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• The senior thesis
• Chyba weighs in on topics ranging from planetary life to nuclear proliferation
The senior thesis
• Searching for life elsewhere in the solar system — from campus
• Tracing jazz’s evolution from the club to the classroom
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• Clinton named Class Day speaker
• Fieldstone, limestone and slate: Work progresses on Whitman
• Students, faculty, staff enjoy first ‘Pub Night’ at Chancellor Green
• Communiversity set for April 29
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The senior thesis
Princeton NJ — The April 17 issue of the Princeton Weekly Bulletin included three profiles of students and their senior theses: an artist who grappled with themes of identity and classification; a student of public policy who sought to understand the competition between work and family priorities; and a pair with a passion for alternative energies, who found a new way to make an environmentally friendly fuel and are turning it into a full-fledged enterprise.
This issue profiles two more students finishing their independent work this spring: a musician who questioned the effect of institutionalized jazz education on the genre; and a budding astrophysicist who explored life on other planets — a topic that had fascinated him since he was a child.
To read about the students and their efforts to complete one of Princeton’s key academic requirements, see the stories in this issue.
Related articles:
Searching for life elsewhere in the solar system — from campus
Tracing jazz’s evolution from the club to the classroom