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Benjamin Edwards ’20 and Alexander Kirschenbauer ’20 Host Charity Ball
‘There's always time’ to help your community, Edwards says
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In New PBS Series, Alan Lightman ’70 Searches for Meaning
‘How is it that a collection of atoms and molecules can give rise to complex human experiences?’
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Dave Pentecost ’72 Is Bringing Outer Space to Kids
Pentecost has worked on building several planetariums, most recently at the Variety Boys and Girls Club of Queens
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Glenn Dryfoos ’83 Just Released Jazz Great Benny Carter’s Princeton Recordings
‘Benny … is the Joyce Carol Oates, the Arthur Lewis, the John Nash of jazz,’ Dryfoos says
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Barbara Roper ’77 Stands Up for the Average Investor
Roper is now advising SEC Chair Gary Gensler, but her focus remains the same
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Actor George Butts ’08 Finds Niche in Hand Modeling
After his first commercial, Butts found an agent who told him to get a manicure immediately
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Jesse McCarthy *18 Shines Spotlight on Little-Known African American Authors
McCarthy won the Whiting Award for his ‘dazzling’ first book
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Dawn Miller *10 is Helping NYC’s Mayor Fight Climate Change
‘There’s just so much that can be done using the city government to do good in the world’
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David Nirenberg *92 Is Leading the Institute for Advanced Study
Nirenberg wants to get people who might not be natural collaborators thinking and working together
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Jason Eyster ’74 Wrote a Musical Celebrating his Michigan Hometown
A self-taught musician, Eyster wrote the music, lyrics, and spoken lines
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Meredith Martin ’97 Explores France’s Global Role in the 18th Century
Through multiple media, Martin is illuminating a little-known piece of history
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Jackie Berger *96 and David Carroll *84 Consult on Energy Use
‘Over time it just seems that our work has become more and more relevant’
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After Teaching Students, Alain Sanders ’73 Is Teaching the Public
‘Be an alert, avid reader of as many different sources as you can,’ Sanders says
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In Documentary, Daniel Mendelsohn *94 Dispels Holocaust Myths
‘It really makes this country’s inaction all the more appalling,’ Mendelsohn says
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With Virtual Reality, Eve Weston ’01 Creates Interactive Art
Weston worked on an exhibit of Bruce Lee’s book collection that opened this summer
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Craig Leon ’85 Is Growing Native Foods in Ecuador’s Cloud Forest
‘What if we were able to create an agroforestry system that brings back wildlife habitat?’
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In a New Book, Dan Bouk *09 Finds Stories in the U.S. Census
‘I look at numbers and databases the way people look at poems and paintings’
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Novelist Katherine Chen ’12 Digs into the Story of Joan of Arc
‘You step into the light, you feel that sense of adrenaline, and you feel moved’
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Amy Gordinier ’92 Started a Cosmetics Company with an Old Family Formula
‘It’s just been part of my ethos from the beginning to lead with science’
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Birgitt Boschitsch ’13 Is Engineering Solutions to a Global Sanitation Crisis
‘All you have to do is care about a problem and want to solve it’