Returning 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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