November 12, 2014

Nov 12, 2014

The Word Man of Princeton: Writer, mentor, Professor For Life John McPhee '53 | Manjul Bhargava *01, Math and Magic | Grading Policy Revised | Are We Excellent Sheep?

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Features

Conversation: What’s College For?

Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux ’11 and William Deresiewicz, on Excellent Sheep

At Play in the Fields of Math

Manjul Bhargava *01 finds the magic in numbers

Writing with the Master

For Princeton journalists, praise from John McPhee was — and is — the ultimate reward

President’s Page

President’s Page

‘Entrepreneurship the Princeton Way’

On the Campus

In Short

Catching Rays

Solar field results ‘better than expected’

On the Campus

Old Meets New: Rave Shakes Up East Pyne

A Year of Growth

Success of venture-capital investments helps spur endowment’s 19.6% return

Dining on the Green

Q&A: James A. Baker III '52

‘A Long, Hard Slog’

Revisiting the Vietnam Era

Protecting Free Speech

Professors see high stakes in battles over campus limits on open expression

At HackPrinceton, More Than 500 Students Explore New Platforms, Novel Ideas

PAW Goes to the Movies: ‘Interstellar,’ with Professor David Spergel ’82

Princeton’s Student Veterans Discuss Service

Looking Back: Jimmy Carter’s 1981 Visit to Princeton

Princeton’s Role in the Birth of Thanksgiving Football

#ThrowbackThursday

Grading, Unbound

Faculty vote reverses 10-year policy setting targets for limiting A-grades

Grade Deflation: Maybe Unfair, Probably Just

Research

Q&A: Miguel Centeno

We’re in This Together

Economics: Follow That Cab!

A study of labor incentives may explain why it is hard to find a taxi in the rain

Alumni News

Following: rsarm.blogspot.com

Blogger: Richard Stoll Armstrong ’46

From the Archives

Coming Back: Black Alumni connect at third conference

Paula Kahumbu *02: Out of Africa

Saving Africa’s elephants from poachers is the driving passion for a daughter of Kenya

Reading Room: Helen Thorpe ’87

An Intimate Look at Women Who Go to War

Life: 35 Years Out ...

After raising her children, Lauren Taslitz ’79 tackles ‘emptynesterhood,’ and brings it to the stage

Hundreds of Bostonians Welcome Eisgruber ’83 at Town-Hall Meeting

Rally 'Round the Cannon

Reason(s) and remembrance

A Game of Private Profit at Public Risk

LIAR’S POKER: RISING THROUGH THE WRECKAGE ON WALL STREET, by Michael Lewis ’82 (W.W. Norton)

Student Dispatch

Student Dispatch

The Downside of New Grading Policy: No More Excuses for Poor Grades

Sports

Extra Point: After Two Decades, ‘Shacks’ Is Saying Goodbye to the Team She Built

Sports Shorts

Basketball: The Next Generation

Men’s basketball leans on young scorers; women’s team aims to improve defense

Football Falls to Dartmouth in Class of 2015’s Final Game

Princeton Men’s Soccer Shares Ivy Title, Waits for Postseason Fate

Featured Authors

Featured Authors

Sex, Jazz, and Murder: Krist ’79 Reconstructs New Orleans’ Empire of Sin

Featured Authors

Brooke Shields ’87 Recalls Princeton Days in New Memoir

History

Cultural Hero in a Lumber Cart

That Was Then: November 1883

#ThrowbackThursday: The New Wawa, 1974

#ThrowbackThursday: Cycling to New Haven, 1958

Tiger of the Week

Tiger of the Week

Tiger of the Week: Author S.C. Gwynne ’74

Tiger of the Week

Tiger of the Week: Disease Detective Rebecca Levine ’01

From the Editor

From the Editor

‘Anything by John McPhee’

From the Editor

From the Editor

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