Madeline’s Madeline
[node:field-image-collection:0:render] In the experimental film, Madeline's Madeline, a mother struggles to connect with her daughter, who becomes increasingly fixated by her school's immersive...
View ArticleThe Front Runner
Molly Ephraim '08 and Tommy Dewey '01 are among the cast in The Front Runner, which tells the story of how Gary Hart's '88's presidential campaign was undone by allegations of sexual misconduct.
View ArticleSprayed
Sprayed, a documentary, chronicles the response of Miami Beach to revelations that their community is being sprayed with Naled, a pesticide banned in the European Union, as a measure against the Zika...
View ArticleThe Ballad of Buster Scruggs
An anthology of stories set in the 19th-century Wild West, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is an at times chilling, comedic, somber, and subversive meditation on the senselessness of death.
View ArticleFree Solo
Free Solo follows pro climber Alex Honnold from his days of van-camping obscurity to one of the greatest athletic feats of our time: a rope-less, partner-less, "free solo" climb of Yosemite's El Capitan.
View ArticleAdam Nemett ’03 Imagines End Days
[node:field-image-collection:1:render] The book: In The Egg, an off-campus geodesic dome, David Fuffman and a ragtag crew of Princeton students train for the end of the world. With America in a state...
View ArticleTamsen Wolff Tackles Young Love
[node:field-image-collection:1:render] The book: In the summer of 1987, Nina arrives in Cape Cod for an exclusive acting workshop. She is eager for a new beginning, away from her high school peers —...
View ArticleBoris Fishman ’01 Gives Readers a Seat at The Table
[node:field-image-collection:0:render]The book: Savage Feast: Three Generations, Two Continents, and a Dinner Table (a Memoir with Receipes) (Harper Collins), is a family memoir filled with humor and...
View ArticleDec. 11, 2018: Milley ’80 Nominated to Lead Joint Chiefs; Ressa ’86 Honored...
On Saturday, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark A. Milley ’80 was nominated to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff by President Donald Trump. Read coverage: NPR | CNN | Fox News Milley, an...
View ArticleDec. 18, 2018: Reichel ’96 and Mills ’95 Pen Off-Broadway Hit; Alumni...
Director Cara Reichel ’96, right, and composer Peter Mills ’95 co-wrote the book for The Hello Girls, an off-Broadway musical about women switchboard operators serving in the U.S. Army’s Signal Corps...
View ArticleArchitect Kate Greenberg ’10 Brings Her Art to Burning Man
[node:field-image-collection:0:render]Kate Greenberg ’10 first attended Burning Man in 2015 just to see what all the hype was all about. She became instantly captivated with the event, which constructs...
View ArticleFrom the Peace Corps to the State Department, Donald Lu ’88 *91 Embraces a...
[node:field-image-collection:0:render]Donald Lu ’88 *91, the newly appointed ambassador to the Kyrgyz Republic, has spent a career abroad. Looking back, he credits his college experiences with helping...
View ArticleMichael Fernandez ’83 Aims to Bring Scientific Evidence to Policy Conversations
Michael Fernandez ’83 trained as a biologist but also has a knack for public policy. And in today’s political climate, he sees a need for people who can communicate complex issues to policymakers by...
View ArticleSociologist Wendy Cadge *02 Takes a Closer Look at Chaplaincy
Chaplains do their work in hospitals and fire houses, at seaports and airports, on college campuses, and among soldiers at military installations. While their daily routines may vary, the reasons for...
View Article2018 Election Results for Alumni Candidates
The Tiger caucus is changing. Democrat Jared Schutz Polis ’96, a five-term U.S. representative from Colorado’s 2nd district, will be leaving Washington, D.C., to become his state’s new governor, and...
View ArticleFrom the Archives: Princeton Handbell Choir
In this undated photo we see the Princeton Handbell Choir ringing out a song. Let us know of a time you heard the handbell choir or if you can identify any bell ringers in the photo by emailing us at...
View ArticleWhat I Learned: Coming Back
It’s been 60 years since I graduated, and at first sight on a recent visit, the most striking changes are physical: a plethora of large new buildings surrounding and infiltrating the old campus, what...
View ArticlePodcast Spotlight: Kareem Maddox ’11 Connects Hopeful Entrepreneurs with...
Kareem Maddox ’11 didn’t plan on working in the podcasting industry when he was a student at Princeton. A forward on the men’s basketball team, Maddox was first team All-Ivy and was named Ivy League...
View ArticleNew Films by Vasarhelyi ’00, Hartofilis ’03 Earn Critical Acclaim
Free SoloDirectors: Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi ’00 and Jimmy Chin. Vasarhelyi has made six full-length documentaries, beginning with A Normal Life (2003), which was inspired by her senior thesis on...
View ArticleRally ’Round the Cannon: Simple Gifts
Here’s to those preceptor guys: Fifty stiffs to make us wise. Easy jobs and lots of pay, Work the students night and day.— “The Faculty Song,” 1906Each year for the virtual holidays, our column lingers...
View ArticlePAWcast: George F. Will *68 on Congress, Trump, and Reconstructing Civility
[node:field-soundcloud:render]Listen on Apple Podcasts• Spotify• Soundcloud[node:field-image-collection:0:render]Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist George F. Will *68, a noted conservative who advocated...
View ArticleLeonard Milberg ’53 Helps Return 16th-Century Texts to Rightful Home
Leonard Milberg ’53, a passionate collector of art, rare books, and manuscripts, loves a rare find — especially those related to Jewish or Irish life and literature. And so, in 2016, when he spotted a...
View ArticleQ&A: Alan Lightman ’70 on a Helping Home
On a trip to Southeast Asia in the early 2000s, theoretical physicist and writer Alan Lightman ’70 met Veasna Chea, a Cambodian woman in her 30s who had spent her undergraduate years living in a muddy...
View ArticlePodcast Spotlight: Jack Weiss ’86 Recruits an ‘Intellectual Garage Band’
Jack Weiss ’86 is an entrepreneur in the technology and security industries with a background in politics and federal law enforcement. So what is he doing hosting a podcast whose most recent episode...
View ArticleEducating the iGeneration
[node:field-image-collection:0:render]Alumni occasionally ask me how Princeton’s current undergraduates differ from preceding classes. I try to respond cautiously. Generalizing about the student body...
View ArticleA Princeton Family Made its Mark: Mabel and Bessie Hillian
Mabel Hillian was the first to leave her family’s farm in Cheraw, S.C. Heading north during the Great Migration of African Americans from the South, in 1916 Mabel made her way to Princeton, where she...
View ArticleThe Language of America
[node:field-image-collection:0:render]Sarah Rivett is firmly rooted in Colonial America. The Princeton English and American studies professor grew up in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y., a quaint Hudson Valley town...
View ArticleIn Short
[node:field-image-collection:0:render]Because of their ability to absorb carbon dioxide, forests provide one way to mitigate climate change. But DEFORESTATION in the highlands of Southeast Asia...
View ArticleAstrophysical Sciences: Looking at the Sun
On Nov. 5, a pair of instruments running experiments led by Princeton professor David McComas made a record-breaking pass through the sun’s atmosphere. That day, the Parker Solar Probe, carrying...
View ArticleFootball: Tigers Cap Off Historic 10-0 Season With Win Over Penn
[node:field-image-collection:0:render]Princeton football capped off a perfect 10-0 season by piling up 579 yards of offense in a 42-14 win against Penn Nov. 17. The victory marks the Tigers’ first...
View ArticleThe Big Three
[node:field-image-collection:0:render]1All-American midfielder MADDIE BACSKAI ’20 scored the game-winning goals in each of the field hockey team’s first two NCAA Tournament games — a 2–1 win over...
View ArticleFootball: One Fan’s Take on the Undefeated 2018 Season
My credentials as a Princeton sports fan are pretty solid. I’ve attended all six of our men’s lacrosse national championships, the 1965 Final Four, and pretty much every game of the last undefeated...
View ArticleMen’s Basketball: Ready to Shine
When he started playing basketball for his middle school team in the small town of Pontelongo, Italy, Richmond Aririguzoh ’20 would avoid the action when the ball came his way. It took time for him to...
View ArticleVideo: 2018 Princeton Bonfire Highlights
See scenes from the celebration of Princeton football’s perfect season, held Nov. 18 on Cannon Green. Video by Jessica Zhou ’19 for PAW.
View ArticleOn the Campus: Lewis Science Library
[node:field-image-collection:0:render]The stainless-steel exterior of the Lewis Science Library, which celebrated its 10th anniversary in November, provides a gleaming backdrop for the massive curves...
View ArticleIn Short: Alumni Awards; She Roars Podcast
Women will receive both of the University’s HIGHEST ALUMNI AWARDS for the first time on Alumni Day Feb. 23. Mellody Hobson ’91, top left, the president of Ariel Investments and a leader in financial...
View ArticleClose to Nature
Henry Horn was out looking for feathers. The professor emeritus of ecology and evolutionary biology had spotted a peregrine falcon near the top of Fine Hall, and the first stop on his weekly nature...
View ArticleArch Ceremony for James C. Johnson: An Ex-Slave, a Friend to Students
[node:field-image-collection:0:render]Lecturer in dance Dyane Harvey-Salaam holds a candle in front of a portrait of James C. Johnson in an East Pyne arch during an ancestral-remembrance ceremony Oct....
View ArticleConcern Over Transgender Rights
President Eisgruber ’83 and other higher-education leaders have called on Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos to prevent the withdrawal of PROTECTIONS FOR TRANSGENDER STUDENTS under Title IX. The action...
View ArticleStudent Dispatch: Getting to ‘Yes’ — Building Grad-School Diversity
[node:field-image-collection:0:render][node:field-image-collection:1:render]As thousands of prospective graduate students wrap up applications this fall, many will hope for an invitation to visit a...
View ArticleRace and Redemption
We shall overcome, we shall overcomeWe shall overcome, some dayOh, deep in my heart, I do believeWe shall overcome, some dayThirteen Princeton students and staff members joined hands to sing “We Shall...
View ArticleCoates Discusses Activism, Writing, and Woodrow Wilson in Campus Talk
Ta-Nehisi Coates, the journalist and author of the award-winning memoir Between the World and Me, believes in maintaining a distance from social activism. In a public conversation Nov. 28 with...
View ArticleRussian Ambassador Calls For Increased Cooperation With U.S.
The Russian ambassador to the United States called for more Russian-U.S. cooperation during a Nov. 29 visit to the Woodrow Wilson School, asserting that “from a historical standpoint, the fundamental...
View ArticleTroubling Images
Images of war and tragedy can break the heart or shock the conscience, but they also raise difficult ethical and professional questions. Those questions were the focus of this year’s Belknap Global...
View ArticleSeventh Residential College: Perelman College Naming Announced
One of Princeton’s two new residential colleges to be built south of Poe Field will be called Perelman College, recognizing the lead gift by the Perelman Family Foundation. The gift was announced by...
View ArticleThe Play’s the Thing
Theater director Lileana Blain-Cruz ’06 relishes tackling the most difficult plays out there. If a play looks practically unstageable — no plot, say, and densely theoretical language — her first...
View ArticleBye, Bye, Loneliness
JEREMY NOBEL ’77 — PHYSICIAN, POET, public-health crusader — is scrolling through his phone, hunting for the snapshot he took a few days earlier: New York’s Washington Square Park at night, its famous...
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