Michelle Shearer ’95, who was named National Teacher of the Year in 2011, returned to campus to speak with students, teachers and local superintendents Wednesday night.
African American studies professor and civil rights activist Cornel West GS ’80 has kept up a hectic public schedule since announcing his plans in November to leave the University for the Union Theological Seminary in New York City at the end of this academic year.
A TigerTransit bus driver was temporarily suspended last week, allegedly as a response to his attempts to start a union, sparking an aggressive campaign from Occupy Princeton to save his job. After being handed a two-day suspension, the driver, only known as “Al,” returned to work last Wednesday.
The Housing Department will no longer control room draw into the University-owned house at 2 Dickinson Street, informally known as 2D.This year, the draw will be controlled by the 2D vegetarian co-op, which cooks and eats meals in the house.
Between 2006 and 2009, the New York Police Department went undercover to monitor the actions of Muslim student groups at Yale, Columbia, the University of Pennsylvania and at least 12 other schools across the Northeast, the Yale Daily News reported on Saturday.
Ann-Marie Elvin ’12 and James Valcourt ’12 have been awarded the Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, the highest distinction that can be given to an undergraduate, the University will announce today.The Pyne Prize was established in 1921 and is given annually to the senior who exemplifies qualities of academic excellence, leadership and strength of character.
Four graduate students were awarded the 2012 Jacobus Fellowship, the University announced on Monday morning.Richard Baliban GS, William Cavendish GS, William Deringer GS and Andrew Huddleston GS are the winners of this year’s fellowship, an annual award that recognizes graduate students who exhibit “the highest scholarly excellence,” according to the University.
For the most part, University President Shirley Tilghman makes influential decisions relating to Princeton policies in or around her office at 1 Nassau Hall. But four times a year, she finds herself in Silicon Valley, making influential decisions of a different type.Tilghman is one of many presidents of American universities who serve on a corporate board. Since her appointment in 2005, she has served on the Google board of directors and earns around $500,000 annually from her position at the company.
The Office of Information Technology and the USG are running a pilot program this month to test products that may improve webmail services.Students participating in the program are assigned to test either Google Apps for Education, which offers Gmail and other Google products, or Microsoft Office 365, which offers Exchange 2010, SharePoint and Office applications like Word and Powerpoint.
In the spring of 1986, a young history major wrote a thesis on American foreign policy in French West Africa. In 2012, the now-alumnus is shaping American foreign policy in former French West Africa. He insists it was “random chance.”Lewis Lukens GS ’03, the American ambassador to the nations of Guinea-Bissau and Senegal, authored an undergraduate senior thesis that bore more resemblance to his future career than he realized at the time.
Stepping through the main doors of the newly built University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro, visitors enter a wide and expansive atrium with light colors and windows that span the entire length of the wall.Joseph Stampe, vice president of development for the Princeton HealthCare System, admitted that the atrium is very different from a conventional hospital atrium.
Despite the recent uptick in the popularity of shared meal plans, Colonial Club — which has offered the most out of any club — has scaled down its shared meal plan offerings, eliminating its nine-meals-per-week plan.Since the introduction of the four-year residential college system in 2007, the popularity of shared meal plans has grown year by year. Shared meal plans allow students to benefit from a spacious residential college room while maintaining the full social experience of an eating club.
The federal government ended its short-lived investigation into alleged discriminatory admissions practices at the University and at Harvard. The U.S. Department of Education began an inquiry last month following a complaint received in August that the two Ivy League schools discriminate against Asian-Americans in the undergraduate admissions process.
Following her loss in the runoff for USG president after almost avoiding a second round of voting entirely, Catherine Ettman ’13 has refocused her campus involvement toward developing women’s leadership among undergraduates.
Representatives of New Jersey Transit presented its plans to remove 460 feet of historic train tracks to allow for the development of the University’s proposed Arts and Transit Neighborhood in front of the New Jersey Historic Sites Council on Thursday in Trenton.
Amid a campus-wide outbreak of gastroenteritis that has affected at least 243 students — nearly 5 percent of the student body — McCosh Health Center returned to normal operations on Saturday evening after temporarily redirecting patients to the University Medical Center at Princeton. Meanwhile, the University defended its decision at the end of last week not to inform the student body that the health center was diverting patients to UMCP.
The USG evaluated and proposed changes to both its external communications policy and its internal communications systems at the weekly senate meeting Sunday night.
The winter of junior year is traditionally a time of high stress for many Princeton students, between independent work, leadership in campus organizations and interviews for summer internships that may turn into jobs. Starting this year, juniors will have yet another postgraduate option in the mix: Teach for America.
The New Jersey Assembly voted 42-33 on Thursday to legalize same-sex marriage in the state.The State Senate had approved the bill on Monday by a vote of 24-16, and the bill will now be sent to Gov. Chris Christie.
When Veda Sunassee ’10 took EGR 495: Entrepreneurial Leadership with former visiting professor Gordon Bloom in the fall of 2009, he was inspired to take what he had learned in the classroom and try to change the world.Sunassee, along with classmates Faaez ul Haq ’12 and Amira Polack ’12, joined Danny Growald ’11 to found the Princeton Social Entrepreneurship Initiative. Polack, the current co-president, described PSEI as a student organization spin-off of the course that they took three years ago.
