The Department of Energy cleared plans on Jan. 9 for the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory to upgrade a test facility for the development of nuclear fusion as a fuel source for the United States.
Last month, on Dec. 7, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius publicly overruled a recommendation by the Food and Drug Administration to allow over-the-counter sale of emergency contraceptives to young teenagers.
After 21 years on the Borough Council, former councilman David Goldfarb marked his last night on the municipal government last Tuesday with a public speech denouncing the way the University administration has handled its relations with the Borough.
A recent University study found that quasicrystals, a form of rock previously thought not to form in nature, actually originate from outer space.
While it is a commonly appreciated theory that more vocal and persuasive individuals can successfully win the vote of those who are either unsure of or uncommitted to an opinion, a Princeton research team suggests that an uninformed group of individuals actually tends to side with the numerical majority, thus helping to achieve a democratic outcome.
Every year, the University makes a voluntary contribution to the Borough and the Township operating budgets in addition to its tax payments. This year, the University has increased its total community contribution — also called a payment in lieu of taxes, or PILOT — to $2.475 million, University officials announced last month.
Sin-i Cheng GS ’52, a former professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and a pioneer in the study of aerodynamics, died on Dec. 6. He was 89.
Princeton Borough, Princeton Township and the University have each selected representatives for a six-member transit task force and the nine-member board of trustees for the Mass Transit Trust Fund. The task force members will study, evaluate and make recommendations concerning long-term transit needs of the Princeton community, especially in light of the development of the Arts and Transit Neighborhood. The trust fund trustees will be charged with planning and implementing improvements to the transit system in Princeton.
A single voting district would encapsulate all graduate and undergraduate housing under a new zoning plan reportedly favored by local residents to create districts for the newly consolidated Princeton.Before Princeton residents approved consolidation at the polls on Election Day, student housing was split between Princeton Borough and Princeton Township, and consequently different students would report to different polling locations to vote.There are currently 3,057 eligible voters in the larger of the two University voting districts, which was the part that was located in the borough.Under the new plan, there would be 22 voting districts in total in the consolidated Princeton, with larger districts in the western portions of what is now the Township and smaller ones in the more densely populated areas near Nassau Street in what is now the Borough.The plan was designed by the Mercer County Board of Elections with input from a public meeting held on Dec.
Jacqueline Deitch-Stackhouse was named director of the University?s Sexual Harassment/Assault Advising, Resources and Education (SHARE) office in December.
Failure in the part of the brain that controls social functions could explain why regular people might commit acts of ruthless violence, according to new study by a University research team.
Melissa Harris-Perry, a former African American studies professor at the University, will begin a new weekend program on MSNBC.Harris-Perry left the University last February after claiming that ?[her] colleagues did not value [her] intellectual contributions,? as she told The Daily Princetonian at the time.
US News & World Report named the University as having the second-least 2010 graduate debt in the country. The average University student graduated with $4,385 in debt, while the average 2010 graduate nationwide graduated with about $25,000 in debt. The University ranked after only Alice Lloyd College, a small private college in Kentucky, where the average student graduated $3,108 in debt. No other Ivy League school appeared in the “10 Schools with Least 2010 Graduate Debt” rankings.
Through an initiative to strengthen ties between the industrial and academic domains of sustainable energy and environmental technology, the University established the Princeton Energy and Environment Corporate Affiliates Program earlier this semester. PSEG, the parent company of the nation’s largest electric and gas company PSE&G, became the program’s first charter member as of Nov. 30.
A collection of watercolor paintings and drawings that had been sitting unidentified for 60 years in the University Library’s Manuscripts Division has been recognized by University of Reading professor Anna Gruetzner Robins as the work of renowned 20th century Welsh artist Gwen John.
Three nearby parks and trails were among 49 in New Jersey to receive federal recreation money from the Federal Highway Association, New Jersey Environmental Commissioner Bob Martin announced on Dec. 26.
Television celebrity chef Bobby Flay will be opening a “Bobby’s Burger Palace” in the Princeton MarketFair Mall later this year. The restaurant will be the 10th in the growing chain of upscale fast food joints, which serve a mixture of hamburgers, fries and shakes.
The Borough and Township took another step closer to merging the two municipalities, with nearly 60 local residents expressing interest in being part of a team that would facilitate the transition.The Borough received 28 applications last month, while the Township received 31.
The University has offered admission to 726 students out of a pool of 3,443 candidates for the Class of 2016, or 21 percent, through its new single-choice early action program. Decisions for early action admissions were released online Thursday afternoon. These students are expected to make up between 31 and 36 percent of the total number of applicants who will be admitted to the incoming freshman class.
Writer and journalist Michael Lewis ’82 will speak at the Baccalaureate ceremony on June 3, Class of 2012 president Lindy Li announced in an email to seniors on Thursday morning.
