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." 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
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?’
PAW Reunions Panel: How the News Media Covers the MAGA Movement
‘The press is doing its job, but Congress, there’s no sign of vertebrate life up there. If Congress and the other institutions in our democracy aren’t responding to those stories…
Valedictorian
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’
PAWcast: Valedictorian Natalia Orlovsky ’22 on Research, Mental Health, and Pandemic Princeton
‘There is no wrong way to do Princeton’
PAW in Print
April 2026
Inside the new ES and SEAS complex; kudos for austerity; jazz at Princeton.
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