Featured Stories Archive – September, 2007
Whitman dedication honors towering achievement
By Jennifer Greenstein Altmann · Posted September 27, 2007; 06:00 p.m.
Surrounded by soaring walls of hand-set stone and the magnificent crenelated tower of the new Whitman College, members of the Princeton University community gathered Thursday, Sept. 27, to celebrate the residential college's completion and formally dedicate it.
Princeton's Whitman College marks revival of traditional architecture
By Cass Cliatt · Posted September 24, 2007; 05:00 p.m.
Whitman College architect Demetri Porphyrios describes the residential college he designed for Princeton University in terms of music. The Collegiate Gothic buildings rise in individual gestures of counterpoint that come together in a single composition.
Residential life remodeled: Princeton moves into new four-year college system
By Eric Quiñones · Posted September 20, 2007; 01:49 p.m.
A new era in residential life at Princeton, years in the making, dawns this fall with the launch of the University's four-year residential college system.
The opening of Whitman College, the University's sixth residential college, is the most visible element of a massive campuswide effort to enable undergraduates from all four classes and graduate students to more closely share their Princeton experiences.
Adventures and surprises await, Tilghman tells freshmen
By Ruth Stevens · Posted September 16, 2007; 06:07 p.m.
Gazing out at the class of 2011 assembled before her in the University Chapel, Princeton President Shirley M. Tilghman described the "grand adventure" on which the freshmen are about to embark. "Your next four years will be filled with exuberant engagement and exploration -- with ideas, with members of the faculty and with your fellow students," she said in her address at Opening Exercises on Sunday, Sept. 16.
Preparing to Lead: Internships pair students with executives
By Hilary Parker · Posted September 13, 2007; 10:09 a.m.
Mechanical and aerospace engineering major Zhen Xia is accustomed to solving problems that have cut-and-dried solutions, but an internship at IBM this past summer taught him how to approach problems that don't have one right answer. As part of a new internship program, Xia spent three months working with senior marketing executives at the IBM corporate offices in Somers, N.Y. From analyzing the brand's image to establishing a business case for a new product launch, he found himself in the midst of the complicated intricacies of the business world.
International students have a blast at pre-orientation
By Jennifer Greenstein Altmann · Posted September 10, 2007; 11:21 a.m.
Ninety-four international students hailing from 38 countries got a hands-on introduction to Princeton University last week by fishing poker chips out of the Scudder Plaza fountain, doing push-ups on the top floor of Fine Tower and finding an upperclassmate in Firestone Library just by using the barcode of a nearby book. The scavenger hunt assignments were part of a four-day program tailored to introduce newly arrived international and exchange students to life at Princeton.
Reconstruction of Butler College begins this fall
By Ruth Stevens · Posted September 6, 2007; 11:39 a.m.
As construction crews put the finishing touches this summer on Whitman College, the University's newest residential college, workers across Elm Drive started demolishing much of Butler College.
'Profile' gives snapshot of Princeton
By Cass Cliatt · Posted September 4, 2007; 10:40 a.m.
The latest edition of the University's "Profile" publication is now available in print and online, answering the most frequently asked questions about Princeton and providing audiences across the country and the world with a snapshot of the diverse resources available to members of the campus community.