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Institute of Advanced Study to continue construction despite battlefield’s history

Institute of Advanced Study to continue construction despite battlefield’s history

Emily Tseng

The Institute for Advanced Study is moving forward with plans to build housing on land immediately adjacent to Princeton Battlefield State Park. The Institute will go before the Princeton Regional Planning Board on Dec. 1 with a proposal for a 7.3-acre residential complex. The proposed project site lies directly between the Institute and the Battlefield State Park on land owned privately by the Institute.

NEWS | 11/22/2011

News & Notes: Global panel predicts global warming-caused weather extremes

Patience Haggin

Unprecedented weather extremes — floods, heat waves and droughts — will occur more regularly as global warming worsens, according to international climate scientists and disaster experts on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change after meeting in Uganda.

NEWS | 11/21/2011

University realigns structure of facilities, services

Monica Chon

In an effort to increase efficiency and better serve the University community, the office of the Executive Vice President of Princeton University recently announced a plan to realign the responsibilities of the Facilities Organization and University Services.

NEWS | 11/21/2011

Students protest University investments

Luc Cohen

The student group Princeton for Workers’ Rights is protesting the University’s investments in HEI Hospitality LLC, an owner and operator of upscale hotels and resorts accused of mistreating its workers.

NEWS | 11/21/2011

Invasive species may help ecosystems

Michael Granovetter

Conservationists might need to revise some of their ecosystem management strategies in the future, according to a recent study, conducted by University researchers, that suggests that invasive species might actually benefit the very ecosystems that they are simultaneously harming.

NEWS | 11/21/2011

Moody’s lauds financial impacts of consolidation

The consolidation of the Borough and Township into a single municipality, a proposal which has attracted national attention since its approval in this month’s elections, will have a positive effect on the community’s financial credit, the Wall Street credit rating firm Moody’s predicted.

NEWS | 11/21/2011

Entrepreneur calls for innovation in developing markets

Ellie Wilkinson

“Multinational business corporations will go the same way as General Motors if they don’t learn how to make money,” said Paul Polak, social entrepreneur and founder of the nonprofit organization International Development Enterprises, during his talk titled “The Future of the Corporation” on Monday afternoon in Whig Hall.

NEWS | 11/21/2011

News & Notes: Yale sees a significant drop in number of early action applicants

Yale received 18 percent fewer early action applications for the Class of 2016 than for the Class of 2015, down to 4,310 applicants from 5,257 in 2010, according to the Yale Daily News.

NEWS | 11/20/2011

Rhodes scholarship goes to 4 students

Ellie Wilkinson

Four Princetonians were selected from a pool of 830 candidates to win this year’s Rhodes Scholarship, the Rhodes Trust announced early Sunday morning. Mohit Agrawal ’11, Liz Butterworth ’12, Miriam Rosenbaum ’12 and Astrid Stuth ’12 are among the 32 Americans who will receive full funding to study at Oxford for the next two or three years.

NEWS | 11/20/2011

Presidential candidates for USG debate in Frist

Luc Cohen

Reforms to the academic calendar, transparency in the Undergraduate Student Government and helping students take advantage of the resources available to them were among the issues discussed at the debate between the three presidential candidates and two vice presidential candidates Sunday night.

NEWS | 11/20/2011

Woman dies after being struck by tailgate vehicle driven by Yale undergraduate

A U-Haul truck driven by a Yale undergraduate struck three people, killing one, shortly before 10 a.m. Saturday at the tailgate before the Yale-Harvard football game, New Haven Police Department spokesman David Hartman said.

NEWS | 11/20/2011

Plankton research adds to controversy over cause, chronology of dinosaur extinction

Shreya Nathan

A recent study led by geosciences professor Gerta Keller challenges the most commonly-held belief for the mass-extinction of dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous period 65 million years ago.

NEWS | 11/20/2011

University of Pennsylvania senior dies after Philadelphia Half Marathon

Nursing and Wharton senior Jeffrey Lee died Sunday morning after running the Philadelphia Half Marathon, according to University of Pennsylvania spokesperson Phyllis Holtzman.

NEWS | 11/20/2011

Blumenfeld ’13 wins spot on hometown school board

Regina Wang

Andrew Blumenfeld ’13 has won the second and final seat on the La Canada Unified School District governing board, according to updated election results posted Friday afternoon.

NEWS | 11/20/2011

For 2 USG senate spots, 15 freshmen in the race

Jonathan Dec

Fifteen freshmen are running for the two Class of 2015 senator spots this year, with voting to open on Monday and the winners to be announced on Friday. Their names are: Phway Aye, Elise Backman, Caleb Bradford, Gavin Cook, Chris Costantini, Deana Davoudiasl, Kyle Douglas, Mary Funk, Shawon Jackson, Dalia Katan, Nabeer Khan, Madhu Ramankutty, Paul Riley, Shu Saha and Yifan Zhu.

NEWS | 11/20/2011

National correspondent presents lecture on problems facing modern journalism

James Chang

National correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly James Fallows spoke Thursday afternoon in Dodds Auditorium about the problems facing the modern journalism industry in the era of new media. His lecture, titled “Learning to Love the (Shallow, Divisive, Unreliable) New Media,” was based on his April 2011 article in the Atlantic of the same name.

NEWS | 11/17/2011

News & Notes: Columbia Spectator finds professors’ salaries are lower than those at peer schools

The salaries of Columbia professors were, on average, 6 percent lower than those of their peers at other Ivy League institutions in 2010, according to an article in the Columbia Spectator.

NEWS | 11/17/2011

Researchers: Weather has become increasingly erratic

Catherine Lei

University students used to battling the rain one day and wearing flip flops the next will be unsurprised to learn that daily weather has become more erratic over the past couple of decades, according to University researchers.

NEWS | 11/17/2011

‘(Un)heard’ examines transgender experiences

Alaka Halder

Some of the photographs seem to be of ordinary young men. Vann, 38, from Baltimore could be your smiling neighbor, sitting on the freshly painted red steps of a house.

NEWS | 11/17/2011

PIIRS introduces new research fellowship

Sohee Khim

The Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies has started “PIIRS Undergraduate Fellowships” funded by the Institute to fund summer research for selected fellows, PIIRS director and politics professor Marc Beissinger said in an email.

NEWS | 11/17/2011

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