Princeton University Podcast (Audio)

Princeton President Christopher L. Eisgruber addresses the Class of 2015 and their guests at the University's Commencement on Tuesday, June 2.

Princeton University Graduate School Hooding ceremony for advanced-degree recipients.

Lisa Jackson *86 | This interfaith program includes music, prayers and readings from a variety of religious traditions, as well as an address by Graduate School alumna and University Trustee Lisa Jackson *86.

Martin Eakes *80 (WWS) reflects on a lifetime making loans to America's low-income family homeowners and minority small-businesses. Through story and humor, he describes how the success of his work to change lending practices was based on the faith that poor people are better borrowers than rich people and how home ownership is the sinlge best tool for breaking the cycle of poverty and changing the psychology of what people think is possible.

President Jimmy Carter speaks on the topic of his new book, A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power, an exploration of challenges to women's rights that are made by their own religious communities.

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama | His Holiness engaged a select group of students and faculty in conversation around Princeton’s informal motto, In the Nation's Service and in the Service of All Nations. What does it mean to be in the service of all nations? What counts as service? What is the role of developing the heart when engaging in service? The Dalai Lama’s reflection on our informal motto provides a unique opportunity for us to think together about our shared aspirations for lives of meaningful and compassionate engagement.

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama | As a scholar and a monk, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama highlights the importance of developing compassion and kindness, alongside the intellect, in an academic environment.

Princeton University Class of 2018

Princeton University awarded degrees to 1,244 undergraduates in the Class of 2014, seven from other classes and 996 graduate students at its 267th Commencement Tuesday, June 3.

Norman Augustine, retired chairman and CEO of Lockheed Martin Corporation who earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Princeton, addressed advanced-degree recipients at Princeton's Hooding ceremony held Monday, June 2, on Cannon Green.

Former Vice President Al Gore addressed graduating seniors at Princeton University's Class Day celebration on Monday, June 2, on Cannon Green.

Christopher Lu, deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor and a member of Princeton's Class of 1988, spoke to seniors from the pulpit of the University Chapel during the Baccalaureate service on Sunday, June 1. Lu urged students to embrace public service, regardless of their career path.

Arianna Huffington, Anne Marie Slaughter | In her new book Thrive, Arianna Huffington makes an impassioned case for the need to redefine what it means to be successful in today's world.  Join Huffington and Anne Marie Slaughter for a conversation exploring our measures of success. Sponsored by the Princeton University Women's Center.

Mollie Marcoux and Chris Eisgruber address a crowd of coaches, staff, students and media gathered on Carril Court in Jadwin Gymnasium. Marcoux, a varsity athlete in soccer and ice hockey, was named to the athletic director position effective Aug. 4. She will succeed Gary Walters, who announced last fall that he would step down after leading the athletics program at Princeton for 20 years.

Daniel Kahneman | In this talk, Nobel Prize Recipient Daniel Kahneman will sketch a view of the mind that brings together a great deal of psychological research and trace its implication for an understanding of the limited role of reason in our lives.  He will also trace his current views to ideas that fascinated him  as an undergraduate, to life experiences, to friendships — and to luck. Daniel Kahneman received the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2002 for “for having integrated insights from psychological research into economic science, especially concerning human judgment and decision-making under uncertainty.”   He has received numerous awards, including the 2013 Presidential Medal of Freedom.   His 2011 book Thinking, Fast and Slow was a New York Times bestseller.  He is a Princeton Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychology and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy. This event, sponsored by the Stafford Little Lecture Series, is free and open to the public.  For more information on this and other lectures in the series, please visit lectures.princeton.edu

Christopher Eisgruber, Omar Wasow | At Princeton University's annual King Day celebration, Assistant Professor of Politics Omar Wasow celebrates the achievements of the civil rights movement while underscoring the complex challenges it faces today in the continuing fight for equality for all.

Max Boot, Author of Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present (2013), War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History: 1500 to Today (2006), and The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power (2002)

Janet Malcolm, writer for the New Yorker | The Council of the Humanities is pleased to announce that Janet Malcolm, a long-time staff writer for The New Yorker, will read from and discuss her most recent book, Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers at 5:00 p.m. Thursday, November 7, in McCosh Hall, Room 10. This event is free and open to the public. An acclaimed biographer known for her strikingly vivid portraits of writers and artists, Malcolm will discuss the life and work of Gene (Geneva) Stratton-Porter, a bestselling author of popular novels in the early-20th-century. Reading Stratton-Porter’s sentimental novels as a kind of “capitalist pastorale,” Malcolm exposes the materialism and consumerism in the author’s proto-environmentalism and her fairy-tale-like Cinderella stories, including the wildly popular coming-of-age romance A Girl of the Limberlost. Malcolm is the author of many intellectually provocative books, including The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes and Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice, which was the recipient of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography. A frequent writer for The New York Review of Books, Malcolm’s most recent collection of essays takes on a variety of subjects: painters, photographers, writers, and artists. Ranging from Bloomsbury’s visual culture to the Gossip Girl novels, and from Edith Wharton to J. D. Salinger, Malcolm’s journalistic reporting rises, as Ian Frazier writes in his introduction to Forty-One False Starts, “to the highest level of literature.” Malcolm’s lecture will be introduced by the award-winning novelist and memoirist, A. M. Homes, who teaches creative nonfiction at Princeton University and writes frequently for The New Yorker, The New York Times, and other publications.

Chen Guangcheng, Arthur Waldron | This public lecture by Chen Guangcheng and moderated by Arthur Waldron addresses the plight of human rights, freedom, and the rule of law in China. Sponsored and organized by the Witherspoon Institute, the lecture is co-sponsored by the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University.

K. Anthony Appiah, Laurence S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy and the Center for Human Values

Princeton University Class of 2017