Today is Orange & Black Day! What better way to celebrate the University’s 279th birthday than to show your Princeton pride and Stand Up for Princeton and Higher Education ? Put on your best orange and black, take a photo or video sharing why Princeton matters to you, and upload it to the kudoboard or post to your social media, tagging @PrincetonAlumni and using #OrangeAndBlack.
The newest reason for Princeton pride: Earlier this month, the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Princeton graduate alumna Mary Brunkow. Together with co-winners, she was recognized for creating a new branch of immunology that has already led to new treatments for cancers and autoimmune diseases, and has implications for organ transplants. This great news is another example of how Princeton and Princetonians advance the nation’s health, security and prosperity.
Need more reasons to Stand Up this Orange & Black Day? Read on!
In the news
- President Eisgruber was interviewed by Fareed Zakaria last week on CNN about the increasing pressure on higher education, and he confirmed that Princeton would not sign the federal government’s “compact” if asked.
- On Sept. 24, a Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida carrying NASA’s IMAP, a Princeton-led mission to understand the Sun’s impact on its space environment, from the surface of the Sun to Earth to the farthest reaches of the solar system. Learn more about IMAP’s leaders, Dave McComas and Jamie Rankin.
- Read about how a friendship between two office neighbors, the trailblazing computer scientist Fei-Fei Li ’99 and linguist Christiane Fellbaum, became fortuitous in the future of computing. Their meeting sparked an intellectual connection that inspired a computer vision database — a database that would lead to a paradigm shift in machine learning.
- Learn more about how research funded by the United States’ National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the backbone of discoveries that drive treatments for mental health, neurodegenerative disease, and brain injury.
Support the 2025-26 Annual Giving Campaign
On Orange & Black Day, make a birthday gift that matters by participating in this year’s Annual Giving campaign. Because of budget uncertainties associated with federal funding, the University will need to draw even more heavily on Annual Giving and other sources. Support is always welcome, and every gift counts.
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