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(23 hours ago)
Three floors under Firestone Library in Special Collections, a group of Princeton first-year students are translating a collection of largely untouched documents from Nahuatl — an endangered, indigenous Mesoamerican language — into English.
(04/17/24 5:16am)
Any Princeton student that wishes to enter Tiger Inn or Ivy Club on a Thursday or Saturday night must present the formidable bouncers with the secret password: their Hotspot QR code.
(04/05/24 5:08am)
There was a time when Princeton’s undergraduate student body consisted of only two students of Asian descent. Though ethnic Asian enrollment at the University remained low throughout the 1950s and 1960s, students would come together to form the politically-minded Asian American Students Association (AASA) in 1971.
(04/03/24 2:37am)
Meredith Martin is an associate professor of English and serves as the Faculty Director for The Center for Digital Humanities (CDH), which she founded in 2014. She is also the inaugural Faculty Director of the first Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities at Princeton and serves as an advisor for undergraduate students pursuing Certificates such as Applications in Computer Science, Statistics in Machine Learning, Journalism, or Technology and Society.
(03/29/24 3:52am)
In film and other media, three things are required to pass the Bechdel Test: two of the characters must be women, these women must converse with each other, and the topic of conversation must be something other than a man. Bonus points are given if the two women have names.
(03/08/24 6:14am)
As Mia González Guerrero sees it, she has two jobs. The first is what Campus Dining pays her to do — serve coffee and pastries at Frist Campus Center. And the second? To “give love.”
(03/04/24 4:09am)
On any given morning, Witherspoon Street’s Small World Coffee is packed with students studying between classes, professionals grabbing a quick cup to go, and old friends chatting over a warm beverage. The line almost always stretches out the door.
(03/01/24 4:44am)
“There is something that just clicks in my mind about taking care of the team,” explained Women’s Basketball Manager Sally Jane Ruybalid ’22 GS.
(02/29/24 3:08am)
Salam Fayyad is fascinated by how Princeton works.
(02/23/24 6:08am)
When I toured the West Energy Plant last year, Energy Plant Manager Ted Borer promised that he’d show me the new energy plant when it was complete. Borer stayed true to his word, and just over a year later, I found myself striding past Prospect St. and down Broadmead St. on a chilly February afternoon to see the building for the first time.
(02/21/24 5:12am)
“Film is the best artistic medium. It combines every aspect of art. It’s visual. It’s audible. But at its core, it’s human,” said Connor Odom ’26. Odom first got into film in fifth grade, when he acted in a small role in a short film. He transferred to Princeton in fall of 2022, after working for seven years full-time in the videography and film industry.
(02/07/24 9:34am)
There is a legend that 50 percent of Princetonians — or 75 percent, depending on who you ask — end up marrying other Princetonians. This myth has been told on Orange Key Tours, written about in the New York Times, and passed through many students, though no one can pinpoint exactly where it came from.
(02/02/24 7:27am)
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(01/24/24 8:43am)
The trope that “classical music is boring” often comes from those outside of the performance field. So, it might come as a surprise that this phrase was the title of a Wintersession workshop held on Jan. 18 by former professional concert pianist Noah Simon, a senior research specialist with the Industrial Relations Section in the Department of Economics.
(01/24/24 9:02am)
Over two hours in Robertson Hall on a snowy winter afternoon, 68 students learned about and sampled six European wines: Vinho Verde from Portugal, Gruner Veltliner in Austria, Gewurztraminer from Germany, Garnacha from Spain, Bordeaux blend from France, and Chianti from Italy.
(01/17/24 8:01am)
“If you had $6,000 and you [had] three months with no rules, what would you do?” This is the challenge that Aaron Ventresca ’24 has for the Class of 2026.
(01/17/24 5:12am)
At Princeton’s 250th anniversary celebration 27 years ago, Dorothy Bedford ’78 and economics professor Burton G. Malkiel GS ’64, devised a plan to construct a new center that would support the University’s commitment to service and community connections. Today, this hub is known as the John H. Pace Jr. ’39 Center for Civic Engagement with a dedicated space and staff in Frist Campus Center.
(12/20/23 4:06pm)
“I think the most common reaction is ‘Oh, I didn't know there were exchange students [at Princeton],’” said Jihyun Lee, a student from the University of Tokyo studying in the Department of East Asian Studies for the fall. “There's only 19 of us so I think it's kind of natural that [Princetonians] react that way.”
(12/18/23 5:05am)
Campus Club, as students know it today, is a forum for student groups to convene for Undergraduate Student Government (USG) study breaks. But the site where students sip on Coffee Club seasonal lattes was once a tap room, where members and their guests danced into the early hours of the morning. The dining room on the first floor where students gather with friends to pore over problem sets was once where Campus Club members assembled for meals.
(12/14/23 4:46am)
“Half the class is not from Practical Ethics,” someone said behind me as I sat down in the second row of a nearly full McCosh 10. They were not wrong — I, like many, had come to see Peter Singer, the 24-year Ira Decamp Professor of Bioethics, in his last lecture of his Princeton teaching career.