Page One
• Record number of students apply for class of 2010
• Universities fill dual role as servant and critic
Inside
• Online journal offers ‘report on knowledge’
• Astronomers discover smallest planet outside solar system
• Researchers develop new method for studying ‘mental time travel’
• University to contribute $1 million to Princeton Borough
People
• Betterton announces plans to retire, Moscato named financial aid director
• Peralta receives Sachs scholarship for study at Oxford
• Fields memoir chronicles work at Princeton
• People, spotlight
Almanac
• Nassau notes
• Calendar of events
• By the numbers
Record number of students apply for class of 2010
For the second year in a row, Princeton has received a record number of applications for admission, totaling 17,478 for the class of 2010. The number of students seeking admission represents a 6 percent increase over last year’s record of 16,510 applicants. That pool of candidates for the class of 2009 was 21 percent larger than for the previous year.
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Q&A : Universities fill dual role as servant and critic
Five years since he stepped down from the University’s presidency, Harold T. Shapiro remains committed to examining the responsibilities that Princeton and other institutions have in supporting and improving American society.
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Betterton announces plans to retire, Moscato named financial aid director
Don Betterton, Princeton’s longtime director of undergraduate financial aid, will retire on June 30 and will be succeeded by Robin Moscato, a 23-year member of his staff.
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Online journal offers ‘report on knowledge’
The second issue of an online journal that aims to “reassert the value of critical insight and the role of public knowledge” has been published by a group of faculty members and graduate students at Princeton.
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University to contribute $1 million to Princeton Borough
The University has agreed to increase its voluntary contribution to Princeton Borough to $1 million in 2006, some $200,000 more than it would have contributed under its existing agreement with the borough.
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Peralta receives Sachs scholarship for study at Oxford
Princeton senior Dan-el Padilla Peralta has been named the recipient of the 2006 Daniel M. Sachs Class of 1960 Graduating Scholarship. The award, one of the highest honors given to Princeton undergraduates, was established in 1970 to provide a senior with the opportunity to study, work or travel abroad after graduation.
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Astronomers discover smallest planet outside solar system
Astronomers from Princeton and other institutions have discovered the smallest planet found outside of our solar system using a technique that researchers believe will uncover others that potentially harbor life.
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Researchers develop new method for studying ‘mental time travel’
Neuroscientists at Princeton have developed a new way of tracking people’s mental state as they think back to previous events—a process that has been described as “mental time travel.”
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Fields memoir chronicles work at Princeton
In his recently published memoir, Carl Fields describes the difficulty of trying to decide whether or not to accept a job at Princeton. It was 1964 and Fields, an African American, had to weigh carefully the prospect of working at a university that had just 12 black undergraduates and four black graduate students.
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