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Some might be intimated by a woman with an Ivy League education, but one Princeton alumna is determined to set the record straight with a catchy rap song.In her video for "The Ivy-League Hustle (I Went To Princeton, Bitch)," comedian and actress Nikki "2k" Muller raps about life after graduating from the celebrated university. WARNING: The video below contains adult language.Re...

After graduating from Princeton, an American soccer player traveled to South America chasing his dream of becoming a professional player in one of the game’s hotbeds.

For a while now "gamification" has largely existed as a buzz word. It's felt just as ridiculous to write the word as it is to read it. However, as Tim Chang pointed out this weekend, although it's important to avoid thinking of "gamification as the panacea," it's real, it's moving beyond media and fitness, and it needs to be taken seriously. When it comes to educational tools, gamification has ...

More than 500 members of the US Russian Jewish community sold out the event at Princeton

A study from Princeton University found intrauterine devices or 'coils' to be a far more effective form of emergency contraception than the Morning-after pill.

The just-completed NDCX-II, the second generation Neutralized Drift Compression Experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), is an unusual special-purpose particle accelerator built by DOE's Heavy Ion Fusion Science Virtual National Laboratory (HIFS VNL), whose member institutions are Berkeley Lab, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, an...

Princeton Review, the company behind the test prep books, is being sued by the U.S. government for allegedly bilking a federal program for underprivileged children.

Julie L. Mellby posts on Princeton University Library's Graphic Arts Collection blog about the Victorian "Change Packet," a little paper envelope that Victorian shopkeepers used to present customers' change (as Abi points out on Making Light, this embodies some odd assumptions, like shopkeepers never shortchanging their customers, and customers not wanting to spend their change [...]

There is no getting around the fact that a lot of people would be very excited if extraterrestrial life existed. But while plenty of scientists are working hard to find it, others aren't as convinced—and a team of Princeton physicists has gone as far as publishing an academic article explaining exactly why they think we're all living in a fantasy land. M...

Früher schmückten sich amerikanische Eliteunis mit Chinas Dissidenten, heute studieren hier die Kinder der Reichen und Mächtigen.

Princeton, New Jersey (ots/PRNewswire) -- Prüfungsteilnehmer können nun selbst entscheiden welche Testergebnisse sie an Universitäten und Business Schools schicken möchten PRINCETON, New Jersey, 24. April 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Nach der erfolgreichen Einführung des überarbeiteten …

On average, it will cost $55,600 to attend Princeton, Penn, Michigan or Stanford next year. But now you can enroll in online courses at all four…

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Medical marijuana advocates on Tuesday vowed to reopen a San Francisco-area college devoted to cannabis cultivation and known as the "Princeton of Pot" a day after federal agents shut down the school in a raid.

The sensor, created from graphene, a hi-tech one-atom-thick sheet of carbon can detect bacteria, and transmit information to medical staff, according to Princeton researchers.

Students from America's top universities like Yale, Harvard, Princeton and Columbia are all set for a debate on the theme of "Higher education is not worth it" -- in Hindi!

Our initial optimism over Huffpo science being a haven for reason in a den of disease-promotion and quackery appears now to be misplaced. It appears the animal rights cranks have made inroads with Bruce Friedrich, a member of PETA and advocate of animal liberation, who has jumped from Huffpo "green" to Huffpo "science". The science gatekeepers at Huffpo have clearly failed. Writing about "Sp...

As the climate warms and sea levels rise, the frequency of local extremes in storm surges will increase along much of the US coastline.To assess changes in local flood risk, Claudia Tebaldi at Climate Central in Princeton, New Jersey, and her colleagues combined projections

Sixteen years ago today, Erik and Lyle Menendez were convicted of murdering their parents. Their crimes were bloody, and the trials that followed -- with their often gruesome details -- created a national sensation. The brothers grew up in Princeton, N.J., before moving with their parents to Beverly Hills, where their father, Jose, was an entertainment industry executive. Their mother, Kitty, ...

Almost six years ago, I was the editor of a single-topic issue on energy for Scientific American that included an article by Princeton University’s Robert Socolow that set out a well-reasoned plan for how to keep atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations below a planet-livable threshold of 560 ppm. The issue came replete with technical solutions that [...]

Baylor is the unanimous No. 1 choice in The Associated Press final women's college basketball poll while Princeton becomes the first Ivy League team to join the rankings, entering at No. 24....

Looking at this year's Disney's Dreamers Academy class of 100 students from all over the U.S., I remember when I arrived here last year, filled with feelings of anxiousness and excitement. They are about to embark on what will be nothing short of a life changing experience.

PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) A year after stealing the Ivy League title from Harvard with a last-second shot, Princeton gave the Crimson the crown and an NCAA berth, and took no joy in doing it.

Bachelorette happy girlfriend Ashly Hebert and beau JP Rosenbaum are moving from Manhattan’s glowing skyscrapers to New Jersey’s glowing…shoreline? The couple - one of the few who have remained together, post show - decided to change local when Ashly got offered a pediatric residency in Philly. Because JP works in NYC, the two viewed Jersey [...]

Ich habe im Moment nicht sehr viel Zeit zum Bloggen, darum ist es hier eher still, der März verspricht aber Besserung. Ich bin jedoch bei einer Recherche über eine Perle gestolpert, die ich niemandem vorenthalten möchte.Ausschnitt aus John Nashs Dissertation, "Non-Cooperative Games", Princeton, 1950. John Nash war bei den Scienceblogs schon öfters ein Thema. Thilo hat bei Mathlog schon...

USC tops The Princeton Review's list of best schools for the third year.

A history professor at Princeton University uncovers dark tales of caregiving in the decades before America's social safety net.

Lead author of the annual Princeton Review list says in determining value "it can't just be a low sticker price."

Acting on the complaint, the US education department is probing whether the Harvard and Princeton Universities discriminate against Asian-Americans.

The unnamed Indian-American student in California complained that the two universities discriminate against Asian-Americans in undergraduate admissions, according to a media Bloomberg report.

Half a million people in Sudan could face a famine by March if international humanitarian organizations are not allowed to enter the country, U.S. envoy to Sudan Princeton Lyman warned Wednesday. CNN reports that Lyman urged Sudan to allow groups like the United Nations World Food Programme and UNICEF to enter border areas of the country. The government in Khartoum, however, argues that these a...

Half a million people will face an emergency bordering on famine by March if international humanitarian organizations are not allowed into areas of Sudan that are mired in conflict, United States envoy to Sudan Princeton Lyman warned Wednesday.

The Nobel prize winning scientist, considered as the founder of modern physics, politely declined the invitation saying he wanted to join Princeton University in America.

A Princeton professor puts an economic spin on his activities, from reading to music to tennis.

The latest computer model of the cosmos involves 400 billion particles in a box about two thirds of the volume of the universe Back in 1970, Jim Peebles at Princeton University carried out a ground-breaking experiment. He used the new-fangled technology of computing to simulate the behaviour of a cluster of galaxies under the force of gravity.

What ails the euro and the European Union? Two professors, one from Harvard, the other from Princeton, share their views on the crisis.

Erez Lieberman Aiden was an undergraduate at Princeton University in 2000 when scientists announced with great fanfare that they had sequenced the first human genome , yielding a trove of information about what happens inside every human cell. But Aiden wondered what it would be like to see what was happening inside a human cell. How does this gigantic genome--which would stretch 2 meters ...

Release Time:  For Immediate Release At the President's request, Deputy National Security Advisor Denis McDonough joined Special Envoy for Sudan Princeton Lyman on a visit to Sudan and South Sudan November 20-21.  This follows Mr. McDonough’s short visit to Iraq with National Security Advisor to the Vice President and Deputy Assis...

A COSMIC one-two punch of colossal volcanic eruptions and meteorite strikes likely caused the mass-extinction event at the end of the Cretaceous period that is famous for killing the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, according to two Princeton University reports that reject the prevailing theory that the extinction was caused… Visit: http://www.nation.com.pk for full story

Petra added a discussion to the group Antiquities & Ancient ArtWhat should we do with "our" antiquities?The Art NewspaperBy Erica Cooke. From Museums, Issue 229, November 2011One year on from the collapse of the five-year trial in Rome of Marion True, the former antiquities curator of the Getty, the directors of US museums that possess antiquities collections and the curators who are respon...

Selected images from Princeton University’s Art of Science competition, based on the theme of “energy.”

Ralph Izzo, the chief executive of the New Jersey’s PSEG, isn’t your average utility executive. At Columbia University, he studied mechanical engineering as an undergraduate and later earned a doctorate in applied physics. At the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, he did numerical simulations of fusion experiments and published or presented 35 papers on something called “magnetohydrodynamic ...

In the late nineteen-sixties, I was working in rented space on Nassau Street up a flight of stairs and over Nathan Kasrel, Optometrist. Across the street was the main library of Princeton University. Across the hall was the Swedish Massage. Operated by an Austrian couple who were nearing retirement . . . (Subscription required.)

A plunge in parking revenue this year left domain owners hunting for new monetization options that might offer better results. The new December newsletter at DNJournal.com takes a look at one new solution devised by two guys from Princeton University. We also have a special year-end letter from the ICA.