Please note: Princeton University's Veterans Day observance is scheduled for Wednesday, November 11. See corrected details below. | | |
Veterans Day observance to be held at the Princeton University Chapel
A Veterans Day observance, free and open to the public, is planned for 9:00 AM Wednesday, November 11 at Princeton University Chapel. The town/gown event is co-organized by the Spirit of Princeton and Princeton University’s veterans’ community.
Remarks will be delivered by Jason Mangone, executive director of More in Common US. He began his career as an infantry officer in the United States Marine Corps. After his service, he directed the Aspen Institute’s Franklin Project, working to make a year of national service a common expectation. He then led the creation of the Service Year Alliance. Co-author of the bestselling book “Leaders: Myth and Reality,” Mangone serves on the board of New Politics, which trains veterans to run for office. He continues to serve his community on the Princeton Little League board and as a volunteer firefighter.
The program will include an invocation by Brittany Longsdorf, the university’s associate dean of Religious Life, and the singing of the Star-Spangled Banner and America the Beautiful by Kenneth Grayson, supervisor in Princeton University’s electric shop. Mayor Mark Freda of Princeton and Kam Amirzafari, co-chairs of the Spirit of Princeton, will give welcome remarks. Dr. Mary Rorro, psychiatrist for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, will sing an original composition, followed by a trumpeter playing the military bugle call taps. The benediction will be offered by Khalil Abdullah, Princeton’s assistant dean for Muslim Life.
The event is co-sponsored by numerous Princeton University affiliated organizations and offices including: the Vice President for Campus Life; Religious Life; Human Resources; Community and Regional Affairs; the Princeton University Army ROTC; Rutgers-Princeton University Naval ROTC and Air Force ROTC; Alumni and Friends of Princeton University ROTC; Princeton Veterans Alumni Association; Military and Service Veterans Resource Group; and the Princeton Student Veterans Alliance. Additionally, Spirit of Princeton, a Princeton-based charitable non-profit consisting of local residents dedicated to bringing the community together by producing civic events that honor the nation’s military and nation’s flag is also an event co-sponsor.
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Twenty-five years of transformative financial aid
Princeton University made history in 2001 when it became the first university in the country to eliminate loans from its financial aid packages. The decision also changed higher education as other colleges and universities followed Princeton’s lead in replacing loans with grant aid that does not need to be repaid.
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Princeton University launches annual United Way campaign
Titled “Live United,” Princeton’s annual United Way campaign gives faculty and staff opportunities to support the local community through monetary donations and supply drives. The campaign also includes a University matching contribution to the United Way of Greater Mercer County.
The University strengthens the impact of employees’ gifts by contributing 15 cents per dollar donated through payroll deductions and 10 cents for every dollar donated through a onetime credit card contribution to the UWGMC.
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Reading with the Tigers: Halloween Edition
Princeton student-athletes celebrated Halloween with friends at Crosby Copeland Elementary School in Trenton. Today's reading featured some spooky classics and even some silly costumes to help share our love for reading.
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Oratorio for Living Things by Heather Christian
Infusing a classical oratorio with blues, gospel, jazz and soul, this musical and visual journey investigates human experiences of time and memory alongside powerful physical forces that shape the universe. This exploration emphasizes the significance of the ritual of gathering for live performance in an increasingly screen-focused world. Directed by visiting Iranian artist and director Nikoo Mamdoohi, with translations from English to Latin by Princeton alumnus Greg Taubman (Class of 2006). Pre-show talk with Taubman and Princeton Professor of Classics Peter Kelly 11/6 at 5 p.m. and post-show audience talkback following 11/8 performance. This project is cosponsored by the Princeton Humanities Initiative.
Purchase tickets on mccarter.org.
November 6 and 7 at 8:00 PM
November 7 and 8 at 2:00 PM
Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre
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Guided tour: The Art of Japanese Publishing
Princeton University Library is offering guided tours of its current exhibition “The Art of Japanese Publishing: A Selection of Japanese Illustrated Books from the Marquand Library Collection 1660-1960,” which features selections from our collection of rare Japanese illustrated books.
Tours available this weekend on Nov. 7 and 8, both at 1pm, and on Tues., Nov. 10 at 12:30pm. Meet in the lobby of Firestone Library. The exhibition is open to the public: Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM and Thursday and Friday from 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM. The gallery is closed Mondays.
Free and open to the public.
November 7 and 8 at 1:00 PM
November 10 at 12:30 PM
Firestone Library, Millberg Gallery
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Diwali at the Chapel
Join us for an enchanting evening of devotional music, dance, sacred storytelling, and spiritual reflection as we celebrate Diwali, the Hindu Festival of Lights.
With special offerings from Bhajan Mandali featuring Mayuri Gandharvika, Srikar, & Friends.
Free and open to the public
Saturday, November 7
7:00 PM
Princeton University Chapel
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Spanish-Language Tours at
Princeton University Art Museum
¡Hablemos de arte! Estas visitas guiadas de una hora de duración se ofrecen en español.
Let's talk about art! These hour-long tours of the collections are offered in Spanish.
Explore las piezas destacadas de las colecciones del museo y descubra obras de arte de todo el mundo que representan miles de años de creatividad humana. La visita en español es gratis y abierta a todo el público; no requiere inscripción. Limitado a 20 participantes; por orden de llegada. Comienza en el mostrador de información del museo.
Explore highlights of the Museum’s collections and discover works of art from around the world, representing thousands of years of human creativity. This Spanish-language tour is free and open to all; no registration required. Limited to 20 participants; first come, first served. Meet at the Museum’s information desk.
Sunday, November 8
3:00 PM
Princeton University Art Museum
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Bradford Seminar: “Linking Ecological and Economic Models: Gross Ecosystem Product (GEP) and the Use of Ecosystem Service Information in Decision-making”
Stephan Polasky, regents Professor for University of Minnesota, will present “Linking Ecological and Economic Models: Gross Ecosystem Product (GEP) and the Use of Ecosystem Service Information in Decision-making.”
Achieving sustainable development that simultaneously meets ecological and economic objectives requires integrating the value of natural capital and ecosystem services into economic and financial decisions. At the landscape scale, integrated methods can show how to achieve maximum feasible combinations of various ecological and economic objectives, such as biodiversity conservation, carbon sequestration, and economic returns to agricultural crops, grazing, and timber production. At the macro-economic scale, there is widespread recognition of the need to move beyond GDP as a measure of progress, in part because GDP fails to measure many contributions of nature to economic activity and human well-being. Gross ecosystem product (GEP) is a measure of the aggregate value of ecosystem services that can complement measures of GDP. We use extensive biophysical and economic data to calculate the quantity and price of more than 35 ecosystem services in 250 countries and territories using globally available data and standardized methods. We discuss data and methodological challenges in calculating GEP and opportunities to improve such calculations. We also discuss possible paths forward on integrating the value of nature into important economic and financial decisions.
Watch the livestream on mediacentrallive.princeton.edu.
Monday, November 9
12:15 PM
Online
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The Magical Number 142,857: A Full-Circle Story
We explore the surprising magic hidden inside the number 142,857. The number exhibits a host of truly astonishing properties — some familiar, others delightfully unexpected — and sits at the crossroads of number theory, magic, and illusion. We will discuss why this number is so special, how to create others like it, and what it means to “classify” such magical numbers. Along the way, we’ll be led to the very frontier of mathematics, where these curiosities connect to one of the greatest mathematical mysteries of our time: the Riemann Hypothesis.
Free and open to the public.
Monday, November 9
7:00 PM
McDonnell Hall, Room A02
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Screening: Tesseract in 3D
Tesseract is the result of a multi-year collaboration between choreographers Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener, Princeton Class of 2006, and pioneering filmmaker and video artist Charles Atlas. Mitchell, Riener, and Atlas are Merce Cunningham Dance Company alumni.The full project is an evening-length presentation in two parts: a 3D dance film featuring seven dancers and a live proscenium performance with several dancers. The film offers speculative worlds and alternate possibilities in bold visual environments. The performance includes live-video capture with multiple cameras, mixed live by Atlas and projected into the stage space. Images obscure and reveal moving bodies behind a translucent scrim, magnified and refracted by Atlas. Through collective action the project forges a link between human ritual conjuring and new technological magic, between the past and the future. The 3D film will be screened at this event on November 9 with Charles Atlas in attendance. At the Princeton Dance Festival on November 20-22, audiences can view excerpts of the live dance performance.
Free and open to the public.
Monday, November 9
7:30 PM
James Stewart Film Theater at 185 Nassau Street
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Site
An exhibition by Carlos Agredano
Site, an exhibition by 2-25-26 Princeton Hodder Fellow Carlos Agredano, follows the history of the chemical industry in 20-century New Jersey, whose factories supplied pesticides, plastics, and munitions to American border enforcement and the U.S. military. Networks of industrial firms ran from Perth Amboy, Princeton, Los Alamos, Bien Hoa, to Basrah, and their inventions left behind a toxic legacy both at home and abroad. In response to the negative environmental impact caused by the chemical industry, Congress passed the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) in 1980, creating the list of hazardous areas known as Superfund Sites. Though it is the fifth smallest state in the country, New Jersey holds more of these contaminated sites than any other state in the United States. The exhibition places these sites beside the Minimalist and Land Art of the 1960s and 70s, whose practices mirrored the same pathways. Ideas were developed in the industrial landscapes of the East Coast, then carried to the Southwest, a region treated as open, empty, and available for experimentation and extraction. It was also where the chemical and military industries sent their inventions to be tested. Site reads these two histories together, treating the Superfund as a record of the militarization that Land Art’s geography left out.
Free and open to the public. Opening reception November 10 at 4:30 PM.
On display November 10-January 15
Hurley Gallery at Lewis Arts Complex
View gallery hours on arts.princeton.edu
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Reading by Brittany Perham
and Creative Writing Seniors
Award-winning poet and memoirist Brittany Perham, winner of the Barnard Women Poets Prize and the AWP Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction, reads from her 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. Perham’s books will be available to purchase and have signed.
Free and open to the public.
Tuesday, November 10
6:00 PM
Labyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street
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From the Boardroom to the Beltway: Reflections of A General Counsel
Pierre M. Gentin brings over thirty years’ experience in law, business, university teaching and public service.
He was most recently the 39th General Counsel of the United States Department of Commerce, following nomination by the President and confirmation by the U.S. Senate. Pierre was previously Senior Partner, Chief Legal Officer, and a member of the management team at consulting firm McKinsey & Company. He was a Partner at the law firm Cahill Gordon & Reindel and, for nearly twenty years, a Managing Director and senior legal and risk officer at global financial services firm Credit Suisse. Pierre also served as a federal prosecutor in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. He has been recognized as a leading lawyer by the Financial Times, Bloomberg, The American Lawyer, and Crain’s New York Business, among many other media.
Register on spia.princeton.edu.
Wednesday, November 11
12:15 PM
Robertson Hall, Bowl 016
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SPIA Dean's Leadership Series
Carter Roberts '82, President and CEO, World Wildlife Fund
Join us for a timely conversation about the policy choices shaping the future of our planet. Drawing on decades of experience working with governments, businesses, and conservation partners around the world, the discussion will explore what it takes to turn conservation goals into action, protect biodiversity, address climate change, and manage natural resources. It will also examine how political leadership and partnerships can help balance environmental priorities with economic growth and the needs of communities.
Register to attend in person or watch the livestream.
Thursday, November 12
12:15 PM
Robertson Hall, Arthur Lewis Auditorium
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Book Talk - Reboot – AI and the Race to Save Democracy by Beth Simone Noveck
Democracy is in retreat at home and abroad. Our institutions are more fragile than ever. At this delicate moment, artificial intelligence has burst onto the scene—a powerful technology that holds as much potential to bolster democracy as to harm it.
Yet we no longer treat democracy as a design challenge we can solve. We have built extraordinary tools without yet using them where they are needed most: to forge institutions that listen more closely, decide more wisely, and act more effectively.
We stand at an inflection point. Will AI tighten the grip of power—or help rebuild public institutions that work for people? Reboot offers a bold and practical playbook for tipping the balance in favor of democracy.
For technologists, public servants, researchers and civic leaders, Reboot offers a practical framework for governing AI—and for governing with it.
Join the Bertram and Carole Siegel Professor of Computer Science and CITP director Arvind Narayanan and Beth Noveck as they discuss her latest book, Reboot – AI and the Race to Save Democracy.
Free and open to the public. Watch the livestream on Zoom.
Thursday, November 12
4:30 PM
Robertson Hall, Bowl 016
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Princeton University Concerts present
Serbian-French violinist Nemanja Radulović is as close to a rock star as classical music gets—fearless, electrifying, and utterly captivating. He makes his long-awaited Princeton debut with his sparkling Double Sens Chamber Orchestra, an ensemble he founded with his closest Serbian and French friends. Crowned “International Revelation of the Year” at the Victoires de la Musique and winner of the 2024 OPUS KLASSIK Award, Radulović is celebrated for his fiery virtuosity, spontaneous energy, and infectious joy on stage. He brings us a program of his own arrangements for chamber orchestra, giving Beethoven’s monumental Kreutzer Sonata, Bach’s towering Chaconne, and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade—drawn from the magical tales of The Thousand and One Nights—a fresh, inspired rendering in which the music unfolds like a story told anew at every turn, full of the thrill of discovering something you have never quite heard before.
Purchase tickets on concerts.princeton.edu.
Thursday, November 12
7:30 PM
Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall
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Drawing from the Collections: Pastels
Create (and de-stress!) with virtual art classes inspired by our collections.
For the fall installment of our popular virtual art-making series, explore pastels with guidance from artist-instructor Barbara DiLorenzo. Each week’s lesson will be inspired by a work in the Museum’s collections. For this week’s theme, participants will explore light and dark values, inspired by Martin Johnson Heade’s Newburyport Marsh (Marsh Haystacks).
Register for the livestream on artmuseum.princeton.edu.
Thursday, November 12
8:00 PM
Online
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Pop-Up Talk: Curator Kit Brooks
Short talks and Q&As on Museum topics.
This month, Kit Brooks, the Museum's curator of Asian art, will discuss the special exhibition Takeda Hideo’s Genpei: Defying Authority, which features a series of silkscreen prints that cynically reinterprets Japan’s Genpei War (1180–85) within the context of twentieth-century social upheavals.
After the talk, head upstairs to the Allen Adler and Frances Beatty Adler Gallery for an informal conversation with the curator.
Free and open to the public.
Friday, November 13
2:00 PM
Princeton University Art Museum
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Peter Kelly on “Seamus Heaney and the Classics"
Princeton Assistant Professor of Classics Peter Kelly presents a lecture on “Seamus Heaney and the Classics,” sharing material from his current book project on connections between the poetry of Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley and Derek Mahon and the Greco-Roman classics. For these Northern Irish writers, the translation and reception of Latin literature became a means of operating inside, outside, and across political and cultural divides, Kelly explains, and opened up a space for meaningfully reflecting on the fractured and bifurcated nature of place in Northern Ireland. Kelly argues that Heaney in particular turns to the classics to transform the landscape from one characterized by political trauma and violence during the Troubles to one that reflects a desire for reconnection in the wake of the climate crisis.
Free and open to the public.
Friday, November 13
4:30 PM
James Stewart Film Theater at 185 Nassau Street
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Art and Empathy
An in-depth look at artworks created to inspire compassion.
How do paintings and photographs invite us to relate to another person’s experience? Focusing on European works from the 15th–20th centuries, this tour will consider the stylistic and technical methods artists have used to encourage an empathetic response.
Space is limited; registration required. Register on artmuseum.princeton.edu.
Friday, November 13
5:00 PM
Princeton University Art Museum
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At the Wedding by Bryna Turner
In this raucous and bittersweet comedy, Carlo finds herself at her ex-girlfriend’s wedding to… some guy. Determined to cause a scene, Carlo guides the audience through a series of cynically hilarious exchanges with the many faces of the party. As she tries to rock the boat, will she be able to see beyond her heartache and recognize the true character of the people around her? Or will she sink under the weight of old habits, resolute in her bitter perceptions of love? Featuring senior Pixley Marquardt and co-directed by Marquardt and junior Ren Dzyuba.
Reserve free tickets on tickets.princeton.edu.
November 13, 14, 19, 20, and 21
8:00 PM
Wallace Theater at Lewis Arts Complex
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Rufus Wainwright with Princeton Playhouse Sinfonia
For one night only, Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright takes the McCarter stage with the Princeton Playhouse Sinfonia. The "super-group/orchestra" was created specifically for this concert. It brings together student musicians from the Princeton University Sinfonia, the Princeton Playhouse Orchestra and the Princeton Jazz Ensembles, playing side by side with local professionals. Students get the rare chance to rehearse and perform with one of today's great song interpreters, in the farewell run of a show that began at Carnegie Hall in 2006 and went on to the London Palladium and the Hollywood Bowl.
The concert is part of McCarter's Arts & Ideas initiative, which links Princeton University scholarship to the work at McCarter. This concert is a clear example of that idea: a world-class artist, the university's young talent and the wider community, all on one stage. For audiences, it's two performances in one: Wainwright's Garland and his own songs, and a look at the next generation of musicians, with a glimpse into the creative life of the Princeton campus.
Purchase tickets on mccarter.org.
Thursday, November 19
7:30 PM
McCarter Theatre
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Art for Families: Piecing it Together
Saturdays are for young makers in the Creativity Labs!
The artist Yeesookyung transforms discarded pieces of ceramic vases into new works of art that embrace organic and novel shapes. Join us this week to create your own recycled sculpture with metallic accents. We provide the materials, you bring the creativity!
Visit us 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—just drop in as your schedule allows! All ages are welcome; children must be accompanied by an adult.
Saturday, November 7
10:00 AM to 1:00 PM
Princeton University Art Museum
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World of Materials Science Day
Learn. Explore. Play! In this family-oriented free multilingual program, PCCM invites the public to explore materials science with Princeton University researchers. With many table-top activities, participants of all ages interact with scientists and engineers who study and manipulate materials. Join us and discover what our scientists are doing with polymers, crystals, electronic devices, computers, and much more! Also, learn about the exciting new research in materials science and engineering. Visit the many tabletop activities and demonstrations, engage the scientists and engineers, ask plenty of questions, and have fun with the entire family. Our researchers and volunteers are excited to have fun, engaging science conversations with the public in various languages (English, Spanish, French … to name a few!).
Free and open to the public.
Saturday, November 7
1:00 to 3:00 PM
Princeton Public Library, Community Room
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Science Saturdays
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 - 5.
Science Saturdays take place monthly. Students will engage in different hands-on engaging science activities each month.
Registration is required - Click the links below for registration at each library.
Princeton Public Library
Saturday, November 7 at 2:00 PM
Registration
Ewing Branch Library
Saturday, November 14 at 10:00 AM
Registration
Lawrence Public Library
Saturday, November 14 at 11:00 AM
Registration
Trenton Free Public Library
Saturday, November 14 at 3:00 PM
Registration
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Images
Financial Aid - Illustration by Matilda Luk, Office of Communications
United Way - Photo by Denise Applewhite, Office of Communications
Art of Japanese Publishing - Photo by Stephanie Wiener
Spanish Language Tours - Xochipala, Late Formative Period to Early Classic Period, Vicinity of Xochipala, upper Balsas region, Guerrero, Mexico, Two seated figures engaged in animated conversation, 400 BCE–500 CE. Princeton University Art Museum. Gift of Gillett G. Griffin in honor of David W. Steadman, Graduate School Class of 1969. Photo: Bruce M. White
Tesseract - Photo by Mick Bello
Brittany Perham - Photo by Marco Giugliarelli
Drawing from the Collections - Martin Johnson Heade, Newburyport Marsh (Marsh Haystacks), ca. 1871–75. Princeton University Art Museum. Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund and Kathleen Compton Sherrerd Fund for Acquisitions in American Art
Peter Kelly - Photo by Denise Applewhite, Office of Communications
Art and Empathy - Bill Brandt, In a Disused Tube Tunnel, Autumn, 1940. Princeton University Art Museum. Gift of Michael D. Francis. © Estate of Bill Brandt
At The Wedding - Photo by Lucy Shea
Art for Families - Yeesookyung 이수경, Translated Vase TVW1, 2015. Princeton University Art Museum. Museum purchase, Mary Trumbull Adams Art Fund. © Yeesookyung
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