July 29: Dale Caldwell ’82 Runs for Lt. Governor of New Jersey

Democratic candidate for New Jersey governor Mikie Sherrill picked as her running mate Dale Caldwell ’82, president of Centenary University and a Methodist pastor with a long history of government service. — New Jersey Globe

Jay Famiglietti *92, a professor at Arizona State University’s School of Sustainability, worked on a new study showing freshwater on continents is drying up due to overpumping groundwater, climate change, and higher temperatures. — NBC News

UCLA mathematician Terence Tao *96, a Fields Medal recipient, said the furor over the success of artificial intelligence at the International Mathematical Olympiad is overblown because AI is allowed to follow a different set of rules than human entrants. — The Times of India

Christine Hunsicker ’99 pleaded not guilty to charges including fraud in a case where prosecutors say investors in her fashion startup CaaStle were cheated out of over $300 million over the past six years. — CBS News

Picked to participate in McKinsey Global Publishing’s annual list of leaders recommending books, Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 chose Elyse Graham ’07’s Book and Dagger, saying it “promises a rare combination of history, intrigue, and reflection on the role of the humanities in our oft-troubled world.” — McKinsey.com

Nathan Myhrvold *83 was among those who contributed to a Jeffrey Epstein birthday album along with President Donald Trump; Myhrvold’s spokesperson said the former Microsoft executive knew Epstein only from TED conferences and scientific research donations. — The Wall Street Journal

Penn psychology professor Martin Seligman ’64 co-authored a new study saying his team was able to predict Trump’s 2024 election win from how optimistically the candidates delivered bad news. — Psy Post

In a new report from the New America Foundation, where he’s a strategist and senior fellow, author P.W. Singer ’97 said modern wars like in Ukraine are changing the use of deception on the battlefield. — National Defense

Economist Gita Gopinath *01 is leaving the International Monetary Fund to teach at Harvard, where she says she plans to “to push the research frontier in international finance and macroeconomics to address global challenges, and to training the next generation of economists.” — Times Now Education

Commenting on the Trump administration’s cuts to science research funding and crackdown on higher education, Nobel Prize-winning chemist Frances Arnold ’79said many of the award’s American winners actually come from other countries: “Why chase away brilliant young people whose countries have invested huge amounts in their education?” — Times Higher Education

Atlantic writer Tom Nichols wrote that there’s an obvious pattern in the personnel changes being made under Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ’03: “Women have been cleared out of all of the military’s top jobs.” — The Atlantic

“I didn’t pick this fight around trans rights. … The right-wing conservatives of the MAGA G.O.P. have made this one of their cause célèbre issues as a way to kind of scapegoat individuals, as a way to score cheap political points.”

— Anthony Romero ’87, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, discussing the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold Tennessee’s ban on puberty blockers for transgender minors. — The New York Times

Actor Dean Cain ’88, who played Superman in a 1990s television show, criticized the new Superman movie as “woke” because of how it portrays the character as an immigrant. — The Guardian

Ken Hersh ’85, who will step down later this summer as president and CEO of the Bush Presidential Center, is this year’s D CEO Legacy Award recipient. — D Magazine

Co-showrunner Selwyn Seyfu Hinds ’93 adapted the popular book Washington Black into a fantastical new series on Hulu described as a “Black Peter Pan adventure.” — The Hollywood Reporter

Vanity Fair contributing editor Lili Anolik ’00 discussed her book about writers Joan Didion and Eve Babitz, which is now being released in paperback. — Vanity Fair

Sarah Beth Durst ’96’s new novel The Enchanted Greenhouse debuted at #2 on the Publishers Weekly hardcover fiction list. — Publishers Weekly

Actor Mark Feuerstein ’93 stars as a gun-slinging rabbi in the new neo-Western film Guns & Moses. — Forbes

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