Harrison Blackman content overview
Francis Landey Patton Rode Off Into the Sunset Shortly After Wild West Riot
Lights, Camera, Princeton: Why Hollywood Loves Old Nassau
From A Beautiful Mind to Transformers, campus has been home to a wide variety of productions
Inside One of Princeton’s Hottest Majors
Why operations research and financial engineering has become one of Princeton’s most sought-after majors
Supermodel Hoyt Richards ’85 Charts Recovery From ‘Cultic Relationship’
Richards is at the center of the new HBO documentary, Bring Me the Beauties: A Model Cult
He Practiced What He Preached and Influenced Architecture
William Shellman Jr. *41 taught in the School of Architecture for 45 years
Lin King ’16’s Translation of a Taiwanese Novel Is Up For the Booker Prize
Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuang-Zi explores the island’s colonial era and food culture under Japanese rule
The Attentionauts
D. Graham Burnett ’93, Alyssa Loh ’12, and Peter Schmidt ’20 are leading a movement to resist ‘attention fracking’
Gifted with the Right Stuff, He Helped Put Men on the Moon
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Andrew Jarecki ’85’s Prison Documentary Is Up for an Oscar
The Alabama Solution exposed abuses within the state’s prison system
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ’03 Axes Military Fellowship at ‘Elite Colleges’
The one fellow Princeton hosts each year brings important perspective to discussions, says SPIA professor Jacob Shapiro
He Fled Nazi Germany and Shaped the Course of Art History
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These Five Princeton Friends Found Community in Creative Writing
By the end of 2025, all five writers became published novelists
How To Find a Cross-Country Ski Wonderland in Tahoe
The alpine lake in California and Nevada may be known for its downhill ski resorts, but its Nordic ski offerings truly sparkle, writes Harrison Blackman ’17
Nicholas Biddle 1801 Opposed Abolition and Facilitated the Slave Trade
Nicholas Biddle 1801 (1786-1844)
L.A. Prosecutor Robert Schirn ’63 Met Historic Moments in Criminal Justice
May 29, 1941 — April 12, 2025
A Stellar Student, He Transformed Our Understanding of the Stars
Henry Norris Russell 1897 *1900
He Fled Europe and Became ‘The Patron Saint of Photocopying’
New York Times Critic Ligaya Mishan ’91 Seeks Magic in the Dining Experience
‘Restaurants are some of our last gathering places,’ Mishan says.
The Magic Is Back in Legendary Taos, New Mexico
Taos is undergoing a revival worthy of its storied history and mystical reputation, Harrison Blackman ’17 writes
Achille Tenkiang ’17 Founds Baldwin Institute to Foster Creative Resistance
The organization uses James Baldwin’s literature to engage youth in thoughtful conversations on literature and race
Where Hate Hides
Joel Finkelstein *18, co-founder of the Network Contagion Research Institute, built an early warning system for the internet
Guide to Drinks Served at Reunions 2025
Is this the year of ‘Tiger striping,’ alternating alcoholic drinks with nonalcoholic ones?
A Tragic Candidate in the Princeton ‘Conclave’ for University President
E. Harris ‘Jinks’ Harbison 1928
Princeton’s Free Speech Debate Intensifies
Stuart Taylor Jr. ’70 and Ed Yingling ’70 founded the nonprofit organization Princetonians for Free Speech