Jane Yang ’11, assistant project manager of the Ghana School Library Initiative (GSLI) and co-president of the Engineers Without Borders chapter at Princeton (EWB-PU), has produced a video documenting the construction of the Achieving Greater Heights Community Library in Ashaiman, Ghana. Jane recorded hours of video on-site during the summer of 2009 while in Ghana [...]
Archive for May, 2011
Ghana School Library Initiative: The Video
Posted in Dale Fellowship, Engineers Without Borders, Ghana, Mohit Agrawal, Princeton University on May 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Teaching Prize Citation for Prof. Bialek
Posted in Mohit Agrawal, Princeton University on May 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
One of my nominees for the Class of 2011 Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize, Professor William Bialek, was selected as a recipient of the award. Professor Bialek’s accomplishment has been acknowledged on the Princeton homepage, and my full citation for the award is below. William Bialek is the John Archibald Wheeler/Battelle Professor in Physics and [...]
Greece, Ireland, and the Eurozone
Posted in Economics, Ireland, Mohit Agrawal on May 9, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I think that Greece will stay in for now. Greece has far more problems than a simply currency change could fix; primarily, the country needs to make people pay their taxes (the static labor market is another big issue). I think the current government in Greece recognizes these problems, and they will want to use [...]