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On Worms and Princeton Entrepreneurship
Once upon a time, a 19-year-old Princeton student had a crazy idea: why not harvest worm poop, liquefy it, and package it in re-used soda bottles? In 2001, while visiting some friends in Montreal over the Fall Break of his freshman year, Tom Szaky watched as his friends fed scraps of food to red wiggler
- Published in Alumni, Princeton in the News
EGR 495: China, Entrepreneurship, and Inventive Quests for the Perfect Push-Up Bra
Anyone who argues that us Ivy Leaguers don’t think outside the box clearly hasn’t heard about EGR 495. In the course, Special Topics in Entrepreneurship, students designed products and created ad campaigns to sell them, infomercial style (as The Princeton Packet described last month). The designs were then presented to a panel of judges compiled
- Published in Goings On
Anna Allport (2023)
Anna Allport ’23, Vice-President of the Press Club, is an Interdisciplinary Theater and Performance Studies major and Journalism certificate student from California. As an arts & culture journalist, she loves highlighting student and community productions for local and national media outlets. She is also a photojournalist, covering news and campus life. Outside of journalism, she
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UPC weekly roundup: armed officers patrol NJ school, interview with N. Korean defector, featured alumni
Your weekly briefing: Press Club’s activity over the past week Armed Officers Will Patrol New Jersey Town’s Schools | The New York Times Ethan Sterenfeld ’20 reports on changes in school safety after the recent school shooting in Florida. One New Jersey town has decided to station armed police officers at every school entrance. “It’s
- Published in Uncategorized, Week in Review
21 Questions with Princeton Tonight Host, Jordan Salama
Jordan Salama is a freshman from Pelham, NY and the co-founder and host of Princeton Tonight, Princeton’s first student-run broadcast television series. Princeton Tonight’s first episode features a studio performance and interview with Mike DelGuidice, Billy Joel band member. You can watch it on February 27th at 8pm on cable TV (Channel 7 in Princeton)
- Published in 21 Questions
There’s a ‘Magic Bus’ to Take You Home from the Street Tonight (and every night after that)
Something to think about when planning your Princetoween costume: you may be riding home in a well-lit, University sponsored bus. Tonight, Princeton’s UMatter initiative will inaugurate a late-night bus that will run every Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 12:30 to 3 A.M. It will pick up students waiting all along on Prospect (on the north
- Published in Fun
FuLu Your Frenemies!
Add to the list of Princeton undergraduate start-ups: FuLumail.com, an anonymous email server launched this year by sophomores Ash Egan and Jason Adleberg and junior Bobby Grogan. After a brief hiatus during which the site was closed for reconstruction, FuLumail is once again up and running, allowing users to continue their slew of anonymous communication
- Published in Goings On
21 Questions With…Daniel Gastfriend ’13
DANIEL GASTFRIEND ’13, PRINCETON’S ONLY TRUMAN SCHOLARSHIP WINNER THIS YEAR, ASPIRES TO PUT AN END TO POVERTY, BUT HE’D SETTLE FOR LOTS OF MASSAGES. HE ALMOST GOT EATEN BY A LARGE MAMMAL LAST SUMMER, AND LEARNED EVERYTHING HE NEEDS TO KNOW IN KIDDIE LIT. Name: Daniel Gastfriend Age: 22 Major: Woodrow Wilson School Hometown: Newton,
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21 Questions with … Haley White ’12
TRUMAN SCHOLAR HALEY WHITE ’12 FIGHTS GLOBAL FOOD INSECURITY AND ROCKS OUT TO COLBERT’S COVER OF ‘FRIDAY’ Name: Haley White Age: 21 Major: Woody Woo Hometown: Chatham, NJ Eating club/residential college affiliation: Charter/Wilson What was your immediate response upon finding out you had won the Truman Scholarship? I started to cry. Then, I called my
- Published in 21 Questions
Looking for Love?
Move aside, GolfMates, VeggieDate, and Equestrian Cupid. E-harmony and Match.com? Psh. Fuh-get about it. This spring marked the launch of the newest brand of niche online dating websites. Philipp Triebel and Beri Meric, both Harvard Business School graduates, created IvyDate to connect students and alums of the Ivy League, MIT, Stanford, Oxford, Cambridge, and the
- Published in Fun
Timothy Ferriss ’00 Releases How-To-Be-Godlike Self-Help Book
Timothy Ferriss ’00 has written a book that will transform you into a hypermuscled, knife-sharp sex god. That is, if you trust his methods. Ferriss plies a special brand of hand-waving alternative-medicine voodoo magic, prescribing dubious fixes like ginger and sauerkraut (if you want to put on muscle) or protein and lemon juice (if you
- Published in Alumni, Princeton in the News
21 Questions with…Amira Polack ’12
BUSINESS TODAY PRESIDENT AMIRA POLACK ’12 LIKES GREEN EGGS, HATES WAITING IN LINE AT WUCOX–AND CALLS IT “BOBA,” NOT “BUBBLE” TEA. Name: Amira Polack Age: 20 Major: WWS, Cert. SPA Hometown: Glendale, CA Eating club/residential college/affiliation: Ivy/Wilson/NA What’s the first thing you do when you wake up? Hit snooze. Do you see yourself ever deleting
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