The Resident Graduate Student (RGS) program is intended to enhance the residential college experience and help foster a fully integrated campus community that unites undergraduates of all four years, graduate students and faculty across the disciplines.
Office of the Dean of the College
How does the Edwards Collective manage to pull off so many rich and exciting events? The Resident Graduate Student program! Throughout the academic year, two graduate students help Collective members plan visits to exhibits and facilitate performances. In addition to external events, Edwards Collective RGSs also host regular brunches and run bi-weekly study breaks. Feel free to reach out to them with inquiries into Collective life!
I believe learning is a communal event… [The Collective] explicitly makes communal life its purpose. And that’s a double blessing for me in my role as a RGS of the Edwards Collective.
-Denis Z. (previous Edwards RGS)
Jen Minjarez (jm5302@) is a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the philosophy department. She specializes in neo-Aristotelian metaethics. Her work centers on the idea that goodness (morality, rationality, etc.) is grounded in the fact(s) of biological life plus agents’ radical commitment to their own lives. This work requires her to think a lot about free will, psychology, biology, Aristotle, and reasons (practical and epistemic).
Besides philosophy, her other passion is comedy. She aspires to be an amateur stand-up comedian. Hobbies she’s enjoyed include rock climbing, East Coast swing dancing, watching a lot of television, looking at sculpture, listening to emo music (even going to local emo nights), learning guitar, and making jokes with/for her friends.
Anna-Maria Glueck (ag5422@) is a third-year Ph.D. student in the Physics Department. She does numerical simulations of strongly interacting theories with the goal of understanding confinement in quantum chromodynamics (i.e., why the elementary particles making up protons and neutrons don’t want to be on their own).
When she is not scribbling on a blackboard or looking for the missing semicolon in her code, she is singing in the Princeton University Chamber Choir and Early Music Princeton, running around Princeton while questioning her life choices of signing up for another half marathon, or spending time at home with her grandma hobbies (cooking, knitting, making pickles, and going to bed at 9pm).