2025 Alex Adam '07 Award Recipients Present Their Summer Research

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Friends, faculty, and staff gather in the CoLab at the Lewis Arts complex to listen to the 2025 Alex Adam '07 Award recipients present their summer research. Photo by Jon Sweeney

A person stands at a podium speaking into a microphone in front of a video monitor.

Maya Sessions '26 speaks at the Alex Adam '07 Award Lunch. Photo by Jon Sweeney

Julianna Martin '26 speaks at the Alex Adam '07 Award Lunch. Photo by Jon Sweeney

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Julianna Martin '26 passes around one of her prints from her summer work during the Alex Adam '07 Award Lunch. Photo by Jon Sweeney

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Laszlo and Winky Adam look at a print by Julianna Martin '26. Photo by Jon Sweeney

Photo by Jon Sweeney

A smiling person speak into a microphone at a podium.

Nadine Allache '26 speaks at the Alex Adam '07 Award Lunch. Photo by Jon Sweeney

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Winky Adam embraces Nadine Allache at the Alex Adam '07 Award Lunch. Photo by Jon Sweeney

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Seniors Nadine Allache, Maya Sessions, and Julianna Martin pose for a photo with Laszlo and Winky Adam. Photo by Jon Sweeney

Princeton seniors Julianna Martin, Maya Sessions, and Nadine Allache, recipients of the 2025 Alex Adam ’07 Award last spring, were honored at a luncheon on October 29.

The award, established in memory of Alexander Jay Adam, supports student summer projects that lead to the creation of new artistic work. Each student presented their artistic research to an audience that included Alex’s parents, Lazlo and Winky Adam.

Sessions, a mechanical engineering major pursuing minors in dance and computer science, spent her summer in Japan, San Francisco, San Jose, and Chicago taking classes and workshops, conducting research, and attending performances. Her experiences will inform a new dance work for her senior thesis in the Program in Dance.

Martin, a Practice of Art major in the Department of Art & Archaeology, used the award to develop experimental, photography-based work for her senior thesis exhibition this spring.

Allache, a Near Eastern studies major and theater minor, used her funding to conduct research and write a new play inspired by Amazigh folktales — stories passed down for generations among the indigenous people of North Africa.

The award provides $7,500 to three undergraduate students and First-years, Sophomores and Juniors are eligible. It can be used to support a variety of activities, such as interning at theater or dance festivals; directing, designing, or acting in a show; composing poems or short stories; making short films; or mastering a photographic technique. The activity should culminate in the creation or production of an original work. The application system will open in early 2026 for funding for the coming summer.

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