March 2021
Black and White and the Blues; Lincoln scholar Allen Guelzo
Student Dispatch
Wintersession Teaches Cooking, ‘Sleeping for Success,’ and More
‘I have new admiration for anyone who leads a cooking class,’ wrote President Eisgruber ’83
Featured Authors
Features
The Politics of History
A conservative scholar of Lincoln and the battle over how we teach about America’s past
On the Campus
Q&A: Hilton Als Offers a Theater Critic’s Point of View
Visiting scholar discusses writing and understanding queer history
Student Science Writers Aim to Make Research More Accessible
‘I thought this would be a really cool opportunity to share ideas and research,’ said Addie Minerva, who co-founded Princeton Insights
Undergraduate Women’s Leadership Appears to be Trending Back Up
Ten years after a campus report, are undergraduate women seeking top roles?
New Class Examines COVID’s Impact on the Film Industry
The course examines themes the world is experiencing — isolation, political strife, and racial protests
Research
Examining How We Misjudge the Emotional Pain of Poverty
Nathan Cheek, a Ph.D. candidate in psychology, has identified what he calls a “thick-skin bias”
History
Sculptor of Nassau Hall’s Bronze Tigers Was a Cowboy
Princeton Portrait: Alexander Phimister Proctor (1860–1950)
President’s Page
Alumni News
Q&A: Emily Nichols ’99 on Keeping Up the Fight in New Orleans
‘We feel like it can be done’
Essay: Meeting Malcolm X
‘I discovered how wrong my preconceptions about Malcolm had been’
Essay: The Bag My Grandparents Passed Down to Me
‘This is not a story, it’s my life,’ my grandmother would remind me
Tiger of the Week
Gregory DiFelice ’89 Is Bringing Back ACL Repair With New Technology
‘It’s been a total game changer for my patients and I’
Sarah Beth Durst ’96 Conjures Magical Worlds In Her Novels
‘Fantasy is a literature of hope and empowerment,’ says Durst
Jud Brewer ’96 Is Helping People Unwind Their Anxiety
‘If you fall, you can’t beat yourself up’
Connor Diemand-Yauman ’10 Provides Job Training to Boost Low- Wage Workers
Diemand-Yauman co-founded Merit America to help those without college degrees reach middle-income occupations
Bill Brown ’83 Raises Funds for Parkinson’s Research Through Skiing
People think a Parkinson’s diagnosis is ‘the end of life.’ On the slopes, Brown shows that’s not true
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Exit interviews with alumni retiring from Congress; the Supreme Court’s seismic shift; higher education on the ballot