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Dig of the century

Princeton’s Antioch expeditions astonished the world by unearthing lost mosaic treasures — often overlooked on today’s campus

By W. Barksdale Maynard ’88

In the cold rain of March 1932, 80 years ago this month, Princeton archaeologists began digging shovels into muddy earth at ...

Altered paths

Spared the worst of the Great Recession’s toll on young people, recent Princeton grads still had to adjust to a new reality

By Zachary Goldfarb ’05

David Czapka ’07 graduated from Princeton shortly before the financial crisis hit and enrolled in graduate school at Penn...

Reading Room: The power of introverts

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, by Susan Cain ’89

By Katherine Federici Greenwood

In American culture today, people tend to admire the outgoing individual who would rather talk than listen, makes quick...

Art museum returns more ancient artworks to Italy

By W. Barksdale Maynard ’88

For the second time since 2007, the Princeton University Art Museum has returned Greco-Roman antiquities to Italy amid...

Big changes for new Wilson School majors OK’d by faculty

By W. Raymond Ollwerther ’71

The faculty of the Woodrow Wilson School has approved changes to the undergraduate curriculum that call for more structure,...

In support of the Occupiers: A leftist defends activism on Princeton’s campus

By Alex Barnard ’09

Having spent much of this fall organizing with the Occupy movement in California, I occasionally forget that my world is...

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