As outgoing USG president Michael Yaroshefsky ’12 passes the baton to Bruce Easop ’13, a two-year era for an active USG comes to a close.
Warren Crane ’62, the former chairman of the Cannon Dial Elm Club Graduate Board of Trustees, died Monday at approximately 2:35 p.m. He died from a rare combination of soft tissue cancer and paraneoplastic neurological disease. Crane was 70 years old.
After three public meetings on the issue, the Princeton Regional Planning Board has not yet come to a decision about whether to allow the Institute for Advanced Study to build additional faculty housing on a parcel of land directly adjacent to Princeton Battlefield State Park. The hearing has been extended to a fourth meeting on Feb. 16.
The eight-hour Internet outage on Monday that affected thousands of users on campus was related to an effort to upgrade the campus Internet system, but the University has not yet been able to pinpoint the specific cause, University spokesperson Martin Mbugua said.
After announcing a significant reduction in membership rates for rising juniors and seniors in mid-January, Quadrangle Club saw its first-round membership numbers increase by nearly 40 percent over last year’s first-round numbers.
Princeton Township Deputy Mayor Liz Lempert has announced her candidacy for mayor of the consolidated Princeton in the Democratic primary to be held June 5.
When SCORE opened for enrollment this semester, one class stood out in popularity. ENG 385: Children’s Literature was one of the fastest courses to fill up this year and has been extremely popular with students across different class years.
About half of the student body, or 2,567 students, responded to the USG’s Academic Life Total Assessment survey distributed to students during finals period.
Former U.S. ambassador to Syria Richard Murphy headlined a panel on the turbulent modern-day political climate in Syria and the potential future of the Arab Spring movement in that country.
Cloister Inn president Brian Wettach ‘13 said that Cloister had 32 sign-ins this year, which is less than half of last year’s 77.
Michelle Obama ’85 and the White House have aggressively pushed back against a recent book by New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor detailing the role of the first lady in her husband’s administration. Released last month, “The Obamas” has skyrocketed up the New York Times’ best sellers list and has generated national controversy for its portrayal of the first lady and her relationship with her husband and staff.
In just the second year of using a weighted point system for sign-ins, the process of obtaining Charter Club membership has become much more competitive than it has been in recent history.
In a major step toward beginning construction of the new Arts and Transit Neighborhood, the University selected a new architecture firm to join the project on Jan. 20.
Thousands of students and faculty lost connection to the Internet for about eight hours on Monday, due to an unprecedented malfunction in the system that regulates access to the University networks.
A 10-year veteran of Arizona State University community service initiatives will be the next director of the Pace Center for Civic Engagement, the University announced last week.
The requirements for the Wilson School major will undergo a substantial overhaul beginning with the Class of 2015, the second step in a reorganization of the major following the decision last spring to abandon selective admission.
Students admitted to the University through early action will get an advance preview of life on campus through the “Tiger Tuesdays” program, which designates three Tuesdays in February, Feb. 14, 21 and 28, as days on which admitted students can have lunch with a University student, attend class, take a campus tour or visit some of the campus resources.
The University’s Intellectual Property Development Fund has awarded research grants to five faculty teams in the science and engineering departments to help them transform their laboratory projects into commercially successful products, according to a University press release.
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights is currently investigating a complaint received in August that the University’s undergraduate admission process discriminates against Asian Americans.
The trustees approved a $1.5 billion operating budget for the 2012-13 fiscal year at a meeting on Jan. 28, the University announced in a statement.
