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The Honorable Mikheil Saakashvili, President of Georgia, will deliver a public lecture at the Woodrow Wilson School on May 17, 2012, at 4:30 p.m., in Dodds Auditorium. The talk, titled "Georgian Democratic Transformation: A Test Case for the Post-Soviet World," is being cosponsored by the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination (LISD) and the Wilson School. The address is free and open to the public, but tickets are required for entry. A public reception will follow the discussion in Shultz dining room and will include a musical performance by members of the Princeton Georgian Choir.

Redistricting in New Jersey. Guests include Liz Muoio, Chair of the Mercer County Democratic Committee, Dudley Siprelle, Chairman of the Princeton Republican Committee, Chad Goerner Mayor of Princeton Township and Kamal Khanna, Council President of West Windsor TownshipCast: Princeton Community TelevisionTags:

Moral and Messy: Faith and the Political Process. An Interfaith Dialogue Luncheon.
Tuesday, May 8, 2012 at the Mackay Campus Center on the grounds of Princeton Theological Seminary. 12:00 - 3:30pm. Our presenters are Roland V. Anglin, Rabbi Robert Wolkoff and Dr. Mesut Sahin. Diane Ciccone will moderate the event.
A free Turkish Luncheon is served.
Free and Open to the Public. Reservations are Required.
To reserve your seat contact Linda Baumann
609-924-6863 or lbaumann@fellowshipinprayer.org with "Luncheon" in the subject line.

With the first round of the French presidential elections being held on April 22, the field of ten candidates has been whittled down to two, incumbent President Nicolas Sarkozy and Socialist Party candidate Francois Hollande, who will face each other in a runoff election on May 6. In advance of the May 6 election, a panel discussion will be held at the Woodrow Wilson School on Tuesday, May 1, 2012, at 4:30 p.m., in Bowl 016, Robertson Hall.

Simon Critchley's new book is an investigation into the relationship of politics and religion. We invite you to a talk and discussion with the author.

"Forty Years After Mt. Laurel: New Findings About the Effects of Affordable Housing in NJ" will introduce new research, based on the experience of Ethel R. Lawrence Homes, a 140-unit, 100% affordable family rental project developed in Mount Laurel, NJ, on Thursday, April 26, 2012, in the Frist Campus Center, on the Princeton Unviersity campus. Registration is required.*

Sir Robert Watson, chair of the intergovernmental panel on climate change (IPCC) from 1997 to 2002, will speak at the Woodrow Wilson School on Monday, April 2, 2012, at 4:30 p.m. Watson's talk, titled, "Environment and Development Challenges: The Imperative to Act," is part of the School's "Energy and Environment" thematic lecture series. Watson is visiting the Wilson School as part of its "Leadership and Governance Program," which brings prominent policy makers to Princeton for a two to three day visit so that students can meet and learn from exemplary public leaders.

Patricia de Stacy Harrison, president and chief executive officer of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), will participate in a public talk at the Woodrow Wilson School at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 18, 2012. Harrison's talk is part of the School's "Media and Public Policy" thematic lecture series.

Three new paintings by acclaimed artist Mel Leipzig, professor of art and art history at Mercer County Community College, will be unveiled at a special event on Wednesday, March 14.

The college and Leipzig are co-hosting the free event at the Conference Center at Mercer from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. to help raise funds for a student art gallery planned at the Trenton campus on North Broad Street. Guests will enjoy hors d’oeuvres and the opportunity to meet the artist.

Ira Katznelson, famed American political scientist and historian and currently the Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History at Columbia University, will deliver two public talks at the Woodrow Wilson School as part of the 2012 Princeton Lectures in Politics and Public Affairs.

Daniel Ellsberg, who in 1971 precipitated a national political controversy when he released the top secret "Pentagon Papers" to the media, will participate in a conversation with Bart Gellman '82, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author in residence and visiting lecturer in public and international affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School, titled, "Secrets, Lies, and Leaks: From the Pentagon Papers to Wikileaks." The event is co-sponsored by the Wilson School and the Princeton University Committee on Public Lectures. It is part of the School's "Media and Public Policy" thematic lecture series.

Acclaimed artist Mel Leipzig, professor of art and art history at Mercer County Community College, will discuss two great painters as part of the college's Distinguished Lecture Series, on Tuesday, Feb. 28, at 12 noon in the Communications Building, Room 110, at the West Windsor Campus, 1200 Old Trenton Road.

On Tuesday, January 31^st, the transition task force held a kickoff meeting that laid the groundwork to help bring Princeton one step closer to consolidation.

The meeting started with members of the team introducing themselves. The team is comprised of elected officials as well as six Princeton residents, three from the Borough and three from the Township, with a fourth resident from each municipality serving as alternate.

At Tuesday evening’s Regional Board of Education meeting, Superintendent Judith Wilson hailed the long-sought contract agreement with Princeton Regional Educational Association (PREA) and, reported that the agreement is in stages of being ratified by both the Board and the teachers.
 

Princeton Senior Resource Center, in conjunction with Princeton Windrows, presents "Hidden Treasures of Vietnam: A Journey of Culture and Self-Discovery."  The program will be held Monday, January 9, 2012 at 3:00pm at Princeton Windrows in the Wilson Room. 
 

The Raritan River runs through the center of New Jersey, with upper reaches that are incredibly beautiful, providing a valuable source of water for more than a million people. But industry took hold of the lower Raritan early on and left its mark.

Dr. Mark Peterson of the University of California, Berkeley pulled up a darkened yellow map of the Battle of Princeton on a projector screen at last Thursday’s meeting of the Regional Planning Board.  
 
“You wouldn’t want to use it to find yourself from Trenton to Princeton in the dark, but this primary document was drawn by an anonymous spy for General Washington,” he said. 
 

Jim Farrin put an end to his corporate career after twenty years to start a prison tutoring program. Today, the Petey Greene Prisoner Assistance program brings dozens of Princeton students to correctional facilities to give inmates access to education. Learn what his story has to say about giving back to society through volunteering.

Interview by: Roxane Latrèche
Written by: Roxane Latrèche

Dr. Mark McClellan, former administrator of the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, and currently the director of the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at the Brookings Institution, will present a public talk at the Woodrow Wilson School titled, "Bending the Health Care Cost Curve: Pathway to Real Reform."

Princeton historian Sean Wilentz will speak on "The Long and Tragical History of Post-Partisanship" at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 1, in the Friend Center, Room 101. The talk is the second installment of the 2011-12 President's Lecture Series. From George Washington's presidency and the eras of the Federalist and Whig parties, to the Confederacy and the present day, Wilentz will examine the longstanding "illusion of post-partisanship" that has marked the American political scene. The lecture will be webcast.

HIE, HIT, ACOs, PPOs - You're not the only one baffled by healthcare changes. The Princeton Regional Chamber of Commerce Healthcare Symposium seeks to demystify the tangled web of healthcare in business - and help you, as an employer, make better decisions for your company and its employees.

This fall, as most high school students geared up for the football season and homecoming, Princeton High School students were faced with a different prospect: the cancellation of the annual homecoming dance. In late September, the homecoming dance was officially canceled and replaced with a movie night and bonfire homecoming event.

The co-author of a study on PILOT – an acronym for payments made voluntarily by tax-exempt nonprofits as a substitute for property taxes – recommended at a Township Committee meeting Monday that a collaborative approach would be better than “public shaming”, a process she called “highly contentious.” 
 

James Fallows, national correspondent for the Atlantic, will present a public lecture titled, "Learning to Love the (Shallow, Divisive, Unreliable) New Media" at the Woodrow Wilson School. His talk will mark the inauguration of the School's "Media and Public Policy" series. The series, which was inspired by Fallows' article about new media in the April issue of the Atlantic, will examine how the new media influences thinking, knowledge, and analysis in order to understand its impact on policy. This event was rescheduled from October 6.

Jared Bernstein, a senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and former chief economist and economic policy adviser to Vice President Joseph Biden, will present a public lecture at the Woodrow Wilson School. His talk is titled, "The Jobs Dilemma: Moving From Talk to Action.”