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This Delaware County high school student is getting a full ride to Princeton University • June 5, 2025, 5:02 AM ET (CBS)
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Why a Princeton graduate student kidnapped in Iraq still isn’t free 800 days later • May 29, 2025, 2:27 PM ET (AP)

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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 • Branden Jacobs-Jenkins • Ted Cruz • Robert Mueller • Pete Hegseth • Jerome Powell • MacKenzie Scott • 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 • Ethan Coen • Jonathan Safran Foer • Robert Venturi • 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 • Edwin Mattison McMillan • Gary S. Becker • John Bardeen • Lowell Thomas • T. Berry Brazelton • 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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