1 at Hawthorne Elementary School. Hundreds of Newark parents, students and teachers chanting “Public schools are our schools” and “Cami must go”protested“One Newark” outside the State House in Trenton on March 27.
The dietary supplement Luminate Focus created by Hafiz Dhanani, originally a member of the Class of 2016 who is now taking time off from school, is now for sale on Amazon at a price of$46.95 per bottle of 60 capsules. Marketed as a“non-addictive, safe and effective cognitive enhancement supplement supported by clinical research,” the product is formally a dietary supplement rather than a drug.
House of Cupcakes will reopen in a new location some time in the next month, The Princeton Packetreported. The move comesafter a March 19 fire left the old building damaged. The business will now be moving one door over from 30 Witherspoon St.
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.
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.
