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.
To understand the state of the nation three years after “one of the most upsetting and baffling episodes of financial history,” one must examine current economic practices and regulation of the financial services industry through a historical lens. Only thus can one determine whether those involved in creating and enabling the 2008 crisis have been held accountable Gretchen Morgenson, assistant business and financial editor and columnist at the New York Times, argued before a crowd of 150 in Dodds Auditorium on Monday night.
Documentaries are a rich form of storytelling with the ability to mobilize the public and shape public policy, argued documentary filmmaker and editor Purcell Carson and TV producer and human rights law scholar Emily Holland ’01 in a panel Monday evening titled “The Role of Documentary in Shaping Public Policy.”
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.
“The government has to play a smart investment role in expansion and economic recovery, or we’ll be facing a new normal,” said Jared Bernstein, former chief economist and economic policy adviser to Vice President Joe Biden, before a crowd of roughly 80 students, faculty and local residents yesterday in Dodd Auditorium.
Receiving a fatherly pat on the cheek from “the most dangerous man in Pakistan,” watching as an intelligence officer compared waterboarding to salted peanuts and receiving a compliment on a pair of boots from a Somali general with suspected ties to Osama bin Laden are but a few of the many bizarre stories recounted by Toronto Star journalist Michelle Shephard in her new book, “Decade of Fear: Reporting from Terrorism’s Grey Zone.”
The University’s default rate is the highest of the country’s top 20 universities as ranked by the U.S. News and World Report, according to an analysis by news website Business Insider. The website reports that the University’s default rate tops the list at 2.2 percent, with peer institutions such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology and California Institute of Technology reporting figures near 0 percent.
At the end of the 2010-11 school year, 12 faculty members from a range of departments were transferred to emeritus status by the University’s Board of Trustees.
Last Sunday on Cannon Green, several hundred University faculty, students and members of the public gathered to reflect on the 10-year legacy of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and honor the memories of the thousands who perished, including 13 Princeton alumni.
