Features
Truth Be Told
Filmmaker Cecilia Peck ’80 earns praise for exposing cults in true crime documentaries while safeguarding trauma survivors
Features
President’s Page
On the Campus
Research
Research
New Study Examines the Cause of Racial Disparities in C-sections
Janet Currie *88, Princeton professor of economics and public affairs, led the research
Princeton Portrait
Princeton Portrait
A Missionary Who Provoked an International Diplomatic Crisis
Rev. Jonas King h*1832
Essay
Essay
At Princeton, I Learned About the Deceptiveness of Archives
Elyse Graham ’07 says dirty tricks surrounding library access go back centuries
Essay
Scribbling Rivalry: Two Alumni Take One-upmanship to the Page
Two letter-writing alums are locked in a friendly but (until now) unspoken competition
Lives Lived & Lost
Lives Lived & Lost
Jon E. Barfield ’74 Gave Back, Including to Princeton
‘There were so many things that he did for people,’ says friend Burton Smith ’77. ‘He spread as much joy as he could in so many places’
Lives Lived & Lost
Larry Lucchino ’67 Brought Back the Old-Fashioned Ballpark
‘At the heart of it, beneath that textured exterior, was a little kid who loved baseball, who loved ballparks, and who loved cities’
Lives Lived & Lost
Thomas C. Hanks ’66 Changed How We Understand Earthquakes
Friend and fellow geologist Tom Holzer ’65 called Hanks a terrific conversationalist with “tremendous integrity”
Lives Lived & Lost
Fu Shen *76 Was a Prolific Scholar and a Gifted Artist
‘Today, there are people who claim connoisseurship who have not seen one-tenth of the number of paintings as Fu Shen’
Lives Lived & Lost
Moorhead Kennedy Jr. ’52 Survived to Recount the Iranian Hostage Crisis
‘Some people come out of a trauma stronger,’ said his son, Moorhead ’Mark’ Kennedy III ’79
Lives Lived & Lost
Brian Olsen ’64 Pioneered ‘Ready-to-Assemble’ Furniture
No one is quite sure how a coffee table Olsen designed ended up in ’Animal House’
Lives Lived & Lost
Journalist Michael Aron *70 Commanded Respect From All Sides
‘He was meticulously fair-minded. He saw his job as laying out the facts. I never heard him trash any politician’
Lives Lived & Lost
Uthara Srinivasan ’95 Made Princeton Reunions Greener
’We just really want to make a change,’ Srinivasan said of the Greening Reunions group in 2023
Lives Lived & Lost
The Military Was One Facet of Christopher E. Hornbarger ’90
‘Chris was a brilliant dude in many ways — visual artist, music, academics,’ says Jason Camillos ’90
Lives Lived & Lost
Susan Cotts Watkins *80 Led Research on AIDS in Africa
To obtain the accurate insights needed to slow HIV transmission, Cotts Watkins devised an innovative methodology
Lives Lived & Lost
Artist Frank Stella ’58 Defied Labels and Reinvented Himself
‘He made himself one of the truly important artists of the 20th and 21st centuries,’ says Michael Fried ’59, an art historian, critic, and lifelong friend
Lives Lived & Lost
Tiger Bech ’21 Was Joy On and Off the Field
’He was like a lightning bolt that streaked across all of our lives,’ wrote his high school position coach Lance Strother
Behind the Research
Research Books
Student Dispatch
Student Dispatch
Campus Life Is Alive and Well — and Running on Chicken Tenders
Each night at Late Meal, hungry undergrads find food and community
Academics
Academics
Class Close-Up: History of Mathematics Starts 4,000 Years Ago
Students learn ‘a whole landscape of the subject. It’s a crash course,’ says visiting fellow Alex Kontorovich ’02
Administration
Sports
Sports
Ivy League to Join FCS Playoffs in 2025
The regular season champion will advance to the postseason, which the Tigers have never participated in
Rally ’Round the Cannon
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