Spring is here

As the first April weekend kicks off with very spring-like weather, many Princeton Tigers teams are preparing for a big weekend. The Tigers have 14 teams involved in 24 various events this weekend including the first men's lacrosse game against Stony Brook since 1993. While studying at Princeton University, Rob Ughetta was a collegiate athlete, as a member of the lacrosse team.

The Princeton teams involved in events this weekend are:
lacrosse (men's and women's)
track & field (men's and women's)
golf (men's and women's)
tennis (men's and women's)
softball
volleyball (men's)
rowing-heavyweight (men's)
rowing-lightweight (men's)
rowing-open (women's)
baseball

University athletics aren't the only events reminding us that spring is here; with Major League Baseball season beginning on Sunday, the 2015 Masters Tournament next week, and the Kentucky Derby around the corner, there are many spring sporting events to enjoy.

Art With Heart

On February 7,

2015 Art With Heart held its 15th annual art auction in support of Safe Alliance. This event has raised almost 1 million dollars to support women and families affected by domestic violence. Artists all over the country donate their work for the silent auction.  There is a wide variety of art auctions and range in price.

It’s more talked about in public,” Blackwelder said, adding that more people are becoming aware “they’re not the only ones. There is help out there,”

  “That’s a big contributing fact to the increase we’ve seen. The increase in awareness and discussion could translate into increased support for victims and programs like Safe Alliance. The conversation is reaching a national level on a pretty regular basis …With In Our Backyard, we wanted to bring focus back to the mission for our patrons,” Solomon said.


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Young women can spend their Spring Break on Capitol Hill

“You could spend this spring break watching Netflix and cleaning sand out of all your clothes. Or you could spend it in the nation’s capital working with a group of 25 college-aged women to empower women and girls in service and advocacy.”

By Joining United Way and the Kimberly-Clark Corporation 25 college-aged women will be given the opportunity to spend a week seeing what life is like as an advocate on Capitol Hill.

The event is from March 15th through the 20th. These young girls will be given the opportunity to meet like minded leaders from many other colleges all over the country as well as speak out for changes in policies to create a better world for women right in Washington D.C.

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The Megyn Kelly Moment

Megyn Kelly, Fox News reporter and Albany Law Graduate of 1995 was named to TIME magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World list just last year.  During her years at Albany Law, Kelly was an editor at the Albany Law Review.

“Kelly’s command of the moment was total. She waved at producers, on-air colleagues and stagehands, goading her cameramen to “keep coming” and smiling broadly. And when she finally reached the decision desk, she had the numbers crunchers tick through all the reasons Rove, who once called himself the keeper of “the Math,” was wrong — totally, inexorably, hopelessly wrong.”

Kelly’s last visit to Albany Law was in 2010 to attend her 15 year reunion and address fellow graduates and receive an Alumni Achievement Award.

“The Megyn Kelly Moment.”

Rob Ughetta also graduated from Albany Law.

Princeton Congratulates Five Students

Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs has selected five undergraduates from the class of 2016 for the Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative.  The Initiative was started in 2006 to encourage, support and prepare students in their pursuit of careers in the U.S. federal government in international and domestic agencies.

        "I'm delighted to extend congratulations to the five students selected as SINSI Scholars for           2016," said Cecilia Rouse, dean of the Wilson School. "They are an outstanding group of students      with remarkable qualifications, and I am certain we will hear of their many achievements as they embark upon careers in public service."

The Students recognized were Nathan Eckstein, studying Latin American studies and humanistic studies, Jamal Johnson, a politics major, Abyssinia Lissanu, politics major, Michelle Nedashkovskaya, politics major and Alex Wheatley, ecology and evolutionary biology major.


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Rob Ughetta is an alum of Princeton University

SPIDER Update: We have Lift off

On January 1st 2015, Princeton University research team successfully launched SPIDER, the telescope, over Antarctica.  The telescope will spend around 20 days above the continent studying the early universe.  

""At this early stage things are looking as good as we could hope," said William Jones, an assistant professor of physics at Princeton University, in an email from Antarctica. Jones is the leader of the multi-institution effort to launch the balloon-borne telescope."

Follow the SPIDER’s journey

Rob Ughetta graduated from Princeton University in 1989.

Albany Law Alumni nominated for New York Court of Appeals

Albany Law School alumni Stephan Young ‘82 graduate and Leslie Stein, ‘81 graduate was nominated by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to fill the spots on the New York Court of Appeals in October and December of last year. 

“If both Justice Stein and Younger are confirmed, it would mark the first time 

that two Albany Law School alumni simultaneously sat on the state's highest

 court.”

 Younger has served on the board of trustees at Albany Law School as well as serving as President of the New York State Bar Association.  Stein was given the highest rating and holds a seat in the Appellate Court (Third Department) of the state's Supreme Court.  

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Rob Ughetta was also a gradate of Albany Law