Journey to the Heliosphere: An IMAP Celebration
Thursday, February 26
5:00 PM
Briger Hall C112
Join the Center on Science and Technology to celebrate the start of the science phase of NASA’s IMAP — the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe mission, launched on September 24, 2025. Panelists from NASA and Princeton University offer a behind-the-scenes look at the making of a major space mission and how the Princeton community – from students to faculty and staff – helped make IMAP a success. IMAP has already benefitted from years of international, multi-institutional collaboration and science and engineering excellence led by Princeton’s David McComas, professor of astrophysical sciences and principal investigator of the mission.
The panel representing Princeton’s extraordinary team members that brought IMAP to life will share IMAP’s central role in advancing heliophysics and space weather prediction for the next era of space exploration while premiering excerpts from the new IMAP documentary, a production of Princeton University in association with NASA, Swift Creek Media, and Digital P Media.
Festivities include a Space Physics Expo of student projects at 4:30 PM and stargazing with Princeton astrophysicists following the panel, weather permitting.
Learn more on cst.princeton.edu
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New Jersey community college faculty and staff convene at Princeton for inaugural Transfer Pathways Institute
On a recent Friday at Princeton University’s Carl A. Fields Center, community college faculty and staff from across New Jersey gathered to discuss a question central to their work: how can they help more community college students successfully transfer to selective four-year colleges and universities?
The inaugural Community College Transfer Pathways Institute brought together nearly 90 administrators, educators and advisers from 17 community colleges to learn about transfer student opportunities at Princeton and other highly selective schools that provide generous financial aid.
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From News12 New Jersey: Road Trip Close To Home: Princeton museum showcases ancient and modern masterpieces
New Jersey's only Ivy League school is home to a major university art museum as the newly remodeled Princeton University Art Museum welcomes visitors.
James Steward, the museum's director, says the experience is accessible to all. "We are globe spanning and yet accessible, we are a free admission museum, it is possible to discover the world of art in a fulsome sense in a few hours," he said.
Watch on newjersey.news12.com
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Choose New Jersey
"This is New Jersey. You can do anything here."
Vice Dean for Innovation Craig Arnold discusses Princeton's pipeline of ideas and people in a video for Choose New Jersey about industry collaboration.
Watch on YouTube
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Princeton University Concerts presents
Joyce DiDonato, Mezzo-soprano
Time for Three
Be a part of the New Jersey premiere of Emily–No Prisoner Be, an exciting semi-staged song cycle inspired by Emily Dickinson’s timeless poetry which still resonates 150 years after her death. Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Kevin Puts, named Musical America’s 2024 Composer of the Year, created this new work specifically for mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato—hailed as “a stunning triumph” (Variety) for her role in Puts’ The Hours at the Metropolitan Opera—and the genre-defying Time for Three trio, whose recording of Puts’s Triple Concerto won multiple Grammy Awards in 2023. Under the stage direction of Marie Lambert-Le Bihan, this powerhouse ensemble of PUC fan-favorite artists will celebrate Dickinson’s fearless exploration of identity, freedom, and social norms, promising an unforgettable evening celebrating one of literature’s most iconic voices with some of the greatest musical voices of our time.
Purchase tickets on concerts.princeton.edu.
Sunday, February 22
3:00 PM
Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall
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Princeton Research Day
Undergraduate Edition
Princeton Research Day, our annual exhibition of student research, is this Friday, February 20! This is a great opportunity to have engaging conversations with undergraduate researchers across the humanities, arts, sciences, and social sciences.
You will be able to view poster presentations, see demonstrations and performances, chat with undergraduate researchers, and vote for your favorites to win awards. Come when you can and leave when you must.
Free and open to the public. View the schedule of events researchday.princeton.edu.
Friday, February 20
4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Princeton University Art Museum
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B A C H: The Weimar Years
University Organist Eric Plutz will offer an all-Bach concert, focusing on works written during the great composer’s time as court organist and musician to the Duke of Weimar.
Free and open to the public
Friday, February 20
7:30 PM
Princeton University Chapel
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Thomas Edison Film Festival Premiere Screening
The 45th anniversary season of the renowned Thomas Edison Film Festival (TEFF) will premiere with a pre-event reception and screening followed by a Q&A with filmmakers. TEFF is a designated Academy Awards® Qualifying Festival and a Canadian Screen Award Qualifying Festival. The Stellar Award-winning short films to be screened, representing animation, documentary, experimental, narrative and screen dance genres, will also be available to view online for one week, from February 21 through 28, on the TEFF website.
Free and open to the public.
Friday, February 20
Pre-screening reception: 6:30 PM
Screening: 7:00 PM
James Stewart Film Theater at 185 Nassau Street
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Manual for a Desperate Crossing
by María Irene Fornés
In the sea, six people have to think like one. Manual for a Desperate Crossing is an epic migratory montage that follows a group of Cuban rafters, or “balseros,” fleeing to the United States in the mid-1990s. Cuban-American playwright María Irene Fornés crafts this one-act with her distinctively stylized prose, which draws from real-life testimonies of balseros, to create a vast landscape of overlapping fears and dreams. The solidity and security of a home lost to a precarious raft, a better future conflicting with an unyielding past, the fight to exist within nature and against nature; these oppositions materialize on stage like narrative tableaus, memorializing the histories of the thousands who have undertaken these desperate crossings. Directed by Princeton junior Didi Vekri with lighting design and dramaturgy by senior Elena Milliken. In English with English and Spanish captions for all performances.
Reserve free tickets on tickets.princeton.edu.
February 20, 21, 26, 27 and 28
8:00 PM
Wallace Theater at Lewis Arts Complex
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How to Be Not Alone:
A Princeton Playhouse Ensembles Concert
Join the Princeton Playhouse Ensembles for a concert featuring new music theater arrangements of songs from Godspell, Evening Primrose, Kimberly Akimbo, In the Heights, Maybe Happy Ending, Next to Normal, Rent, and Waitress alongside world premieres by student composers and arrangers. The concert will also feature a special guest TBA. This musical celebration will unite music theater storytelling, performance, composition, arranging, direction, and choreography while featuring the work, perspectives, reflections, and leadership of current Princeton students and alumni. The Playhouse Ensembles are directed by Princeton faculty member Solon Snider Sway, and this performance will be directed by Aaron Landsman, with lighting design by Tess James, sound design by Kay Richardson, and stage management by Milan Eldridge. Presented by the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Theater & Music Theater and cosponsored by the Department of Music. The concert will also be the Ensemble’s debut EP release event. Their new EP, supported by a grant from the Edward T. Cone ’39 *42 Fund in Princeton’s Humanities Council, will feature five musical compositions written or co-written by current and former students.
Purchase tickets on mccarter.org.
Saturday, February 21
7:00 PM
McCarter Theatre Center
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Climate Storytelling: Works in Progress
Get a behind-the-scenes look at the future of environmental storytelling. Join Princeton’s High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI) and Lewis Center for the Arts (LCA) and the Civilians Theatre company for an evening featuring presentations by Next Forever playwrights Kate Douglas and Kate Tarker. Douglas’s play, If I Forget Thee, O Earth, puts the cosmic and the terrestrial in the context of mass extinction events (present and past) through the lens of astrobiology. Topia by Tarker is an irreverent, multigenerational play about climate change and authoritarianism in Providence, Rhode Island.
Followed by a conversation with Anu Ramaswami, Sanjay Swani ’87 Professor of India Studies, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, and the High Meadows Environmental Institute & Steve Cosson, Visiting Lecturer in Theater, Lewis Center for the Arts and Artistic Director of the Civilians.
Free and open to the public.
Monday, February 23
5:00 PM
Bridger Hall Auditorium, 11 Ivy Lane
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Valeria Luiselli, Ricardo Giraldo & Leonardo Heiblum
Performance: Echoes from the Borderlands
This developmental performance will feature an excerpt of a 24-hour “sonic essay” that documents the histories of violence against land and bodies in the US-Mexico borderlands. Following the southern border of the United States, it begins in the pounding waves of the Pacific Ocean in the Tijuana /San Diego border, and moves eastward throughout 24 hours –from sunrise to sunrise– until it reaches the wetlands of the Texan coast. Through the merging of narratives, soundscapes, voices, melodies, rhythms, archival recordings, and sound constellations, the piece connects issues that have marked the borderlands, such as the genocide of native peoples, extractivism, nuclear testing, migration, femicide, vigilantism, human trafficking, and mass detention. However, these stories of plundering and exploitation are also met with stories of resilience and resistance.
Echoes from the Borderlands was created by Valeria Luiselli, Ricardo Giraldo, and Leonardo Heiblum with support from the Dia Art Foundation. Valeria Luiselli a professor at Bard College. Her writing has been translated into over 30 languages, and she became a MacArthur Fellow in 2020. Ricardo Giraldo is the director of the Podcast Division of La Corriente del Golfo, Diego Luna, and Gael Garcia Bernal’s production company. Leonardo Heiblum is an award-winning composer, producer, and sound artist who has composed music for over 50 feature films. He collaborates regularly with Philip Glass, Patti Smith, and musicians from all over the world, mixing classical and indigenous instruments with field recordings.
Tuesday, February 24
5:00 PM
Princeton University Art Museum
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Reading by Jordan Salama ’19 and Creative Writing Seniors
Award-winning writer and Princeton alum Jordan Salama, who tells stories about migration, culture, and the environment across the Americas, reads from his work along with several creative writing seniors. The C.K. Williams Reading Series showcases senior thesis students of the Program in Creative Writing with established writers as special guests. Salama’s books will be available to purchase and have signed.
Free and open to the public.
Tuesday, February 24
6:00 PM
Labyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street
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The Erosion of Opposition to Hate Crimes Against Religious Minorities in the United States
Public condemnation of identity-based violence is generally widespread, but new research shows this opposition may be surprisingly fragile. In this talk, Princeton University Professors Rafaela Dancygier and Jonathan Mummolo present evidence showing how the language and media framing used to describe violent hate crimes—such as framing attacks on Jews in nationalist, anti-Zionist rather than religious terms—erodes Americans' opposition to these attacks, with parallel patterns emerging for violence against Muslims and Hindus. The discussion will be moderated by Princeton University Professor Ismail White.
Free and open to the public
Tuesday, February 26
5:00 PM
Bowen Hall, Room 222
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After Noon Concert Series
The After Noon Concert Series is a weekly opportunity for the Princeton Community to enjoy performances at the Princeton University Chapel by various local, national, and international organists. These half-hour concerts showcase the flexibility of the magnificent Skinner/Mander Chapel organ. Each visiting organist rehearses and performs, bringing forth a different voice and character from the organ.
Free and open to the public.
Thursday, February 26
12:30 PM
Princeton University Chapel
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Artist Talk: Becky Suss
Artist Becky Suss discusses her work on view in the exhibition Princeton Collects.
Hear from the artist Becky Suss, whose work August (2016) can be seen in the exhibition Princeton Collects, on view through March 29. Suss’s paintings of interiors explore the theme of memory and the charged nature of domestic spaces.
Introduced by Alexandra Foradas, Haskell Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art.
Thursday, February 26
5:30 PM
Princeton University Art Museum
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VIS Book & Poster Show
An exhibition of innovative poster designs and artists’ books by the seniors and juniors in the Program in Visual Arts.
Free and open to the public.
On display through March 15
Gallery open weekdays 8:00 AM to 8:30 PM; weekends 9:00 AM to 8:30 PM
Hagan Gallery at 185 Nassau Street
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Art for Families
Rainy Day
Saturdays are for young makers in the Creativity Labs! Capture the feeling of the weather, inspired by artist Childe Hassam.
Drop in anytime between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. to explore a work of art, play with different materials, and exercise your imagination. Come for fifteen minutes or two hours—whatever your schedule allows. All ages are welcome; no tickets or reservations required.
Childe Hassam often looked out his studio window to the streets of New York City for inspiration. In Rainy Day Fifth Avenue (1916), he captured the weather so beautifully that you can almost feel the rain drops and can imagine jumping in the puddles. For this activity, you’ll create your own winter-scape—can you capture the feeling of the cold, the snow, the sunshine? We provide the materials, you bring the creativity!
Saturday, February 21
10:00 AM to 1:00 PM
Princeton University Art Museum
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Science Saturday
Science Outreach at Princeton University offers Science Saturday programs at local libraries. Students in 2nd to 5th grade will in engage in hands-on science activities.
Free registration required. Registration will be available on mcl.org.
Saturday, February 21
10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Lawrence Library, 2751 Brunswick Pike, Lawrenceville
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Princeton University Concerts
Little Listeners: Time for Music
Imagine time as a big, blank piece of paper, just waiting for something magical! We can’t draw on time with crayons, but we can fill it with beautiful music! In this fun and playful program, we’ll discover how time makes music special. We’ll feel the steady beat (like music’s very own heart!), tap along to rhythms, and zoom fast or slow with tempo. Along the way, we’ll see how music can match our feelings—whether we’re happy, sleepy, or ready to dance! Let’s make time for music together!
For ages 3-6. Purchase tickets on concerts.princeton.edu.
Saturday, March 14
1:00 PM and 3:00 PM
Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall
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Images
Transfer Pathways Institute - Photo by Denise Applewhite, Office of Communications
PUAM - Photo by Matthew Raspanti, Office of Communications
Manual for a Desperate Crossing - Photo by Angel Chang Liu
Artist Talk - Becky Suss, August, 2016. Princeton University Art Museum. Gift of Joshua R. Slocum, Class of 1998, and Sara T. Slocum. © Becky Suss. Photo: Joseph Hu
Art for Families - Childe Hassam, Rainy Day, Fifth Avenue, 1916. Princeton University Art Museum. Gift of Albert E. McVitty, Class of 1898
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