Take the Reunions 2008
Princetoniana Challenge
Think you know the Princeton campus? The Princetoniana Committee has a quiz for you. Before you march in the P-rade, use your walking shoes and the help of friends and family members to track down answers to these 10 questions. Each object, architectural detail, building, or place is located on campus, stretching from the Graduate College to the E-Quad. Send your answers to PAW for a chance to win one of our prizes. Entries must be received before June 4, when we will post the answers on The Weekly Blog.
Where is...
1. A building that once served as the nation's capitol for the Continental Congress?
2. This display containing skeletons of a modern and a prehistoric tiger?
3. The "Fountain of Freedom," in the center of which is one of the largest bronze castings in the world?
4. The grave of Nathaniel FitzRandolph, donor of Princeton's original campus?
5. This parking garage, which won a design award from the American Institute of Architects?
6. The statue of a dean who argued about the location of the Graduate School with a future president of the United States--and won the argument?
7. A building in the shape of an octagon?
8. This stained-glass window, called the "Seven Liberal Arts Window"?
9. A flag from the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Princeton IV, which sank during a battle in 1944?
10. This word carved into the pavement?
Images courtesy of the Princetoniana Committee. Visit the Princetoniana section of the Princeton University Website for more Princeton lore.
Inside PAW-litics
PAW will host its first Reunions panel discussion, "PAW-litics 101," on Friday, May 30, at 1:30 p.m. in the Frist Campus Center's air-conditioned Film/Performance Theater (room 301). The event will provide an insider's look at the 2008 presidential campaign from alumni journalists Jim Kelly ’76, managing editor of Time Inc.; Kathy Kiely ’77, a reporter for USA Today; moderator Joel Achenbach '82 of The Washington Post; Todd Purdum ’82, national editor at Vanity Fair; Juliet Eilperin ’92, a reporter at The Washington Post; Rick Klein ’98, senior political reporter for ABC News; and Andrew Romano ’04, an associate editor at Newsweek.
More information about the full calendar of Reunions events can be found online at the Alumni Association's Web site.
Reading period
John Edwards ’08 catches up on some reading on Cannon Green May 7, during the spring semester reading period. Spring finals begin May 14.
Photo by Frank Wojciechowski
Seniors honored for top research
Since 2004, the Princeton Undergraduate Research Symposium has provided students with a chance to share some of what they have learned in their independent work with a wider audience - and win prizes in the process.
This year, 42 undergraduates participated in the event's poster presentations, held in the Carl Icahn Lab atrium March 7. Contestants were judged on a range of criteria that included creativity, scientific thought, demonstration of skill, and communication. Biology and engineering were the most popular categories, drawing 20 and 15 entrants, respectively. Molecular biology concentrator Ryan Corces-Zimmerman ’08 earned the top overall prize and first place in the biology category for his study on how a specific protein affects the longevity of C. elegans, a worm commonly used in lab research. Jerry Moxley ’08, another biologist, placed second overall for his work examining how spotted antbirds search for their prey. Raleigh Martin ’08, a civil and environmental engineer who won the engineering category, placed third overall for his senior thesis examination of Beijing's summer-season climatology.
Other honorees included Kevin Kung ’08, who earned first place in physical sciences and won the Interdisciplinary Award, and Catherine Digovich ’08, the first-place winner in social sciences.
1 Response
William Lange ’56
6 Years AgoFamous Dorm Forebears
At a recent mini-reunion of our class, I mentioned that rumor had it that I had lived in the same room as Woodrow Wilson in Witherspoon Hall (Room 111). A classmate wanted to know if that was verifiable. So I went on the Princeton website to see what I could find. In an Orange Key presentation, I discovered that Woodrow Wilson did reside in Witherspoon for three years (1877-1879). But I couldn't determine if he was in Room 111 or not. This made me think that it would be nice if there would be a small plaque placed in dorm rooms where celebrities had lived. This would be another inexpensive way to highlight the number of famous graduates from Old Nassau! I'm sure that many graduates like myself would gladly fund such a plaque for their old dorm room. That would be a small expense for those large braggin' rights!! If PAW concurs with this suggestion, please forward it to the trustees. Thank you.
[Editor's note: According to Alexander Leitch's book, A Princeton Companion, Woodrow Wilson moved into Witherspoon Hall's "room no. 7 in the west entry at the beginning of the second term of his sophomore year and lived there until his graduation in 1879."]