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Petition challenges Pourdavoud Chair candidate

Petition challenges Pourdavoud Chair candidate

Chitra Marti

A petition organized by Columbia professor Ehsan Yarshater surfaced challenging the University’s current candidate for the position of the Ibrahim Pourdavoud Professorship in Persian Studies.The petition, which has been taken down, argued that having the name of Pourdavoud, a pioneer in the field of pre-Islamic Iranian studies, meant that the professor who occupies the Pourdavoud Chair should continue his work in the field of pre-Islamic studies.

NEWS | 01/07/2014

Alain Kornhauser GS ’71: Like “a V8 engine on a roller skate”

Jasmine Wang

When Ben Klaber ’06 first asked professor Alain Kornhauser GS ’71 to help him sponsor University participation in an autonomous car race in 2004, the popular operations research and financial engineering professor answered with a characteristically humorous reply.“I said, ‘Ben, don’t interrupt my lecture.’ Just kidding.

NEWS | 01/07/2014

News & Notes: UCSB could receive imported vaccine for more than 20,000 students within weeks

Daily Princetonian Staff

Just a few weeks after Princeton students received their first dose of the Bexsero vaccine against meningitis strain B, the University of California, Santa Barbara is making arrangements for a much larger campaign to immunize its campus. As its application for the imported vaccine is pending, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials are preparing for a campaign that will provide the vaccine to over 20,000 students,NBC News reported. Because Bexsero is not yet licensed for use in the United States, UCSB is following Princeton’s lead in obtaining the vaccine through an Investigational New Drug application filed with the Food and Drug Administration.

NEWS | 01/06/2014

News & Notes: 4 University faculty receive presidential science awards

Daily Princetonian Staff

Four University professors were awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2013. The award has been given to associate professor of chemistryAbigail Doyle, assistant professor ofpsychology and the Princeton Neuroscience InstituteYael Niv, assistant professor ofchemical and biological engineeringRodney Priestleyand assistant professor ofoperations research and financial engineeringRamon van Handel. The Presidential Early Career Award is the highest honor that the U.S.

NEWS | 01/05/2014

News & Notes: Romney accepts Harris-Perry's apology for black grandson jokes

Daily Princetonian Staff

Former politics and African American studies professorMelissa Harris-Perry issued an apology on Saturday to Mitt Romney for her remarks about his adopted African-American grandson.

NEWS | 01/05/2014

U. researchers develop Bitcoin prediction market

James Evans

The value of the digital currency Bitcoin has soared in recent months, but can the technology also help make predictions?

NEWS | 01/05/2014

As CDC moves to provide Bexsero to UCSB, no meningitis precautions planned for Class of 2018, Preview students

Charles Kyungchan Min

In the wake of the vaccination campaign against meningitis B that began on campus last month, the U.S.

NEWS | 01/05/2014

With Common Application technical difficulties, U. extends regular decision deadline to Jan. 2

Corinne Lowe

Due to technical difficulties with the Common Application website on Jan. 1, the regular decision application deadline, the University decided to accept undergraduate applications processed on Jan.

NEWS | 01/05/2014

Blizzard 'Hercules' closes campus Friday morning and afternoon

Ruby Shao

The first winter storm of 2014, dubbed “Hercules” by national media, caused the University to close campus to non-essential employees on Friday morning and afternoon.

NEWS | 01/03/2014

CDC to provide meningitis vaccine to UC Santa Barbara

Charles Kyungchan Min

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is working to provide Bexsero, the meningococcal B vaccine, to students at the University of California, Santa Barbara, according to a CDC update on Dec.

NEWS | 01/02/2014

Updated: Save the Dinky challenge to Dinky move dismissed by state court

Updated: Save the Dinky challenge to Dinky move dismissed by state court

Patience Haggin

Following a ruling issued by the Superior Court of New Jersey on Dec. 23 dismissing a case challenging the University's right to move the Dinky train station, plaintiffs said they are considering whether to appeal the ruling.They have untilFeb.

NEWS | 12/31/2013

News & Notes: Sotomayor '76 to lead traditional 60-second count to New Year's in Times Square

Daily Princetonian Staff

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor '76 will lead the traditional 60-second countdown tomidnight on Tuesdayin Times Square. Sotomayor is the first Supreme Court justice to lead the countdown. Tim Hopkins, president of the Times Square Alliance and one of the co-organizers of the New Year's celebration, said Sotomayor, a New York native born and raised in the Bronx, was an inspiration to all. The New Year's celebration in Times Square is being co-organized by the Times Square Alliance and Countdown Entertainment. In November,Sotomayor receivedthe University's Woodrow Wilson Award, the highest annual honor bestowed upon an undergraduate alumnus or alumna.

NEWS | 12/31/2013

Second dose of meningitis vaccine to be administered Feb. 17-20

Daily Princetonian Staff

The second dose of the meningitis vaccine will be available fromFeb. 17 through Feb. 20, the University announcedMondayin an email to the University community. More than 5,200 individuals, or approximately 91 percent of the individuals eligible for the vaccine — including 93 percent of all undergraduate students — chose to receive the first dose.

NEWS | 12/23/2013

News & Notes: Bunch '09 dies, is suspected in Ga. murder-suicide

Daily Princetonian Staff

Bryan Bunch’09 was found dead Dec. 18 in Cobb County, Ga., in an apparent murder-suicide,The Marietta Daily Journalreported.

NEWS | 12/22/2013

DeZarn's trial for marijuana possession postponed to Jan. 23

Corinne Lowe

The trial of Donald DeZarn,senior operations manager for Butler/Wilson Dining Services, has been postponed, according to a press release posted by a Philadelphia marijuana reform organization.

NEWS | 12/18/2013

News & Notes: Harvard bomb threat allegedly sent by student hoping to avoid final exam

Daily Princetonian Staff

Bomb threats that prompted the evacuation of four Harvard buildingsonMondaywereallegedlysent by a student hoping to avoid a final exam, federal prosecutors saidTuesday according to the Harvard Crimson. Eldo Kim, a Harvard sophomore, allegedly sent emails to the Harvard Police Department, two Harvard officials and the president of the Harvard Crimson around 8:30 a.m.

NEWS | 12/17/2013

Updated: 714 students, or 18.5 percent, offered early admission in third year of U.’s early action program

Durva Trivedi

The University admitted 18.5 percent of an early application pool of 3,854 for the Class of 2018, eliciting excitement, shock and smiles from the 714 students who received their admission decisions on Dec.

NEWS | 12/16/2013

Even after lost bid for Senate, Holt enjoys support from University-affiliated donors

Top Donors to Rush Holt from the Princeton community

Even after lost bid for Senate, Holt enjoys support from University-affiliated donors

Catherine Duazo

“There is a bumper sticker that goes around Princeton that says ‘My Congressman is a rocket scientist’. I’ve always felt kind of proud to be able to say that we have someone representing us in Congress with Rush Holt’s intelligence and his scientific background,” former University President Shirley Tilghman said in a November interview, reflecting on Holt’s popularity among Princeton constituents.Holt has represented New Jersey’s 12th congressional district in the U.S.

NEWS | 12/12/2013

Underclassmen advising program struggles to recruit advisers from certain departments

Ruby Shao

A number of freshmen and sophomores selecting spring courses this week encountered difficulty receiving department-specific advice from their academic advisers.No advisers represent the architecture, mathematics, philosophy and religion departments for the 2013-14 academic year, according to residential college websites.The molecular biology department is most represented at nine advisers, closely followed by the history and computer science departments and the Wilson School.The advising program has struggled to recruit advisers from certain departments, and cannot necessarily pair students with advisers who share their academic interests.While some students and faculty called for matching students and advisers by discipline, administrators and other faculty said a mismatch in adviser-advisee interest does not greatly affect students’ advising experience.“It would have been helpful for someone to give me advice about specific courses and professors and about things that specifically relate to my interests, rather than general course advice," Molly Fisch-Friedman ’16, an intended politics concentrator whose adviser is from the astrophysics department, said.

NEWS | 12/12/2013

As ex-officio trustee, Gov. Christie's role in Princeton affairs unclear

Jacob Donnelly and Hannah Schoen

While New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has made several high-profile appearances on campus in recent months, his involvement in University affairs as an ex-officio trustee, relative to those who have held his position in the past, is less clear.As ex-officio trustee, Christie serves on the Board of Trustees by virtue of his role as governor rather than by being elected to the position.

NEWS | 12/12/2013

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