FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III ’66 and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson GS ’86 will be awarded the Woodrow Wilson Award and James Madison Medal, respectively, during Alumni Day on Feb. 25, 2012.
The Council of the Princeton University Community convened to discuss the Arts and Transit Neighborhood project and University finances on Monday evening.
In a lecture titled “Investigating Health and Human Rights Abuse” on Sunday evening, Wilson School visiting lecturer Joseph Amon described health as a “human right.”“Human rights are really about how people with certain health conditions are subject to discrimination,” Amon said, citing examples such as how people diagnosed with HIV/AIDS are shunned by their communities.
Princeton media institution The Packet Media Group — composed of the Princeton Packet and its 10 sister newspapers — and its Princeton property on Witherspoon Street, are up for sale, according to a statement by James Kilgore, the president and owner of the newspaper publishing company. The Packet is home to over 100 employees.
Cincinnati City Council member P.G. Sittenfeld ’07 became the youngest Cincinnati city council member ever when he won the election with 30,474 votes, the second-highest number of votes, last Tuesday.
The sudden birth of the Arab Spring took even the most seasoned State Department diplomats by surprise, former U.S. ambassador to Yemen Barbara Bodine said in a lecture titled “A Time for Every Season: Assessing the Arab Spring” in Jadwin Hall on Saturday morning.
The implementation of the ban on freshman affiliation with a fraternity or sorority was furthered last week, as an online survey soliciting suggestions on how to administer the new policy was made available to students on Thursday.
Princeton released its third annual Sustainability Report on Nov. 9, confirming its progress in sustainable practices on campus, including a 2.6 percent reduction in greenhouse emissions from 2008 and a 13 percent decrease in water and landfill waste since 2006.
To appreciate the role that social media plays in the Arab Spring, London revolts or Occupy movements, we must first understand how larger media networks function and encourage civic participation, according to Ethan Zuckerman, director of the Center for Civic Media at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and principal research scientist at MIT’s Media Lab, who spoke in a lecture Thursday night in Sherrerd Hall.
Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye announced that 3,547 students applied to Princeton’s single-choice early action program.
“I remember sitting in class here,” Jonathan Safran Foer ’99 said as he sat down with creative writing professor Joyce Carol Oates for an armchair discussion, “Writing Life,” in McCosh Hall 50 on Thursday. “It’s strange and exciting to be back and on stage.”
Politics professor emeritus Richard Falk rejected a debate challenge from Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz over a book titled “The Wandering Who?”, by Gilad Atzmon, after Falk endorsed the book and Dershowitz described it as “anti-Semitic.”
For most Princeton students, senior year is a hectic blur of job-hunting, thesis research and figuring out what life after graduation will look like. But alumna Suzanne Raga ’11 spent her last year at the University working on an e-book for music-loving tweens. Her book, titled “YOU ROCK! How to Be A STAR Student & Still Have FUN,” offers study tips for academic success and will “put the cool back in school,” according to its description. Raga spoke with staff writer Kathy Sun on Thursday about the writing process.
Last semester, Voices of Change founder Ari Satok ’14 made the quintessential freshman mistake: He showed up to the wrong class. Instead of going to the international news reporting class he had signed up for, Satok ended up in a radio journalism class by accident.
Yale law professors Reva Siegel and Linda Greenhouse, a Pulitzer Prize winner, explored the polarization of America’s abortion debate on Thursday afternoon.
The University defines low-income students as those coming from households making $60,000 a year or less, a figure markedly greater than the 2009 national household median income of $49,777.
The following is the first installment of “Keeping Faith,” a six-part series of conversations between politics professor Robert George and University professors of various faiths.
The USG Community Service Committee is revamping community service on campus with a new Campus Community Challenge, or 3C, initiative.
Molecular Biology professor Bonnie Bassler is the second Princeton recipient of the For Women in Science Award, which is presented by UNESCO and L’Oreal. President Shirley Tilghman was the University’s first recipient in 2002.
