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While students and parents are busy preparing for the first day of classes, the Princeton community is coming alive again. In this issue, you will find a wide range of educational stories that are informative yet creative, with the beautiful photography our readers have come to expect. In our cover story on The Farm Cooking School, chefs Ian Knauer and Shelley Wiseman, both formerly with Gourmet magazine, offer cooking classes at a lovely farm in Stockton. It’s a fun way to improve your pie making skills or to learn how to prepare homemade soup under the watchful eyes of the ever present farm animals. You don’t have to be an animal lover to be interested in our story on the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine. It’s the only veterinary school developed in association with a medical school where they conduct important research on illnesses affecting both humans and animals. They treat more than 31,000 small animals a year and provide field service to another 36,000 at local farms including horses and livestock. Those are impressive numbers and we are fortunate to have access to such a high level of care for our pets. Libraries are the heart of any school and you can learn about Firestone Library’s ten-year-long renovation in Ellen Gilbert’s article. The before and after photographs help tell the story of the process. The renovations have improved the function of the library and made it even more elegant. The idea for an article about Academia’s A-Listers originated with the rumor that President Obama might teach at Columbia Law School after he leaves the White House. What a thrill it would be to have a former President or Secretary of State as your professor. The A-Listers includes a few professors we’ve featured in past issues of Princeton Magazine including Jeffrey Eugenides, Cornel West, and Paul Muldoon, who was on the faculty of Semester at Sea. Studying abroad has become very common but with Semester at Sea, you can earn college credit while traveling around the world on a ship. If a world cruise isn’t a possibility, why not enter the Princeton Magazine Getaway Contest? The winner will receive an overnight stay at The Inn at Bowman’s Hill in New Hope, Pa., a bottle of champagne, and Tavern credit. You can enter the contest by visiting our website at princetonmagazine.com. Once registered, you will
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