Features

Lives: Richard ‘Thor’ Thorington Jr. ’59

His Quadriplegia a ‘Nuisance,’ He Found Research Subjects in his Backyard

Lives: Frederick H. Borsch ’57

The Good Christian

Lives: Hugh Hardy ’54 *56

His Designs Brought Delight to His City

Lives: Charles Hey-Maestre ’77

He Demanded Justice for Puerto Rico’s Poor

Lives: Sidney D. Drell ’47

A Physicist, Advocate, and Mentor

Lives: William A. Norris ’51

He Moved the Needle Toward Equality

Lives: Raymond M. Smullyan *59

A Mathematician Who Believed in Magic

Lives: Frank Deford ’61

The King of Sportswriters

Lives: Janice Nittoli *85

She Spent Her Years Advocating for Workers and Families

Lives: John Dow ‘Tex’ Farrington Jr. ’42

Seeing the Horror of War, He Waged Peace

Lives: Ward Chamberlin Jr. ’43

He Lived History — and Helped Bring it to Life for Others

Adventures in Fine Hall

The weirdness of math’s golden age

Our Most Influential Alumni

25 Princetonians who are shaking up the world

Second Opinion: Another View of Influence

The Character of Its Content

How Princeton University Press has thrived in a new publishing landscape

Just Tech

Harlan Yu *12 and David Robinson ’04 shine a light on the civil-rights dimensions of a wired world

Where Technology and Policy Converge

Princeton and Slavery: Our Original Sin

Princeton reckons with its connections to slavery

Princeton and Slavery: See, Do, Learn

Princeton and Slavery: Plays That Probe Our Original Sin

At McCarter, seven works examine Princeton’s connections with slavery

Princeton and Slavery: Who Was Who

Many early College leaders owned slaves

Princeton and Slavery: Holding the Center

Princeton and Slavery: The Scientist’s Assistant

Famed professor Joseph Henry had an indispensable helper in his lab: a free black man, Sam Parker

Princeton and Slavery: Moses Taylor Pyne and the Sugar Plantations of the Americas

What was behind a great benefactor’s fortune