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...First, as it already seems to be doing, the College could cut staff from the Advising Programs Office, which has grown considerably in just the past few years. Associate Dean of Advising Programs Monique Rinere, who was hired from Princeton and is leaving for Columbia, is responsible for much of this aimless expansion. The College is making the right decision in keeping her position vacant. Likewise, at least three of the remaining seven members of Rinere’s department can be laid...
...Princeton scholar Tim Searchinger, who helped launch a global rethinking of biofuels in 2007 by calling attention to their effects on land use, warns that the EPA assumptions are extremely optimistic - and that if they're wrong the consequences could be extremely dire. "It takes a lot of land to make a small amount of energy," Searchinger says. "Academic studies have concluded that if the world gets even 10% of its energy from these new kinds of crops, most tropical forests will probably disappear." (Read "The Clean Energy Scam...
...cheering. It was a great Ivy League bonding opportunity.”Six individual Ivy League titles were brought in on both sides, as the speed and strength of the Harvard athletes helped the men and women finish sixth and fourth, respectively, in competition. Overall, powerhouses Cornell and Princeton continued to dominate the Ivy League, with the Big Red finishing 1-2 in the men’s competition and the Tigers doing the same on the women’s side.“I was really pleased with the men and women’s team?...
...first varsity lightweights turned in a similar performance to the heavies, rowing strongly but ultimately falling short to a familiar foe. Harvard blew past most of the field easily in the Grand Final, with its 5:43.990 showing beating third-place Georgetown by over four seconds. But Princeton, which had dealt the Crimson its only loss of the season on April 25, had Harvard’s number once again. The Tigers jumped out to an immediate lead, and while the Crimson stayed close and made a push around the 1000-meter mark, Princeton ultimately held...
Economist Marc J. Melitz will return from Princeton next year to a Harvard Economics Department short on faculty. Melitz—a former associate and assistant professor at Harvard who now teaches in Princeton’s economics department and Woodrow Wilson School—is well-known for his work on international trade. “He’s been the most influential international trade economist since Paul Krugman,” said economics professor Pol Antràs, who worked with Melitz during his time at Harvard. Melitz’s influence on the study of international...