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Throughout the year, alumni are honored for their exemplary work and service, both to the University and to the world.

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2025 Honorees for Service to Princeton

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Alumni Council names 2025 Service to Princeton award winners

The Award for Service to Princeton was presented to four Princetonians during the annual meeting of the Alumni Council that was held on campus on Friday, May 23.

A group portrait of the 2025 Awards for Service to Princeton honorees, alongside Monica Moore Thompson, Ryan Ruskin and Arati Johnston

Award for Service to Princeton

The Alumni Council Award for Service to Princeton recognizes outstanding service contributions to Princeton by any member of the Princeton family, with special emphasis on those who serve significantly, but inconspicuously. Award recipients are recognized at events during Reunions.

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Alumni Day Awards

Considered the most prestigious awards given to alumni, the Woodrow Wilson Award and James Madison Medal are conferred on Alumni Day to an undergraduate alumnus/a and an alumnus/a of the Graduate School.

Woodrow Wilson Award James Madison Medal
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James Madison Medal Award recipient David Card *83

Nobel Prize-winning economist David Card *83 received the top graduate alumni award, the James Madison Medal, at Princeton’s 110th Alumni Day on Saturday, Feb. 22.

Charmaine Lee and Owen Ayer at the Annual Giving volunteer dinner
Annual Giving

Annual Giving celebrates volunteer achievements

On Feb. 21, more than 140 Annual Giving alumni volunteers gathered in the Weichert Atrium of the Louis A. Simpson International Building for a dinner to celebrate the success of the 2023-24 Annual Giving campaign. During the evening, Annual Giving Chair Deb Yu ’98 presented several distinguished achievement awards to the leaders of last year’s campaign.

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Alumni Awards

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Regional association awards include those given for recognition for increasing participation of Princeton graduate alumni, general excellence, new and innovative programming and major reinvigoration efforts.

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Class awards include those with the most complete program of communication, activities and dues participation; for largest percentage of membership attending any gathering during the year between Reunions; and the highest percentage of dues payers in a class.

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Select awards are presented to the Princeton classes that demonstrated the greatest Reunions spirit during the previous year. These awards are given at the Annual Meeting of the Alumni Council, held on the Friday of Reunions.

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This award recognizes the regional Alumni Schools Committee (ASC) whose activities, enthusiasm and imagination have most effectively realized the primary goals of Schools Committee work.

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The Committee on Regional Associations encourages and awards innovation among its 160 regional associations found throughout the world. The committee invites all alumni to nominate deserving alumni for this prestigious award.

 

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APGA Regional Association Award

First awarded in 2007, the APGA Regional Association Award is given annually by the Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni (APGA) to a Princeton regional association that deserves special recognition for increasing participation of Princeton graduate alumni in its regional activities and/or fostering the cause of graduate education and the Graduate School at Princeton University.

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