Michigan student wins prestigious STEM scholarship

Omkar Shende ’18 of Troy has been awarded a one-year Goldwater Scholarship, the premier award for outstanding undergraduates interested in careers in mathematics, the natural sciences and engineering.

Goldwater Scholarships cover tuition, fees, room and board up to a maximum of $7,500 per year. Princeton's four recipients are among 240 scholarship winners selected from a field of 1,286 students nationwide.

To read the article on the University’s home page, please visit http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S49/13/18Q26/index.xml?section=topstories. 

Congratulations to Omkar!

Club Annual Dinner featuring Dr. Joshua Katz, 4/27/2017

Please join us on Thursday, April 27th for our annual club dinner and a talk by Joshua Katz, Ph.D., Cotsen Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Classics at Princeton University. He will speak on "Language on the Verge."

The club surveyed our members in 2016 and Professor Katz was our #1 speaker choice. From one of our members:

I took Prof. Katz's freshman seminar, and he is INCREDIBLE.

Thursday April 27, 2017 in Ann Arbor

When: Thursday, April 27th, 2017

• 6:00 PM Social time with Cash Bar
• 6:30 PM Dr. Katz's talk
• 7:00 PM Dinner

Where: Barton Hills Country Club, 730 Country Club Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48105

Cost

• $55/ticket for alumni and guests
• $35/ticket for young alumni (classes 2010 or more recent) or
• $25/ticket for newly admitted students and parents

Choice of vegetarian or chicken entree included in cost. Cash bar will be available.

Please RSVP by Monday, April 17 on Eventbrite.

Hope to see you!

2017 Princeton Prize in Race Relations - Michigan

On April 1, 2017, the Princeton Prize in Race Relations Committee of Detroit awarded Elina Arbo its 2017 prize.

Ms. Arbo started a branch of Amnesty International at her high school, The Utica Academy for International Studies.

 Co-chair Tara Michener, Elina Arbo, and Co-chair Jason Michener 

The Princeton Prize in Race Relations recognizes and rewards high school students who have had a significant positive effect on race relations in their schools or communities through their volunteer efforts. Prize recipients receive a cash prize of $1,000 and an all-expenses-paid trip to a national symposium on race at Princeton University.