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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
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Christopher Sims, economics professors, Nobel Prize in economics, NYU, Princeton, Thomas Sargent
IN PRINT: A New Reason to Yawn in Class
Wednesday, 05 October 2011
by Ellen Shakespear
It’s getting to be that time of the year when classes are finally in full swing, first papers are due, and hours spent in bed are slowly trickling away. If the readjustment to the grind is taking its toll and you’re getting grilled for yawning during that 50-minute lecture, Andrew Gallup, a researcher in Princeton’s
- Published in In Print
Animal cruelty in Princeton labs again?
Saturday, 01 October 2011
by Miriam Geronimus
Over the past year, Princeton has come under attack for animal rights violations in psychology and neuroscience labs, many of them related to watering schedules of primates. Now a group called Stop Animal Exploitation Now! claims that the University continues to mistreat monkeys in neuroscience labs, according to pictures of abuse supplied by a Princeton
- Published in Princeton in the News
Whitman to Save H.P.
Saturday, 24 September 2011
by Nathan Serota
Meg Whitman, residential college matriarch and former CEO of eBay, was named Chief Executive of Hewlett-Packard last Thursday. Like most Whitman news, the decision appears fairly controversial. She’s been tapped to resuscitate the tech giant from its currently lagging state. H.P. recently revamped their general sales strategy and is (finally) reevaluating the state of its
- Published in Alumni, Princeton in the News
Genius Jackpot
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
by Lauren Zumbach
There are probably a lot of Princetonians who fall on the genius spectrum, but not all of them get official recognition, much less official recognition and a no-strings-attached $500,000 grant. Then there’s Peter Hessler ’92, one of 22 MacArthur Fellows for 2011. Hessler is a long form journalist who drew on his experience as an
- Published in Princeton in the News
We’re Back, Baby: Princeton ranked #1 National University
Wednesday, 14 September 2011
by Vivienne Chen
Like a J-Lo summer pop single, Princeton has made a comeback, tying Harvard for #1 on the US News and World Report 2011-12 Ranking of the best undergraduate colleges in the United States. After a year of being slighted by the Crimson menace, Princeton has returned to its former place on the leaderboard chart. One trivial beef
- Published in Princeton in the News
Tagged under:
admissions, college rankings, Emma Watson, Ivy League, Jay-Z, School rivalry, US News and World Report
Judge Halts Deportation of Henry Velandia
Sunday, 08 May 2011
by Vivienne Chen
A major victory for Princeton couple Joshua Vandiver GS and his husband Henry Velandia: an immigration judge in Newark ruled yesterday that Venezuelan-born Velandia’s deportation would be halted until December in light of developing national policy on the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). The background: Vandiver met Velandia in 2006, and they legally married in
- Published in Politics, Princeton in the News
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deportation, DOMA, Henry velandia, Joshua Vandiver, President Obama, same-sex marriage
Greeks Under Attack?
Thursday, 05 May 2011
by Lauren Zumbach
It’s the latest installment of the University-Greek scene faceoff – this time under the guise of the innocuously-named Report of the Working Group on Campus Social & Residential Life. The report begins with Princeton, A History: Social Edition. It goes all the way back to when Princeton was known as the College of New Jersey,
- Published in Goings On, Princeton in the News
Chords for Clunkers
Wednesday, 27 April 2011
by Lauren Zumbach
Thought Techno Jeep exhausted the musical possibilities of junk cars? Think again. Sean Friar ’GS, a Ph.D. candidate in music, was recently named the youngest American Academy Prix de Rome winner in 25 years and will spend eleven months in Rome expanding his winning composition, “Clunker Concerto: A Junk Car Percussion Quartet Concerto.” Yes, you
- Published in Arts, Princeton in the News
IN PRINT: Princeton on the Radio
Wednesday, 27 April 2011
by Vivienne Chen
“Wait, we have our own student-run radio station?” Lindsey-Paige McCloy ’12 gets that question a lot. The answer? Actually, yeah, we do. Tune your radio dial (if you still own one) to WPRB (103.3 FM) and you may hear that guy in your precept reading the local headlines. WPRB began broadcasting over 60 years ago from
- Published in In Print
Study: Ivy Leaguers Want More Sex
Tuesday, 19 April 2011
by Shirley Gao
The higher your tuition, the hornier you are. At least, that’s what our friends over at OkCupid concluded after studying the activity of nearly 20,000 of their users. Among their most interesting claims? Given a 36-week school year and the average partner, every $2,000 spent on your college tuition is an extra time you could
- Published in Internet, Princeton in the News
IN PRINT: Princeton coders #winning
Friday, 15 April 2011
by Lauren Zumbach
Princeton stole the show at the first-ever New York Google Games last Saturday, which brought 175 students hailing from Columbia, NYU, Stony Brook, Rutgers, Princeton to Google’s NYC headquarters for some head-to-head competition. It was sort of like a heptathlon, but not one any track fans out there would recognize. Teams vied to be the
- Published in In Print