Xinyi Chen '15 has won one of the 2013 ?20 Under 20? Thiel Fellowships,
The University is in the process of establishing an interuniversity center in Beijing to coordinate collaboration between the University and peer institutions in China, Jeremy Adelman, a history professor and director of the Council for International Teaching and Research, explained.
Four University undergraduates have created Friendsy, a website that allows students to indicate their interest in becoming friends with, hooking up with or dating other students.
The University student who was diagnosed with meningitis and hospitalized on Monday is listed as in stable condition and is recovering, a representative of the New Jersey Department of Health said.
The yield for admitted students of the University?s Class of 2017 rose 2 percent from 66.7 to 68.7 percent in the second year since the University reinstated its early admission program, Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye said Thursday.
The yield for admitted students of the University?s Class of 2017 rose 2 percent from 66.7 to 68.7 percent in the second year since the University reinstated its early admission program, Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye said Thursday.
Xinyi Chen '15 has won one of the 2013 ?20 Under 20? Thiel Fellowships, the Thiel Foundation announced this morning. The Thiel Fellowships provide 20 young entrepreneurs under 20 years of age with $100,000 each to start a company.
Thirty students traveled to Capitol Hill on May 7 to speak with Congressional representatives and lobby for comprehensive immigration reform, in a trip organized by the DREAM Team.The trip took place as the Senate Judiciary Committee began its review of a sweeping bi-partisan immigration bill completed on April 16 that would overhaul current immigration law.
Regarding "Playing sports, choosing concentrations"If one would study all of the diverse co-curricular and extracurricular "affinity groups" on campus, I expect that one would find a different pattern of concentrations in the majors declared among those respective groups.
The Council of the Princeton University Community held its last meeting of the academic year on Monday, May 6. Executive Director of University Health Services John Kolligian, Jr.
A male University student was diagnosed with bacterial meningitis and transported to a local hospital on Monday night, the University announced Tuesday afternoon.
Instead of the blue metal carrels in Firestone Library, which have traditionally been reserved for seniors in the humanities and social sciences as they write their theses, members of the Class of 2014 in these disciplines will be assigned personal lockers.
A male University student was diagnosed with bacterial meningitis and transported to a local hospital on Monday night, the University announced Tuesday afternoon.
Dr. Andrew Zwicker of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory presented a TEDx talk on the subject of ?Future Utopias? this past March in which he envisioned a future powered by green energy.
Princeton professor emeritus of international law and United Nations rapporteur Richard Falk has been widely criticized and asked to step down from his position at the UN because of a blog post he published on April 19, ?A Commentary on the Marathon Murders.? Accused of anti-Semitism and of blaming the bombings on the victims themselves, he and his family have received hate mail and threats, according to Falk. Falk noted in an interview that he had been highlighting the way in which the United States? global actions and military foreign policies, such as those in Iraq and Afghanistan, have created growing anti-American sentiment.
Former Senator George Mitchell urged the United States to exercise patience in assessing the results of the Arab Spring revolutions and to actively facilitate negotiations for a peaceful solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in a keynote address at the University?s Colloquium on Public and International Affairs last Friday. Under former President Bill Clinton, Mitchell served as a special envoy for Northern Ireland and played a leading role in peace negotiations there in the late 1990s.
A ?food truck" operated by Dining Services will make its first appearance on campus in late August and is intended for use mainly at athletic events. According to Director of Dining Services Stu Orefice, the food truck will primarily be used at lacrosse games and may also be used for additional athletic functions.
As graduation approaches for seniors serving in the Princeton Reserve Officers? Training Corps Battalion, cadets at the University and other institutions are preparing to enter an American military whose composition could change significantly as a result of former U.S.
A new student-created website called Pton.in provides University students with a portal to see where their peers will be over the summer.
