Princeton University

09/15/2026

Step inside Briger Hall and experience "What Is Missing? What If?" by Maya Lin.

09/14/2026

Heads of college are tenured faculty members who live in nearby college houses and work with college staff, student peer leaders and faculty advisers to nurture undergraduates' intellectual, social and personal development.

Princeton’s residential college heads explain their unique roles, share how faculty foster community in the residential colleges, and reflect on how serving as college heads enriches their own work and lives. ⤵️

The professors play a vital role on Princeton's campus, cultivating community in academic and residential life.

09/11/2026

Today, the campus community gathered at the 9/11 Memorial Garden for the University's annual interfaith service to remember those who tragically lost their lives on September 11, 2001, including 14 Princeton alumni.

Robert L. Cruikshank '58
Charles A. McCrann '68
Philip Guza *72
William E. Caswell *75
Martin P. Wohlforth '76
Robert J. Deraney '80
Joshua A. Rosenthal *81
Karen Klitzman '84
Jeffrey D. Wiener '90
John Schroeder '92
Christopher Ingrassia '95
Robert G. McIlvaine '97
Christopher Mello '98
Catherine McRae '00

09/10/2026

📸 First Day photos are here! ➡️ https://bit.ly/4xQGbPu

09/09/2026

"You have joined a community that spans disciplines, cultures and continents. Pursue your work boldly. And help us demonstrate what a thriving global community of scholars can achieve."

Hundreds of new graduate students filled Richardson Auditorium, where Princeton University Graduate School Dean Rodney Priestley welcomed them to the Graduate School’s vibrant international community of scholars: https://bit.ly/4ypArfl

09/08/2026

Vice President for Campus Life W. Rochelle Calhoun, who has played a pivotal role in enriching the undergraduate and graduate student experience during a period of significant growth at Princeton, will retire at the end of the 2026-27 academic year: https://bit.ly/46dnyZP

09/05/2026

You’ve got mail! 📬 Sending Postcards from Princeton with sights and scenes from the beginning of the new academic year.

09/04/2026

At the Princeton Pre-read Assembly, President Eisgruber and author and literacy advocate Maryanne Wolf held a wide-ranging conversation about the value of deep reading and what it means to have "a good reading life."

The Pre-read Assembly focused on Wolf's book, “Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World,” which President Eisgruber selected for incoming students to read over the summer.

09/02/2026

As students made their way to their first class of the semester, we asked: What class are you looking forward to the most this fall?

09/02/2026

x : "Home is where the United States Air Force sends us. These words, which hung on my living room wall, are deeply ingrained in military culture. Growing up as a military kid meant never truly being able to answer the question, 'Where are you from?' Before high school, I moved four times across the country for my dad’s job as a B-2 bomber pilot: from Texas to Missouri, to New Mexico, to Louisiana and back to Missouri. The proximity to Whiteman Air Force Base in K**b Noster, Missouri, a town of less than 3,000, undoubtedly influenced my high school experience. Witnessing this community, brought together through military service, sparked my interest in U.S. Army Cadet Command (ROTC). Living in rural Missouri gave me the opportunity to take in-person college courses at the University of Central Missouri, a short drive from home, and split my day between homeschool learning, high school classes, and competing in varsity cross country and track and field. Applying to college, I was drawn to Princeton’s community: the orange oasis. When Ivy Day came, I was on the phone with my parents, who were away in Kansas City, and apprehensively opened my letter. Seeing the first pixels of the orange tiger, I was immediately in shock. My eyes filled with tears, partly because attending Princeton was a dream that I never thought would come true, but also because it felt like a life-changing moment. When I applied to Princeton, I was settled on pursuing engineering however attending the Academic Fair during Orientation exposed me to majors and careers I never considered. I began rewriting the assumptions I’d made about which options were open to me. Much like the question of where I am from, what I want to do with my life is a question I’m only beginning to figure out; one I hope to explore through the Army ROTC program at Princeton (Princeton Tiger Battalion Army ROTC). Upon meeting my fellow Army ROTC cadets, I immediately felt community. We explored campus, made jokes and had impromptu movie nights. Just as I found belonging after each move as a child, I have already felt that same sense of belonging at Princeton and through Army ROTC.” — Lyla Stiles '30; 📷 by David Galarza '28