Features
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Honoring Volunteers
Four alumni receive awards for service
Breaking the Sound Barrier
Still a student, composer Caroline Shaw has become a star by following her own musical recipe
When Facebook Came to Princeton
On a campus built on tradition, what to make of the new rules?
Mr. Boswell Goes to Corsica
The surprising origins of modern democratic charisma
Samuel Stanhope Smith
Was Princeton’s seventh president a bigot, a progressive, or both?
Three Years In: A Conversation with President Eisgruber
7 ResponsesSqueeze Play
Washington tightens the spigot for basic research, and Princeton feels the pinch
Becoming Joy
After years of agony, Joy Ladin *00 makes the difficult journey between genders
A Museum for Scott and Zelda
In a house where the couple lived, visitors learn of their hopes and their failings
In a Dry Country
Jay Famiglietti *92 is the Jeremiah of water
Princeton Studies Water
Shifting Into Neutral
New Roads in Language
What Would Kennan Do?
On an anniversary of the Long Telegram, thoughts on diplomacy
The Nature of Things
Why I Love Physics
Lives: Nancy Sullivan ’80
In the jungle, she spoke out against exploitation
Lives: Meredydd Evans *55
Welsh folk singer and activist for native culture
Lives: William K. Zinsser ’44
An Ivy League rebel writing for ‘everyman’
Lives: E. Alden Dunham ’53
He helped build modern Princeton
Lives: John F. Nash Jr. *50
‘This man is a genius’
Lives: Donald Oberdorfer ’52
A journalist who knew his stuff
Lives: Robert Curvin *75
Advocate for a city that was home
Lives: Nelson Doubleday Jr. ’55
He saved the Mets
Lives: Robert W. Callahan ’77
A coach, and more
























