July 2021

Alumni who lead colleges reflect on an extraordinary year

Thanks to COVID, it’s not business as usual for job-hunting graduates

After a challenging year, the Class of 2021 gathered for Commencement

Several initiatives have taken shape while other key ideas remain in the planning stages

‘This is not a class where the professor knows all the answers,’ said associate sociology professor Janet Vertesi

In March 2020, WPRB’s signal nearly went dark

His novels and memoirs are ‘funny, sexy, passionate, and gorgeously written’

The Journal of Controversial Ideas provides a home for contentious scholarship

Julia Ratcliffe ’16 and Lizzie Bird ’17 are headed to their respective finals in Tokyo

An accidental classics major explores how archaeology, technology, and more are changing the field

‘After all, we know we’d only get one 50th reunion,’ said Podie Lynch ’71, ‘and this was it’

‘It’s been cool to put a spotlight on rowing in Uganda,’ Noble says

A husband-and-wife team has published a biography of artist Francis Bacon

In 2022–23, rugby will become Princeton’s 18th women’s varsity sport

Princeton Portrait: Harvey Smith 1917 (1895–1969)

Believing she could get to Tokyo ‘kept me going these last two years,’ Bird says

The longtime friends penned a book on the history of turning numbers into images

‘It’s a love letter to my in-laws and their Christmas traditions’

‘They got rescued, they lived happily ever after — yawn!’

With his wife Dr. Lucy Guarnera ’09, Rubin tells the true story of a tree that survived 9/11

‘There are experiences that Asians have that are not often told and need to be told’