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José de Jesús Montaño López, Geneva Smith, Pasquale Toscano and Ryan Unger have been named winners of the Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship, Princeton University’s top honor for graduate students.The Jacobus Fellows will be honored at Alumni Day ceremo
The Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship, Princeton University’s top honor for graduate students, has been awarded to José de Jesús Montaño López, an engineeer using yeast to grow biofuels; Geneva Smith, a legal historian building the first archive of 'slave court' records; Pasquale Toscano, an English student analyzing epics through a disability lens; and Ryan Unger, a mathematician who disproved the third law of black hole thermodynamics.
If you squint through the wrong eye, you might mistake *A New English Grammar, a collection of poems by Jeff Dolven, for one of the dense grammar workbooks to which its title playfully refers. That’s because this book is split down the middle: hold it open before you, and on the left hand page you will find an itemized prose analysis of a grammatical rule. On the right hand page you will find nine lines of verse divided into three tercet stanzas. It’s a curiously rigid structure, yet one well suited to Dolven’s deceptively radical task.
On the Kalven Report, academic freedom, and the limits of institutional neutrality
A dust-up at Princeton University is revealing precisely what it takes to turn campus censors and paragons of "antiracism" into champions of free speech.