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Please note the early start time and new event locations
- Clear your schedule; secure accommodations. JOIN ‘72 ON CAMPUS 10/31/2026
- Post-Game Class Reception and Dinner (No Charge): Please share the number (#) who will attend here.
- Review alternate Game Day Programming: Arts, Sports, listed below
- Register separately for the Tailgate: Register to attend by Oct. 23.
TIGER! TIGER! ENJOY
Princeton Homecoming Weekend
Saturday, October 31, 2026
An early reminder and an enthusiastic invitation to join us in Princeton on Saturday, October 31, 2026, for a perfect fall day of collegiate activities. |
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| Briger Hall C-200
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| | Suggested parking: Prospect Avenue Garage... Roper Lane to Briger |
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| | Powers Field, Princeton Stadium |
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| 72 Post-game Reception and Dinner (no charge) |
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| | Return to Briger Hall C-200 |
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October 31, 2026, 9:00 AM EDT
Game Day Lecture: How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms’
Kick off Homecoming with a trip to the classroom!
In the Game Day Lecture “How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms,” Matthew L. Jones will discuss how understanding where data has been and where it may be headed empowers us to shape its use with intention, guiding it toward outcomes that reflect our shared values and aspirations.
Jones is the Smith Family Professor of History. He focuses on the history of recent information technologies and intelligence as well as the history of science and technology in early modern Europe. He received his A.B. and Ph.D. from Harvard and an M.Phil. from Cambridge, then taught at Columbia for 23 years. With Chris Wiggins, he co-authored “How Data Happened: A History of the Science, Politics and Power of Data, Statistics and Machine Learning from the 1800s to the Present” (W. W. Norton, 2023). He has published two books previously, “The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution: Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz and the Cultivation of Virtue” and “Reckoning with Matter: Calculating, Innovation, and Thinking about Thinking from Pascal to Babbage” (both with Chicago). He has received fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Sloan Foundation, and the National Science Foundation, and is currently a CIFAR fellow in the Future Flourishing project.
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Alumni Tiger Tailgate:
Join fellow Princeton alumni for a spirited Homecoming celebration! Reconnect with fellow Tigers, enjoy a complimentary brunch, and get into the Orange & Black spirit before cheering on Princeton as the football team takes on Cornell at noon. Wear your favorite orange and black to show your Tiger pride or come in costume for Halloween! The game kickoff is at noon.
Register to attend by Oct. 23. |
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| October 31, 2026, 10:00 AM EDT |
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| Athletic Events on Saturday, October 31 |
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| Men’s Water POLO vs. Iona |
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| Special Exhibition: Briger Hall |
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Princeton’s High Meadows Environmental Institute will open Maya Lin’s “What Is Missing? What If?” with an artist’s talk Sept. 22.
The exhibition's centerpiece is a two-story multimedia display that presents immersive, larger-than-life audio and video of threatened and endangered species.
“How can we protect it if we don’t even realize it’s missing?”
That core question motivated artist Maya Lin to create “What Is Missing?”—an extensive art project that draws attention to biodiversity loss and inspires action to protect threatened species.
On Sept. 22, Princeton’s High Meadows Environmental Institute will open “What Is Missing? What If?”, an installation of Lin’s project, as the inaugural show in its new Environmental Gallery. Lin will give an artist talk at 4:30 p.m. on opening day, joined by Princeton professors David Wilcove and Rachael DeLue.
The exhibition's centerpiece is a two-story multimedia display that presents immersive, larger-than-life audio and video of threatened and endangered species.
Students on their way to class will see a giraffe strolling past, a tiger slinking through the forest, and a full-scale whale swimming straight up the wall, complete with the sound of its haunting song.
In addition to the jaw-dropping centerpiece at the entrance to the Environmental Gallery, an interactive learning lab inside traces natural history, invites visitors to share memories of former abundance, and explores nature-based solutions.
A “What If?” poster series, lining adjacent Briger hallways, suggests possibilities: What if you gave half your yard back to nature? What if humanity invested as much in protecting the planet as we do in exploring space?
A wall inside the gallery, devoted to what Lin calls Greenprint, celebrates success stories worldwide in sustainability, conservation, transportation, renewable energy and more.
Taken together, the work offers a hopeful arc: first abundance, then loss, but if followed by meaningful conservation, the potential for real recovery.
Lin says Greenprint was inspired in part by research at Princeton, specifically the “wedges” diagram that, back in 2004, mapped practical pathways to meaningful carbon mitigation.
The exhibition will expand over the year to feature additional environmental innovations in development at Princeton and in the local community and region.
Planned programming includes lectures, workshops, film screenings and engagement opportunities for area schools. Lin said she hopes communities on and off campus will volunteer for bird counts, butterfly counts, wetland restoration, and more. |
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