fifteen people are pictured doing a yoga pose, they are in front of a stone building

Campus community members engage in a Yoga for Every Body offering, led by Rev. Dr. Theresa Thames (pictured near entrance to Chapel), who was awarded a TigerWell Grant to support yoga teacher training. Image courtesy of Rev. Dr. Theresa Thames.

 
 

TigerWell Grant -Funded Projects

TigerWell provides funding to members of the campus community to support innovative and impactful efforts that promote well-being at Princeton. Proposed projects must align with TigerWell’s approach and address specific TigerWell goals. Learn more about the Grants Program and how to apply.

A list of funded projects and brief descriptions of select projects are included below. The descriptions illustrate various ways that projects align with TigerWell’s approach and address specific TigerWell goals.

Stayed tuned for updates to this page, including more information about these and other projects.

Funded Partnership & Seed Grants (by year)

    • Coll-AGE Fair (Peer Health Advisers, Pace)

    • Interviews for FLI Student Wellness Initiative (Creative Care)

    • Princeton Better for Birds: Fostering Student Wellbeing through Art and Conservation (CST, EEB-Stoddard Lab)

    • Princeton Film Festival (Grad School)

    • Princeton Pridefest (GSRC)

    • Promoting Well-Being and Connectedness Through Student CliftonStrengths Workshops (Campus Rec, Center for Career Development, ODUS)

    • Queer Sexpo (GSRC)

    • Safer Tigers: Tackling the Opioid Crisis Together (Princeton Overdose Prevention)

    • Bidet Initiative (EBCAO, Muslim Students’ Association)

    • Phone Hotels (Princeton University Library)

    • Menstrual Cup Distribution (Menstrual Products Task Force)

    • Period Products for Princeton Athletics (Athletics)

    • Princeton PlantLife (Grad School)

    • CALM Training (CPS, UHS)

    • Music Mentorship Program - Community Mentorship Development (Music)

    • Iris Klein Human Connection Method Workshop (Dept. of Physics)

    • KOACH Fall 2023

    • TigerLife Website (VPCL)

    • Lawrence Garden Greenhouse

    • Campus Rec Student Leader Initiative

    • Adopt a Tiger (Mathey College)

    • Annual Wellness Retreat (ODUS and campus partners)

    • Indigenous Community Building Proposal

    • Outpatient Medical Services Wellness Team Project (UHS)

    • ROOTS: Reaching Opportunities for Occupational Triumphs and Success (Center for Career Development)

    • New Mindful Business: How Ordinary Habit and Pie Girl Prioritize Rest, Joy and Self-Care in their Business Models (Spanish & Portuguese)

    • Drag University (GSRC, Lewis Center for the Arts)

    • Campus Contraceptive Access (PSRJ)

    • SHARE Peer Bonding Event: Strength in Numbers

    • FACTUAL Roundtable Discussion

    • Lewis Science Library Calm Room

    • WellNest: Wellness through Nature (EBCAO)

    • Graduate Student Ceramics Workshop Series at New College West

    • The Bayit at Princeton (CJL)

    • Enhancing Expressive Writing Interventions for Princeton Undergraduates (Psychology)

    • Supporting the Survivor in Complex Grief (SHARE Office)

    • Summertime Wellness through Grad Yoga

    • The Princeton food environment and student well-being (UHS Nutrition)

    • Recovery@Princeton

    • Empowering safety, equity, and well-being in field research

    • BSU Met Gala

    • Koach Wellness Spring 5783

    • Collective Care Series (CAF)

    • Bloom: A Graduate Wellness Collective

    • Music Mentoring Program Expansion - originally, Music Department Undergraduate Mentoring Program

    • Gap Year Dinner Series

    • Peer Health Advisers: Pilot Testing Early Arrival and Improved Partnership Building

    • Annual Wellness Retreat (ODUS and campus partners)

    • Regular Therapy Dog Sessions for Grad. Students

    • SHARE Lending Library

    • Wellness Initiative for International and First-generation Graduate Students

    • Wellness Outreach Events (CampusRec)

    • Mindful Movement & Eating (Princeton Teacher Prep.)

    • Emotion Management Team Development (CPS)

    • Mental Wellness Space (USG Mental Health Initiative)

 
 

    • Graduate Student Buddy Program (GSG)

    • The Impacts of Immigration Issues on International Graduate Students' Mental Well-being: A Landscape Overview

    • The Princeton LGBTQIA Oral History Project (GSRC)

    • USG/CPS Informational Video

    • Gap Year Dinner Series

    • Virtual Writing Accountability and Support Groups – Expansion

    • Conscious Leadership Cohort Group (Center for Career Development)

    • PHA Wellness is Worth It Initiative

    • Coffee Club/UHS Flu Vaccine Incentivization Project

    • The Asian Americans with Disabilities Initiative

    • Bloomberg Mural Project and Renovations Research (ODUS)

    • Bridging the Gap: Financial Literacy in Graduate School and Beyond (ADI in the Graduate School)

    • SKY Meditation and Yoga Wellness Retreat (ORL)

    • HIV & PrEP Pride Week Series (GSRC)

    • Restorative Yoga for Ethnic and Race-Based Stress and Trauma (GSRC)

    • Free Group Fitness for UG & Grad Students (CampusRec)

    • Discerning Dissertating (McGraw Center)

    • SIFP's Spring Initiative (Emma Bloomberg Center)

    • Lakeside Community Garden Climate Resiliency Plan

    • Transformative Allyship Education and Inclusive Excellence (Athletics)

    • The Standard Wellness Initiatives

    • FLI Women/Femmes of Color Group: Culture and Care

    • Expansion of the SHARE Office's Website

    • The Manic Monologues (CPS & McCarter)

    • CJL Shabbat Wellness Initiative

    • The "With graDitude" Project (Graduate School)

    • Graduate Students as Peer Learning Learning & Thriving Coaches (McGraw Center)

    • OA Academic Year Outdoor Programming

    • Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Writing Groups (McGraw Center)

    • FLI Women/Femmes of Color Programming

    • UHS Mind Body Health Team Mindfulness Training

    • Spot Me: A Weightlifting Program for Princeton University Students

    • Campus Club Space Assessment & Backyard Project

    • Meet & Greet with Community Partners (CPS)

    • Campus Recreation External Review support

    • Yoga for Every Body

    • SHARE Staff Retreat: Skills and Strategies for Facilitating Challenging Conversations around Race, Gender, Sexual Orientation and Our Intersecting Identities

    • Relationship & Power Support Group (SHARE)

 

Campus Club Space Assessment and Backyard Project

  • Goal of Partnership Grant: identify potential changes to the physical environment of a popular campus space for students to better promote connection and belonging.

  • Grant Lead(s): Lexy Sarstedt, Director of Campus Club

  • Collaborators: Multiple campus stakeholders, including students, Graduate School, Office of Disability Services, Office of Diversity and Inclusion, Office of International Programs, Scholars Institute Fellows Program, Department of Facilities

 
 

Project Description

A two-phase, multi-year project to transform the physical environment of Campus Club’s backyard.

Phase 1 is a community-based assessment of the existing space and its needs to increase social connection by modifying the built environment.

Phase 2 will apply the findings of Phase 1 to renovations of the backyard, and a subsequent assessment will determine whether these changes have increased social connectedness of those using Campus Club.

 

Level of well-being environment addressed by grant: Community (built environment)

Creative Care: Health Access Intervention

  • Goal of Seed Grant: Identifying needs of first generation low-income (FLI) students related to health and healthcare access.

  • Grant Lead(s): Maya Butani and Sukaina Shivji, Undergraduate Students

  • Collaborators: University Health Services, Emma Bloomberg Center for Access and Opportunity, the Keller Center

 
 

Project Description

Conducting surveys and interviews with first-gen low income (FLI) students to identify and understand the main challenges that FLI students face when engaging with health and lifestyle medicine, increase access to care and education, and improve health inequities. Feedback led to the development of the Health Outpost, an accessible library of health information in high-traffic locations.

 

Level of well-being environment addressed by grant: Community & Individual

Graduate Students as Peer Learning & Thriving Coaches

  • Goal of Partnership Grant: Create a sustainable interdisciplinary peer mentorship program for graduate students that goes beyond just achieving academic success.

  • Grant Lead(s): John Schulz, Graduate Student

  • Collaborators: Laura Murray, Assistant Director, Learning Programs, McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning

 
 

Project Description

A structured interdisciplinary graduate students peer-mentorship program. Trained peer coaches work with their mentees not only to support their academic goals, but also to support mentees’ holistic thriving, and assess how participation in the program supported both mentors and mentees.

 

Level of well-being environment addressed by grant: Organizational, Interpersonal, & Individual

Yoga for Every Body Teacher Training

  • Goal of Seed Grant: Create capacity for body-positive and inclusive yoga offerings on campus.

  • Grant Lead(s): Theresa Thames, Associate Dean of Religious Life & the Chapel

  • Collaborators: Office of Religious Life, Campus Recreation, Residential Colleges

 
 

Project Description

Opportunity for a campus partner to gain certification in yoga teacher training for the purpose of leading these sessions in partnership with Campus Recreation on campus. Specifically, the teacher training is focused on providing diverse, inclusive, and body-positive yogic teachings that center people of color, LGBTQ communities, people with different accessibility needs, and people of all body sizes.

 

Level of well-being environment addressed by grant: Community (access, inclusion) & Individual

FLI Women/Femmes of Color Group: Culture and Care

  • Goal of Seed Grant: Create self-reflective and community-supportive dialogue space for First-Generation and Low-Income Women/Femmes of Color.

  • Grant Lead(s): Leia Walker, Undergraduate Student

  • Collaborators: Office of the Dean of the College, Scholars Institute Fellows Program, Women’s Center (now the Gender and Sexuality Resource Center)

 
 

Project Description

Support of a group-based series that centered discussion, self-reflection, and connection for First-Generation and Low-Income Women/Femmes of Color students. The student-facilitated Culture and Care project created space for a small group of students to connect around their hair journeys and textures.

 

Level of well-being environment addressed by grant:  Community, Interpersonal, & Individual