September 22, 2010

Sep 22, 2010

Stars seeing stars

Features

Princeton and the telescope

Sizes refer to diameter of lens or mirror

The Stargazers

After decades of exciting breakthroughs, Princeton astronomers are enjoying a new explosion of discoveries

Fast pitch, fast mind

A Princeton grad carves a spot on the diamond

President’s Page

President’s Page

New Additions to Our Faculty

The Alumni Weekly provides these pages to the president

On the Campus

Taxing Cottage Club

In Brief

FYI: Findings

Fossils may be oldest animals

How Princeton fared in college rankings

A moment with ... Eliot Spitzer '81, governor-turned-journalist

Final Scene

Website offers rants, advice, commiseration

First bridge-year students find a 'place in the world'

Grad-student housing may involve private developer

In Memoriam

Art museum builds a wider audience

New director puts an emphasis on outreach, rethinks expansion plans

From Princeton's attic: A 'mechanical time machine'

Annual Giving bounces back, raises $48.6 million

Third-highest total in University history; up 8.9% from last year

For future Ph.D. students, a look inside the lab

Jones promotes green economy in campus lecture

Sinn Fein's Adams: 'No conflict is intractable'

The Class of 2014: Princeton and its Ivy peers

Scholars voice support for New York mosque project

Alumni-initiated prison education program helps students give back

Wii spree: In both new and traditional games, freshmen top sophomores

Glowing back to Nassau Hall

Video: Picturing the universe

View a series of images from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, captured by a telescope at Apache Point, N.M., designed by Princeton astronomy professor Jim Gunn.

Bring Back the Frats

The frats are back

More than 100 undergraduates and graduate students have pledged

Alumni News

Challenging the record

Fred M. Donner ’68 *75 paints a gentler portrait of Islam’s early days

More than a doctor on TV

Book pays tribute to pediatrician T. Berry Brazelton ’40

Newsmakers

A foot in two worlds

In a personal ‘mommy war,’ satisfaction is hard to find

Commuters

Podcast: Rally 'Round the Cannon

Return to Dachau

65 years after helping to liberate the Dachau concentration camp, Alan W. Lukens ’46 was invited back for official ceremonies

The changing character of reunions through the years

Rally 'Round the Cannon

Lessons from Nassau Hall's Faculty Room

Sports

Harvard, Penn lead Ivy forecasts

Under Surace '90, football's next era begins

Sports Shorts

Football preview: Princeton vs. Colgate

Sprint football drops a pair of close games

Football preview: Princeton vs. Lafayette

Football preview: Princeton at Columbia

Featured Authors

Featured Authors

Todd '81 collects oral histories from Texas conservationists

Featured Authors

Coxe '81 pens adventure for children

Featured Authors

Lebenthal '86 examines New York's pampered elite

Music and Film

Altiplano

History

From the Archives

Tiger of the Week

Tiger of the Week

Tiger of the Week: James Sethian '76

Tiger of the Week

Tiger of the Week: John Dabiri '01

Tiger of the Week

Tiger of the Week: Karen Smyers '83

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