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Small subjects, big findings: the Princeton Baby Lab

Mindy Burton

A day in the lab doesn’t only help scientists understand more about human interactions and how our brains develop and learn. It provides them as well with the joyful privilege of interacting with Princeton’s littlest tigers.

NEWS | 03/05/2020

‘Come find me’: Democratic primary sees student groups compete for traction

Princeton students traveled to New Hampshire to campaign for Bernie Sanders.
Photo Courtesy of Kaveh Badrei ’20 and Justin Wittekind ’22

‘Come find me’: Democratic primary sees student groups compete for traction

Marie-Rose Sheinerman and Josephine de La Bruyere

A point of pride for “Princeton for Bernie”: they’re the fastest growing campaign infrastructure on campus. “Everyone else seems to be dissolving,” Wittekind ’22 said.

NEWS | 03/05/2020

In this lab, things change to stay the same

James Anderson

So when circulation desk staff or Special Collections archivists find a holding damaged — binding broken, page torn, illustration faded — they send it below ground, to the Conservation Lab.

NEWS | 03/02/2020

Faith, family, and tech startups on Princeton’s first international Tiger Trek

Participants on Princeton’s first international Tiger Trek.
Photo courtesy of Ron Miasnik and Daniella Cohen.

Faith, family, and tech startups on Princeton’s first international Tiger Trek

Patrycja Pajdak

It took them 18 months and surprisingly few obstacles. By intersession 2020, they’d pieced together Princeton’s first international Tiger Trek, modeled off of pre-existing New York City and Silicon Valley Tiger Treks. The weeklong trip offered 18 students and two chaperones the opportunity to travel to Israel in an attempt to understand how the country’s political climate, culture, and other institutions contribute to creating such an expansive tech ecosystem in such a small space.

NEWS | 02/25/2020

On defense, handshakes, and bleeding orange: Carla Berube

Head women’s basketball coach Carla Berube.
Photo courtesy of Tufts University.

On defense, handshakes, and bleeding orange: Carla Berube

Alex Gjaja

New women’s basketball head coach Carla Berube has racked up a considerable — if clunky — list of accolades. She isn’t happy yet. “I think,” she said, “that I’m a work in progress.”

FEATURES | 02/14/2020

Divestment duels: Rob Nixon

Robert Nixon, the Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Family Professor in the Humanities and the Environment.
Photo courtesy of Princeton English Department

Divestment duels: Rob Nixon

Rachel Sturley

“Divestment is going to happen,” said Nixon. “It’s not if, it’s when, and it would be fantastic to see Princeton on the vanguard.”

FEATURES | 02/11/2020

Divestment duels: Stephen Pacala

Stephen Pacala, the Frederick D. Petrie Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
Photo Courtesy of the Princeton Environmental Institute

Divestment duels: Stephen Pacala

Rachel Sturley

“Both investing and buying products puts money in the hands of the people I don’t like,” Pacala said. “So ethically, I cannot find a consistent reason why I would divest and not boycott, or boycott and not divest.”

FEATURES | 02/11/2020

Once a Tiger: Ellen DeVoe ’86

Ellen DeVoe ’86.
Photo courtesy of the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame

Once a Tiger: Ellen DeVoe ’86

Patrycja Pajdak

Ellen DeVoe ’86 is one of women’s basketball’s most decorated athletes. Now she watches her son, sophomore guard Ethan Wright, play her game — his own way.

FEATURES | 02/06/2020

Meet Ben Chang: diplomat, DJ, deputy vice president of communications

Deputy Vice President of Communications Ben Chang, not working. At right, former National Security Adviser Susan Rice. At left, Ashley Chang.
Ben Droz / D.C. Photographer

Meet Ben Chang: diplomat, DJ, deputy vice president of communications

Danielle Ranucci

“I have seen some of the best spokespeople in my years consist of individuals who are great leaders,” said Anthony Clark Arend, a former professor of Chang’s at Georgetown. “Ben is one.”

NEWS | 01/13/2020

Cats and dogs for tigers: emotional support animals on campus

Mindy Burton

Scarlet is precocious. At just 12 years old, she’s four months into her first year at the University. She has curly, sandy-colored hair, loves her roommate, K Stiefel ’20, and lives in the Pink House at 99 Alexander Street. Scarlet also has four legs, loves playing catch, and serves as Stiefel’s emotional support animal (ESA).

NEWS | 01/09/2020

50 years of women: Susan Belman ’73 and Cassandra James ’23

Members of the Class of 1973 hold up a "Coeducation Begins" banner at the Pre-Rade.
Photo Credit: Zachary Shevin / The Daily Princetonian

50 years of women: Susan Belman ’73 and Cassandra James ’23

Rooya Rahin

In 1969, a group of female undergraduates arrived on Princeton’s campus. In 1973, they became the first women to graduate from the University. This is the first installation in a series commemorating 50 years of women at Princeton; each article will chronicle the experience of one woman from the Class of 1973 and one from the Class of 2023.

NEWS | 12/12/2019

Locker Room DJs: What Princeton teams are listening to

Alissa Selover

The Daily Princetonian spoke with members of 10 varsity athletic teams about their music selection during games, warmups, practices, and in the locker room. Whether for a sport played on a field, on a court, on the ice, or in the water, each team follows its own unique traditions and must-play songs.

FEATURES | 12/12/2019

“I just want to wrestle”: meet Demetra Yancopoulos '22

Josephine de La Bruyere

“Honestly,“ said Audrey Pang ’05, “I never thought it would take 15 years for there to be another girl wrestling for Princeton.”

FEATURES | 12/12/2019

Tiger Tots: Annabel and Rosemarie Luijendijk

The Daily Princetonian’s Josephine de La Bruyère and Rachel Sturley with Rosemarie Luijendijk (left) and Annabel Luijendijk (right). 
Photo Credit: AnneMarie Luijendijk

Tiger Tots: Annabel and Rosemarie Luijendijk

Josephine de La Bruyere and Rachel Sturley

In the first installment of Tiger Tots, the Daily Princetonian interviews Annabel and Rosemarie Luijendijk, the six-year-old twin daughters of Professor of Religion and Head of Wilson College, AnneMarie Luijendijk.

NEWS | 11/25/2019

‘Building Monsters’: Football, food, and fitness at Princeton

The football team will face a radically altered season.
Jack Graham / The Daily Princetonian

‘Building Monsters’: Football, food, and fitness at Princeton

Alex Gjaja

On Princeton’s biggest eaters sweatshirts, sweatpants, backpacks, and hats are emblazoned two words: Princeton Football. Football players commit themselves to the team’s grueling practice and game schedule; they are expected as well to change their bodies for the good of the game. How do Princeton’s football players manage to pack on the pounds without sacrificing the fitness and dexterity that allowed them to play at the University in the first place?

FEATURES | 11/21/2019

Sitting down with Sean Ryder, police sergeant and pool god

Patrycja Pajdak

Though many students may know Community Relations Sergeant Sean Ryder by his trademark cape and sparkly pants, he sat down with The Daily Princetonian in full police uniform.

FEATURES | 11/20/2019

Art in the bubble: ‘Abraham and Isaac’

George Segal’s “Abraham and Isaac.”
Photo Courtesy of Kent State University Library

Art in the bubble: ‘Abraham and Isaac’

Daniel Burgess

Walk two feet in any direction and you'll see it: Art. Scattered across Princeton's six-hundred acre campus are hundreds of works of all varieties; statues, sculptures, and portraits, a diverse collection spanning centuries and continents. And among the plethora of works, one stands out: George Segal’s Abraham and Isaac.

FEATURES | 11/20/2019

'That's love': Sitting down with Edith from the CJL

Edith Murray has worked in Campus Dining for two decades.
Photo Courtesy of the Center for Jewish Life

'That's love': Sitting down with Edith from the CJL

Ben Angarone

What is it like to be one of the most well-liked employees on Princeton’s campus? Our reporter met with Edith Murray at the Center for Jewish Life at 8 a.m. one Tuesday morning to find out.

NEWS | 11/19/2019

‘Preparing for the battlefield’: Athletics and leadership in ROTC

Cadet Eliza Ewing ’20.
Photo Credit: Jon Ort / The Daily Princetonian

‘Preparing for the battlefield’: Athletics and leadership in ROTC

Samantha Shapiro and Josephine de La Bruyere

They woke up as first-years and seniors, history majors and engineers, Oklahomans and Connecticut natives. They pulled on standard-issue shirts, shorts, socks, strapped on their running watches. Some of them double-checked to make sure their shaves were clean. And somewhere in the walk from each of their dorms to Jadwin Gym, that group of individual students became something else entirely: a platoon of Army cadets.

FEATURES | 11/15/2019

Legacies of Service: Colin Jackson ’92 and Karl Jackson ’22

Lieutenant Colonel Colin Jackson ’92 (middle) with his son, Cadet Sergeant Karl Jackson ’22.
Photo courtesy of Karl Jackson.

Legacies of Service: Colin Jackson ’92 and Karl Jackson ’22

Josephine de La Bruyere and Elise Hogan

“I think the combination of Princeton and the army uniquely qualifies you to serve the nation and humanity to a greater extent than at another place.”

NEWS | 11/15/2019

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