Outdoor Action training lets freshmen bring greener outlooks to campus
by Ruth Stevens
George Che still had a week to go before his classes began at Princeton, but the freshman was already learning some lessons. Hanging from a rope on an 80-foot rock face near New Jersey’s Delaware Water Gap one morning earlier this month, he quickly was overcoming his fear of heights. Far from his home in suburban Boston, he was experiencing for the first time in his life what it was like to sleep outdoors overnight. Hiking along the trail, he was gathering a multitude of facts about humans’ impact on the environment.
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Reinhardt speaks frankly as leading voice on health care
by Jennifer Greenstein Altmann
Uwe Reinhardt is known for telling it like it is. Whether he’s rebuking a Houston hospital for demanding upfront payments from a chemotherapy patient (in The Wall Street Journal) or ridiculing investment bankers for peddling repackaged “manure” (subprime mortgages) as secure investments (on the Financial Times website), Reinhardt doesn’t mince words.
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Freshman class ranks as most diverse in Princeton history
by Eric Quiñones
Princeton has enrolled the most diverse freshman class in its history for the third consecutive year, selected from a record-high number of applicants following the University’s transition to a single admission process.
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University’s grading policy change marks further progress
by Eric Quiñones
After four years, Princeton’s new grading policy continues to show progress in bringing grades in undergraduate courses under better control.
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Noted economist visiting Princeton to enhance study of Korea
by Jennifer Greenstein Altmann
Un-Chan Chung, a leading Korean economist and former president of Seoul National University, will spend this semester at Princeton to lend his expertise to the University’s expanding focus on Korean studies.
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$10 million NSF grant to fund research on fundamental computer science questions
by Teresa Riordan
Princeton is the lead institution for a new $10 million National Science Foundation grant that will fund research on “intractability” — a concept that has profound implications for a broad range of fields, from e-commerce to quantum computing.
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