Category: news/the_princeton_packet

  • Princeton: New acting-CDC head grew up here

    By Lauren Otis, Staff Writer    Richard E. Besser, who grew up in Princeton before pursuing a career in medicine, was named the Obama Administration’s acting director of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.    Dr. Besser previously served as director of the CDC’s Coordinating Office for Terrorism Preparedness and Emergency Response. He…

  • WASHINGTON,DC: Excitement tops difficulties for crowds

    By Jacob Uitti, Special Writer    WASHINGTON, D.C. — For the estimated 1.8 million who traveled here to see Barack Obama, America’s first African American president, take the oath of office Tuesday, excitement charged the entire day.    On the packed Metro subway system, the sound of laughter could be heard, mixed in with French, German and…

  • PRINCETON: Foreign students react to inauguration

    PRINCETON: Foreign students react to inauguration

    Those viewing the Obama inauguration at the Princeton Public Library included, from left: Jin Tao of China, Heiki Reinhart of Germany, Aneta Malecka of Poland, Gozde G. Ucar of Turkey and Helga Wellhoefer of Germany. Staff photo by Fred Tuccillo

  • PRINCETON: Foreign students react to inauguration

    PRINCETON: Foreign students react to inauguration

    By Fred Tuccillo, Managing Editor    When President Barack Obama addressed the world beyond America during his inaugural address, his vast foreign audience included one small group among the 200 people watching at the Princeton Public Library on Tuesday.    Five women, from China, Germany, Poland and Turkey, had come to the library viewing with Linda Sipprelle,…

  • PRINCETON: Record number apply to university

       Princeton University announced that for the fifth consecutive year it has set a record for students applying for admission, receiving 21,869 applications for 1,300 spots in the class of 2013.    Over the past six years, the university said it has experienced a 60 percent increase in applications.    The number of applicants for the class of…

  • PRINCETON: Ministry frees the wrongfully imprisoned

    By Greg Forester, Staff Writer    Jim McCloskey may not look like your average guardian angel.    But the 66-year-old, balding Presbyterian pastor is just that to 43 people.    Mr. McCloskey’s nonprofit Princeton-based Centurion Ministries, freed all of them from wrongful life imprisonment or death sentences for rapes or murders they did not commit.    They will be…

  • PRINCETON: Credit-card processor has security breach

    By Lauren Otis, Staff Writer Lauren OtisStaff Writer    Princeton-based payments processor Heartland Payment Systems said it believes it has contained a security breach of its credit card processing business, but not before transaction data from tens of thousands of merchants was compromised.    In a release, Heartland said it learned it was the victim of a…

  • PRINCETON: Princeton University names new director of art museum

    James Steward, director of the Museum of Art at the University of Michigan     James Steward, a skilled arts administrator and a specialist in 18th- and 19th-century European art and culture, has been selected as director of the Princeton University Art Museum.     Mr. Steward, director of the Museum of Art and a faculty member…

  • PRINCETON: Library audience ‘attends’ the inauguration

    PRINCETON: Library audience ‘attends’ the inauguration

    Big screen in the Community Room of the Princeton Public Library carries CNN coverage of the Inauguration on Tuesday. Staff photo by Fred Tuccillo.