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Eisgrubers and dog scheduled to move to Lowrie House in Jan. 2014

Eisgrubers and dog scheduled to move to Lowrie House in Jan. 2014

University Provost and President-Elect Christopher Eisgruber ?83 said he plans to move into Lowrie House, the University president?s official residence at 83 Stockton Street, as soon as repairs and renovations have been made. Tilghman explained that the

NEWS | 04/28/2013

Faculty thanks Tilghman at her last meeting as U. president

University faculty approved a new undergraduate certificate program in Statistics and Machine Learning at a faculty meeting on Monday.The certificate program was organized over two years by computer science professor Robert Schapire, associate computer science professor David Blei, molecular biology professor John Storey, associate politics professor Kosuke Imai and Operations Research and Financial Engineering professor Jianqing Fan, according to Schapire. He said that the impetus for the certificate program came from the increasing importance of data to companies, governments and organizations as well as from greater student interest in the fields of machine learning and statistics. ?Princeton has a lot of strength in machine learning and statistics, but it?s kind of spread out all over campus, and so this is going to be a way of bringing faculty and researchers and students in one place,? Schapire said,

NEWS | 04/28/2013

U. students form grassroots campaign to “Ban the Box”

University students have recently formed a grassroots campaign called Ban the Box NJ in hopes of mobilizing political support for the NJ Opportunity to Compete Act, according to the campaign?s

NEWS | 04/28/2013

USG discusses expanding Class of 2017 Facebook presence, plans COMBO IV survey

The USG discussed the USG-moderated Class of 2017 Facebook group and the upcoming COMBO IV survey at its meeting Sunday evening.

NEWS | 04/28/2013

EastCon analyzes contemporary East Asian popular culture

The first Princeton University East Asian Undergraduate Conference, abbreviated as

NEWS | 04/27/2013

Honor Committee, students react to passage of referendum

A USG referendum requiring the

NEWS | 04/27/2013

'Been there and done that': In between academia and the workplace

Joseph Amon is a visiting lecturer in public and international affairs at the Wilson School, teaching GHP 351/WWS 381 epidemiology.

NEWS | 04/27/2013

40 freshmen unable to board class boat cruise due to delayed bus arrival

A group of 40 students who had purchased tickets to attend the Class of 2016 boat cruise in

NEWS | 04/27/2013

Honor Committee referendum passes, all incumbent candidates reelected in USG elections

The Honor Committee will now be required to change its standard penalty for students who write over the time limit during exams and to publish statistics about the number of students who appear before the committee, after a vote by the student body on

NEWS | 04/27/2013

News & Notes: Local resident charged with drug possession at Frist

Marcelo Rochabrun

An 18-year-old princeton resident was arrested and charged with drug possession and criminal trespass at Frist Campus Center on Tuesday morning. Kairi Nadre-Dimitri Aeriel was allegedly seen asleep inside Frist in the early hours of Tuesday morning, prompting a call to the University’s Department of Public Safety.

NEWS | 04/27/2013

Updated: Honor Committee referendum passes, all incumbent USG members re-elected

The Honor Committee will now be required to change its standard penalty for students who write over the time limit during exams and to publish statistics about the number of students who appear before the committee, after a vote by the student body on

NEWS | 04/25/2013

Incandela discusses Large Hadron Collider program

Joe Incandela, the announcer of the Higgs Boson discovery and a particle physicist, spoke about the goals of the Large Hadron Collider program and its progress over the past four years in a lecture on Thursday night.

NEWS | 04/24/2013

Interest in Wilson School remains constant, while other social science departments see drop in concentrators

In the first year of non-selective admissions to the Wilson School, the School saw the number of concentrators almost double, while other social science departments saw a decline in the number in its sophomore concentrators fall.

NEWS | 04/24/2013

Updated: History and English remain largest humanities departments, foreign languages the smallest

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NEWS | 04/24/2013

ESL El Centro meets challenges

ESL El Centro volunteers teach English as a second language to recent adult immigrants from Latin America.

NEWS | 04/24/2013

Communiversity to celebrate town-gown relationship on Sunday

The Communiversity Festival of the Arts, an annual celebration coordinated by the Arts Council of Princeton that highlights collaboration between the town and the University, will take place on Sunday, April 28.

NEWS | 04/24/2013

Sophomore enrollment in EEB, other sciences declines

The ecology and evolutionary biology department experienced a large drop in the number of declared concentrators between last year and this year.

NEWS | 04/24/2013

The COMBO Series: Campus almost evenly split between religious and nonreligious students

When Abraham Kielar

NEWS | 04/24/2013

162 sophomores declare Wilson School as major, 62 declare politics

In the first year of non-selective admission to the Wilson School?s undergraduate concentration, 162 sophomores had declared the School?s program as their major as of Wednesday afternoon.

NEWS | 04/23/2013

Communiversity to take place on Sunday, not Saturday, this year

The Communiversity Festival of the Arts, presented by the Arts Council of Princeton, will take place on Sunday, April 28, instead of on a Saturday, when the event has traditionally been held.

NEWS | 04/23/2013

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