• Student Dispatch: An Unusual Summer of Camping, Art, Spelunking

    August 31, 2020 Arts/Cultural, Education, Technology

    Student Dispatch: An Unusual Summer of Camping, Art, Spelunking

    This summer’s unusual circumstances robbed most Princeton students of exciting plans — internships in New York City, language courses in China, travel across Italy. But with significant free time, students still discovered opportunities for personal and professional growth, and even travel. Finding them just required a little creativity, and sometimes a little luck.

  • Reinventing Museums: The Pandemic’s Challenges and Opportunities

    June 25, 2020 Arts/Cultural, Podcasts

    Reinventing Museums: The Pandemic’s Challenges and Opportunities

    The loss of visitors and revenue has presented museums with an existential crisis, says James Steward, the director of the Princeton University Art Museum. At the same time, the pivot to digital alternatives provides an opportunity to rethink many assumptions – including new ways to diversify content while improving access and inclusion.

  • Making meaning of the pandemic ‘through the lens of literature’

    May 15, 2020 Arts/Cultural, Education

    Making meaning of the pandemic ‘through the lens of literature’

    Weeks before the coronavirus crisis hit, the 99 Princeton undergraduates in the spring course “Literature and Medicine” were already immersed in the many ways storytelling shapes the way we understand and experience illness, disease and health. Now, from their laptops, scattered around the world, the students are discovering that literary texts are not only keeping them connected to one another, but also helping them grapple with their own experiences during the pandemic.

  • Diana Weymar ’91 Stitches Memorable PAW Cover

    May 14, 2020 Arts/Cultural, Community,

    Diana Weymar ’91 Stitches Memorable PAW Cover

    Textile artist and curator Diana Buri Weymar ’91 introduces the PAW’s feature on how alumni artists are coping with the pandemic, but captures a poignancy in the interplay of Princeton connections and the sense of where we are in the world today.
    (Reunion by Diana Buri Weymar ’91; photograph by Nelson Hancock ’90)

  • Essay: The Sounds of Solace

    May 12, 2020 Arts/Cultural

    Essay: The Sounds of Solace

    Simon Morisson *97, professor of music and slavic languages and literatures, traces the history of music as a source of comfort in difficult times.