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...
View ArticleReturning to the Classroom
My freshman seminar, “Free Speech in Law, Ethics, and Politics,” met in person on Thursday, February 4. It felt great to be back in a classroom, together with Princeton students.The first session of...
View ArticleSculptor of Nassau Hall’s Bronze Tigers Was a Cowboy
[node:field-image-collection:0:render]The bronze tigers outside Nassau Hall are a legacy of the Old West. Their sculptor, Alexander Phimister Proctor, hailed from a time of rugged bravery and...
View ArticleTelling Time in McCosh Courtyard: The Mather Sundial
With some students back on campus this spring, soon McCosh courtyard will be filled with students enjoying the sunny spring weather at a social distance. What they and many alumni of the University may...
View ArticleFaculty Books: Jhumpa Lahiri, Gaetana Marrone-Puglia, and Nehassaiu deGannes
[node:field-image-collection:0:render]Whereabouts (Knopf), a novel by creative writing professor Jhumpa Lahiri, focuses on a woman’s solitude after her father’s death. Her unease leads to a...
View ArticleFaculty Book: G. John Ikenberry on Bolstering Democracy
[node:field-image-collection:0:render]G. John Ikenberry, the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs and a Global Scholar at South Korea’s Kyung Hee University, wants to...
View ArticleExamining How We Misjudge the Emotional Pain of Poverty
[node:field-image-collection:0:render]The phrase “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” represents a common belief: By surviving adversity, we become more resilient. Yet this belief could be...
View ArticleIn Short: Gallery Shows Systemic Racism at Princeton
The Carl A. Fields Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding and the Office of Wintersession and Campus Engagement launched TO BE KNOWN AND HEARD, an online gallery featuring examples of systemic...
View ArticleThree Win Pyne Prize
For the first time since 1975, three seniors will share the Pyne Honor Prize, the highest general distinction conferred on an undergraduate. The award is traditionally presented at the Alumni Day...
View ArticleNew Class Examines COVID’s Impact on the Film Industry
The pandemic has fundamentally shifted the way so many things are done — including the distribution and viewing of films. As at-home movies reigned, lecturer Erika Kiss was inspired to teach the class...
View ArticleIn Memoriam: Professor Yoshiaki Shimizu *75
[node:field-image-collection:0:render]IN MEMORIAM YOSHIAKI (YOSHI) SHIMIZU *75, the Marquand Professor of Art and Archaeology, emeritus, died Jan. 20 at age 84. A Princeton Ph.D. graduate, Shimizu...
View ArticleUndergraduate Women’s Leadership Appears to be Trending Back Up
On the 40th anniversary of coeducation at Princeton, then-President Shirley Tilghman assembled a committee to study why relatively few undergraduate women were involved in visible leadership positions...
View ArticleU.S. Education Department Ends Discrimination Probe
In the final days of the Trump administration, the U.S. Department of Education CLOSED ITS INVESTIGATION of Princeton’s compliance with the Civil Rights Act and other nondiscrimination assurances...
View ArticleStudent Science Writers Aim to Make Research More Accessible
Since last April, a group of Princeton undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral researchers has been reading through the latest scientific work from the University’s research groups and publishing...
View ArticleQ&A: Hilton Als Offers a Theater Critic’s Point of View
Pulitzer Prize–winning theater and culture critic Hilton Als is the inaugural Presidential Visiting Scholar for the 2020–21 academic year at Princeton. The program was established to “recognize and...
View ArticleCampus Photo: Signs of Life
[node:field-image-collection:0:render]With about 2,900 undergraduates living on campus, dormitories like Bloomberg Hall, seen here at dusk in late January, are showing signs of life. Alumni may...
View ArticleStudent Dispatch: Wintersession Teaches Cooking, ‘Sleeping for Success,’ and...
[node:field-image-collection:1:render]The University’s shift to a new calendar this year moved fall exams to December and also brought with it Princeton’s new “Wintersession,” an opportunity for...
View ArticleBlack and White and the Blues
No genre of American music has been more romanticized than the blues. As with most things that are romanticized, though, the treatment elides and airbrushes many inconvenient truths.To pick from dozens...
View ArticleThe Politics of History
On a drizzly afternoon last September, the Princeton-affiliated historian Allen C. Guelzo told listeners at the National Archives in Washington, D.C., that left-wing influences on the teaching of...
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