February 2021
Lives Lived and Lost, 2020; Students return; COVID-risk tool
Features
Lives: Franklyn Allen ‘Tex’ Harris ’60
His Truth-Telling Kept America on the Right Side of History
President’s Page
On the Campus
First-Year Students Re-create Casual Campus Conversations in Podcast
‘We want to replace what is missing from everyday interactions,’ says Antek Hasiura ’24
Faculty Start Semester With Land Acknowledgements, Preferred Pronouns
These efforts seek to address some of the important — and at times divisive — cultural issues being debated in the last several years
Testing and Tracing Ramp Up As Thousands of Students Return
‘It takes a village,’ said Dan Notterman, administrative director of the University’s COVID-19 testing laboratory
Q&A: New McCarter Theatre Artistic Director Sarah Rasmussen
Rasmussen sees brighter days ahead for the theater after the pandemic
Research
Environmental Studies: The Paths to Net-Zero
A bold new study provides five affordable pathways for a clean-energy future
Alumni News
Marc Rosenthal ’71 Created Public Propaganda Posters for COVID-19
‘What seemed to me really lacking is that idea of everyone pulling together to defeat this thing as if it was a war’
Q&A: Dr. Amanda Satterthwaite ’10 on COVID-19 and Mental Health
‘A lot of what was lost during this pandemic is human connection’
Remembrance: Playwright Douglas McGrath ’80 on His Father-in-Law, Cartoonist Henry Martin ’48
‘He had a quality that grows more rare, and thus more precious, in these coarse and vicious times: unfailing courtesy’
Joe Lenski ’87 Helped News Agencies Call the 2020 Presidential Election
Lenski is co-founder of Edison Research, which provides raw vote totals used to call the election
Joshua Weitz ’97 Is Mapping the Risk of COVID-19
The user-friendly tool helps people make informed decisions about social interactions
Behind the Research
Student Dispatch
Featured Authors
History
An Innocent Sent Abroad to Raise Funds For the College
Princeton Portrait: Samuel Davies (1723–1761)
Tiger of the Week
Yasmeen Almog ’17 Is Predicting Bone Fractures With AI
‘The potential use cases are pretty limitless’
Jac Schaeffer ’00 Is Building on the Marvel Universe with ‘WandaVision’
‘I love opportunities to look at characters in big, exaggerated ways’
Cameron Bell ’16 Is Finding Free Tutors For Students During the Pandemic
‘I see myself as a teacher, no matter where I am’
Patrick Harrel ’16 Helped Keep the NBA Playing During the Pandemic
When the NBA created a bubble, Harrel brought his expertise in data science
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