Scientist Dad

Sam Wang takes on a most perplexing topic: your child’s brain

Published in the Oct. 26, 2011, issue

On a hot Friday in August, neuroscientist Sam Wang is about to flee the ­basement of Princeton’s molecular biology department for a family vacation, after spending most of the morning ­advising graduate students who were studying the brains of mice that run...Read more

‘Not ideal’

But bonding nonetheless

Published in the Oct. 26, 2011, issue

(This is a corrected version of an article published in the Oct. 26, 2011, issue. The correction appears at the end of the story.) On Sept. 4, 790 freshmen and 233 undergraduate ­leaders embarked on what were planned as six-day backpacking and camping trips...Read more