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(10/30/24 7:16am)
In the dead of winter, Firestone Plaza is always empty — spare the usual pedestrians. But as the seasons change, tents crop up weekly filled with fresh fruit, artisanal goods, and handmade crafts. The Princeton University Farmers’ Market, held during the early fall and late spring, brings these goods to campus — an exchange formed to strengthen ties between the University and the community beyond Fitz-Randolph gate.
(10/11/24 4:30am)
After the filming of Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” on campus in 2022, “the bomb” returns to Princeton — this time as a special exhibition for the 50th Anniversary of Princeton’s Program on Science and Global Security (SGS).
(09/27/24 4:47am)
“Most people are interested [in elections] like sports fans. You want to know who’s gonna win, and you’re rooting for your side,” explained Dr. Sam Wang, a professor at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, from his office littered with books and notepads. “My interests are always different … Informed voters have more leverage than uninformed voters, and it’s my belief that the use of data will help them identify where they have leverage,” Wang continued.
(07/29/24 4:30am)
“I went up. I probably should have prepared a speech … I think I started by saying, ‘I never win anything,’ to express my surprise,” recalled Ed Park, a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the Lewis Center for the Arts.
(07/27/24 1:01am)
The American team almost missed the first Olympics. The Americans claimed it was the Greek’s antiquated reliance on the Julian calendar, yet some have argued that the near-miss was intentions.
(07/25/24 9:04pm)
When Carol Brown ’75 arrived at Princeton in 1971, she was not an athlete. Five years later, Brown would go on to row for Team USA in the Montreal Olympics, becoming the first of 16 female Princetonian rowers to do so.
(07/15/24 4:26am)
Before 2021, Indigenous students did not have an affinity space at Princeton. Natives at Princeton (NAP), in their search for a space, first requested a room in the Carl A. Fields Center, the renovated eating club on Prospect Ave. home to many of the campus’s affinity spaces. However, their request was denied due to a lack of room.
(05/26/24 12:24am)
In 2019, Nancy Lin ’77 participated in Stories of Asian and Asian Americans at Princeton, a digital walking tour of campus organized by the Asian American Alumni Association of Princeton (A4P), and the University’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion. Lin, the co-chair of A4P, noticed that one particular alumnus, Syngman Rhee Class of 1910 — the first president of South Korea from 1948 to 1960 — was not included in the tour due to his authoritarian leadership.
(05/17/24 7:54am)
After University President Harold Shapiro announced he was stepping down in 2001, Shirley Tilghman joined the presidential search committee, representing the natural sciences. A professor of molecular biology, Tilghman wanted to make sure a new president would support the new genomics institute that she was working to establish. One day, Tilghman left a search committee meeting to give a lecture. “The chair of the committee later took me aside and said, ‘while you were gone, we all decided you should be a candidate,’” Tilghman recalled.Committed to her teaching and research, Tilghman said she had not considered an administrative role — let alone University presidency. But in learning about the president’s role in serving on the search committee, Tilghman saw that “this could be one of the most intellectually enriching jobs I could ever have.”Shirley Tilghman went on to become the 19th president of Princeton University and the first woman to ever hold the position. During her tenure from 2001 to 2013, Tilghman focused on developing the science and arts programs, expanding financial aid, and promoting gender equality. Now, Tilghman serves on the Amherst Board of Trustees and the Harvard Corporation, which was involved in the high-profile resignation of Harvard President Claudine Gay, the first Black woman in the position. Just over a decade after her retirement from the University presidency, Tilghman sat down with The Daily Princetonian to reflect on her leadership and the current landscape of leadership in higher education.
(05/13/24 6:06am)
“Anybody that is out there looking to get involved in the art form of drag … run,” Victoria Courtez, one of the professional performers at Princeton’s 2024 Drag Brunch, joked. “Run, don’t walk, to become a drag queen or a drag king or a gender non-identifying entertainer.”
(05/10/24 4:09am)
Any Forbes frequenter knows its sound, but few know its story. Crowning the Cleveland Tower of the Princeton Graduate School is the campus carillon, a keyboard-based percussion instrument that commands twenty tons of bronze bells.
(05/06/24 5:11am)
In March 1970, the University invited Native scholars, professionals, artists, and historians to campus for the First Convocation of American Indian Scholars. At the convention, chaired by Alfonso Ortiz, assistant professor of anthropology, attendees discussed Indigenous Studies and its future in higher education.
(05/03/24 8:19pm)
‘Prince’ Features staff sat in Murray Dodge, otherwise known as “the kindest place on campus,” for 12 hours, observing the rotating cast of campus characters who stop in and study, and the stories of those who work there.
(05/01/24 3:50am)
Hector Cueva-Becerra ’26 had never played an instrument before his sophomore year at Princeton.
(04/26/24 5:38am)
At 11:40 a.m. on April 20, 1995, a group of 17 students stormed Nassau Hall and began a sit-in to protest the lack of diversity in Princeton’s curriculum. The group decided to occupy the room adjoining the office of then-University President Harold Shapiro ’64 after realizing the main office was bolted from inside.
(04/26/24 2:12pm)
The bridge that joins Trenton, NJ with Morrisville, PA, crossing over the Delaware River, reads in big block letters: Trenton Makes The World Takes.
(04/24/24 2:33am)
In 2016, Jonathan Tenenbaum ’25 was involved in a nearly fatal skiing accident. Now, he is a premedical student, with a goal of attending medical school that he attributes, in part, to his experience as a pediatric patient.
(04/19/24 6:26am)
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.
