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- Admission to college isn't just about grades, test scores
- 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? ...
- Research articles 2008-07-07
- Noted Princeton Philosopher Gilbert Harman To Present Public Lecture As Part Of K-State Philosophy Symposium.
- 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...
- Research articles 2008-04-03
- Repatriating innovation: Hopkins Architects lead by example with four new university projects
- 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...
- Research articles 2008-04-01
- David Gergen To Deliver 2008 Commencement Address at Rensselaer.
- 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...
- Research articles 2008-03-18
- Racial Separatism at Princeton
- 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,...
- Research articles 2008-03-03
- Robert P. George recently offered a thoughtful response upon receiving the Sidney Hook Memorial Award at the meeting of the National Association of Scholars in Cambridge, Massachusetts.(While We're At It)
- Robert P. George recently offered a thoughtful response upon receiving the Sidney Hook Memorial Award at the meeting of the National Association of Scholars in Cambridge, Massachusetts. George is a frequent contributor to these pages, the Erasmus Lecturer of 2007, and professor of jurisprudence and director...
- Research articles 2008-03-01
- Former congressman to speak on Constitution's relevance
- OKLAHOMA CITY JR - Former Oklahoma U.S. Rep. Mickey Edwards will deliver a lecture next Tuesday at the Oklahoma City University School of Law, entitled "Does the Constitution Matter Anymore? Separation of Powers in the New Century." Edwards will speak at 5 p.m. in the Homsey Family Moot Courtroom. ...
- Research articles 2007-11-02
- Nuclear arms activist Panofsky 'admired greatly'
- LOS ALTOS -- Wolfgang K.H. Panofsky, an internationally admired particle physicist who devoted much of his life to promoting nuclear arms control, has died. Panofsky, affectionally known as "Pief," had a heart attack in Los Altos, on Monday, Stanford University officials said. He was 88. ...
- Research articles 2007-09-29
- Nuclear arms activist Panofsky 'towering figure'
- LOS ALTOS -- Wolfgang K.H. Panofsky, an internationally admired particle physicist who devoted much of his life to promoting nuclear arms control, has died. Panofsky, affectionally known as "Pief," had a heart attack in Los Altos, on Monday, Stanford University officials said. He was 88. ...
- Research articles 2007-09-29
- Nuclear arms activist Panofsky 'admired greatly'
- LOS ALTOS -- Wolfgang K.H. Panofsky, an internationally admired particle physicist who devoted much of his life to promoting nuclear arms control, has died. Panofsky, affectionally known as "Pief," had a heart attack in Los Altos, on Monday, Stanford University officials said. He was 88. ...
- Research articles 2007-09-29
- NAACP Has Record Number of Youth and College Units with EMERGE Plan
- When the NAACP began its national campaign to increase its membership, Stefanie Brown, national director of the Youth & College Division, wanted to do her part by multiplying the units within her department. When she came on board as director last year, Brown's goal was to boost the number of...
- Research articles 2007-09-01
- When "humor" falls with a thud.
- The headline blared in the Daily Princetonian, Princeton University's student newspaper: a conservative political professor caught with a gay hooker. That story and others in last Wednesday's issue certainly set the Ivy League campus abuzz, but not for the reason you might think. The stories weren't true. The whole issue...
- Research articles 2007-01-24
- Princeton drops early admissions and expands Black studies programs
- Princeton University recently became the second elite university to drop its early admissions program. The university, one of the leaders in Black studies, also plans to increase its Black studies program. Following Harvard in a move the Ivy League schools say will benefit disadvantaged students and reduce anxiety, Princeton...
- Research articles 2006-10-09
- Power, Speed, and Form: Engineers and the Making of the Twentieth Century.(Brief article)(Book review)
- Power. Speed, and Form: Engineers and the Making of the Twentieth Century. David P. Billington and David P. Billington, Jr. Princeton University Press, 41 William St., Princeton, NJ 08540-5237. Softcover. 2006. 268 pages. $29.95. ISBN 0-691-10292-9. Written as a narrative of ideas and historical...
- Research articles 2006-10-01
- Diamond in the Mudd: the many facets of Maria Klawe, Harvey Mudd College's new leader
- IT'S A NEW DAY AT HARVEY MUDD. KNOWN FOR ITS FOCUS ON engineering, science, and mathematics education, the 700-student liberal arts school--part of California's Claremont Colleges consortium--has done well in realizing its vision of attracting the brightest students. And with about 1,600 applications received each year, Admissions staff can be...
- Research articles 2006-07-01
- The downfall of optimism.
- Jun. 23--Wimps don't win wars. That's conventional wisdom for you, which extorts you be bold and brash. Prophets of Power advise you to be positive: seize the world by its horns and master it like a man. Recent research from Princeton University, however, shows this to ...
- Research articles 2006-06-23
- The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City.(Book review)
- The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City. By Mary Ting Yi Lui. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp. xxvi, 298. $29.95.) Historians by and large enjoy a good mystery, and this one does not ...
- Research articles 2006-06-22
- W Arthur Lewis and the Birth of Development Economics
- W Arthur Lewis and the Birth of Development Economics [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] By Robert L Tignor [pounds sterling]22.95 Princeton University Press ISBN 0-691-12141-9 W. Arthur Lewis was one of the foremost intellectuals, economists, and political activists of the 20th century. In this book, the first intellectual...
- Research articles 2006-02-01
- A thinker builds on a world where 'everybody matters'
- Chatting in the immaculate Chelsea loft he shares with partner Henry Finder, an editor at the New Yorker, Princeton University philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah is surrounded by the artifacts of a brilliant, privileged, cosmopolitan life. Terra-cotta artworks from Ghana, collected by his English mother. Russian icons inherited from her...
- Research articles 2006-01-26
- Ignatieff, Michael, ed.: American Exceptionalism and Human Rights.(Book review)
- Ignatieff, Michael, ed. American Exceptionalism and Human Rights Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press 392 pp., $75.00 cloth, $24.95 paper ISBN 0-6911-1647-4 cloth ISBN 0-6911-1648-2 paper Publication Date: June 2005 This edited volume explores the way in which the United States is ...
- Research articles 2006-01-01
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