Tag: Princeton University
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Princeton University presents East Garage development project to SPRAB
Princeton’s Site Plan Review Advisory Board (SPRAB) has now reviewed the first major site plan application for Princeton University’s East Campus Entry project. The plans reviewed and presented on Sept. 9 focused on the East Campus Garage set to be built on the East Campus project site. The approximately 500,000-square-foot six tier garage will replace…
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Poll Hero Project offers opportunity to work in-person elections
By MADELEINE MACCAR The Sun In less than two months since its founding, the Poll Hero Project (PHP) has encouraged more than 15,000 high school and college students around the country to become active participants in democracy. Bringing together a founding team from Princeton University, Denver East High School and the University of Chicago Booth…
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PSBRF distributes funds to 70 local Princeton businesses
Seventy local Princeton businesses are receiving emergency financial relief from the Princeton Small Businesses Resiliency Relief Fund (PSBRF), as those businesses continue to navigate a difficult landscape during the coronavirus pandemic. The grant program’s first cycle has been releasing $5,000 in grant funds to each of the 70 businesses totaling in the amount of $350,000.…
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Opinion: Stand up for Witherspoon
Amidst the current social justice tsunami threatening to submerge American history, Princeton has apparently now committed its own aggravated assault against Clio. A petition circulated among activists sought to strip Princeton’s middle school of its namesake, John Witherspoon. It has succeeded. Why? Upon his death, Witherspoon owned two slaves. Princeton has succumbed to a nihilistic…
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National Museum of Mathematics appoints local resident as distinguished visiting professor
The National Museum of Mathematics (MoMath) appointed of Rutgers University math professor and MoMath’s dean of Academic Content, Dr. Alex Kontorovich, as MoMath’s distinguished visiting professor for the Public Dissemination of Mathematics beginning Sept. 1. During his one-year appointment, Kontorovich will present public programs, “Fall into History,” tracing mathematical ideas over time, and “Spring into Sound,”…
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Maureen Thompson-Siegel: Once a Tiger, Always a Tiger
The 2020-21 youth hockey season looks a little different for Princeton Youth Hockey Association (PYHA), not only because they’re entering it in the age of COVID-19 where social distancing and face coverings are the norm, but also because they’re entering it without Dayton resident Maureen Thompson-Siegel playing her many behind-the-scenes roles for the first time…
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Princeton University oceanographer to discuss new position as earth scientist during Princeton YMCA presentation
Princeton YMCA’s next “Paths to Success” presentation for students will feature climate scientist Lionel Arteaga, an oceanographer from Venezuela, from 6-7 p.m. Aug. 19. During an oceanography class, Arteaga learned how to use satellite images to study the world’s oceans, which re-inspired him to work on climate and space research topics. After moving to Germany…
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Fall semester undergraduate classes will be fully remote at Princeton University
Princeton University’s administration has announced that its undergraduate program will be fully remote for the fall semester in 2020. Princeton made the announcement on Aug. 7. The recent decision affects freshmen and junior students planning on returning to campus for the fall. Those students who chose to return to campus would have been arriving later…
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LOOSE ENDS 7/31: Shin-Yi Lin, Eagleton Institute Fellow
By Pam Hersh A few weeks ago, I had the honor of Zooming into a Rutgers University graduation that featured only four graduates, all accomplished scientists who completed the inaugural year of the Rutgers University Eagleton Institute’s Science and Politics Fellowship Program. These scientists took their research, formulas, and analytical, organizational and communications skills into…
