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Campus Dining chefs join weekly Farmers’ Market this spring to showcase recipes inspired by local ingredients
Campus Dining will continue its long-standing tradition of participating in the weekly Princeton University Farmers’ Market, held every Wednesday from April 1 through May 6 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Firestone Library Chapel Plaza.
“Being part of the farmers’ market allows members of our team to stretch their culinary wings, and partner with our local vendors and farms to connect with the students and entire Princeton community outside of the dining locations,” said John Messina, director of operations in Campus Dining.
Each week, featured foods are coordinated through Campus Dining’s Culinary Council, a group of chefs representing dining locations across campus. Participating chefs lead weekly demonstrations and recipe tastings, with seasonal ingredients as the focal point. Some dishes make their way onto dining hall and retail menus, while others remain market exclusives, with recipes shared so visitors can re-create them at home.
Read on inside.princeton.edu
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TCNJ announces cross-registration agreement with Princeton University
Students at The College of New Jersey and Princeton University will soon have the opportunity to expand their academic horizons through a new cross-registration agreement launching in fall 2026.
The five-year agreement between TCNJ and Princeton will allow eligible undergraduate and graduate students to enroll in select courses at the other institution during the fall and spring semesters at no additional cost. The collaboration is designed to complement each institution’s academic strengths and give students access to courses not available on their home campus.
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From Princeton Alumni Weekly: How a Dinosaur From the Utah Desert Came to Princeton
In July 1941 my classmate John Boyd and I drove across the continent in an aging Packard convertible. Our ultimate destination was a boulder-strewn mesa in the desert of central Utah, 110 miles southeast of Salt Lake City. Although no one suspected it at the time, the slopes of this mesa contained a spectacular concentration of fossilized dinosaur bones from the Morrison Formation of the late Jurassic Period.
Read on paw.princeton.edu
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Service Recognition ceremony honors Princeton staff for exceptional achievements
Every spring, Princeton hosts its Service Recognition Luncheon, a cherished tradition honoring employee service milestones and achievements. This year’s event recognized 549 honorees who reached service milestones in 2025, along with six staff members who were named as President’s Achievement Award recipients and two employees who received the Donald Griffin ’23 Management Award.
Read on princeton.edu
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The Comeuppance
by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
In the fall of 2022, on the eve of their 20th high school reunion, a self-proclaimed “Multi-Ethnic Reject Group” reconnects on the porch of a house in their old neighborhood in Prince George’s County, Maryland. Reminiscing about their high school years and recent pasts (including Covid-19, 9/11, and Columbine) and fueled by drinking and smoking pot, the friends discover competing, recollected versions of their teenage years and find themselves facing a reckoning with the memories of who they were, and are, as an undeniable element of the future viscerally looms before them. This hauntingly surreal play by Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning Princeton alum Branden Jacobs-Jenkins ’06 (An Octoroon, Appropriate, Gloria) garnered a New York Times Critic’s Pick and Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play. Directed by Princeton Lecturer in Theater Vivia Font.
Purchase tickets on mccarter.org.
April 3, 4 and 10 at 8:00 PM
April 11 at 2:00 PM and 8:00 PM
McCarter Theatre Center
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The Center Will Not Hold
A Dorrance Dance Production
MacArthur Fellow Michelle Dorrance, a trailblazer in tap, joins forces with Bessie Award-winning breakdancer Ephrat "Bounce" Asherie to create The Center Will Not Hold—a groundbreaking collaboration exploring rhythm, movement, and social commentary.
Set to original music by Donovan Dorrance, with live percussion by world-class drummer John Angeles, the work features 11 extraordinary performers blending street, club, and vernacular dance forms, including house, breaking, hip-hop, tap, Chicago footwork, Detroit jit, litefeet, and Memphis jookin.
Through rhythm, movement, and dialogue, The Center Will Not Hold is a must-see for anyone captivated by the future of modern dance.
Co-commissioning support for The Center Will Not Hold was provided by McCarter and the Princeton University Art Museum. Purchase tickets on mccarter.org.
Saturday, April 4
7:30 PM
McCarter Theater
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Author Talk and Book Signing: David Stuart ’89
David Stuart, leading scholar of the ancient Maya, shares insights from his expansive new book.
Historian and archaeologist David Stuart ’89 will discuss his new publication, The Four Heavens: A New History of the Ancient Maya (Princeton University Press, 2026), tracing the collapses and rebirths of Maya civilization across nearly 3,000 years. The event begins at 4 p.m. with Stuart and curator Joanne Baron in the Art of the Ancient Americas Gallery. At 5 p.m. in the Grand Hall, Stuart will deliver a lecture followed by a Q&A and book signing. Cosponsored by the Department of Religion and the Center for Culture, Society, and Religion.
Free and open to the public.
Monday, April 6
4:00 PM
Princeton University Art Museum
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Theater&...the Positive Impact of Teachers
A Presentation by Ava Kronman ’26
Theater&… is a series of presentations by seniors in the Program in Theater that demonstrates the power of theater to connect to, reveal, educate about, and share a wide range of issues, topics, and experiences. Who are the teachers who have had a positive impact on your life? Join Princeton senior Ava Kronman for a night of gratitude as she reflects on teachers’ positive impacts and interdisciplinary lessons from theater. This presentation features personal and anonymous student stories and will be followed by a Q&A and audience share-out.
Free and open to the public.
Monday, April 6
7:30 PM
Drapkin Studio at Lewis Arts Complex
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Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
Dean Leadership Series: Hon. Andy Kim
Join Princeton School of Public and International Affairs for a conversation with United States Senator Andy Kim on the future of U.S. foreign policy. As the only career diplomat in the United States Senate and a former director at the White House National Security Council, Senator Kim will discuss the challenges and complexities of the current global moment, and what the United States must do to build resilient strategies that deliver opportunity and security for the American people. The conversation will explore the roles innovation and America’s allies and partners can play in delivering a better world for the next generation.
Registration required. Register to attend in person or watch the livestream on spia.princeton.edu.
Tuesday, April 7
12:15 PM
Arthur Lewis Auditorium in Robertson Hall
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HMEI Faculty Seminar
“Partitioning of PFAS and Other Organic Contaminants Between Water, Air, and Minerals”
Ian Bourg, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and the High Meadows Environmental Institute, will present “Partitioning of PFAS and Other Organic Contaminants Between Water, Air, and Minerals.”
Natural systems hold an increasing variety of anthropogenic microcontaminants and their transformation products. An important set of variables in predicting the behavior of these compounds in the environment is their affinities for different phases including water, air, minerals, and biological systems. Computational chemistry can help predict these affinities and generate information that is often challenging to obtain in the lab.
Register to attend in person or watch the livestream on environment.princeton.edu.
Tuesday, April 7
12:15 PM
Briger Hall Auditorium. 11 Ivy Lane
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KARMA
What It Is, What It Isn't, and Why It Matters More Than Ever
Karma has become a pop culture buzzword— quoted, meme-ified, even weaponized. But its true meaning runs far deeper. Join author and teacher Philip Goldberg for a rich, thought-provoking exploration of karma as a call to responsibility, self-reflection, and a more honest understanding of life's complexities.
Free and open to the public.
Tuesday, April 7
6:00 PM
Princeton University Chapel
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Screening of Mundane Histories with filmmaker Anocha Suwichakornpong
In the third film of a spring series, Associate Professor of Visual Arts Nicolás Pereda presents a screening of Mundane Histories. This first full-length 2009 feature by the Thai filmmaker Anocha Suwichakornpong tells the story of a bitter young man who is paralyzed from the waist down after an accident and has been appointed a new nurse. Their relationship is cool, and his authoritarian father, who seldom shows his face, is also not a model of warmth and understanding. In long, neutral scenes separated by hard cuts, the contours emerge of a restrained psychological drama in which the young man’s cynicism slowly makes way for a renewed, cautious attempt to explore life. Q&A with the filmmaker follows the screening.
Free and open to the public.
Tuesday, April 7
7:30 PM
James Stewart Film Theater at 185 Nassau Street
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Princeton University Farmers' Market
Shop from fresh and local farm and food vendors at the Princeton University Farmers' Market.
The Farmer's Market takes place on Wednesdays from April 1 to May 6 at Firestone Library Chapel. The market is open from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM.
Vendors include Bebes All Natural, Carlito's Tacos, Catalina Empanadas, The Dimpled Date, The Granola Bar, Jersey Artisan, Judith's Desserts, Little Star Foods, Nutty Novelties, Ooika Matcha, Pearl Coffee, Picklelicious, RiceWich & Tea House, Roper's Way Farm, Sprouts Flowers, Terhunes, and Tico's. Campus Dining will provide a taste of their local suppliers.
Sponsored by the Office of Sustainability, Office of Community and Regional Affairs, Campus Dining, Undergraduate Student Government and Graduate Student Government.
Wednesday, April 8
11:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Firestone Library Chapel
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TigerSide Chat: Bob Dylan in America
What makes Bob Dylan not only a great musician, but a defining voice of modern America? In this TigerSide Chat, acclaimed historian Sean Wilentz — who grew up just blocks from Dylan’s earliest performances in Greenwich Village — takes us on a journey through Dylan’s life, music and enduring influence. Drawing on unparalleled access to studio tapes, recording notes and rare archival materials, Wilentz explores Dylan’s meteoric rise in the early 1960s and his evolution into one of the most innovative songwriters and performers of the twentieth century. Whether you are a lifelong Dylan fan or simply curious about the crossroads of history, music and American identity, this conversation promises fresh insight into an artist — and an era — that changed everything.
Free registration on alumni.princeton.edu.
Wednesday, April 8
4:30 PM
Virtual Event
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Bias in the Academic Pipeline
John Sailer is the director of higher education policy and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, where he regularly produces investigative reporting examining ideological capture in higher education. In this talk, Sailer will discuss his reporting on the ways that universities, private foundations, and federal agencies have embedded ideological priorities into faculty hiring and professional advancement. The discussion will unpack the causes and implications of this “scholar-activist pipeline,” as well as prospects for reform.
Free and open to the public.
Wednesday, April 8
5:30 PM
Arthur Lewis
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Princeton University Concerts presents
Ébène String Quartet
Each time the Ébène Quartet takes the stage at Princeton University Concerts, they leave the audience spellbound, always craving more. Their highly anticipated return—by overwhelming demand—brings a program that showcases the full range of their exceptional artistry. From one of Mozart’s rare string quartets in a minor key, which reveals an emotional depth that would go on to influence generations of composers, to Ravel’s only String Quartet, a groundbreaking work that broke free from traditional forms, and finally Brahms’ String Quartet Op. 51 No. 2, a masterpiece shaped over nearly eight years of meticulous devotion. This program, where passion, innovation, and craftsmanship converge at the highest level, is a powerful testament to the Ébène Quartet’s unparalleled mastery.
Purchase tickets on tickets.princeton.edu.
Wednesday, April 8
7:30 PM
Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall
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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, April 9
12:30 PM
Princeton University Chapel
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2026 Gilbert S. Omenn, M.D., Ph.D. '61 & Martha Darling *70 Lecture in Ethics and Policy in Bioengineering
Feng Zhang of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT presents Exploration of Biological Diversity.
Feng Zhang is a pioneering bioengineer who is known for having developed many of the CRIPSR gene editing technologies that have transformed research and biomedicine. These technologies are not only creating life-saving therapeutics for devastating diseases, but also raise important ethical questions about the use of such technologies, with profound implications for humanity.
Free and open to the public.
Thursday, April 9
4:00 PM
Briger Hall, Room C112
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Artist Conversation: Xu Bing
Artist Xu Bing discusses his practice with curator Zoe S. Kwok.
See Xu Bing, the internationally acclaimed artist and MacArthur Fellow–winner, in conversation with Zoe S. Kwok, the Museum's Nancy and Peter Lee Senior Curator of Asian Art. Xu's wide-ranging practice, known for pushing the boundaries of conceptual art, includes large-scale installation, printmaking, and video art.
The event will be followed by “Asian Art at Princeton: Celebrating Collecting and Scholarship,” a two-day international symposium featuring scholarship on Asian art.
Free and open to the public.
Thursday, April 9
5:30 PM
Princeton University Art Museum
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“After Oscar: Wilde between the li(n)es,”
Lecture by Merlin Holland
Biographer and editor Merlin Holland, the only grandson of Oscar Wilde, gives a lecture entitled “After Oscar: Wilde between the li(n)es.” Holland is author of the recently published book After Oscar: the Legacy of a Scandal in which he shares more details regarding Wilde’s relationships, reputation and family history. In his talk, Holland will give an account of the extraordinary posthumous ‘life’ of Oscar Wilde, exploring many of the myths, exaggerations and inventions which have been created on his account for more than a century after his death. At the event, books will be available to purchase and have signed. Part of the 2025-26 Fund for Irish Studies Series co-chaired by Jane Cox, Director of Princeton’s Program in Theater & Music Theater, and Robert Spoo, Princeton’s Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Professor in Irish Letters.
Reserve free tickets on tickets.princeton.edu
Friday, April 10
4:30 PM
James Stewart Film Theater at 185 Nassau Street
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Dona Nobis Pacem: The Annual Milbank Memorial Concert
The Princeton University Chapel Choir and orchestra present Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Dona Nobis Pacem. Composed in 1936, the work is both a searing indictment of war and a profound foretelling of peace.
Free and open to the public.
Saturday, April 11
7:30 PM
Princeton University Chapel
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2026 Meredith Miller Memorial Lecture with Shaina Taub
Two-time Tony Award winner, Obie Award winner, Grammy and Emmy Award nominee Shaina Taub is a songwriter, performer, and artist-in-residence at New York City’s Public Theater.
With the 2024 Broadway opening of her original musical Suffs, she became the first woman in history to win Tony Awards for Best Book and Best Score by herself. Hailed by The New York Times as “belonging to a breed of performers, who, apart from being artists, are gravitational forces around whom others cluster like filings to a magnet,” Taub is a solo artist signed to Atlantic Records, with three acclaimed albums in her catalog. She was named to Time100’s Next List of rising leaders shaping the future.
Shaina will be joined in conversation with Professor Stacy Wolf. Stacy Wolf is one of America’s foremost scholars on musical theatre. She is Professor of Theater at Princeton, Director of Fellowships, and Director of Princeton’s new Program in Music Theater. She is the author of Beyond Broadway: The Pleasure and Promise of Musical Theatre Across America (Oxford University Press, 2020), which explores musical theater across the country in local and amateur venues like summer camps, high schools, and community theatres. Her chapter on Disney musicals in elementary schools appears in The Disney Musical: Stage, Screen, and Beyond.
Free registration on gss.princeton.edu.
Monday, April 13
5:00 PM
Wallace Theater at Lewis Arts Complex
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NJ’s 12th District 2026 Congressional Debate
Join us for the NJ-12 Primary Debate, featuring candidates Squire Servance, Sujit Singh, Kyle Little, Sue Altman, Adam Hamawy, Shaniel Robinson, Adrian Mapp, Elijah Dixon, Matt Adams, and Sam Wang as they discuss the most pressing issues facing New Jersey and the nation. Hosted in Whig Hall’s Senate Chamber, this event offers a unique opportunity to hear directly from the candidates, compare their visions, and engage with the democratic process ahead of the primary election.
Free and open to the public.
Monday, April 13
5:00 PM
Whig Hall, Senate Chamber
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Steven Mackey: MEMOIR
Memoir is a theatrical musical work by GRAMMY Award-winning composer Steven Mackey and director Mark DeChiazza, exploring the tumultuous 20th century through the eyes of a first-generation American woman in pursuit of the American Dream.
Inspired by the unpublished memoir of Mackey’s mother, Elaine Mackey, Memoir is a visually and sonically captivating reflection on resilience, identity, and the power of storytelling. Scored for the unique combination of string quartet, percussion duo, and narrator, the piece traverses a diverse musical landscape—by turns witty, playful, rich, and profound.
Presented at McCarter Theatre in Partnership with the Department of Music at Princeton University. Purchase tickets on mccarter.org.
Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Sunday, April 19, 2026 at 2:00 PM
McCarter Theatre
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2026 VIS Junior Show: Macroplastic Digest
An exhibition of recent work by juniors pursuing a minor in the Program in Visual Arts and Practice of Art majors in the Department of Art & Archaeology. Curated by faculty member James Welling.
Free and open to the public.
April 1-15
Open weekdays 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Lucas Gallery at 185 Nassau Street
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Art for Families
Connections Quilt
Saturdays are for young makers in the Creativity Labs!
Let’s work together to make a quilt about community, like the artist Marie Watt. Use paper, fabric, and other materials to create a square to take home—or add it to our Art for Families quilt.
Drop in any time between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. to explore a work of art, play with different materials, and exercise your imagination. No tickets or registration required. Come for fifteen minutes or two hours—whatever your schedule allows! All ages are welcome; children must be accompanied by an adult.
Saturday, April 4
10:00 AM to 1:00 PM
Princeton University Art Museum
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Science Outreach offers Science Saturday programs in local libraries. In collaboration with the Trenton Public Library, the Ewing Library, the Lawrence Library, and the Princeton Public Library systems, Science Outreach hosts Science Outreach Saturdays for students in grades 2 - 8.
Science Saturdays take place monthly. Students will engage in different hands-on engaging science activities each month.
Registration is required. Register on mcl.org.
Saturday, April 4
3:00 PM
Trenton Free Public Library
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Images
Dinosaur - Photo by Tori Repp / Fotobuddy
Service Recognition - Photo by Denise Applewhite, Office of Communications
Author Talk - Maya, Early Classic Period, Belize, Guatemala, or Mexico, Lakamtuun (stela, literally “big stone”), 300–500 CE. Princeton University Art Museum. Gift of John H. Hauberg, Class of 1939, in honor of Gillett G. Griffin. Photo: Bruce M. White
The Comeuppance - Photo by Jon Sweeney
The Center Will Not Hold - Photo by Christopher Duggan
Art for Families - Marie Watt, Skywalker/Skyscraper (Register), 2020. Princeton University Art Museum. Museum purchase, Hugh Leander Adams, Mary Trumbull Adams and Hugh Trumbull Adams Princeton Art Fund. © Marie Watt / Courtesy of Marc Straus Gallery, NY
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