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‘All hands on deck’: U. researchers work to stem COVID-19 pandemic

‘All hands on deck’: U. researchers work to stem COVID-19 pandemic

Daniel Burgess

No matter the research, from measuring the virus’ surface stability to mapping the availability of key medical supplies, they share a common cause: to work in the nation’s service, and in the service of humanity.

NEWS | 04/13/2020

Rethinking community: How student organizations are coping off-campus

Rethinking community: How student organizations are coping off-campus

Annabelle Duval

All clubs, all extracurriculars, have had to adjust not only their meetings and projects to make them possible remotely. And without performances, conferences, and competitions to attend, most student organizations face the same challenges — it seems there’s nothing for which to prepare, no reason to keep working.

NEWS | 04/09/2020

A season, lost: Princeton athletes reflect on cancellation of collegiate sports

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A season, lost: Princeton athletes reflect on cancellation of collegiate sports

Christopher Murphy and Rachel McQuigge

The life of a Division I athlete is one of rigor and routine. Preseason. Competition season. Postseason. Repeat. The goal of a Division I athlete is to be game-ready, race-ready, match-ready by the time the season’s first whistle blows — and to be even better by the time the season’s last buzzer sounds. Two tweets in 25 hours and 18 minutes upended the rhythms, the lifestyles, and the dreams of 20 teams.

FEATURES | 04/08/2020

Tiger Tots: Luna Meggers and Izzy Lundgaard

Ben Angarone

Five-year-old Izzy Lundgaard and her lifelong best friend, four-and-a-half year old Luna Meggers, discuss their career aspirations, marriage, and the dangers of black holes.

FEATURES | 04/06/2020

‘Anything to not go home’: Forced out by COVID-19, some students face unsafe conditions

‘Anything to not go home’: Forced out by COVID-19, some students face unsafe conditions

Ellen Li

Dean of the College Jill Dolan announced that all students, save those who met the “strictest criteria” of need, had to return home and stay there. Missing from Dolan’s definition of need were students whose households endanger their safety and well-being. In recent weeks, such students have found themselves reeling — and relying on each other for support.

NEWS | 04/04/2020

Half-built hoverboards, forgotten fruit flies: the senior theses that never were

Half-built hoverboards, forgotten fruit flies: the senior theses that never were

Patrycja Pajdak

Three weeks and a pandemic ago, Bojan Lazarevic ’20 kept a regimented daily checklist. Do my fruit flies have enough food in their vials? Is their food too dry? Too wet? Are the flies healthy? Are they laying eggs? Then arrived the COVID-19 pandemic. And suddenly — like arts performances, like campus traffic, like study abroad programs — Lazarevic’s work came to a full stop.

NEWS | 03/30/2020

When the show can’t go on: COVID-19 and Princeton’s performing arts

When the show can’t go on: COVID-19 and Princeton’s performing arts

Paige Allen

“I think theater just has, will, and always will be the space for us to be considering our togetherness and healing the wounds of separation,” Alvarez said.

NEWS | 03/25/2020

‘Safer for me to stay’: COVID-19, study abroad, and the risks of returning home

‘Safer for me to stay’: COVID-19, study abroad, and the risks of returning home

Zachary Shevin and Rachel Sturley

“Really the best thing for everyone in the family would have been for me to stay put,” said Alonso Perez-Putnam ’21, of Princeton in Cuba. “But Princeton doesn’t see it that way”

NEWS | 03/24/2020

‘The end of the world’: how students said goodbye to campus

Henry Courtyard, one day after news of evacuation broke

‘The end of the world’: how students said goodbye to campus

Alex Gjaja

To walk through campus two weekends ago meant coming face to face with the mark of college students forced out in a hurry — and determined to make the most of their last few days.

NEWS | 03/23/2020

“Everything I have is here”: international students and the COVID-19 crisis

Edward Tian

Forced to monitor the evolving crises both in the United States and abroad, international students continue to grapple with unanswered questions, most pressingly whether they can and should stay on campus.

NEWS | 03/13/2020

Small subjects, big findings: the Princeton Baby Lab

Small subjects, big findings: the Princeton Baby Lab

Mindy Burton

A day in the lab doesn’t only help scientists understand more about human interactions and how our brains develop and learn. It provides them as well with the joyful privilege of interacting with Princeton’s littlest tigers.

NEWS | 03/05/2020

‘Come find me’: Democratic primary sees student groups compete for traction

Marie-Rose Sheinerman and Josephine de La Bruyere

A point of pride for “Princeton for Bernie”: they’re the fastest growing campaign infrastructure on campus. “Everyone else seems to be dissolving,” Wittekind ’22 said.

NEWS | 03/05/2020

In this lab, things change to stay the same

James Anderson

So when circulation desk staff or Special Collections archivists find a holding damaged — binding broken, page torn, illustration faded — they send it below ground, to the Conservation Lab.

NEWS | 03/02/2020

Faith, family, and tech startups on Princeton’s first international Tiger Trek

Patrycja Pajdak

It took them 18 months and surprisingly few obstacles. By intersession 2020, they’d pieced together Princeton’s first international Tiger Trek, modeled off of pre-existing New York City and Silicon Valley Tiger Treks. The weeklong trip offered 18 students and two chaperones the opportunity to travel to Israel in an attempt to understand how the country’s political climate, culture, and other institutions contribute to creating such an expansive tech ecosystem in such a small space.

NEWS | 02/25/2020

On defense, handshakes, and bleeding orange: Carla Berube

Alex Gjaja

New women’s basketball head coach Carla Berube has racked up a considerable — if clunky — list of accolades. She isn’t happy yet. “I think,” she said, “that I’m a work in progress.”

FEATURES | 02/14/2020

Divestment duels: Rob Nixon

Rachel Sturley

“Divestment is going to happen,” said Nixon. “It’s not if, it’s when, and it would be fantastic to see Princeton on the vanguard.”

FEATURES | 02/11/2020

Divestment duels: Stephen Pacala

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Divestment duels: Stephen Pacala

Rachel Sturley

“Both investing and buying products puts money in the hands of the people I don’t like,” Pacala said. “So ethically, I cannot find a consistent reason why I would divest and not boycott, or boycott and not divest.”

FEATURES | 02/11/2020

Once a Tiger: Ellen DeVoe ’86

Once a Tiger: Ellen DeVoe ’86

Patrycja Pajdak

Ellen DeVoe ’86 is one of women’s basketball’s most decorated athletes. Now she watches her son, sophomore guard Ethan Wright, play her game — his own way.

FEATURES | 02/06/2020

Meet Ben Chang: diplomat, DJ, deputy vice president of communications

Danielle Ranucci

“I have seen some of the best spokespeople in my years consist of individuals who are great leaders,” said Anthony Clark Arend, a former professor of Chang’s at Georgetown. “Ben is one.”

NEWS | 01/13/2020

Cats and dogs for tigers: emotional support animals on campus

Cats and dogs for tigers: emotional support animals on campus

Mindy Burton

Scarlet is precocious. At just 12 years old, she’s four months into her first year at the University. She has curly, sandy-colored hair, loves her roommate, K Stiefel ’20, and lives in the Pink House at 99 Alexander Street. Scarlet also has four legs, loves playing catch, and serves as Stiefel’s emotional support animal (ESA).

NEWS | 01/09/2020

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