Princeton Alumni Weekly Podcasts
by Princeton Alumni Weekly
PAW is Princeton University’s editorially independent magazine by alumni, for alumni. On the monthly PAWcast we interview alumni, faculty, and students about their books, their work, and issues that matter to the Princeton community.
Episodes
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Memorials PAWcast Rembering John V. Fleming *63
Memorials PAWcast Rembering John V. Fleming *63 by Princeton Alumni Weekly
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PAW Book Club: With ‘Mathey Girls,’ Melody Chu ’01 Reminds Us to Treasure Friendships
On this episode of the Princeton Alumni Weekly’s Book Club podcast, we talk author Melody Chu ’01 about her debut novel, Mathey Girls. Melody studied economics at Princeton and followed it up with Harvard Law School, but after a near death experience during pregnancy, she left her corporate law…
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PAWcast: Dr. Lucy McBride ’95 Wants a Sea Change in Healthcare
Have you ever walked out of a doctor’s appointment feeling rushed, unheard, or misunderstood? If so, you’ve experienced a symptom of a much larger ailment affecting our healthcare world. On this episode of the PAWcast, we talk with Dr. Lucy McBride, from the Class of ’95, a primary care physician...
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PAW Book Club: ‘Fun City Heist’ by Michael Kardos ’92
On this episode of the Princeton Alumni Weekly’s Book Club podcast, author Michael Kardos ’92 answers our questions about his latest comedic crime novel, Fun City Heist. It’s set in his old stomping grounds, the New Jersey shore, and he made the protagonist a drummer, like himself. As the story...
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PAWcast: How to Get Your Book Published
This is the Princeton Alumni Weekly’s PAWcast, where we talk with Princetonians about what’s happening on campus and beyond. For this episode we’re pleased to bring you a recording of PAW’s 2026 Reunions panel, titled How to Make Your Book a Reality. We gathered a terrific group of authors and...
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PAWcast: Dating at Princeton? Part 2: It’s Even More Complicated
On Part Two of the PAWcast’s look at Princeton’s dating culture, Lia Opperman ’25 continues talking with three graduating seniors about how relationships, breakups, and digital disruptions are shaping student life today. If you haven’t listened to Part One yet, be sure to go back and check it out...
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PAWcast: Dating at Princeton? Part 1: It’s Complicated.
On this episode of the PAWcast, Lia Opperman ’25 speaks with three current seniors about the most perennial of topics in higher education: campus dating culture. Romance has always been a big part of the college experience at Princeton and elsewhere. But in recent years, it’s faced digital...
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PAWcast: Valedictorian Daniel Yu ’26 Seeks a Life In Pursuit of Justice
On this episode of the PAWcast, Princeton valedictorian Daniel Yu ’26 discusses his research in African American and gender and sexuality studies and his plans for the future: Next year he’ll begin studying in the U.K. as a Marshall Scholar, working toward a master’s degree in race and gender...
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PAWcast: Alumni Travel Journalist-Adventurers Tell You Where to Go
On this episode of the Princeton Alumni Weekly’s PAWcast, we bring you a conversation from PAW’s Tiger Travels section, between travel journalist Laura Dannen Redman from the Class of 2003 and Jaqui Gifford ’02, who is currently editor in chief of the gold standard magazine for jetsetters, Travel…
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Memorials PAWcast: Remembering Charles Helms ’80
PAW Memorials editor Nicholas DeVito sat down with Doug Eberhart ’80 to discuss Charles Helms ’80. Chuck was a lawyer, teacher, and had a deep faith in his family and Catholicism.
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PAWcast: Professor Sean Wilentz Co-produced Bob Dylan’s New Bootleg Albums
Princeton history professor Sean Wilentz has co-produced a new eight-CD box set of material by singer, songwriter, and Nobel laureate Bob Dylan. It’s called The Bootleg Series Number 18: Through the Open Window, 1956 to 1963, and it contains 165 tracks, many of them never heard before. It also...
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Culinary Podcaster Maggie Hoffman ’04 Knows What’s for Dinner
On this episode of the PAWcast, Maggie Hoffman ’04 discusses her path to building a podcast and an online presence around that age-old question, which some of us love and some of us hate: What’s for dinner? Previously, Maggie was managing editor of Serious Eats and digital director of the recipe...
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PAW Book Club: Suleika Jaouad ’10’s ‘Between Two Kingdoms’
On this episode of the Princeton Alumni Weekly’s book club podcast, Suleika Jaouad ’10 discusses ”“Between Two Kingdoms,” her memoir of fighting a rare and aggressive form of leukemia and, afterward, finding a way to rebuild her life and her very sense of self. She also discusses her follow-up,...
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Memorials PAWcast: Remembering Hendrix Neimann ’73
PAW Memorials editor Nicholas DeVito sat down with Rob Mancuso ’73 and Mike Mims ’71 to discuss Hendrix “Drix” Neimann ’73. Drix was active in Business Today at Princeton and co-founded New Jersey Monthly Magazine.
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PAW Book Club: Todd Purdum ’82 Penned a Biography of Desi Arnaz
On this episode of the PAW Book Club podcast, career journalist Todd Purdum ’82 answers book club members’ questions about his new biography, “Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television.” As Todd’s exhaustive research shows, the Cuban-born star of “I Love Lucy” contributed far more than his…
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Memorials PAWcast: Remembering Richard Springs III ’64
PAW Memorials editor Nicholas DeVito sat down with Lanny Springs ’67 to discuss his brother William Springs III ’64. Dick played football at Princeton and was a cattle rancher.
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Vocalist Charmaine Lee ’14 Is Taking Her Mind-Bending Music to All 50 States
Charmaine Lee ’14’s music might be unlike anything you’ve ever heard before. Lee grew up in a musical family and studied jazz at Princeton along with sociology. She also sang with one of Princeton’s a cappella groups, and the experience inspired her to carve out an innovative niche as a vocalist…
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Raphaela Gold ’26 Reported on Student Mental Health for the ‘Prince’
This is the Princeton Alumni Weekly’s PAWcast, where we talk with Princetonians about what’s happening on campus and beyond. At the end of July, a pretty big story appeared on The Daily Princetonian’s website, one that took Raphaela Gold ’26 about a year and a half to report. It was a deep dive...
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PAW Book Club: Lauren Ling Brown ‘12 Sets a Thriller at a Princeton Eating Club
On this episode of the PAW Book Club podcast, we talk with Lauren Ling Brown ’12 about Society of Lies, her bestselling novel set almost entirely on Princeton’s campus. It follows the stories of two sisters, one of whom is murdered during Reunions Weekend. The story is entirely fictional, but…
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PAW Reunions Panel: How the News Media Covers the MAGA Movement
How is the news media covering the MAGA movement? Four journalists and a Princeton historian during the Princeton Alumni Weekly’s 2025 Reunions panel delved into questions about reporting on Trump voters, whether the press should use the word “lie,” today’s fragmented media landscape, and how…
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PAWcast: Valedictorian Erik Medina ’25 on the Chemistry of Plastics
On this episode of the PAWcast, Princeton valedictorian Erik Medina ’25 talks about majoring in chemistry and his thesis, for which he researched ways to upcycle plastics. Erik has been accepted into a Ph.D. program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, but first he’s taking a year off to teach...
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Memorials PAWcast: Remembering Bill Miller ’55
PAW Memorials editor Nicholas DeVito sat down with Steve McNamara ’55 to discuss Bill Miller ’55. Bill was a geologist and landman, but he was well known more for his vintage car racing.
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PAWcast: Podcaster Milano Buckley ’02 on Parenting and an Unusual Childhood
When Milano Buckley ’02 was born, her mother was homeless. She was living in her car, and she kept baby Milano in a basket in the backseat. What followed was an exceptionally unusual childhood that remarkably led Milano to the Lawrenceville School, and then later to Princeton. When Milano became…
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PAW Book Club: ‘Sweet Fury’ by Sash Bischoff ’09
On this episode of the PAW Book Club podcast, we speak with Sash Bischoff from Princeton’s Class of 2009 about her debut novel and our latest book club read, “Sweet Fury.” From the very first page, “Sweet Fury” takes the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald, famously of Princeton’s Class of 1917, and…
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Memorials PAWcast; Remembering Jennifer Parmalee ’80
PAW Memorials editor Nicholas DeVito sat down with Shelley Slade ’80 and Marie Yovanovitch ’80 to discuss Jennifer Beale Parmalee ’80. Jenni was a journalist in East Africa, covering politics, war, and personal stories.
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Memorials PAWcast: Remembering Victor Brombert
On this episode, PAW Memorials editor Nicholas DeVito sat down with Elyse Graham ’07 to discuss Professor Victor Brombert, who died Nov. 26, 2024.
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PAW Book Club: ‘By Any Other Name’ by Jodi Picoult ’87
On this episode of PAW’s Book Club podcast, we ask bestselling author and playwright Jodi Picoult ’87 about her latest book, “By Any Other Name,” which presents readers with a hypothesis: Could Emilia Bassano, a woman who really lived in Tudor England, have written some of the most famous plays...
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PAWcast: Stephen Lamberton ’99 Is Destigmatizing Suicide by Telling His Story
As a volunteer with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, Stephen Lamberton ’99 is sharing the story of his father’s death in 1985 in hopes of destigmatizing suicide and helping others struggling with the loss of a loved one. On this episode of the PAWcast, Lamberton describes his…
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Memorials PAWcast: Remembering Karl Hummel 67
On this episode, PAW Memorials editor Nicholas DeVito sat down with Jim Kempf ’67 to discuss Karl Hummel ’67, who died July 23, 2023.
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Memorials PAWcast: Remebering Isabella Da La Houssaye ’86
On this month’s Memorials PAWcast, we remember Isabella de la Houssaye from the class of 1986. Isabella was a lawyer, mother, art curator, and endurance athlete. She died December 2nd, 2023.
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PAW Book Club: ‘Intimacies’ by Katie Kitamura ’99
On this episode of the PAW Book Club podcast, we talk with Katie Kitamura ’99, author of our latest read, “Intimacies.” The much-lauded novel follows a woman who comes to The Hague as an interpreter for the international court and begins to interpret for a former president who’s facing war crime...
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PAWcast: Ambassador Cameron Hume ’68 Discusses Humanitarian Aid
When Cameron Hume ’68 graduated from Princeton, he joined the Peace Corps and was sent to Libya, where his two-year stint was cut short by a coup d’etat. The experience launched him on a diplomacy career that has taken him to some of the world’s most dangerous — and interesting — places. On the...
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Memorials PAWcast: PAW Remembers Ernie Pascarella ’65
On this episode of PAW’s Memorials PAWcast, we remember Ernie Pascarella ’65. Ernie played on the 1964 undefeated football team and was All-Ivy two years.
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Memorials PAWcast: PAW Remembers Joe Schein ’37
On this first episode of PAW’s new Memorials PAWcast, we remember Joe Schein ’37, the longest-living member of the Class of ’37 and the oldest undergraduate alum in Princeton’s history. Joe carried the Class of 1923 Cane — an honor given to the oldest returning alum — at Princeton Reunions eight...
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PAWcast: Rev. Alison Boden and Rev. Theresa Thames
Princeton’s Office of Religious Life recently saw a transition in leadership, and we thought it would be an ideal time to speak on the PAWcast with the two people passing that figurative baton: The Rev. Alison Boden, who recently retired after 17 years as dean of religious life and the chapel…
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PAWcast: Discussing Student Mental Health at PAW’s 2024 Reunions Panel
This episode was recorded at Princeton University’s 2024 Reunions Weekend, when PAW sponsored a panel discussion featuring five alumni experts who addressed two questions: Is student mental health in crisis, and what can be done about it? The conversation begins with moderator Lucy McBride ’95…
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PAW Book Club: Bianca Bosker ’08’s “Get the Picture”
On this episode of the PAW Book Club Podcast — where Princeton alumni read a book together — Bianca Bosker ’08 talks about her latest book, “Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See,” for which she ventured into the...
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PAWcast: Valedictorian Genrietta Churbanova ’24 on Princeton, Anthropology, and Research
Princeton’s newest valedictorian, Genrietta Churbanova ’24, is an anthropology major who spent much of her time here researching Russia-China relations in both the Russian and Chinese languages. On this episode of the PAWcast, she talks about her research, about growing up in both Moscow and…
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PAWcast: How to Make People Care About Climate Change
John Marshall ’87 and Jessica Lu ’17 say climate change has a public relations problem. It’s the biggest crisis of our time, but too often the people with solutions don’t communicate them in a way that resonates with the public. The solution, they say, lies in what just happens to be the field...
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PAW Book Club: Michael Lewis ’82’s "Going Infinite"
PAW’s Book Club returns with author Michael Lewis, Class of ’82, answering alumni questions about “Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon,” his recent book about Sam Bankman-Fried, a deeply peculiar financial mogul who very quickly built a cryptocurrency empire only to have it implode...
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PAWcast: Princeton Basketball Coaches Carla Berube and Mitch Henderson ’98
The 2024 Ivy League Basketball Tournament tips off March 15 at Columbia’s Levien Gymnasium, and Princeton is seeded No. 1 on the men’s and women’s sides after both Tiger teams won regular-season championships. In advance of the big weekend in New York, PAW spoke with head coaches Carla Berube and...
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PAWcast: Student Mental Health With Calvin Chin and Jess Deutsch ’91
After speaking on the PAWcast with three students about mental health at Princeton, PAW invited columnist Jess Deutsch ’91 and director of Counseling and Psychological Services Calvin Chin to add their perspective on the issue. Addressing points the students raised, they discussed the pressure...
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PAW Book Club: Jennifer Weiner ’91’s “The Breakaway”
Welcome to the first podcast from PAW’s new Book Club, where Princeton alumni read a book together and send PAW their questions for the author. We received some terrific questions for our very first author, Jennifer Weiner, Class of ’91, about her latest novel, “The Breakaway.” Jennifer is a...
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PAWcast: Students Discuss Mental Health at Princeton
Concerns have been rising about student mental health on college campuses over the past few years — including at Princeton. To examine this issue, PAW asked three students who have been leaders and mentors in this area to discuss what’s going on: Chioma Ugwonali ’24, Isaac Lunar ’24, and Issa...
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PAWcast: Three Alumni on Ukraine, Putin, and Nuclear War
Jeff Burt ’66, Jim Hitch ’71, and Peter Pettibone ’61 might know a bit more about Russia than the average Princetonian. All three headed up the Soviet and Russian practices of the international law firms where they were partners: Arnold & Porter, Baker & McKenzie, and Hogan Lovells, respectively....
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PAWcast: Adam Mastroianni ’14 on the Illusion of Moral Decline
Today I am very pleased to tell you: I have good news. Morality is not actually declining in our country or anywhere else. The widespread belief that morality is declining is an illusion. That’s the conclusion Adam Mastroianni ’14 reached in a study recently published in the journal Nature. With...
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PAWcast: Get to Know Princeton Football Coach Bob Surace ’90
Bob Surace ’90 is heading into his 13th season as Princeton’s head football coach, but his history with the Tigers goes back much further. On the PAWcast, he spoke about his time as an All-Ivy center for Princeton and what experiences like coaching in the NFL taught him about the game and the...
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PAWcast: Author Lisa Belkin ’82 Followed a Murder Back Four Generations
In 1960, the lives of three men born to immigrant families during the Great Depression collided. A doctor helped a prisoner get paroled, and then that prisoner shot and killed a police officer. Many years later, journalist Lisa Belkin, Princeton Class of 1982, heard this story from the doctor…
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Valedictorian Aleksa Milojević ’23 Describes His Princeton Experience
Princeton University’s valedictorian for the Class of 2023 is Aleksa Milojević, a mathematics major from Belgrade, Serbia, who has focused on combinatorics while at Princeton and has already written three papers. In addition to earning 16 A pluses at Princeton, he has been a recipient of the...
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In New Memoir, Bill Eville ’87 Writes Extraordinary Everyday Stories
For years, Bill Eville ’87 has been writing down his life in bits and pieces, publishing essays about parenthood, childhood memories, and yes, being a Princeton alum. Now he’s gone further and written a book, a memoir called Washed Ashore that’s filled with his thoughts about high school…
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