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2025 Venture Forward Impact Report

The Venture Forward Campaign

Read more about the impact stories featured in the 2025 report.

Male Princeton stone leans against the ivy-covered side of a campus building.

‘Why my scholarship matters...’

Dedication ceremony for Cynthia Lynn Paul ’94 Field

Venture Forward gifts build the future of Princeton Athletics in the new Meadows Neighborhood

Nassau Hall, illuminated by orange lights

Princeton’s Annual Giving campaign raises $68.4 million

TigerSide Chats expands continued learning opportunities for alumni — no matter where they’re located

student award-winners at the Princeton Prize Symposium on Race Relations

Princeton Prize in Race Relations awardees recognized at campus symposium

James Blue ’91, Azza Cohen ’16, Zach Zimmerman ’10 and Michael Cadden at the “Exploring LGBTQ+ Voices in Entertainment” panel on Saturday night

‘Every Voice’ conference celebrates past, present and future of LGBTQ+ Tigers

President Eisgruber on stage, seated opposite John Mack

Seattle alumni welcome President Eisgruber ‘home’ in final Venture Forward gathering of season

An interior of the Grand Stairs and oritnation gallery of the new Princeton University Art Museum, with campus showing through the glass

Venture Forward gifts name multiple spaces within the new Princeton University Art Museum

John Wilmerding, in tie and jacket, standing in front of the art installation near Prospect House.

Venture Forward gifts name Wilmerding Pavilion and Anschutz Galleries in Princeton University Art Museum

Chika Okeke-Agulu at his desk

With Africa World Initiative, Chika Okeke-Agulu helms an innovative hub connecting Princeton with Africa’s most creative minds

The Faculty Room in Nassau Hall

University announces Venture Forward gifts to endow seven new University Professorships

Chemistry professor Leslie Schoop

Leslie Schoop *15 is using the logic of chemistry to build quantum materials with revolutionary properties

Eric Schmidt and Jen Rexford, seated on stage of McCosh 50

Eric Schmidt ’76 shares AI insights in McCosh 50 book launch conversation

Tom Griffiths

Tom Griffiths is decoding intelligence — both human and artificial — to think differently about how we think

Image of Professor Joshua Rabinowitz in laboratory setting

Princeton joins new cancer research hub

Exterior of Briger Hall on the Princeton campus.

Major Venture Forward gift from Devon and Pete Briger ’86 names environmental studies building

2024 Venture Forward Impact Report

The Venture Forward Campaign

Read more about the impact stories featured in the 2024 report.

A collage of four Princeton undergraduates who participated in the LENS program.

Through the LENS initiative, Annual Giving is helping students experience life-changing service internship

A collage of portraits of Princeton alumni dressed in orange and black.

A tradition of giving grows stronger every year

Robert Gleason ’87, Erica McGibbon ’07, Beverly Randez ’94 and Frederick Strobel ’74 P08 P11 posing with the Service to Princeton awards

Four alumni honored with Service to Princeton awards

Fei-Fei Li and Johns Fitzpatrick conversing on the stage of Richardson Auditorium

At Alumni Day, Princeton honors computer scientist Fei-Fei Li ’99 and ornithologist John Fitzpatrick *78

Gil Omenn, Martha Darling, Chris Eisgruber and Cliff Brangwynne, cutting a ribbon to dedicate the new bioengineering institute

University dedicates Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute at Venture Forward event

Autumn Womack, dressed in black, posing for the camera

Autumn Womack’s journey from grade-school history camp to Toni Morrison’s archives

Split images of Meg Whitman and Winnie Kiiru on stage in Nairobi

Princeton alumni and friends gather for Venture Forward event in Kenya

Andrew Houck, wearing a jacket and Princeton tie, stands in front of an ivy-covered building

Andrew Houck ’00 is making quantum leaps to unlock a multiverse of possibilities

A rendering of the new Frist Health Center

Major gift from Patricia and Thomas Frist Jr. names new campus health center

Mary Luo, dressed in red, smiling in front of a fountain

Patsy Lam honors ‘one-of-a-kind’ Mary Luo *85 with new graduate fellowship

Mitch Henderson meets the media after his team's victory in the 2023 NCAA Tournament

Mitch Henderson ’98 went back to class to connect with his basketball players

Jen Rexford and alumni from Japan hold a Princeton banner

Princeton provost highlights Venture Forward alumni event in Japan

President Eisgruber and Harold Kim conversing on stage in Hong Kong

President Eisgruber meets with alumni in Hong Kong for Venture Forward event

President Eisgruber and Kwanza Jones on stage together in Los Angeles

Los Angeles alumni welcome President Eisgruber for Venture Forward event

2023 Venture Forward Impact Report

The Venture Forward Campaign

Read more about the impact stories featured in the 2023 report.

Montage of alumni photos celebrating Annual Giving campaign

Annual Giving helps Princeton students become ‘productive participants in the larger world’

Princeton erupts in cheers during the student watch party of the Tigers NCAA Sweet 16 game against Creighton

Princeton rallies around basketball teams as Tigers highlight March Madness

Anthony Noble, laughing

Anthony Noble *01 and the challenge to improve something that’s already great

Karthick Ramakrishnan APGA president

Karthick Ramakrishnan *02 reinforces ‘star’ status for graduate alumni

Orange & Black Day Highlights

Orange & Black Day Weekend

Bliss Freytag Smith '87

For Bliss Freytag Smith ’87, Princeton is the gift that keeps on giving

Gen. Christopher Cavoli and Robert Kahn shake hands during Alumni Day 2023

Princeton honors Gen. Christopher Cavoli and internet pioneer Robert Kahn at Alumni Day

Alumni volunteer leaders pose with this year's Service Award winners

Three alumni honored with Service to Princeton awards

Gilbert Omenn and Martha Darling smiling

For Martha Darling *70 and Gilbert Omenn ’61, the City of Light illuminated a lifetime of service together

Mimi Onuoha smiling, sitting in front of some of her art projects.

Media artist Mimi Onuoha ’11 shines a light into the invisible margins of data

James Yeh '87 and Princeton officials dedicate Yeh College

University celebrates Yeh College and New College West with dedications and ribbon-cuttings

Preston Haskell and James Steward at the Princeton University Art Museum in 2014.

Art Museum announces major gift of abstract art and a gift to establish Haskell Education Center

President Eisgruber speaking with Katherine Brittain Bradley in Washington DC

Washington, D.C., alumni welcome President Eisgruber for Venture Forward event

Michael R. Bloomberg and Emma Bloomberg (center) enjoy an informal roundtable conversation with a small group of students inside the center before the ceremony. Photo by Craig Warga

Princeton celebrates the Emma Bloomberg Center for Access and Opportunity

David MacMillan

David MacMillan becomes a catalyst for change

Joseph Pucciatti and Lou Chen '19 in the Trenton Central High School music room

Trenton plays, Lou Chen ’19 stays

2022 Venture Forward Impact Report

The 2022 Venture Forward Report

Read more about the impact stories featured in the 2022 report.

Maria Ressa '86 at Alumni Day 2022

Journalist Maria Ressa ’86 awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

Cliff Brangwynne

Brangwynne wins the Breakthrough Prize for revolutionary view of living cells

Aerial view of proposed engineering building

New engineering and environmental studies facilities will support innovative research

Eric and Wendy Schmidt in garden

Gift from Eric and Wendy Schmidt to create a new home for computer science

Mellody Hobson at Alumni Day

Major gift from Mellody Hobson ’91 names new residential college

Jaimie and James Yeh '87

Major gift from Jaimie and James Yeh ’87 names residential college

Rob Pringle conducting fieldwork in Kenya

Rob Pringle is learning how to rebuild broken ecosystems

Carl and Judy Ferenbach at the dedication of the High Meadows Environmental Institute

Carl Ferenbach III ’64 is investing in future generations

Mona Singh, Professor of Computer Science and Genomics

Mona Singh is tailoring tools to crack the cancer code

Meg and Norman Augustine ’57 *59

Norman and Meg Augustine endow three engineering professorships

Kelton Chastulik '21

First-gen alumnus Kelton Chastulik ’21 paves path for others

1vyG Event, with Khristina Gonzalez

The Emma Bloomberg Center for Access and Opportunity established at Princeton University through major gift

Allison Carruth

Allison Carruth maps imaginative new blueprints for the future of the planet

Tom Barron speaking at the PEI Forum

Tom Barron ’74: Rewriting the future of our planet

American Studies

Effron Center for the Study of America established at Princeton

From Princeton to Chicago, Morgan Smith ’21 leads through service

Sukey Cáceres Novogratz and Michael Novogratz

Novogratz Gift Endows Bridge Year Program

POrtrait of Majka Burhardt '98

Majka Burhardt ’98 is moving mountains to partner with Indigenous peoples on their ecosystems

David Evans *66 outside David Evans *66 Conference Room

David L. Evans *66 engineered a revolution in college admissions

Dora Chomiak

Dora Chomiak ’91 wants to bring the world ‘together’ for Ukraine