Course offers aspiring professors firsthand insights from ‘master’ teachers
Speaking to an audience of aspiring professors, Daniel Kahneman recalled his own experience as a young faculty member at Hebrew University in the 1960s to illustrate the changing nature of teaching. Early in his career, Kahneman required that students cling to every word of his lectures. Some courses included no textbooks, leaving students to depend solely on their class notes.
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Anthropologist observes native academics in their natural habitat
When Rena Lederman settles into her chair at a faculty meeting or an academic conference, she is not just performing her duties as a member of Princeton’s anthropology department. She is doing fieldwork. The subjects of Lederman’s current research are not the type that come to mind when one thinks of anthropology. They are not members of a tribe in Papua New Guinea or Madagascar. They are the academics among whom she works every day.
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Two seniors win ReachOut 56 Fellowships
University seniors Krista Brune and Derrick Raphael have been awarded 2006 ReachOut 56 Fellowships, which provide the winners with a $25,000 grant to undertake a yearlong public service project after graduation.
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Joint admission-alumni effort targets socioeconomic diversity
As part of its goal to expand the recruitment of students from all socioeconomic backgrounds, the Admission Office has partnered with the Alumni Schools Committees (ASC) of Washington, D.C., and Boston in a pilot project targeting public high schools in those cities.
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West and Glaude launch national ‘Covenant Curriculum’
Princeton professors Cornel West and Eddie Glaude have teamed up with talk-show host Tavis Smiley to launch a national movement to take critical lessons of black history and American democracy out of the classroom and into people’s homes, churches, book clubs and civic groups.
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Students manage Middle East crises at high-tech Model U.N.
Each time the door to room 309 opened, the late-afternoon quiet of the Frist Campus Center was shattered by the din of 30 Princeton students engulfed by crises in the Middle East.
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