A portrait of Princeton alumna and First Lady Michelle Obama was installed Feb. 4 on the Class Photo Wall in the Tap Room of the Nassau Inn that has become a place of high honor for some of the University’s most eminent graduates.

Obama received her bachelor’s degree with honors in sociology in 1985, and her thesis earned an award citation from what was then the Program in African American Studies. Here, Valerie Smith, chair of the Center for African American Studies, and Robert Wuthnow, chair of the sociology department, unveil the picture. To read more, visit www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S23/38/47Q26/.

Valerie Smith, chair of the Center for African American Studies, and Robert Wuthnow, chair of the sociology department, unveil the picture. (photo: Brian Wilson)