Princeton Alumni Weekly

Do female playwrights have more difficulty getting their work produced, compared to their male counterparts? Economics student Emily Glassberg Sands ’09 took on this controversial and complex question in her senior thesis and revealed some surprising results.

Actor Mark Feuerstein ’93 has a reputation for playing nice guys on TV shows like Good Morning, Miami and The West Wing — TV Guide called him “the menschiest mensch who ever mensched” — and his latest role on USA Network’s Royal Pains is no exception. ...

With a fresh diploma from Harvard Business School and a job at the money-management firm Bridgewater Associates, Max Anderson ’01 finds himself in an enviable position. But the new M.B.A. is not taking the responsibilities of the business world lightly. ...

“We can finally burn the bumper sticker that says: ‘He who dies with the most toys wins.’ The truth is closer to the old Italian proverb that says: ‘At the end of the game, the ...

This summer, 50 disadvantaged middle-school students from New York and Boston will attend art and music camp, thanks to our Tiger of the Week, Cameron Snaith ’00, and a group of young Princeton alumni ...

Rivka Galchen ’98’s debut novel, Atmospheric Disturbances — about a lonely therapist, Dr. Leo Liebenstein, who returns to his New York apartment one day to find that his wife, Rema, has ...

During Reunions 1949, Palmer Stadium played host to an international track meet pitting a combined squad of Princeton and Cornell stars against top athletes from Oxford and Cambridge. The marquee race ...

The following stories are from PAW's 2009 Reunions Guide, available at class headquarters during Reunions. The guide also includes this year's P-rade map, a trivia quiz about campus architecture, an interview with ABC's John Stossel ’69, a cover illustration by Henry Payne ’84, and more.

Cornell defeated Princeton 6-4 in the NCAA Division I men’s lacrosse quarterfinals May 16. The game was only the third in the 39-year history of the NCAA tournament in which two opponents combined to score fewer than 11 goals.

Tiger of the Week Eric Hagen ’92 is at the top of his field, according to Forbes.com. Last week, the magazine chose him as the leading brokerage analyst in oil exploration and production, his area of expertise, and ranked Hagen fifth in its "dazzling dozen" of top analysts across all fields. ...

Six days a week, Jonathan Schwartz ’10 takes a New Jersey Transit train into Manhattan to work. The job involves some singing and dancing and being ready for the unexpected, like trying to belt out his lines in front of 200 people with confetti stuck in his mouth.

When architect J. Robert Hillier ’59 *61 and his wife, Barbara, created the online magazine Obit in April 2007, they envisioned a publication that would stretch the boundaries of the standard obituary. ...

Oscar-winning director Jon Blair plans to turn his camera on Robert Kennedy's funeral train in the upcoming feature documentary Is Everybody Alright? The film, which draws its title from Kennedy's last ...

After Peter de Jonge ’77 wrote a not entirely flattering profile of Sarah Jessica Parker for Harper’s Bazaar, he ran into the actress on the street and “she just started yelling at me for like 15 minutes,” he says. ...

The Princeton baseball team has four scheduled games against Cornell this week, but head coach Scott Bradley sees the matchup as a best-of-five series: With the Tigers and Big Red tied atop the Ivy League’s ...

As an undergraduate, Jac Schaeffer ’00 poured her extracurricular energies into Triangle Club, Theatre Intime, and the Princeton Shakespeare Company. But the California native found her calling in film. ...

Poetry will be in the spotlight at Princeton next week, as the University welcomes Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney and a dozen other prominent poets for the first Princeton Poetry Festival, April 27 and 28. ...