President Eisgruber’s annual State of the University letter, 2021
by the Office of Communications
Feb. 4, 2021 2 p.m.
Princeton University President Christopher L. Eisgruber speaks with Irina Aranovich, general supervisor of Princeton s Diagnostic Laboratory, on a tour of the campus’ new COVID-19 testing facility in October 2020. The testing lab is an integral part of the University’s overall health and safety measures during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Ben Chang, Office of Communications
Princeton University President Christopher L. Eisgruber sent his annual State of the University letter to faculty, students and staff on Thursday, Feb. 4, reflecting on the role of the University in a time of crisis.
Equal Opportunity and Nondiscrimination at Princeton University: Princeton University believes that commitment to principles of fairness and respect for all is favorable to the free and open exchange of ideas, and the University seeks to reach out as widely as possible in order to attract the ablest individuals as students, faculty, and staff. In applying this policy, the University is committed to nondiscrimination on the basis of personal beliefs or characteristics such as political views, religion, national or ethnic origin, race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, marital or domestic partnership status, veteran status, disability, genetic information and/or other characteristics protected by applicable law in any phase of its education or employment programs or activities. In addition, pursuant to Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and supporting regulations, Princeton does not discriminate on the basis of sex in the education
Emily Judd, Princeton Univeristy Library
Jan. 28, 2021 4:04 p.m.
Although the course Reading Toni Morrison was taught virtually this fall, students were given special digital access to the Toni Morrison papers in Princeton University Library s Special Collections to explore the Nobel Laureate and Princeton professor emerita s creative process.
Photos courtesy of Special Collections, Princeton University Library, and by Sameer A. Khan/Fotobuddy
What is it like to pore over and even touch the handwriting of a world-renowned author on the lined notepaper on which she drafted her famous novels? What do you learn about the writing process from reading an author’s handwritten pen and pencil scribbles as she made changes to early drafts of work on typewritten pages? And what happens when access to those literary pages of gold is threatened by the pandemic?
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The Great War had been over nine days when Hobey Baker took off in his Spad airplane to explore some of the territory the Allies had seized back from the Germans. On the way home my engine suddenly went dead and I had to land on the side of a hill only ten kilometers from Metz, he wrote in a letter to his father. Had my engine stopped the same way any time during my work over the lines when the war was on I would have been a prisoner.
Hobey was one of the first pilots America sent to France in 1917. While there, he regularly wrote to his father, who then lived in Princeton, where both father and son had attended college.