The ceremony for Princeton’s 19th president is open to the public and begins at 3:30 p.m. on the front lawn of Nassau Hall.
Today’s installation celebration for Princeton University President Shirley M. Tilghman will begin with an academic procession and end with dancing under the stars.
In between, there will be speeches, food and a special concert by country performer and Princeton native Mary Chapin Carpenter.
The installation ceremony for Princeton’s 19th president is open to the general public and will begin at 3:30 p.m. on the front lawn of Nassau Hall.
Guests are being asked to be seated by 3:15 p.m.
The ceremony will include an invocation and greetings from members of the university community, along with Richard Levin, president of Yale University, as well as an address by Dr. Tilghman.
Following the ceremony, activities will move to Weaver Track and Field Stadium on the north side of Jadwin Gymnasium. Semi-formal attire is suggested for the evening, and orange and black are being encouraged.
The evening events are open to members of the university community.
The emcee for the evening’s program will be 1971 Princeton alumnus and trustee A. Scott Berg, who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his 1998 biography of aviator Charles Lindbergh.
Beginning at 5:30 p.m., hors d’oeuvres will be served in the stadium and a buffet will open in the gymnasium. Tables and chairs for dining will be set up in the stadium, where Princeton’s a cappella groups will sing from 6 to 7 p.m.
Dr. Tilghman will briefly address the assembly at 7 p.m., after which Ms. Carpenter will perform. The Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter is an honorary member of the Princeton class of 1949, of which her father, Chapin Carpenter, is a member.
Following the concert, music for dancing will be provided in Weaver Stadium.
Dr. Tilghman took office on June 15, succeeding Harold T. Shapiro, who retired from the presidency after more than 13 years. A member of the Princeton faculty since 1986, she most recently served as the Howard A. Prior Professor of the Life Sciences and as the director of the university’s Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics.