Eisgruber, municipal officials emphasize shared values during annual meeting
At a meeting Monday, March 24, President Christopher L. Eisgruber and Princeton municipal officials commended each other’s commitment to the strong relationship between the University and town, and emphasized their shared priorities and values — from projects that benefit the campus and community, such as the new Princeton University Art Museum, to the essential role of higher education.
“This is a tradition that I greatly value,” Eisgruber said of his 12th annual public conversation with the Princeton Council. “The town of Princeton is a wonderful place to be. It’s fabulous to walk out and feel the energy on our sidewalks — people from the town, people from the University and people from outside of town coming together.”
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Princeton joins new cancer research hub established with gift from Weill Family Foundation
Princeton University is collaborating with The Rockefeller University, Weill Cornell Medicine and the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in a new East Coast hub dedicated to making immunotherapy more effective for cancer patients, an initiative launched with a $50 million gift from the Weill Family Foundation and to be matched with philanthropy from each partner institution that together will total more than $125 million.
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Bridging Arts and Tech: Student entrepreneurs reimagine the audience experience
In a groundbreaking fusion of theater and technology, McCarter Theatre has teamed up with MoVA Realities, a Princeton student-founded startup from Keller Center eLab Accelerator Program, to create an interactive, AI-powered experience for its upcoming production of Legacy of Light.
Read the full story on kellercenter.princeton.edu
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Princeton University Art Museum accepting docent applications
In preparation for the opening of the new Art Museum in fall 2025, the Princeton University Art Museum is accepting applications for a new cohort of docents who will be trained to provide highlights tours in the new building on evenings and weekends.
View docent training commitment schedule and application
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Make It! A Maker's Fair
Join MakeNet for its annual event that celebrates making in all its forms. Explore a variety of activities, each offering a different small craft or DIY project for all skill levels. Bind your own notebook, build a robotic finger, play in virtual reality, and contribute to a collective origami project.
Minors must be accompanied by a guardian.
Free and open to the public
Friday, March 28
1:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PUL Makerspace, A Floor, Lewis Library
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Princeton French Film Festival
Conceived as a public humanities initiative, a community-engaged project, and an innovative promotion of the arts in Princeton, this festival will celebrate the 130th anniversary of cinema in all its richness and complexity.
It offers 20 feature-length and short movies (from classics to US Premieres) by emerging and award-winning filmmakers, 13 Q&A sessions with directors, artists, and professors, 3 masterclasses with renowned artists, 2 art exhibitions on campus and at the Arts Council of Princeton, a first-of-its-kind ciné-symposium on and with a Honorary Oscar Awardee, a book discussion with a world-class writer, a concert with two exceptional Haitian musicians, a rediscovery of Princeton through a cinematic guided tour, and numerous pedagogical projects with local schools.
The films will be screened on Princeton University’s campus, at the Princeton Public Library, at the Princeton Garden Theater, and at the Arts Council of Princeton in their original language(s) and with English subtitles. All rooms are wheelchair-friendly.
Screenings scheduled for March 28 through April 25. View full schedule and register for screenings on frenchfilmfestival.gradlife.princeton.edu
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Join Princeton University Art Museum for guided tours of the main campus and residential college neighborhoods. Discover a variety of artworks by modern and contemporary sculptors, from Henry Moore to Louise Nevelson on the main campus tour. The residential college neighborhood features artworks by modern and contemporary sculptors, from Sol LeWitt to Maya Lin.
Free and open to the public. All tours are held outdoors, rain or shine, and are stair-free.
Residential College Neighborhood
Saturday, March 29 at 2:00 PM
Meet at Ai Weiwei’s Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads behind The Dinky Bar, 94 University Pl.
Main Campus Neighborhood
Sunday, March 30 at 2:00 PM
Meet at Nassau Hall
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Princeton University Chamber Choir
Path of Miracles
The Princeton University Chamber Choir’s upcoming concert is one not-to-be-missed: a complete performance of Joby Talbot’s 21st Century Masterpiece for unaccompanied choir - Path of Miracles.
Path of Miracles was composed by Joby Talbot in 2004 for the famed British choir Tenebrae, on a concept which I developed in partnership with Tenebrae’s conductor Nigel Short and the City of London Festival. In the twenty years since, it has come to be seen as one of the ultimate experiences of 21st Century choral music, embracing a thousand years of history and a dozen European languages on the pilgrimage route – the Camino Frances - from Roncesvalles in the Spanish Pyrenees, to the glorious Cathedral of St James in Santiago de Compostela. The music is truly symphonic in scale, and the extraordinary text, which connects ancient monastic fragments with modern verse, beautifully evokes the irresistible urge to see the world, to better know our fellow human beings, and to find answers to life’s most elusive questions.
Purchase tickets to Path of Miracles on tickets.princeton.edu
Saturday, March 29
7:30 PM
Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall
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Renaissance - A Cappella Performance
The Princeton Roaring 20, a Princeton-based premier co-ed a cappella group established in 1983, is hosting Renaissance, our biggest concert of the year, on Sunday, March 30th, 4:00pm at Richardson Auditorium.
We’ll be performing a collection of songs ranging genres from jazz to pop to classical rock and decades from the 50’s all the way to the 2010’s! Our set will include many well-known songs like Bohemian Rhapsody, Hey Jude, Creep, and more!
Purchase tickets to Renaissance on tickets.princeton.edu.
Sunday, March 30
4:00 PM
Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall
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When Pages Breathe: The Greatness of Gatsby
Princeton University Library in partnership with Lewis Center for the Arts
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and former Princeton Hodder Fellow Martyna Majok and Executive Director of American Repertory Theater Kelvin Dinkins, Jr. (Princeton Class of 2009) discuss Majok’s book for the new musical Gatsby, An American Myth, with music by Florence Welch and Thomas Bartlett that had its world premiere in May 2024. Moderated by Professor of Theater Stacy Wolf, one of America’s foremost scholars on American musical theater. Also includes a performance by Tony Award-nominated writer and actress Sharon Washington. Pre-panel reception at 6 p.m.
This event is presented in collaboration with PUL's celebration of The Great Gatsby at 100, a suite of on- and off-campus programming inspired by the library’s significant Fitzgerald and Gatsby-related holdings.
Free registration required. Register on libcal.princeton.edu.
Monday, March 31
6:30 PM
Chancellor Green Rotunda
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Princeton University's Farmers' Market
The Princeton University Farmers' Market returns to Firestone Plaza for Spring 2025. The market features fresh and local farm and food vendors. Open Wednesdays from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM through May 7.
Vendors include Carlito’s Taco Wagon, Catalina Empanadas, Coffee Club, The Granola Bar, Little Star Foods, Jersey Artisan, Judith’s Desserts, Nutty Novelties, Picklelicious, Pies and Quiches, Sprouts Flowers, Roper’s Way Farm, Terhune Orchards, Tico’s Eatery and Juice Bar, Woo Ri Market and more.
Follow @farmersmarket_ptonu on Instagram for updates.
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Jodi Kantor, investigative reporter for The New York Times, and Patrick Radden Keefe, staff writer for The New Yorker, will examine strategies for “black box” reporting inside seemingly impenetrable organizations, governments, and corporations. Moderated by Eliza Griswold, director of the Program in Journalism.
Free and open to the public
Tuesday, April 1
5:00 PM
McCosh Hall, Room 50
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University Chapel
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.
This week features Mina Choi of Princeton Theological Seminary.
Free and open to the public
Thursday, April 3
12:30 PM
Princeton University Chapel
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Faculty Panel: Roberto Lugo / Orange and Black
Join Carolyn M. Laferrière, the Museum’s associate curator of ancient Mediterranean art; Nathan Arrington, professor of art and archaeology and chair of Princeton’s Department of Art and Archaeology, chair of the Index of Medieval Art, and interim director of the P. Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art; Barbara Graziosi, chair of the Department of Classics, Ewing Professor of Greek Language and Literature, and professor of Classics; and Anna Arabindan-Kesson, associate professor of art and archaeology and African American studies at Princeton, for a conversation about the exhibition Roberto Lugo / Orange and Black. Panelists will discuss the works on view from their distinct scholarly perspectives, underscoring how Lugo’s work can be not only positioned within the history of ceramic making but also framed in discussions of how the medium of ceramics has been used for facilitating storytelling, establishing social and political relationships, and commenting on humankind’s everyday lived experiences. Reception to follow.
Free and open to the public
LATE THURSDAYS!
This event is part of the Museum’s Late Thursdays programming, made possible in
part by Heather and Paul G. Haaga Jr., Class of 1970.
Thursday, April 3
5:30 PM
100 Arthur Lewis Auditorium, Robertson Hall
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Jan Kraybill in Concert
GRAMMY-nominated organist Dr. Jan Kraybill brings a thrilling program to the Chapel’s magnificent Skinner/Mander organ.
Free and open to the public
Friday, April 4
7:30 PM
Princeton University Chapel
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Macbeth in Stride
by Whitney White
Macbeth in Stride, by Obie Award-winning theater artist Whitney White, employs the musical styles of rock, pop, gospel, and R&B to investigate some of the most familiar narratives of Shakespeare’s “Scottish play.” The musical preserves the madness, mystery, and macabre while infusing its own twist of irony, indulgence, and introspection, some so commonplace, we’ve forgotten to treat them as narratives at all. The show asks: What does it mean to be a woman? A Black woman? And what happens when the one thing we think she desires is power? At times inhabiting Lady MacB’s perspective, Woman interrogates love, ambition, and power in a high-energy and interactive concert-style performance. Joined by the Witches as singing collaborators, the work explores what it means to try to change a story whose end is already predetermined and has been lived a thousand times before. Directed by Princeton senior Layla Williams.
Purchase tickets on mccarter.org
April 4, 5, 10, 11 & 12
8:00 PM
McCarter Theatre Center
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Celebrated author Michael Lewis ’82, who curated and edited the volume will talk about this timely meditation on the purpose of government and the dedicated and creative people behind the term "bureaucracy.’ Contributing authors Dave Eggers and Casey Cep will join in the conversation, moderated by Razia Iqbal, the John L. Weinberg/Goldman Sachs & Co. Visiting Professor at the Princeton School for International and Public Affairs. The first 150 attendees will receive a copy of Who is Government? The Untold Story of Public Service.
Friday April 4
5:00 PM
McCosh Hall, Room 50
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Princeton University Library is offering curator-led tours of its new exhibition “The Most Formidable Weapon Against Errors: The Sid Lapidus ’59 Collection & the Age of Reason,” which documents the new conceptions of human liberty, political order, and scientific reasoning that emerged in the Anglo-American intellectual world between the 17th and 19th centuries and celebrates the collecting achievements of Sid Lapidus, Class of 1959.
Free and open to the public. Tours available Saturday, April 5 and Sunday, April 6 at 1:00 PM. Meet in the lobby of Firestone Library. The exhibition is open to the public every day: Monday through Friday, 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM and Saturday and Sunday, 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM.
On display through June 8
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Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know
Organizational Psychologist, bestselling author and Wharton professor Adam Grant who explores the science of motivation, generosity, rethinking, and potential will speak about the subject of his book Think Again before taking questions from the audience.
Tuesday, April 8
5:00 PM
McCosh Hall , Room 50
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Princeton University Concerts presents
Jess Gillam, Saxophone
With her natural energy, infectious personality and talent to spare, 26-year-old saxophone wonder Jess Gillam was the first saxophonist to reach the finals of BBC Young Musician and the youngest-ever soloist to perform at the Last Night of the Proms. She was also the first solo saxophonist to appear on PUC’s season when she made her jaw-dropping debut on the Performances Up Close series in 2022. She will now be the first-ever saxophonist to appear on the PUC’s mainstage Concert Classics series as she continues to redefine the capabilities of her extraordinary instrument.
Following the concert, join us for an end-of-season dance party as you learn accessible choreography from American Repertory Ballet artists to music performed live by Jess Gillam.
Purchase tickets and register for the end-of-season dance party on concerts.princeton.edu.
Thursday, April 10
7:30 Pm
Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall
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Princeton Research Day
Sign up to be an online judge!
Support Princeton early-career researchers and creators by becoming a judge! Princeton Research Day is your chance to explore works by Princeton students and postdocs on research, scholarship, and the arts.
WHO: You! Judge 3-minute videos online from home
WHAT: Watch videos and submit the judging forms (total of 30-min time commitment)
WHEN: Friday, May 2 to 9 a.m. Monday, May 5, 2025.
Deadline to sign up is April 30. Learn more about the event at researchday.princeton.edu.
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Images
Annual Meeting - Photo byDenise Applewhite, Office of Communications
Cancer Hub - Photo byDenise Applewhite, Office of Communications
Robert Lugo/ Orange and Black - Roberto Lugo, What Had Happened Was: The Central Park Five, from the series Orange and Black, 2024. Collection of Karen and Henry Glanternik. © Roberto Lugo. Photo: Joseph Hu
Jan Kraybill - Photo by Roy Inman
Macbeth in Stride - Photo by Chloe Li
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