Tiger of the Week

Architect Peter Wheelwright ’75 Tells a Multigenerational Saga

‘Writing fiction … helps us to imagine what we could be in a better world’

Physician Lauren Peccoralo ’01 Is Helping Doctors and Nurses With Burnout

At Mount Sinai hospital, Peccoralo is working on a new center to address mental-health concerns among workers

Producer Jeff Ingold ’90 Guides ‘Ted Lasso’ From Behind the Scenes

The character reminds Ingold of the late Princeton squash coach Bob Callahan ’77

Ornithologist John Fitzpatrick *78 Fosters Deep Connection to Birds

‘Early on, I said birds supply so many different powerful opportunities,’ Fitzpatrick says

Fletcher Harper ’85 Is Building an Environmental Movement on Faith

‘There’s no spiritual life that does not involve, does not start, intimately and inescapably, with the Earth’

Emergency Physician Kimathi Cooper ’09 Fields COVID Questions

‘I feel it is my job to bring evidence-based information to the forefront’

Cam Stout ’80 Is Sharing His Story About Mental Health

‘I want to knock down that stigma,’ Stout says

After 50 Years Fencing, Paul Epply-Schmidt ’83 Is Still Winning

Epply-Schmidt won gold at the U.S. Fencing’s Veteran National Championships in August

Joe Hernández-Kolski ’96 Counters COVID Misinformation With Comedy

The online video series tackles misinformation circulating in the Spanish-speaking community

Chris Long ’97 and Angie Long ’97 Are All In on Women’s Soccer

The Longs are building the first stadium meant just for a U.S. National Women’s Soccer League team

Journalist Shannon Osaka ’17 Brings Perspective to Climate Change

‘I’ve always been pretty anti-‘doom and gloom,’’ says Osaka, an environmental journalist

Through Poetry, Joshua Bennett *16 Speaks ‘to the Human Soul’

‘I was always trying to express the music in my head with the people I trusted’

Attorney Sandy Musumeci ’94 Helped Win a Wrongful Conviction Suit

‘You’re not doing anybody any good if you’re prosecuting the wrong person’

Larry Trachtenberg ’76 Bookends 50 Years of the New York City Marathon

Trachtenberg is the only runner to complete both the first race and the 50th

Leanne Smith *08 Is Leading Australia’s National Human Rights Commission

Twenty years after her first job with the group, Smith is returning as chief executive

Temitayo Ogunbiyi ’06 Invites Us To Play

An artist, Ogunbiyi designs ‘play spaces’ to inspire social progress

Ryan McDonough ’93 Made a Film About His Hometown

‘The story I wanted to tell was a personal one about going home’

Stacey Vanek Smith ’99 Is Teaching Machiavelli to Working Women

Pay inequity made Smith think ‘more about Machiavelli and how to navigate things that feel unfair’

Andrew Bruck ’05 Is New Jersey’s First LGBTQ+ Attorney General

As an undergraduate, Bruck dreamed of serving in government, but ‘assumed it was never going to be possible’ as a gay man

Paul Hanle ’69 Is Educating Judges About Climate Science

‘There is an opportunity for us to have a much broader appreciation of science,’ Hanle says

Matthew Spellberg *17 Seeks New Ideas for a Better World

Spellberg plans to expand the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation’s mission beyond disarmament

Kevin Wilkes ’83 is Restoring the Home of Activist Paul Robeson

The house will serve as a gallery, a meeting space for nonprofits, and temporary housing

Mythology Scholar Robert Segal *84 Shapes Religious Studies

Gnostic myths ‘postulate worlds and gods beyond our own,’ Segal says

Sports Psychologist Michelle Garvin ’07 Joins the Detroit Lions

Garvin is the team’s first-ever mental skills specialist/clinician