March 2025

Screening for cancer with liquid biopsy; PetroTiger; Endowments targeted.

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Features

A New Way To See Cancer

Ryan Corcoran ’99 is among those leading advances in early cancer detection using a blood test called liquid biopsy

Features

Princeton’s Slow Burn

Inside the PetroTigers and the University’s four decades of private fossil fuel investments

Features

Is the Proposed Endowment Tax Another Cash Grab?

A ‘meteor is about to hit’ higher education as Republicans look to increase the tax on endowments

President’s Page

Moments of Joy

On the Campus

In Memoriam: March 2025

On the Campus

In Short: Microsoft, CoreWeave Join Princeton-Based AI Hub

In other news, students and alumni win scholarships for graduate study, faculty are honored for service, and campus concerts earn backing from the National Endowment for the Arts

Research

PAW Goes to the Movies: Professor Sean Wilentz Watches ‘A Complete Unknown’

‘The facts are all true, the songs are all true. But none of it happened the way that the film depicts it,’ says the Princeton history professor

Alumni News

On Shakespeare, Jodi Picoult ’87 Just Doesn’t Buy It

‘When I started to learn more about Emilia Bassano, I couldn’t believe how seamlessly her life plugged in all of the question marks and gaps that exist in Shakespeare’s’

Princeton Portrait

He Inspired Hemingway Before Falling Out Over a Famous Fish

Henry Strater 1919

Behind the Research

Garry Sparks Is Changing the Way We Think About Religion in the Americas

Student Dispatch

Earlier Start in Finance, Consulting Puts Pressure on Job-Hunting Undergrads

Academics

SPIA to Focus on Policymakers, International Views

Administration

New Frist Student Health Center Adds Space For Care, Counseling

The new facility, just south of the McCosh site, is 44,000 square feet larger than the old building

Alumni

Pardoned Jan. 6 Rioter Larry Giberson ’23 Blames Actions on ‘Culture War’

Alumni

‘The Worst Hellscape’: L.A. Fires Claim the Homes of Alumni

From Altadena to Malibu to Pacific Palisades, Princetonians are picking up the pieces. “When the bad stuff happens, my tendency is to try to focus on ‘What’s the next step?’”