After I finished my last midterm exam, I was definitely ready to be done with the books for a while, and on the first evening of break, my friend Poupée and I went to see The Mousetrap, a play at…

Earlier this year, I wrote a blog post about my art history thesis on Meteora. What I didn't tell you is that my art thesis was only ONE of TWO THESES that I wrote this year. That means double the…

If architectures had seasons, the clean crisp lines of modernism would be emphasized by the sobriety and sparseness of the winter. The budding confidence of the Renaissance finds itself in the spring…

At college, life often revolves around books, friends, coffee and our favorite treats! The good news is that Princeton has the perfect eclectic café that meets all of these needs in one place. If you…

If you watched the Academy Awards this week, you probably noticed at least two things.First, that kid from Room is the cutest child in the entire universe and anyone who says otherwise is DEAD WRONG…

My roommate calls the day the registrar posts classes for the next semester my “mid-semester crisis.” From that day, right up until the moment when I register during the last week of classes, I will…

A few weeks ago, the 123rd Princeton Triangle Show premiered! Hooray! *confetti* *pizzazz* *free tattoos* *that’s right I said free tattoos* Triangle is a touring musical comedy group on…

I fell in love with poetry in elementary school. My fifth grade teacher was obsessed with William Shakespeare. He shared his excitement for Shakespearean plays and sonnets with all of his students.…

One year ago, I was in Senegal with the Bridge Year Program, but really, the situation wasn’t so different than it is now. Halfway through the program was a difficult time for me. In Senegal, the…

Image It’s that time of the year. The semester is coming to a close here in the Orange Bubble. The New…

Many people keep themselves busy with hobbies; I lead different lifestyles. There is Thomas the Scholar, the Runner, the Writer, and the Mentor. I claim these titles as lifestyles due to how much…

Chang, a native of China and Taiwan, received her bachelor’s degree from the National Taiwan University in 1970. She attended graduate school at the University of California-Berkeley, where she…

He’s also speaking from experience. For Centeno, college was never a foregone conclusion. At age 10, he immigrated to the United States from Cuba with his mother, who raised him on her own. In his…

That’s the advice Marta Tienda gives to students who feel out of place at Princeton or even at college in general, especially first-generation college students whose parents may never have even…

“I’m a liberal arts professor at heart,” says Glaude, who teaches in the religion department and the Department of African American Studies. “I came to Princeton because of its…

As a mechanical and aerospace engineer, Leonard is fascinated by synthesis, and she watches it happen in exciting ways in her classes and projects and across campus. “For someone who enjoys math…

“I had synthesized a new molecule, and I was asking someone else in the lab where I could find a picture of what it should look like,” MacMillan recalls. “I was told there was no such picture because…

His recent honors include the 2006 Blackwell-Tapia Prize from the National Science Foundation and induction as a fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. Massey’s…

According to cosmologists, the big bang describes the onset of the expansion of the very fabric of the universe’s space-time, which commenced about 13 billion years ago. The CMB is therefore the…

“It was a big surprise. You get the call, and you're famous for about two days,” he explains. “Then the world goes on, and you go back to all the nice things in your regular life — teaching, lab work…

A faculty member in the Department of English and in the Program in American Studies, Cheng is also a fond Princeton alumna who started her career studying English in the very…

“A person must know about and have experience in the world to have something to say as an artist, and there is no better place to do that than at a liberal arts college, and Princeton is, simply, the…

University undergraduates join learners around the world through the edX online platform for an introduction to the history of the modern world that examines the environmental impact of human…

Near the fireplace, flanked by shelves packed with hundreds of classic books about nature and ecology, Princeton Professor Dan Rubenstein reflects on Mpala — a 5,000-acre multidisciplinary field…

“You have these areas with no buildings or people, just vast carpets of tall golden grass,” he says. “Every few meters there is an Acacia tree, tall, with a thorny umbrella. It is a very nice…