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Princeton University

Private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States

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Dec 13, 2025
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What unit and rank did Pete Hegseth hold during his deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan?

Pete Hegseth served as an infantry officer in the U.S. Army National Guard and reached the rank of major; during his Iraq tour he served as an infantry platoon leader with the 3rd Brigade, 101st Airbo...

Dec 10, 2025
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Which universities and hospitals collaborated with the CIA on MKULTRA and what was their role?

Declassified records and archival reporting show MKULTRA was not a single lab’s work but a wide network: at least 80 institutions and roughly 185 outside researchers participated, including universiti...

Nov 14, 2025
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What was Michelle Obama's undergraduate major at Princeton University?

Michelle Obama graduated cum laude from Princeton University in 1985 with a Bachelor of Arts in sociology and a minor in African-American studies; her 99‑page senior thesis was titled “Princeton‑Educa...

Nov 21, 2025

Which professors or mentors influenced Michelle Obama's studies at Princeton?

Michelle Obama has said she found “close friends and a mentor” at Princeton who “gave me the confidence to be myself,” and her senior thesis—on Princeton-educated Black alumni and community—became a n...

Jan 19, 2026

Did Pete Hegseth play basketball

Pete Hegseth did play organized basketball at a high level: he was a standout high‑school player in Forest Lake, Minnesota, and later a member of Princeton University's varsity basketball team from 19...

Jan 11, 2026

What public records (birth, school, employment) exist for Michelle Obama and Michael Robinson?

Public records for Michelle Obama are well-documented in authoritative government and institutional biographies: her birth in Chicago (January 17, 1964), schooling in Chicago public schools, a B.A. fr...

Jan 10, 2026

What year did Michelle Obama graduate from Princeton University?

Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama graduated from Princeton University with the Class of 1985, earning her A.B. cum laude after matriculating with the incoming class in 1981 . Multiple authoritative sou...

Dec 14, 2025

Was Pete Hegseth an enlisted soldier or a commissioned officer during his service?

Available sources report that Pete Hegseth was commissioned as an infantry officer in the U.S. Army National Guard and rose to the rank of major (or captain in some accounts); multiple official and bi...

Nov 21, 2025

Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush

Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush is an ordained Baptist minister, longtime interfaith leader, and the president and CEO of Interfaith Alliance; he is also the great‑grandson of Supreme Court Justice Lou...

Nov 20, 2025

Which universities have changed program status from professional to non-professional and why?

There is widespread reporting that U.S. and international universities have been closing, consolidating, or cutting programs for financial, enrollment, or political reasons — for example, Princeton en...

Nov 5, 2025

How did UPenn admissions selectivity and average scores compare to Ivy peers in 1960s?

Penn in the 1960s was moving toward greater selectivity and an Arts & Sciences–centered undergraduate profile, but the available analyses do not provide direct, numeric comparisons of Penn’s admission...