Accounting Accounting firm Amper, Politziner & Mattia has named Michael Mattia as its partner in charge of marketing. A 20-year marketing veteran, Mattia is responsible for new service line and product development, corporate communications, and new business development, among other functions. He serves as Amper's practice development committee representative in...
WASHINGTON -- His decades-long obsession with a college sorority may link a former Army biowarfare scientist to four anthrax-laced letters dropped off at a New Jersey mailbox in 2001, authorities said Monday in the latest twist of one of the most bizarre unsolved crimes in FBI history. U.S....
Company CEO, Patrick McGregor Ph.D., Shares New Techniques for Software-Driven Cold Boot Protection During Black Hat Conference Presentation PITTSBURGH -- BitArmor[TM], the leader in data control software that helps corporate executives protect and manage sensitive data throughout their organizations, today announced a new set of software-driven techniques that can...
I last visited my alma mater, Princeton University, two years ago to speak on an alumni panel about the future of Iraq. Inside stately McCosh Hall, where I'd taken Constitutional Law more than a decade earlier, I spoke to a mostly white crowd about my experiences as a special Iraq...
Each year, Americans buy 700 million pounds of peanut butter. But about 3.5 million pounds of it ends up unused, stuck at the bottom of the jar, according to Sherwood Forlee, a former Princeton University engineering student. So he’s come up with a simple (and Kramer-esque) solution: his Easy PB&J...
Princeton University may finally defer to three decades of demands for a Latino studies program because of recent efforts by Hispanic students, aided by a group of Hispanic alumni. A Center for Latino Studies with a certificate program modeled after Princeton's nationally renowned Center for African American Studies could materialize...
Jian Li was the ideal high school student. He had perfect scores on the SAT reading, writing and math tests. He graduated in the top 1% of his class. He participated in lots of extracurriculars, including leadership roles. And yet in 2006, Princeton University turned him down. Why? ...
Worn-out high school seniors are getting fresh encouragement from a range of sources to take a break -- a "gap year" -- before plunging into college. But to be beneficial, it needs to involve more than rest and relaxation. This spring, high schools in seven metropolitan...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] DR. DAMIAN FERNANDEZ has been appointed provost and executive vice president of academic affairs of Purchase College (N.Y.), effective Aug. 1. Fernandez received a bachelor's from Princeton University, a master's from the University of Florida and a doctorate from the University of Miami.
WHAT MAKES A TERRORIST: Economics and the Roots of Terrorism, Alan B. Krueger, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2007, 180 pages, $24.95. As a company commander during Operation Iraqi Freedom, I was responsible for the security of a small but well-to-do neighborhood in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk. My...
RESEARCHERS RECENTLY CRACKED several widely used security systems used to encrypt computers. The systems include Microsoft's BitLocker, Apple's FileVault, and Linux's dm-crypt. In the process, they discovered several things that computer owners can do to protect their hard drives against a security breach. They...
One of the more amusing features of campaign-finance transparency is that it reveals the political biases of our nation's higher-education institutions. "All Princeton faculty members who have given to 2008 presidential candidates so far have donated to Democrats, according to federal records of donations to presidential campaigns from Princeton University...
M2 PRESSWIRE-3 April 2008-K-STATE: Noted Princeton Philosopher Gilbert Harman To Present Public Lecture As Part Of K-State Philosophy SymposiumC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:03042008 MANHATTAN -- Gilbert Harman, Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University, will deliver the public lecture...
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Within the UK, Hopkins' work is familiar to many. What is less well known, however, is how over recent years the practice has extended its reach across the world. Establishing the firm with wife Patty in 1976, founding partner Michael Hopkins led the practice to pioneer a specific English strain...
Phillies Notes Righthander Tim Lahey, claimed off waivers from the Chicago Cubs on Friday, made his Phillies debut in yesterday's 5-3 exhibition loss to the Toronto Blue Jays. A former catcher at Princeton University who was converted into a pitcher in the Twins' farm system, the 6-foot-5 Lahey allowed a...
AT LAST, thanks to the Rev. Jeremiah Wrights liberation theology sermons, race has returned to center stage in the American conversation. Now, if they wish to, liberal pundits and politicians can jettison the nonsense that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has transcended race. And Obama himself can...
M2 PRESSWIRE-18 March 2008-Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: David Gergen To Deliver 2008 Commencement Address at RensselaerC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:17032008 Troy, N.Y. -- David Gergen, political analyst, editor, best-selling author, and Harvard professor, will deliver the 2008 Commencement address at Rensselaer...
What Michelle Obama's Thesis Tells Us About Her Alma Mater A lot of ink has been spilled lately about Michelle Obama's recently released thesis from Princeton University. Most of the attention has focused on the psychodrama of her opening comments, in which she relates that, as an African-American,...
Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth Century New York Court Case that Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature by D. Graham Burnett, Princeton University Press, 2007; $29.95 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] There are many lessons to be learned from the 1818 trial of James Maurice v. Samuel...
