Asha Rangappa, Class of 1996, is an expert on counterintelligence investigations and the law behind them.  A former special agent for the FBI and associate dean at Yale Law School, Asha is now a senior lecturer at Yale’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs — as well as a legal and national security analyst for CNN. In … Continue reading "Asha Rangappa: On kicking down doors and tracking the Mueller Investigation"

Journalist Indira Lakshmanan was a special guest on campus. She visited Princeton to give the third annual Distinguished Teaching Lecture in Service and Civic Engagement. Indira has reported from 80 countries over the years. She has covered coups, campaigns and revolutions working for the Boston Globe, Bloomberg News, the International New York Times, and many … Continue reading "Indira Lakshmanan: On journalism as a public service and holding the government accountable"

Frances Arnold, Class of 1979, knew a good thing when she saw it in her laboratory some 25 years ago – and the results were game changing. Defying the prevailing wisdom, Frances innovated a completely new way to engineer enzymes that is now pushing the boundaries of green chemistry, biofuel production and more sustainable industrial … Continue reading "Frances Arnold: On her Nobel Prize in chemistry and how chemical and bioengineering can save the planet"

Helen Zia ’73 is an award-winning journalist, activist and scholar who has covered Asian American communities and social and political movements for decades. She has been outspoken on issues ranging from civil rights and peace to women’s rights and countering hate violence and homophobia. She is the former Executive Editor of Ms. Magazine and author … Continue reading "Helen Zia: On walking the talk in politically divided times"

Jennifer Epstein ’08 is on the frontlines of national politics as one of the younger members of the national press corp. Currently White House Correspondent for Bloomberg News, she began covering the Obama administration just four years out of Princeton and spent her 26th birthday aboard Air Force One. Six years on, she’s a veteran … Continue reading "Jennifer Epstein: On White House reporting in the age of Trump"

Princeton Emeritus Professor Nancy Weiss Malkiel discusses the pivotal few years around 1969 when a handful of elite, all-male universities in the U.S. and the U.K. suddenly took steps to admit women. Princeton was at the forefront — and Nancy was an eyewitness to all that unfolded. A historian, Nancy joined the Princeton faculty in … Continue reading "Nancy Malkiel: On letting the “damn women” in"