Princeton Alumni Weekly Podcasts
135 episodes - English - Latest episode: 25 days ago - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsPAW 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.
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PAW Book Club: Michael Lewis ’82’s "Going Infinite"
March 28, 2024 18:49 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MBPAW’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 far faster just a few years later. When we spoke with Lewis earlier this week, Bankman-Fried was awaiting sentencing for fraud and money laundering, of which he was found guilty back in the fall. (H...
PAWcast: Princeton Basketball Coaches Carla Berube and Mitch Henderson ’98
March 11, 2024 19:17 - 27 minutes - 24.7 MBThe 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 Mitch Henderson ’98 about their paths in coaching, their goals for a player’s four-year experience, and some of the challenges and perks of the job.
PAWcast: Student Mental Health With Calvin Chin and Jess Deutsch ’91
February 02, 2024 18:30 - 39 minutes - 54.1 MBAfter 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 Princeton students feel to achieve, what services the University offers and what messages it tries to project, and what alumni can do to help.
PAW Book Club: Jennifer Weiner ’91’s “The Breakaway”
January 23, 2024 17:15 - 33 minutes - 30.5 MBWelcome 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 prolific writer and frequent topper of bestseller lists. “The Breakaway” hit shelves this summer, and it impressed us at PAW by pulling readers breezily into a story about a bicycling trip led by protago...
PAWcast: Students Discuss Mental Health at Princeton
December 20, 2023 14:56 - 1 hour - 82.5 MBConcerns 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 Mudashiru ’25. In a wide-ranging conversation, they discussed why Princeton students feel intense pressure to achieve, what mental health resources the University makes available to them, and why they co...
PAWcast: Three Alumni on Ukraine, Putin, and Nuclear War
November 03, 2023 17:12 - 36 minutes - 33.5 MBJeff 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. On Sept. 20, the same day that Ukraine President Volodymr Zelensky addressed the United Nations, they discussed their thoughts on the war with fellow alumni at a Tiger Talks ’66 event, and shared an ...
PAWcast: Adam Mastroianni ’14 on the Illusion of Moral Decline
October 02, 2023 18:16 - 26 minutes - 24.2 MBToday 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 Harvard psychology professor Daniel Gilbert *85, Mastroianni found it just isn’t true that people overall are less kind, honest, and respectful than they used to be. So why do we believe it? On the PA...
PAWcast: Get to Know Princeton Football Coach Bob Surace ’90
September 01, 2023 14:55 - 36 minutes - 33.9 MBBob 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 players. He also gave his thoughts on two hot-button issues in college football today — the transfer portal and players’ newfound ability to sell their name, image, and likeness.
PAWcast: Author Lisa Belkin ’82 Followed a Murder Back Four Generations
June 30, 2023 13:45 - 24 minutes - 33.1 MBIn 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, who had recently become her stepfather, and she had a question: How? How did one of these men become the cop, one the killer, and one the doctor? To find out, she traced the families of all three men ba...
Valedictorian Aleksa Milojević ’23 Describes His Princeton Experience
May 30, 2023 13:44 - 19 minutes - 26.3 MBPrinceton 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 Freshman First Honor Prize, the Class of 1939 Scholar Prize, and the Shapiro Prize for Academic Excellence — twice. Milojević spoke with PAW about his Princeton experience, about solving math problems no ...
In New Memoir, Bill Eville ’87 Writes Extraordinary Everyday Stories
May 02, 2023 13:18 - 29 minutes - 40.3 MBFor 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 wrestling matches, marrying a minister who fought breast cancer, moving from New York City to Martha’s Vineyard, becoming a stay-at-home dad, and later the editor of the local newspaper. If all of this sounds...
PAWcast: Professor Forrest Meggers on Princeton Going Zero Carbon
March 31, 2023 13:09 - 31 minutes - 43.2 MBPrinceton University is positioning itself at the forefront of research that could help to throw the brakes on climate change, from its zero-carbon goals to the way it’s using the campus as a living laboratory. One person with a front row seat to all this is Forrest Meggers, a jointly appointed professor in Princeton’s architecture and engineering schools. He also directs Princeton’s C.H.A.O.S lab, which seeks to maximize the efficiency of heating and cooling systems. This month, as we celebr...
PAWcast: Majka Burhardt ’98 on Motherhood and Mountain Climbing
March 06, 2023 13:55 - 27 minutes - 25.4 MBMajka Burhardt, Princeton Class of ’98, has always wanted more. More challenges, more achievement. It’s what pushed her to become one of the world’s top professional rock and ice climbers, chasing adventure around the world and eventually beginning to build her own conservation organization at a mountain in Africa. Then in 2015, she discovered she was pregnant with twins. That seismic change led her to question everything — her work, her relationship with her mother, her marriage, and what it...
PAWcast: Jon Ort ’21 on Firestone’s Forced Labor and Donations to Princeton
February 02, 2023 14:22 - 35 minutes - 48.8 MBWhile he was a history student at Princeton, and editor of The Daily Princetonian, Jonathan Ort, Class of 2021, began researching the Firestone company. Yes, that Firestone; the one that once dominated the rubber and tire industry and the one that donated the $1 million to build Princeton’s world-class library in 1944. What he found was recently published in the Princeton & Slavery Project, which investigates Princeton’s historical involvement with slavery. This time, the forced labor wasn’t ...
PAWcast: Leila Philip ’86 on How Beavers Shaped America
January 13, 2023 14:16 - 27 minutes - 25.2 MBOnly one creature, other than humans, substantially engineers the landscape around it: the beaver. Many millions of these furry dam builders once busily trapped water in ponds across North America, keeping the landscape lush and fertile, until colonists in the 1600s discovered the lucrative fur trade. In her new book, titled “Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America,” Leila Philip ’86, an English and environmental studies professor at the College of the Holy Cross, who lives near a beave...
PAWcast: David Robinson ’04 Examines Ethics in Algorithms
November 28, 2022 20:24 - 27 minutes - 25.4 MBWhat happens when a donor kidney becomes available to somebody who needs one? In the U.S., a hundred thousand people are waiting on lists, all with different ages, complications, and circumstances. How do you decide who gets it? In his new book, Voices in the Code, David Robinson ’04, a scholar and co-founder of the equity-focused NGO Upturn, takes a look at the algorithm used to match kidneys and patients, and on the latest PAWcast he discusses how it was developed. Algorithms are increasing...
PAWcast: Christine Emba ’10 on Changing Our Culture’s Sexual Script
October 27, 2022 19:25 - 28 minutes - 38.9 MBWashington Post columnist Christine Emba ’10 has been watching the approach that young, single people are taking to sex these days, and it isn’t pretty. What’s more, often it’s bad. It’s bad sex, full of unwanted, unsatisfying encounters, influenced more by porn than pleasure, that women and men are nevertheless consenting to. Why? In her new book, titled ‘Rethinking Sex: A Provocation,’ Emba explains how our sexual culture arrived at this moment and suggests a way forward, a way to bring con...
PAWcast: Rob Khoury ’90 on Designing Better Internships
September 27, 2022 02:04 - 25 minutes - 35 MBInternships are a staple of the business world, and a step almost mandatory for young people entering many areas of the workforce. But how many are full of busywork? How many are unpaid? Rob Khoury, who founded and runs his own consulting company, Agile Rainmakers, wants internships to reach their true potential, as fulfilling experiences that mutually benefit both hosts and college students — including the Princeton alumni who host their alma mater’s current crop each summer. He spoke with P...
PAWcast: Tom Szaky ’05 on the World’s Overwhelming Waste Problem
August 15, 2022 13:04 - 33 minutes - 45.6 MBTom Szaky ’05 says everything we own eventually comes to the end of its lifespan, whether it’s a shirt you’ve worn for years or the cup from a coffee you bought this morning. Where does it all go? How much actually gets recycled? And with evidence mounting that all this waste is damaging our world, how can we throw on the brakes? Over the 20 years since he was a Princeton undergrad, Szaky has become an entrepreneur in the recycling world with his Trenton-based company TerraCycle, and a vocal ...
PAWcast: Valedictorian Natalia Orlovsky ’22 on Research, Mental Health, and Pandemic Princeton
June 27, 2022 15:20 - 16 minutes - 22.6 MBJust a few days before graduating as valedictorian of Princeton’s Class of 2022, Natalia Orlovsky spoke with PAW about her love for both the sciences and humanities and her hopes for going into academia. As a student she worked in a bioengineering lab, served on the peer review board of the Princeton Undergraduate Research Journal, was an undergraduate course assistant, served on the board of Theatre Intime, and has been involved with the Gender and Sexuality Resource Center. Her advice to fu...
PAWcast: Leo Damrosch *68 on Biographing Giocomo Casanova
May 31, 2022 15:22 - 20 minutes - 28.8 MBLeo Damrosch *68 is a Harvard professor of literature, emeritus, who has written biographies of Jonathan Swift, William Blake, and others. In his new book, titled Adventurer, he tackles Giacomo Casanova — the real Casanova, separate from the many fictionalized accounts that his name has inspired over the centuries, and separate from the version he painted of himself in a massive autobiography toward the end of his life. Damrosch spoke with PAW about untangling Casanova’s story and about how t...
PAWcast: Eric Schwartz *85 on Ukrainian and Global Refugees
April 29, 2022 18:41 - 22 minutes - 30.7 MBRussia’s invasion of Ukraine has prompted a flood of refugees seeking safety in Europe, the U.S., and elsewhere. As president of Refugees International, Eric Schwartz *85 has had an eye on the situation, and on refugee crises in places that aren’t receiving as much attention. Schwartz spoke to PAW in mid-March about what he saw in Ukraine during a trip there early in the invasion, and about the policy solutions that are needed not only for Ukrainian refugees, but others around the world. At t...
Rosa Wang *91 Is Empowering Women with Digital Finance
March 28, 2022 13:30 - 29 minutes - 26.8 MBThat little cellphone in your pocket can do more than you think. On the latest PAWcast, Rosa Wang *91 describes her work bringing mobile banking and digital financial services to some of the world’s poorest and most remote places. Using her background in investment banking, she found that cellphones have incredible potential for empowering women. In her new book, titled “Strong Connections, Stories of Resilience from the Far Reaches of the Mobile Phone Revolution,” she says with the right app...
PAWcast: Catherine Sanderson *97 on What Makes a Moral Rebel
February 28, 2022 14:16 - 30 minutes - 42.2 MBWhy do some people step up to help or speak up in a crisis, while others don’t? On this episode of the PAWcast, Amherst professor Catherine Sanderson *97 explains how she analyzed the psychology of this phenomenon for her new book, Why We Act. She explains the science behind how we’re wired to behave as bystanders and shows that with the right tools, training, and education, anyone can be turned into a moral rebel.
Emily Lammers ’06 on How to Thrive As a First-Time Mom
February 02, 2022 21:08 - 27 minutes - 25.3 MBHaving a baby shouldn’t be a high-pressure experience — yet somehow it has become one. Emily Lammers ’06 worked hard to carve her own path through parenting, and then she wrote a book about it: No Drama First-Time Mama. On this episode of the PAWcast, Lammers breaks down the pressures directed at first-time moms, from breastfeeding to helicopter parenting to neglecting their own well-being, and offers advice and confidence to anyone who wants to do the same.
Darcie Little Badger ’10 Weaves Lipan Apache Storytelling into Novels
January 03, 2022 11:51 - 26 minutes - 37 MBGhosts and monsters, strong families and a connection to the Earth fill the two young adult novels penned by Darcie Little Badger ’10. Readers also find traditional Lipan Apache storytelling elements that Badger, a member of the Lipan Apache tribe, learned from her family while growing up in Texas. Badger spoke with PAW about her books — Elatsoe and A Snake Falls to Earth — about facing rejection on her path to becoming a writer, and why she wants her young readers to come away feeling hopefu...
PAWcast: Christine Ko ’95 on Building Doctor-Patient Connection
November 22, 2021 19:21 - 29 minutes - 26.7 MBAs a practicing dermatologist, Christine Ko ’95 is usually in the doctor’s seat. But when her son was diagnosed with profound deafness at two years old, she suddenly found herself on the patient’s side of the relationship. What she learned and experienced over the next few years led her to write a new book, titled How to Improve Doctor-Patient Connection. Ko, who is also a professor of dermatology and pathology at Yale, spoke with PAW about the discoveries she made and how better awareness an...
Jeff Korzenik ’85 Lays Out a Road Map for Second-Chance Hiring
October 21, 2021 13:00 - 30 minutes - 41.2 MBA criminal record can stand firmly between a potential new hire and a company that needs to fill an open job. But should it? On this episode of the PAWcast, business strategist Jeff Korzenik ’85 discusses his book, Untapped Talent, making a strong case for why smart companies will meet the coming global talent shortage with second-chance hiring. And he lays out a road map for how to do it right, with tried-and-tested strategies he says will give people, who may have never had a first chance a...
PAWcast: Gigi Georges *96 Tells the True Story of Rural Maine
September 24, 2021 01:33 - 33 minutes - 31 MBOn the north coast of Maine, about as far as you can go before reaching Canada, lies a wild, poor, beautiful place known as Downeast. Many people there make their living on lobster boats, and many have deep family roots, interwoven over generations. Gigi Georges *96 spent four years here, starting in 2016, following the lives of five teenage girls, in hopes of telling a story about rural America more true than most we’ve heard: A story about tight communities, neighbors, friends, hard work an...
PAWcast: Robert Masello ’74 on Writing Historical Fiction and the Publishing Industry
August 30, 2021 19:52 - 30 minutes - 41.7 MBRobert Masello ’74 has carved a niche in the writing world: His novels place real historical figures in fictional stories with a touch of the supernatural. One follows Albert Einstein into a battle between good vs. evil at Princeton; the latest sends H.G. Wells through a haunted adventure. With a second edition of his nonfiction book about writing due out in September, Masello shared his story on the PAWcast along with advice for aspiring writers.
PAWcast: Novelist Cate Holahan ’02 Probes Psychology in Domestic Thrillers
July 20, 2021 13:27 - 27 minutes - 37.1 MBAs a journalist, Cate Holahan ’02 covered some dark stories, like the Bernie Madoff scandal. Today, she uses what she learned to write domestic psychological thrillers. Karma always comes for her characters, but there are no perfect villains, and no one emerges a complete hero. In her fifth and latest book, “Her Three Lives,” Holahan probes the way security technology can twist a mind pushed to the edge by violence and paranoia.
PAWcast: Taishi Nakase ’21, Valedictorian for the Class of 2021
June 14, 2021 13:58 - 24 minutes - 33.3 MBTaishi Nakase, an operations research and financial engineering concentrator who hails from Melbourne, Australia, was named Princeton’s valedictorian for the Class of 2021. He spoke with PAW about his research into measles vaccinations campaigns, his plans for medical school, and the challenges and lessons of being a Princeton student in this pandemic year.
PAWcast: Thomas Nelson *04 on Saving a Wisconsin Paper Mill
June 01, 2021 13:48 - 31 minutes - 43.1 MBWisconsin’s Appleton Coated nearly became the next American paper mill to go under, even as state officials fought to bring in a massive new electronics plant, Foxconn, with public subsidies. But Appleton didn’t go under, thanks to a fight by the mill’s workers and the county executive, Thomas Nelson *04. Nelson’s book, “One Day Stronger: How One Local Union Saved a Mill and What it means for American Manufacturing,” details that victory and why it reinforces his belief in American labor unions.
PAWcast: Writer Julia Zarankin *04 on Falling for Birding
April 22, 2021 13:17 - 23 minutes - 32.4 MBBirds arrived in Julia Zarankin’s life at a moment of change. In her memoir, Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder, she writes that the career she worked so hard for had become unfulfilling, and her first marriage had fallen apart. Her search for meaning took her to a birding group in Toronto, where she fell hard for the red-winged blackbird. That sighting began a decade-long love affair with the avian world that took Julia to many places to find birds, including a sewage lagoon, the first...
PAWcast: Men’s Basketball Alums Revisit the ’96 Princeton–UCLA Game
March 12, 2021 14:46 - 27 minutes - 24.9 MBPrinceton 43, UCLA 41. Twenty-five years after the final backdoor layup dropped through the net, the Tigers’ memorable 1996 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament upset win lives on in the memories of fans — and not just Princetonians. On this month’s PAWcast, we talk about how Princeton knocked off the defending national champs with the starting five from that game: Chris Doyal ’96, Sydney Johnson ’97, Steve Goodrich ’98, and Mitch Henderson ’98, and Gabe Lewullis ’99. (Photo of Lewullis by Lawren...
PAWcast: Jeff Schwartz *87 on the Changing Nature of Work
March 01, 2021 15:06 - 34 minutes - 46.8 MBJeffery Schwartz *87, the author of Work Disrupted: Opportunity, Resilience, and Growth in the Accelerated Future of Work, leads the Future Work practice for Deloitte. Over the last decade or so, his team has said that we are on the precipice of major transformations in how and where we do our work. In this PAWcast, he speaks about his findings over the years and how COVID-19 has, in many regards, resulted in changes his team saw coming, such as working remotely, and how the timeline for the ...
PAWcast: Maria Tatar *71 on the Scholarship of Fairy Tales and Folklore
January 21, 2021 14:27 - 28 minutes - 26.3 MBOur guest this month is Maria Tatar, the John L. Loeb Research Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures and of Folklore and Mythology at Harvard University. Maria, who received her Ph.D. from Princeton in 1971, has recently published a book, Fairest of the Them All: Snow White and 21 Tales of Mothers and Daughters, which explores Disney’s Snow White and all of the Snow White-esque folklore found in cultures across the globe. Tatar shifted the focus of her scholarship to folklore in the...
PAWcast: Author David Michaelis ’79 on Rediscovering Eleanor Roosevelt
December 21, 2020 02:37 - 34 minutes - 47.4 MBEleanor Roosevelt was many things: an orphaned child in a prominent family, a stellar student, an ambitious social reformer, a savvy political spouse, a tireless humanitarian, and a syndicated columnist whose daily dispatches were followed by millions of readers. According to David Michaelis, author of the new biography Eleanor, the former first lady built a remarkable legacy by engaging with the public and pursuing her passions. “She truly was a far more evergreen person, in a way, even than...
PAWcast: Cara Jones ’98 and Father Farley Jones ’65 Reflect on Divergent Experiences as ‘Moonies’
November 23, 2020 16:05 - 28 minutes - 53 MBThis month, Cara Jones ’98 and her father, Farley Jones ’65 discuss their relationship with the Unification Church created by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon. Cara grew up deeply devoted to the religion, like her father, and accepted a marriage arranged by the Rev. Moon. But in a new documentary, Blessed Child, she explains how that marriage ultimately led to her disillusionment with the religion and her decision to separate from the church.
PAWcast: Jennifer Howard ’85 Explains the History of Clutter and What To Do About It
October 16, 2020 01:27 - 28 minutes - 25.9 MBJennifer Howard ’85 has just released a book called “Clutter: An Untidy History.” Faced with the daunting task of cleaning out her elderly mother’s chaotic and jam-packed home, Howard began to ask herself: “Why is this scenario so common? And what drives our need to acquire and accumulate so many things? And what becomes of our belongings when we, or often our loved ones, finally dispose of them?” Howard is a former contributing editor at The Washington Post and a former senior reporter at Th...
PAWcast: Bart Gellman ’82 Discusses the NSA’s Unlawful Surveillance of Americans
August 24, 2020 15:32 - 31 minutes - 57.7 MBThis month Bart Gellman ’82 discusses his work on the Edward Snowden disclosures, the subject of his new book, Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State. Gellman discusses the drama that unfolded around receiving and publishing the news about the NSA’s unlawful surveillance of Americans, and weighs in on his opinion of Snowden and tips for how to keep your data safe.
PAWcast: A Republican and a Democrat Take a Road Trip and Search For Common Ground
July 13, 2020 14:16 - 27 minutes - 51.1 MBJordan Blashek is from the Class of 2009, and his co-author, Chris Haugh, is a UC, Berkley graduate; the pair met while in law school together at Yale. Blashek served for five years as an infantry officer with the United States Marines and is now part of a new company called Schmidt Futures, founded by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Class of 1976, which works on a wide array of public-interest projects. Chris has served as a speechwriter for the State Department and is a journalist who has w...
PAWcast: Valedictorian Nicholas Johnson '20 on Making History and Pursuing Science for Good
May 26, 2020 18:24 - 22 minutes - 30.5 MBIn this Commencement episode of the PAWcast, valedictorian Nicholas Johnson ’20, an operations research and financial engineering concentrator, reflects on his time at Princeton. Johnson’s achievement is especially notable because he is the first black valedictorian in the University’s 274-year history. “It’s extremely overwhelming and a lot to take in, but also very empowering at the same time,” Johnson said. He will be heading to MIT in the fall to pursue a Ph.D. in operations research. Joh...
PAWcast: Paul Wapner *91 on Reviving Connections to the Natural World (May 2020)
May 14, 2020 17:02 - 29 minutes - 41.1 MBMost people in the developed world can control the amount of wildness in their daily lives by simply shutting the door and adjusting the thermostat. But the COVID-19 outbreak has reminded us that the uncertainty and discomfort of the biological world is never completely locked away. Limiting our interactions with the nature has consequences, according to professor and author Paul Wapner *91, including a tendency to “put the burden of our comfort … onto the lives of those who are less fortunat...
PAWcast: Professor Ashoka Mody Explains How Lower Trade Due to COVID-19 Will Affect World Economies
April 16, 2020 19:28 - 21 minutes - 40.3 MBAs the COVID-19 pandemic began to seize the globe in late March PAW revisited a podcast conversation from 2019 with Ashoka Mody, a visiting professor in international economic policy. In his book, EuroTragedy, Mody detailed the fragility of the European single currency. Now, amid global economic distress, he weighs on what the coming months will entail.
PAWcast: Adrienne Raphel ’10 on Crosswords and the People Who Love Them (April 2020)
April 03, 2020 02:04 - 27 minutes - 39.2 MBAdrienne Raphel ’10 speaks with PAW about her new book, Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can’t Live Without Them. Raphel explains the history of the crossword puzzle, the different stylistic flourishes of The New York Times’ crossword editors, and the puzzle world’s biggest quandary: gender disparity among crossword constructors.
PAWcast: Lydia Denworth ’88 on Friendship’s Essential Role in Wellbeing (March 2020)
February 28, 2020 14:07 - 25 minutes - 36.1 MBThe science is in and your friendships are not optional. Author and science writer Lydia Denworth ’88, author of the new book Friendship: The Evolution, Biology, and Extraordinary Power of Life’s Fundamental Bond, explains how until very recently, there was very little scientific examination given to interpersonal relationships. But today, new studies are increasingly showing that friendship was essential to our evolution as a species and remains a key factor in lifelong wellbeing.
PAWcast: Peter Yawitz ’80 on Navigating Workplace Culture (February 2020)
February 06, 2020 11:30 - 24 minutes - 33.8 MBOn this month’s PAWcast, Peter Yawitz ’80, author of the new book Flip Flops and Microwaved Fish: Navigating the Dos and Don’ts of Workplace Culture, gives advice on communicating with your coworkers, dressing the part in an office environment, and preparing for difficult conversations with your boss. He also has a few tips for managers who tend to be dismissive of the millennial mindset. (February 2020)
PAWcast: Author and Visiting Professor Kush Choudhury ’00 on Journalism in India (January 2020)
January 07, 2020 13:51 - 29 minutes - 40.6 MBPAW's Carrie Compton speaks with Ferris Professor of Journalism Kush Choudhury '00. Kush has extensive experience as a reporter in the United States and in India. After emigrating from Calcutta with his parents at age 12, he had always longed to return — and once he graduated from Princeton, he did just that. For a transcript of this interview, visit paw.princeton.edu/podcasts
PAWcast: Tyler Lussi ’17 on Getting Fans to Buy Into Women’s Soccer (December 2019)
December 16, 2019 18:42 - 26 minutes - 36.8 MBTyler Lussi ’17, a forward for Portland Thorns F.C. in the National Women’s Soccer League, broke the Princeton records for career goals and career points in her senior year. Since then, she’s been chasing new goals in pro soccer in a city that is deeply invested in its team. In an interview for the PAWcast, Lussi shares her ideas for getting more fans to buy into women’s soccer. This episode was recorded on location at the Princeton Soccer Conference earlier this month.