Three win Guggenheim Fellowships

Three professors have received 2013 Guggenheim Fellowships for demonstrated excellence in scholarship or creative work. D. Graham Burnett, professor of history; Deana Lawson, lecturer in visual arts and the Lewis Center for the Arts; and Continue Reading →

Toni Morrison receives Presidential Medal of Freedom

Toni Morrison, Nobel laureate and Princeton’s Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities Emeritus, was named by President Barack Obama as a 2012 recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in Continue Reading →

Princeton poet Tracy K. Smith wins Pulitzer Prize

Tracy K. Smith, an assistant professor of creative writing in Princeton’s Lewis Center for the Arts, won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for poetry for Life on Mars, which the prize committee called “a collection of bold, Continue Reading →