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’

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

In Documentary, Daniel Mendelsohn *94 Dispels Holocaust Myths

‘It really makes this country’s inaction all the more appalling,’ Mendelsohn says

Jesse McCarthy *18 Shines Spotlight on Little-Known African American Authors

McCarthy won the Whiting Award for his ‘dazzling’ first book

With Virtual Reality, Eve Weston ’01 Creates Interactive Art

Weston worked on an exhibit of Bruce Lee’s book collection that opened this summer

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?’

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’

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’

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’

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’

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’

Lara Bergen ’90 Is Helping NYC Schools Start Student Newspapers

Bergen says through journalism, students build community and find their voices

In Somers Randolph ’79’s Carvings, Light Plays with Stone

After a half-century of sculpting, Randolph has no plans to stop

Turning 60 Made Eleanor Moseley Pollnow ’84 Want to Rap

‘The truth is kinda funny when you say it right,’ Pollnow says

Martin Eichelberger ’67 Is Helping Doctors Treat Injured Children in Ukraine

Eichelberger’s Triaj app gives doctors in-the-moment treatment guidance

Katherine Clifton ’15 Is Listening to the Stories of Refugees

‘Ultimately it reinforces my faith in humanity’

Rosaria Munda ’14 Writes Young Adult Fantasy with a Classics Twist

Munda’s first novel is ‘Plato’s Republic meets the French Revolution, with dragons’

Dora Chomiak ’91 Is Supporting Democracy in Ukraine

‘A week before the tanks rolled in, we activated our emergency response fund,’ says Chomiak

Madeleine Vedel ’89’s Heart and Work Are on the Cote d’Azur

Vedel runs tours of Provence, France, centered around wine and food

Lex Brown ’12 is Teaching the Value of a Multimedia Approach to Art

Bill Urschel ’78 Is Documenting Climate Change in Alaska

‘If we can share some of the wonders of Alaska with others, we believe that people will care more about the natural world’

Jeff Perry ’68’s Scholarship Is Elevating ‘the Father of Harlem Radicalism’

As an independent scholar, Perry has extensively chronicled the ideas of Hubert Harrison

Playwright Charles White ’72 and Actor Eric Yang ’17 Are Teaming Up

Their off-Broadway play centers on prejudice and forbidden love in the 1920s Mississippi Delta

Taleeb Noormohamed ’98 is Fighting Canada’s Misinformation Problem

As a member of Canada’s Parliament, Noormohamed seeks to bring people together