Alumni Day Award Winners
by Office of the Alumni Association
Alumni Day is the mid-winter celebration on campus in which Princeton's most accomplished alumni are honored and recognized. The Woodrow Wilson Award is conferred annually upon an alumnus or alumna of the undergraduate college whose achievements exemplify Woodrow Wilson's memorable phrase "Princeton in the nation's service." The James Madison Medal is given each year to an alumnus or alumna of the Graduate School who has had a distinguished career, advanced the cause of graduate education, or achieved a record of outstanding public service. Speeches from the award winners are collected here.
Episodes
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Alumni Day 2014 - In the Nation's Service
Sonia Sotomayor ’76, Associate Justice on the United States Supreme Court, reflects on the various ways that one can live a life of service. She wonders whether we have conflated the idea of service into a daunting goal for the next generation and counsels us to break down “service” to its…
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Leadership, Humility, and Service: The Princeton Tradition (Lecture Segment)
Robert Mueller III ’66, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, reflects upon the core values of leadership, humility, and service learned during his time as an undergraduate student at Princeton University and reinforced by his service in the U.S. Marine Corps. He further discusses the…
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The Life of a Judge: From Megan's Law to Bernie Madoff
Denny Chin '75, U.S. Circuit Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, shares remarks about his career in public service, the past 17 years as a federal judge, and the types of cases with which he has been involved. Chin was the Woodrow Wilson Award winner, Alumni Day 2011.
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Civility in a Fractured Society
James A. Leach *64, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, expresses concern for the lack of civility and respect for others' perspectives in the public sphere. Spurred by transformations in communications technology that have resulted in market splintering of U.S. media outlets,...
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Alumni Day is the mid-winter celebration on campus in which Princeton's most accomplished alumni are honored and recognized. The Woodrow Wilson Award is conferred annually upon an alumnus or alumna of the undergraduate college whose achievements exemplify Woodrow Wilson's memorable phrase "Princeton in the nation's service." The James Madison Medal is given each year to an alumnus or alumna of the Graduate School who has had a distinguished career, advanced the cause of graduate education, or achieved a record of outstanding public service. Speeches from the award winners are collected here.
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