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IN PRINT: Princeton Basketball Season Preview @ Ivy Hoops Online
Tuesday, 25 October 2011
by Spencer Gaffney
We’re only a couple weeks away from the start of the basketball season, sports fans! With Doug Davis’ buzzer beater now firmly in the rearview mirror, what’s the year going to look like for the Princeton Tigers? This season I’m going to be covering the Princeton basketball team for IvyHoopsOnline, and this week I take
- Published in Sports
Where do you study?
Saturday, 22 October 2011
by Miriam Geronimus
Alas, it is that time of year again — midterms. If you’re not procrastinating at one of tonight’s great performances, you’re probably studying. And for that, Princeton has no shortage of spaces — libraries, residential college libraries, lounges… you name it. When I get stuck studying all day, I like to change it up a
- Published in Goings On
Weekend Arts Roundup: Midterms Procrastination Edition!
Saturday, 22 October 2011
by Julia Bumke
Time to venture forth from your midterms-induced insanity and hit the campus’s best arts events tonight! We’ve got music and theater aplenty–prime distractions from paper-writing and other assorted craziness. Think on the bright side: your paper might be hellish, but at least your sociopathic wife isn’t making you kill your boss in cold blood! No
- Published in Weekend Arts Roundup
Cornel West: Out of Jail and in CVS
Tuesday, 18 October 2011
by Vivienne Chen
Apparently, Dr. West is back in Princeton, after getting arrested on Sunday for protesting on the steps of the Supreme Court in DC as part of the Occupy movement.(Certainly, not the first time this G’s been behind bars). No charges were pressed, but I’m guessing he’s lying low in Princeton for the time being. West, who’s
- Published in Faculty
IN PRINT: For students, blazing-fast lab work
Sunday, 16 October 2011
by Angela Wu
Consider a device the size of a grain of salt that can process information a billion times faster than the human brain. Inspired by animal nervous systems, the “photonic neuron” uses light instead of electrochemical impulses to process information at lightning-quick speeds. And in the lab of electrical engineering professor Paul Prucnal, it’s becoming a
- Published in In Print
Steve Carell to speak at Class Day
Sunday, 16 October 2011
by Angela Wu
Actor and comedian Steve Carell will be the Class Day Speaker for the Class of 2012, according to an e-mail announcement from the 2012 Class Day team, which includes Gabriel Debenedetti ’12, Chris Green ’12, Erin Kiernan ’12, and Lindy Li ’12. “We are thrilled that Mr. Carell will be joining us as we bring
- Published in Goings On
The Lowdown on Lock-Outs: Part 1
Friday, 14 October 2011
by Vivienne Chen
It finally happened today — after almost half a semester of success with the old “trash-can-in-the-door” technique, I finally got locked out of my room. Considering my lock-out rate last year (thank you roommates), it’s pretty impressive I’ve made it this far. Drawing from my vast experience, I find the Top 3 most common lock-out
- Published in Goings On
Weekend Arts Roundup: Parents’ Weekend Edition!
Friday, 14 October 2011
by Julia Bumke
It’s that time of year again: let the 2015er parents descend upon the Bubble! Whether you’re looking for quality bonding time or a way to hide your killer hangover behind quality distractions, there are some great events slated for the weekend. Here’s a handful of good bets–plus some great ones that you might want to
- Published in Weekend Arts Update
Spotted: Forest Whitaker, Stanhope-Bound
Thursday, 13 October 2011
by Julia Bumke
We’re used to our fare share of celebrities here in the Bubble, but that doesn’t mean we don’t still get starstruck: Forest Whitaker, the Academy-Award-winning American actor of Last King of Scotland fame, was on campus today for a meeting at the Center for African American Studies. Sophomore Uchechi Kalu was lucky enough to be
- Published in Uncategorized
21 Questions … Wokie Nwabueze
Tuesday, 11 October 2011
by Shirley Gao
THE NEW OMBUDS OFFICER AVOIDS INTERIOR DECORATING, KEEPS MUM, AND STANDS HER GROUND AGAINST BLACK SQUIRRELS. Name: Wokie Nwabueze Campus title: University’s ombuds officer Hometown: New York City What is your favorite quote? Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay. ~ Sallust In one sentence, what do you actually do
- Published in 21 Questions
Tagged under:
Fountain of Freedom, Martha Stewart intervention, mediating conflict, pesky rodents, Seuss
Princeton’s Christopher Sims and NYU’s Thomas Sargent Win Nobel Prize in Economic Science
Monday, 10 October 2011
by Abby Greene
After almost four decades of work exploring the causal relationships between policy decisions and the economy, Sims and Sargent received the Nobel Prize this morning in recognition of their independent, but complementary, research. While Sargent’s research focused on more long-term economic trends as inflation targets, Sims, the Harold H. Helm ’20 Professor of Economics and
- Published in Faculty, Princeton in the News
Tagged under:
Christopher Sims, economics professors, Nobel Prize in economics, NYU, Princeton, Thomas Sargent
How much energy do you use?
Saturday, 08 October 2011
by Miriam Geronimus
If you have wandered through the basement hallways of Bogle Hall in the past week, you might have noticed a new display screen. This screen may not be able to tell you how much energy you use individually, but it can tell you how much energy Butler College is using. And some funny patterns show
- Published in Goings On
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