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When Arthur Edward Imperatore III showed up at his adviser’s office to discuss the first draft of his senior thesis, he was anxious. He knew that the classics department encouraged, alongside traditional studies of ancient texts in their original languages and contexts, creative interpretations of the works that could cast light on their enduring relevance to the present.

Congratulations to Robert Kaster, Kennedy Foundation Professor of Latin Language and Literature, on receiving the President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching at commencement exercises held on June 6, 2017. Kaster, who has served on the faculty since 1997, is a widely known classicist specializing in Latin literature and language.

It was Grant Storey’s love of languages that drew him to computer programming in middle school and Latin in high school. But it was his time at Princeton that allowed him to examine the intersections between these two seemingly unrelated fields — computer science and classics.

Joshua Katz, Cotsen Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Classics, has been awarded the Institute of Classical Studies' Dorothy Tarrant Fellowship for 2017–18. Commemorating the contribution of a pioneering figure in UK classics, the fellowship is awarded to senior scholars from universities outside the UK with research interests in any field of classical studies.

The DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art announces the launch of “Liquid Antiquity”, a project that explores the possibility of reinventing classicism and argues for its enduring influence on contemporary art, at the Benaki Museum in Athens. Conceived by Professor Brooke Holmes in collaboration with Polina Kosmadaki, curator at the Benaki Museum, and Yorgos Tzirtzilakis, artistic advisor to the DESTE Foundation, the project includes a book as well as a video installation.

We invite you to read assistant professor Dan-el Padilla Peralta’s article on immigration in The Trump Era, published in the Princeton Alumni Weekly.

In a message to the Princeton community on January 27, President Chris Eisgruber responded to last Friday’s federal executive order barring entry into the US to refugees and citizens of seven nations in Africa and the Middle East.