Video: Masterworks for the Zen flute

By Denise Applewhite on May 21, 2009, 3:24 p.m.

Students have the opportunity to learn to play the Japanese bamboo flute from visiting fellow Riley Lee, the first non-Japanese to attain the rank of shakuhachi grand master. Read more.

In a rehearsal room in the Woolworth Center of Musical Studies, students are blowing into their instruments, flicking hands over finger holes, shaking heads, and dipping chins up and down to create different sounds. Playing a few basic recitations absorbs all their concentration, as most in the class first picked up the instrument a few weeks prior and only a handful are experienced musicians.

King of the road: Dale winner to take musical journey across America .

From the hum of a massive incinerator in Harrisburg, Pa., to the tonal distinctions of Chinese languages, Daniel Hawkins has found musical inspiration in atypical places. Now the Princeton senior plans to spend the next year traversing America's highways, taking his search for muses onto the open road.

Global Seminars bring history, culture to life .

From performance styles in Ireland and Japan to political and social evolutions in Turkey, Italy, Poland and Germany, dozens of Princeton students received a firsthand education about an array of international issues this summer. Through five Global Seminars offered by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, 73 Princeton undergraduates traveled abroad to live and learn in the country and city at the heart of each seminar's subject matter.

Graduate alumni celebrate Princeton ties at 'Many Minds, Many Stripes' conference .

Representing a wide range of intellectual, geographic and demographic affiliations, Princeton University's graduate alumni gathered on campus for the "Many Minds, Many Stripes" conference Oct. 17-19. It was the first University-sponsored gathering of its kind for all graduate alumni, timed to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Graduate College.

Yoshiaki Shimizu, distinguished scholar who ‘transformed the study of Japanese art’ and Princeton graduate alumnus, dies at 84 .

Yoshiaki Shimizu, the Marquand Professor of Art and Archaeology, Emeritus, and a renowned scholar of Japanese art history, curator and Princeton graduate alumnus, died on Jan. 20, 2021, of lung cancer at home in Portland, Oregon. He was 84.

Student work: Wilson College BlackBox .

Lalithra Fernando, class of 2010, produced a video discussing student parties in the Wilson College BlackBox.

'World Series' of college chess brings top players to Princeton .

While much of the Princeton University campus was empty for winter break, nearly 175 chess players from across North America gathered in Frick Chemistry Laboratory Dec. 27-30 to compete in the 2012 Pan American Intercollegiate Chess Championship — known as the World Series of college chess.