February 2024

PAW Published memorials for 569 alumni in 2023, and in this issue, we reflect on 13 of those lives, the impact they had on Princeton, their families, and the world.

Jason Kutch ’01 is studying the neuroscience of chronic pain and finding new ways to manage his own condition

A Real Life Superman, He Was of Service Following 9/11, Church Scandal

‘A Revolutionary,’ She Fearlessly Fought for Haitian Human Rights

He Stood Up for All People, and Showed Students How to Do It

‘The Last Person Who Knew Everything’

A Composer Who Brought the Experience of Nature to Song

His Historic Election Wins Were Matched by Personal Selflessness

Much More Than a Politician, Defining Him Was Impossible

An Architect Who Built an Unmatched Legacy in Buffalo

He Brought ‘A Million Gigawatts’ to Newsrooms, Briefing Rooms, and Classrooms

He Pushed Hollywood to Make Movies About Racial Issues

A Basketball Star Who Touched Lives On and Off the Court

‘How Lightly She Wore the Mantle of Greatness’

From Banjo to Farming, He Was ‘Always Trying Something New’

Despite efforts to make bicker smoother and more accessible, there is still anxiety within the sophomore class about results

“…That’s how you can chip away at a culture that really emphasizes perfectionism … people being willing to open up about their actual experience”

PAW pries into the digital habits of Princeton community members

“The African continent has given so much to our fellows,” said PiAf executive director Damilola Akinyele

PAW talked to students and faculty and heard all kinds of ways the tools are being used

Details about the timeline, organization, and funding are to come, but the governor says the message is “we want to basically plant a flag and say, artificial intelligence is here to stay.”

Schiffer was most recently director for strategic projects for the faculty of arts and sciences at Yale

The collages are beautiful and mysterious, filled with surprising juxtapositions

Winkler asks: Why does a question about the authorship of 400-year-old plays get people so riled up?

Westfall is chief executive officer of the Natural Selection Tour, which sponsors snowboard competitions

For seven years, Angelescu’s team has been working with Paris officials testing bacterial levels in the Seine river

The laid-back eating club is subtly rebranding itself during a new recruitment push

Hadley Husisian ’26 and Maia Weintraub ’25, gap-year roommates, are chasing Olympic bids

John Archer 1760 *1763 (1741-1810)