Young Talent Kickstarts Men’s Cross Country Team’s Season
[node:field-image-collection:0:render]The West Windsor Fields were far from their top condition for the Princeton Inter-Regional Meet on Saturday — it poured for the entirety of the day before, and...
View ArticleOlson ’16 Competes at World Ultimate Tournament
[node:field-image-collection:0:render]When Lyra Olson ’16 went to the Eastern tryouts for the U.S. under-23 women’s ultimate Frisbee team last fall, she was amazed by the talented players around her....
View ArticlePrinceton Athletes Compete for Their Countries
[node:field-image-collection:0:render]U.S. field hockey midfielder KATIE REINPRECHT ’13 wasted little time in her squad’s debut at the Pan Am Games July 13. She scored in the second minute against...
View ArticleBalanced Offense, Big Plays on Defense Help Football to First 2-0 Start Since...
[node:field-image-collection:0:render]For New York Mets fans, it has felt like a lifetime since their team last made the playoffs in 2006. As the Mets clinched their first National League East title in...
View ArticlePrinceton Football Rolls to 40-7 Win at Lafayette
[node:field-image-collection:0:render]On Saturday night, Princeton became the last Division I football team to start its season, and the Tigers began it in style, bringing home the first season-opening...
View ArticleTrack and Field: Silver Lining
[node:field-image-collection:0:render]Last year, Julia Ratcliffe ’16 — school record-holder and world-class performer in the women’s hammer throw — went to the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field...
View ArticleSenior Awards
[node:field-image-collection:0:render]Women’s basketball star Blake Dietrick ’15 and men’s lacrosse standout Mike MacDonald ’15 won the top awards from the Princeton Varsity Club May 28. Dietrick, the...
View ArticleGlobal Games
More than a dozen students and alumni competed in international athletics this summer, including these four notable performers:KATIE REINPRECHT ’13 scored the first goal in the U.S. field hockey team’s...
View ArticleSports Shorts
Princeton finished the 2014–15 academic year with an IVY LEAGUE-best 11 team titles, including spring championships in men’s lacrosse, women’s lacrosse, men’s track and field, and women’s...
View ArticleRowing: Men's Heavyweights Lead IRA Crews With Bronze Medal
[node:field-image-collection:0:render] Princeton’s rowing teams finished the year with a strong day at the Intercollegiate Rowing Association Nationals on Mercer Lake in nearby West Windsor, N.J., May...
View ArticleClass Day: Jake Robertson '15
[node:field-image-collection:0:render]First of all, congratulations everyone! We did it — I can’t believe our six years at this place have gone by so fast. Two of those years, I don’t even remember at...
View ArticleClass Day: Andrew Sondern '15
[node:field-image-collection:0:render]When I first toured campus, someone in my Orange Key group looked up at Holder Tower and shouted, “Wow, it looks just like Hogwarts!” It was me. Now, I’ve grown a...
View Article#ThrowbackThursday: Time for Tackling
[[node:field-image-collection:0:render]âHitting the hayâ had a less-than-restful connotation for this unnamed Princeton tackler, shown with assistant coach Keene Fitzpatrick during preseason...
View ArticleFaculty Members Assess the Iran Nuclear Deal
On July 14, the United States and five other nations announced an agreement with Iran to limit Iranâs development of nuclear weapons in exchange for lifting international sanctions. The agreement has...
View ArticleStudent Dispatch: A Play About Stress and Mental Health: Thesis Draws on...
[node:field-image-collection:0:render] In celebrating the “best old place of all,” Reunions and Commencement often gloss over the challenges of Princeton. But Joseph Labatt ’15’s senior-thesis play...
View ArticleCommencement: Graduation: What it Cost
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View ArticleFrom Korean Retirees, Helpful Words
[node:field-image-collection:0:render] Princeton students studying Korean are finding a connection with retirees in South Korea. While working at a senior center in Seoul, Yongmin Cho ’14 often heard...
View ArticleIn Short
Nine Alumni Have Begun Terms on the University’s Board of Trustees:FIYINFOLUWA “TUMI” AKINLAWON ’15, who is joining Boston Consulting Group. He was elected as young alumni trustee.LAURA FORESE ’83,...
View ArticleDivestment Advice
Following several calls for Princeton to withdraw from various types of investments in the past year, President Eisgruber ’83 issued a strong defense of the University’s “presumption against taking...
View ArticleLakeside Housing Opens
[node:field-image-collection:0:render] [node:field-image-collection:1:render] [node:field-image-collection:2:render]Graduate students began moving last month into the new Lakeside apartments, a cluster...
View ArticleCommencement: At Hooding Event, a Faculty Role
[node:field-image-collection:0:render] Clifton Granby *15 receives his academic hood from Professor Eddie S. Glaude Jr. *97 during the Graduate School’s hooding ceremony in Richardson Auditorium....
View ArticleNash *50, Wife Killed in Car Crash
[node:field-image-collection:0:render] John F. Nash Jr. *50, the Nobel Prize-winning mathematician whose struggle with severe mental illness was portrayed in a book and popular film, both titled A...
View ArticleCommencement: Parting Words
[node:field-image-collection:0:render]Baccalaureate speaker LISA P. JACKSON *86Apple executive and former EPA administrator“Discussions, publicity, and protests about justice, equality, rights, and...
View ArticleNurturing Leaders
[node:field-image-collection:0:render]About 100 high school students spent seven weeks of their summer at Princeton as Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America (LEDA) scholars in a national program...
View ArticleCommencement: Special Graduations
Special ceremonies were held in May to recognize African American, Latino, and LGBT graduates. [node:field-image-collection:0:render] Emily McDonald ’15 and her aunt, Christiane Berry ’81, savor a...
View ArticleA Mindset, Not a Title
[node:field-image-collection:0:render]Riding a surge of interest in entrepreneurship programs and courses, a University committee has issued an ambitious blueprint for “Entrepreneurship the Princeton...
View ArticleFrom Rights, Rules, Responsibilities: How Princeton Defines Consent
In reviewing possible violations of sexual misconduct, the University considers consent as the voluntary, informed, uncoerced agreement through words and actions freely given, which a reasonable person...
View ArticleOn the Campus
[node:field-image-collection:0:render]Smiling through the raindrops, the Class of 2015 heads toward FitzRandolph Gate at the conclusion of Commencement. Photograph by Ricardo BarrosFor ’15, Rainy...
View ArticleCommencement: Spotlight on Batman
[node:field-image-collection:0:render] [node:field-image-collection:1:render]Did Batman go to Princeton or Yale? President Eisgruber ’83 posed the question to members of the senior class before...
View ArticleCommencement: General’s Welcome for New Officers
[node:field-image-collection:0:render]Gen. Mark Milley ’80, commanding general of the U.S. Army Forces Command, congratulates Victor E. Prato ’15 on his commission as a second lieutenant during the...
View ArticleIn Short
H. VINCENT POOR *77, dean of the engineering school, and A.J. STEWART SMITH *66, vice president for the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab, will step down from their respective positions in 2016. Poor, who...
View ArticleCommencement: Honorary Degrees
Photos: Beverly SchaeferSix people were awarded honorary degrees at Commencement for their work in the spheres of public service, culture, and academia. They are: [node:field-image-collection:0:render]...
View ArticleEmeritus Faculty
Some of the University’s best-known professors are among the 16 transferring to emeritus status this year, with combined teaching experience of nearly 500 years: STEVEN L. BERNASEK, chemistry, 40...
View ArticleAn Inclusive Campus
[node:field-image-collection:0:render]Princeton is moving quickly to act on recommendations of a task force charged with developing ways to foster a more inclusive campus climate.In releasing the task...
View ArticleAppointed: Dolan, Ponce De Leon
[node:field-image-collection:0:render] [node:field-image-collection:1:render] Princeton ended the academic year with announcements of two new deans: Jill Dolan, the Annan Professor in English and...
View ArticleCommencement: For ’15, Rainy Farewell
[node:field-image-collection:0:render]A steady shower persisted throughout Princeton’s 268th Commencement ceremony, with graduates and guests wearing rain ponchos and holding umbrellas as they sat...
View ArticleA Cappella on the Silver Screen
[node:field-image-collection:0:render] The Barden Bellas are back. The Bellas, the female singing group from fictional Barden College, showed the inner workings of a cappella and made Pitch Perfect a...
View ArticleOn the Campus
[node:field-image-collection:0:render]The morning sun casts long shadows on the courtyard next to Blair Hall before the return of students. Photograph by Ricardo Barros
View ArticleAnother Record for Annual Giving
[node:field-image-collection:0:render] Annual Giving raised $61.5 million in 2014–15, celebrating its 75th anniversary with a record total. About 60.3 percent of undergraduate alumni contributed.The...
View ArticleAbolish the Box?
[node:field-image-collection:0:render]Students took their campaign to President Eisgruber ’83 to end the University’s use of a question asking admission applicants’ criminal history and disciplinary...
View ArticleEisgruber in Conversation
In a Reunions conversation with alumni, President Eisgruber ’83 said this has been “the year of the committee” on campus, suggesting that Princeton’s ongoing strategic-planning process includes “at...
View ArticleRecognizing Volunteers
Shawn R. Cowls ’87 has been an activist for Princeton’s gay community since becoming president of the Gay Alliance of Princeton (GAP) during his junior year. After graduating, Cowls helped found the...
View ArticleGoing Back
It was eerily quiet when grand marshal Jean Telljohann ’81 and Daniel Lopresti *87 first walked the P-rade route on the Saturday of Reunions. At 7:30 a.m., with the sun gently peeking through the...
View ArticleConversation: A Defense of Higher Ed
[node:field-image-collection:0:render]In a 1996 lecture on “University Presidents — Then and Now,” then-Princeton President Harold Shapiro *64 traced the changing image of academic chief executives...
View ArticleShooting from the Mouth
There was an intellectual edge to the Reunions performance called Newbies, by Princeton’s newest improv group — the first made up of grad students. The sketches weren’t typical comedic fare: Freud....
View ArticlePAW's Annual Reader Photo Contest
More than 60 images were submitted by alumni and their families this year. Taking into account humor, sentimentality, and creativity, the editors selected three prize-winners: top to bottom, Marc Aaron...
View ArticleReunions Panels
Ready, Set, Go!Alumni journalists and journalism professors provided a glimpse into the next 16 months of presidential campaigning in a lively discussion that touched on everything from video games...
View ArticleGetting to the 10th
I can’t imagine a more formative decade than the one that takes us from age 22 to 32. As my friends and I made plans to return for our 10th reunion, we stood on our own — adults, finally! — far from...
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