2009

These Five Princeton Friends Found Community in Creative Writing

By the end of 2025, all five writers became published novelists

Stephanie Burset ’09 Manages Vanderbilt University’s Brands and Marks

Burset says her job hits ‘the sweet spot of right-brain, left-brain storytelling’

Marketing Professor Mary Steffel *09 Is Studying Decision Paralysis

Pete Temesgen ’09 Built a Career as a Judge in a Small Georgia City

‘The truth I’ve come to understand is that you can grow where you’re planted,’ Temesgen says

Andrew Hui *09 Studies the Study

In The Study: The Inner Life of Renaissance Libraries, Hui examines the origins and the ambivalent nature of personal spaces devoted to books

Elena Sheppard ’09 Recommends Three Books to Experience Cuba

Essay: Reunions Through the Eyes of a Parent

‘My Princeton nostalgia has unexpectedly refocused on my children,’ writes Sean Rubin ’09

‘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’

Tao Leigh Goffe ’09 Unpacks Exploration of the Caribbean

S.E. Eisterer Explores Spatial Design

Adam Alter *09 on Books to Help You Thrive

Charlie Razook ’09 Launches Skin Care Products for Men

Inspired by his cancer diagnosis, Razook created Jackfir to eliminate harmful chemicals

Princeton Mathematicians Huh, Wood *09 Named MacArthur Fellows

In a New Book, Dan Bouk *09 Finds Stories in the U.S. Census

‘I look at numbers and databases the way people look at poems and paintings’

Emergency Physician Kimathi Cooper ’09 Fields COVID Questions

‘I feel it is my job to bring evidence-based information to the forefront’

The Journey Here: Tao Leigh Goffe ’09 Seeks Truer Narratives

Sean Rubin ’09 Writes Book for Children Healing From Trauma

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

Chloe Angyal ’09 Takes Ballet to Task

Photo From the Archives: The 2009 Pillow Fight

Elizabeth Schwall ’09 Analyzes the Role of Dance in Revolution-era Cuba

When Song is Silenced

Wistful for a Return to Choral Singing

Hilary Levey Friedman *09 Studies the Sociology of Beauty Pageants

Why do moms put their young daughters in child beauty pageants?

Designing Doctors

Can a new creative mindset solve health-care problems?

Essay: Seeking a New Anti-Racist Normal in Theater