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Princeton student missing for 6 days found dead at Lake Carnegie • Apr. 26, 2025, 4:29 AM ET (USA Today)
Police search for missing Princeton University student • Apr. 24, 2025, 4:29 AM ET (NBC)
Over 100 US universities denounce Trump administration 'political inteference' • Apr. 22, 2025, 11:07 PM ET (Le Monde)
More than 100 US universities issue joint letter condemning Trump’s ‘political interference’ • Apr. 22, 2025, 3:21 AM ET (Straits Times)

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Notable Alumni Woodrow Wilson • Henry Norris Russell • David Card • Cornel West • Paul Volcker • Henry Fairfield Osborn • Gresham M. Sykes • John Tate • Frank Wilczek • Dana Scott • Lyman Spitzer • William Meredith • Karl Taylor Compton • Charles Fefferman • Eugene O’Neill • James Madison • Samuel A. Alito, Jr. • Michael Lewis • F. Scott Fitzgerald • Ted Cruz • Branden Jacobs-Jenkins • Robert Mueller • Jerome Powell • MacKenzie Scott • Pete Hegseth • Aaron Burr • Pedro Pablo Kuczynski • Jeff Bezos • Michelle Obama • Lachlan Murdoch • James Stewart • Errol Morris • Maria Ressa • Robert Caro • George Will • David E. Kelley • W.S. Merwin • Joshua Angrist • Jonathan Safran Foer • Robert Venturi • Ethan Coen • Carl Icahn • Meg Whitman • Bill Frist • Jill Abramson • Marvin Minsky • Ralph Nader • Eric Schmidt • Donald Rumsfeld • George Shultz • Robert Kahn • Sir Peter Maxwell Davies • Sonia Sotomayor • Robert L. Johnson • Bennett S. LeBow • James Peebles • John F. Hartwig • James Baker • Frank Stella • John Nash • Paul W. Taylor • Steve Forbes • Arthur Holly Compton • David Hackett Fischer • Andrea Jung • Lee Iacocca • David Duchovny • Dani Rodrik • Lloyd Shapley • Queen Noor • Frances Arnold • Michael Stonebraker • José Donoso • James J. Heckman • J. Tuzo Wilson • Jeff Merkley • Oliver Hart • Steven Weinberg • Pete Conrad • Gary S. Becker • Edwin Mattison McMillan • John Bardeen • T. Berry Brazelton • Lowell Thomas • Richard Rush • Michael Fried • Michael Freedman • José Ferrer • William Colby • John McCarthy • John Stossel • Robert Hofstadter • Gerald Carr • John Peale Bishop • Edward Witten • Gerard Barnes Lambert • Richard E. Stearns • Laurance S. Rockefeller • Clinton Joseph Davisson • Francis Robbins Upton
Related People Woodrow Wilson • Shirley M. Tilghman • Christina H. Paxson • John Witherspoon • Jonathan Dickinson • Jonathan Belcher

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