PAWCASTS
Princetonians talk about what’s happening on campus and beyond
Memorials
Remembering Charles Helms ’80
‘Chuck is the kind of person you are lucky enough to meet once in your life,’ says Doug Eberhart ’80
Remembering Hendrix Niemann ’73
‘A relationship with Drix, even in business, it was personal. You couldn’t be with him ... and not treat it as a friendship that you either wanted to develop or…
Remembering Richard Springs III ’64
Dick was ‘a philosophy major playing football, which always bemused our father enormously. Or maybe a football player
majoring in philosophy ... ’ — Lanny Springs ’64
Remembering Bill Miller ’55
"When Bill was at Elm Club, as an undergraduate, he wasn’t especially remarkable. As a person in the landman field, I don’t think he was especially remarkable there. But he…
PAW Book Club
Suleika Jaouad ’10 Navigates Illness and Life by Pen
‘There’s a kind of power when you dare to inhabit the first person with unvarnished vulnerability and honesty’
Todd Purdum ’82 Penned a Biography of Television Visionary Desi Arnaz
‘The biggest takeaway from Desi’s story for me is that talent in our country comes in all sorts of shapes and sizes, and sometimes in the most unlikely packages’
Lauren Ling Brown ’12 Sets a Thriller at a Princeton Eating Club
‘Some Princeton students have reached out saying that they really identified with the characters, especially multiracial young women, and that meant so much to me’
‘Sweet Fury’ by Sash Bischoff ’09
‘None of these characters are black and white. I wanted everything and everybody in this book to live in the gray area, because that felt like life to me’
PAWcast
Alumni Travel Journalist-Adventurers Tell You Where to Go
Travel journalist Laura Dannen Redman ’03 and Jacqui Gifford ’02, editor-in-chief of Travel + Leisure, discuss trends in travel for 2026
Professor Sean Wilentz Co-produced Bob Dylan’s New ‘Bootleg’ Albums
‘He works very, very hard. Genius does not become genius on its own. You have to work at it for it to flower’
Culinary Podcaster Maggie Hoffman ’04 Knows What’s for Dinner
‘I wanted to make it very real in our discussion of how sometimes cooking is hard and sometimes also cooking can make life feel less hard’
Vocalist Charmaine Lee ’14 Creates Mind-Bending Music
‘At what point does life become music, become sound, become music, become life?’
Valedictorian
PAWcast: Valedictorian Daniel Yu ’26 Seeks a Life In Pursuit of Justice
‘I think my recognition speaks less to me as somehow exceptional or special and more to the tireless, patient, endlessly generous work of everyone in my department and in my…
PAWcast: Valedictorian Erik Medina ’25 on Changing the Chemistry of Plastics
‘In general, the advice I would give is there’s only 24 hours in the day and there’s a lot to do here,’ Medina said. ’Eventually, you’re going to need to…
PAWcast: Valedictorian Genrietta Churbanova ’24 on Princeton, Anthropology, and Research
‘I’m really deeply thankful to … everyone who’s made this experience possible’
Valedictorian Aleksa Milojević ’23 Describes His Princeton Experience
‘It really broadens your perspective, especially having the opportunity to meet so many diverse people’
PAW in Print
May 2026
The Attentionauts; Philip Stoltzfus ’79 and Lebanese American University in wartime.
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