Richard Revesz ’79’s Dollars-and-Cents Solutions for the Environment
University of Virginia law professor Michael Livermore and Richard Revesz ’79, a professor of law and dean emeritus at New York University, co-authored Reviving Rationality: Saving Cost-Benefit...
View ArticleTravel Writer Don George ’75 Reflects on 2020 At Home
[node:field-image-collection:1:render] The book: Wanderlust in the Time of Coronavirus is a collection of 16 online columns that George wrote for the Geographic Expeditions (GeoEx) blog throughout...
View ArticleWesley Morgan ’11 Unravels History and Future of the U.S. in Afghanistan
[node:field-image-collection:4:render]The book: The Hardest Place: The American Military Adrift in Afghanistan’s Pech Valley (Random House) narrows in on a small, remote area of Afghanistan at the...
View ArticleMarch 9: Satana Deberry ’91 Approached About U.S. Attorney Job
Satana Deberry ’91 is among three black female “progressive prosecutors” who have been approached by congressional Democrats or members of Biden’s transition team about a possible U.S. Attorney...
View ArticleMarch 16: Cornel West *80 Leaves Harvard After Tenure Dispute
Liam O’Connor ’20 said elite private schools help their students get into colleges like Princeton and — by offering higher-level courses than public schools — help them dominate once there. — The...
View ArticleMarch 23: Mathematician Avi Wigderson *83 Awarded Abel Prize
Avi Wigderson *83, of the Institute for Advanced Study, and László Lovászis won this year’s Abel Prize, considered the Nobel of mathematics. Their work “has found practical use in computer science,...
View ArticleBill Brown ’83 Raises Funds for Parkinson’s Research Through Skiing
After rowing on Princeton’s lightweight crew team, Bill Brown ’83 followed the path of many former oarsmen: He started running marathons. But running isn’t a year-round sport in Minnesota, where Brown...
View ArticleConnor Diemand-Yauman ’10 Provides Job Training to Boost Low- Wage Workers
Earning a college degree has long been viewed as the best path to upward mobility in American society. But Connor Diemand-Yauman ’10 argues that the emphasis on higher education is leaving out millions...
View ArticleJud Brewer ’96 Is Helping People Unwind Their Anxiety
Dawn’s first light finds Jud Brewer ’96 “pumping down the line” on his surfboard at Rhode Island’s Matunuck Beach. That’s surfer slang for riding the face of a wave in a smooth, flowing way. Brewer, an...
View ArticleSarah Beth Durst ’96 Conjures Magical Worlds In Her Novels
Sarah Beth Durst ’96 began writing stories full of dragons and unicorns at the age of 10. She published her first novel in 2007, a middle-grade fantasy titled Into the Wild that is populated by witches...
View ArticleGregory DiFelice ’89 Is Bringing Back ACL Repair With New Technology
Dr. Gregory DiFelice ’89 was perplexed. He had been treating anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries for years and had long since mastered the standard reconstruction surgery. But soon after...
View ArticlePAWcast: Jeff Schwartz *87 on the Changing Nature of Work
Find more PAWcasts online here[node:field-soundcloud:render]Listen on Apple Podcasts • Google Podcasts • Spotify • Soundcloud[node:field-image-collection:0:render]Jeffery Schwartz *87, the author of...
View ArticlePhoto From the Archives: Robotics
[node:field-image-collection:0:render]During an Introduction to Engineering class in March 2008, from left, Jaewon Choi *04, Barrett LaChance ’11, and John Preston ’11 keep an eye on a small robotic...
View ArticleEssay: The Bag My Grandparents Passed Down to Me
[node:field-image-collection:0:render][node:field-image-collection:1:render]Of the many hours of orientation to medical school, there is one moment I will never forget. The dean, standing at the base...
View ArticleReading Room: Jane Dailey *95 on Race, Sex, and Civil Rights
[node:field-image-collection:0:render]Jane Dailey *95, associate professor of American history at the University of Chicago, has long been a student of Reconstruction and 19th-century race relations....
View ArticleRally ’Round the Cannon: The Riot of 1963
[node:field-image-collection:0:render]Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.— Lennon and McCartney, Strawberry Fields, 1967Once again, I am being confronted by the 1960s. My...
View ArticlePAWcast: Men’s Basketball Alums Revisit the ’96 Princeton–UCLA Game
Find more PAWcasts online here[node:field-soundcloud:render]Listen on Apple Podcasts • Google Podcasts • Spotify • Soundcloud[node:field-image-collection:0:render]Princeton 43, UCLA 41. Twenty-five...
View ArticleQ&A: Amy Solomon ’14 on Her Book and Many Funny Women
Amy Solomon’14 is a film and TV producer from Los Angeles. She has worked as the producer for HBO’s Silicon Valley and Barry. In her first book, Notes from the Bathroom Line, Solomon curates new...
View ArticleEssay: Meeting Malcolm X
The certainty of meeting celebrities is that, sooner or later, you will find out how little you know about them. For me this happened the first time I interviewed someone of consequence. In the fall of...
View ArticleQ&A: Emily Nichols ’99 on Keeping Up the Fight in New Orleans
When emergency-department physician Emily Nichols ’99 wrote for PAW’s Dispatches from a Pandemic series of essays, she was leading the New Orleans Emergency Medical Services into the fight against...
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