Apr 8, 2020
Students head home; surgeon Bill Peranteau ’97; Anthony Romero ’87 on service
Features
Public Service in a Self-Interested Age
Woodrow Wilson Award recipient Anthony D. Romero ’87, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, spoke at Alumni Day on the meaning of public service and the importance of acknowledging history.
Small Miracles
Surgeon Bill Peranteau ’97 operates on fetuses in the womb. Now he’s studying whether gene defects can be fixed prenatally, too.
President’s Page
On the Campus
Sirad Hassan ’20 Explains How Maps and Almanacs Led Her to ‘Jeopardy!’
“I checked off a life dream of mine and I still can’t believe that happened,” Hassan said
Coping With COVID-19
Pandemic sends undergrads home as Princeton shifts to online instruction
Research
Stacy Wolf: All the World’s a Stage
A cross-country examination reveals how Broadway permeates American culture
Alumni News
Here’s What Princeton Alumni and Faculty Are Reading While Staying Home
These Princetonians wouldn’t miss the chance to spend their time at home this spring with a good book — or maybe a few
Q&A: Jennifer S. Hirsch ’88 on Shifting the Conversation
Using a public-health approach, new perspectives on campus sexual assaults are found
Student Dispatch
Sports
History
’73 Coed Returned as First Alumna Professor
Twice Georgia Nugent ’73 was a trailblazer at Princeton — first with the inaugural coed class and later as a professor
A Lawyer of the Gilded Age: George Lord Day 1882
Princeton Portrait: Day moved through a strange, opulent, lost New York
Tiger of the Week
Pharma Investor Alex Rosen ’11 Explains the Industry’s Response to COVID-19
The pharmaceutical world wasn’t focused on infectious diseases — until now
From the Editor
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