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Devoted to the arts: Students combine creative, academic pursuits in many ways .

Senior Carlos Jiménez Cahua is majoring is chemistry. He also is a gifted photographer who is earning a certificate in visual arts. Senior Julia Brav is a jazz pianist who has been lauded for her inventiveness and sophistication as a musician. She is majoring in music and earning a certificate in musical performance. Junior Kelvin Dinkins spends as much time working on marketing plans and tour schedules as rehearsing solos as the president of the Triangle Club. He is majoring in English and earning a certificate in theater and dance.

Devoted to the arts: Carlos Jimenez Cahua .

Carlos Jiménez Cahua is just one example of the different ways Princeton students weave the arts into their lives.

Princeton Profiles: Berman balances music and academic passions at Princeton .

Senior Austin Haley Berman chose to attend Princeton over a conservatory in order to pursue what he called “a world-class liberal arts education” while continuing to study violin at Juilliard and compete internationally.

Devoted to the arts: Kelvin Dinkins .

Kelvin Dinkins spends as much time working on tour schedules as rehearsing solos as the president of the Triangle Club, the University’s oldest theater group. 

Music theater program combines collaboration and creativity .

Princeton's new Program in Music Theater, established in collaboration with the Program in Theater, the Program in Dance and the Department of Music, will support and develop students' engagement with music theater as both an artistic practice and a field of scholarly study. In addition to their major, students can earn a certificate in music theater, culminating in a senior thesis project, or they can just take one class or more.

Students bring learning to stage in Spring Dance Festival .

Many students come to Princeton with a talent for dance already well established. Others begin to explore dance as a new passion as part of their undergraduate experience. For all of these students, the annual Spring Dance Festival offers an opportunity to bring months of dance study and rehearsal to the stage, performing works by celebrated choreographers as well as original pieces students had a role in creating.

650 attend largest gathering of black alumni in University history .

At the largest gathering of black alumni in the University's history last weekend, emotions overflowed as people talked about change -- Princeton's transformation from their time as students and the transformation they can bring about through continued engagement. "It's very obvious to me that the Princeton of 2009 is very different from the Princeton of 1983, and even the Princeton of 2006," said Ken Bruce, a member of the class of 1983 and a past president of the Association of Black Princeton Alumni.