Tiger of the Week Benjamin Edwards ’20 and Alexander Kirschenbauer ’20 Host Charity Ball ‘There's always time’ to help your community, Edwards says
Tiger of the Week 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?’
Tiger of the Week 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
Tiger of the Week 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
Tiger of the Week Barbara Roper ’77 Stands Up for the Average Investor Roper is now advising SEC Chair Gary Gensler, but her focus remains the same
Tiger of the Week 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
Tiger of the Week Jesse McCarthy *18 Shines Spotlight on Little-Known African American Authors McCarthy won the Whiting Award for his ‘dazzling’ first book
Tiger of the Week 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’
Tiger of the Week 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
Tiger of the Week Jason Eyster ’74 Wrote a Musical Celebrating his Michigan Hometown A self-taught musician, Eyster wrote the music, lyrics, and spoken lines
Tiger of the Week Meredith Martin ’97 Explores France’s Global Role in the 18th Century Through multiple media, Martin is illuminating a little-known piece of history
Tiger of the Week 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’
Tiger of the Week 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
Tiger of the Week In Documentary, Daniel Mendelsohn *94 Dispels Holocaust Myths ‘It really makes this country’s inaction all the more appalling,’ Mendelsohn says
Tiger of the Week With Virtual Reality, Eve Weston ’01 Creates Interactive Art Weston worked on an exhibit of Bruce Lee’s book collection that opened this summer
Tiger of the Week 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?’
Tiger of the Week 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’
Tiger of the Week 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’
Tiger of the Week 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’
Tiger of the Week 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’