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NEW FOCUS AT SUPERBUGS: THE BATTLE OVER CAREER SERVICES FIGHTING BACK HIGHER ED PRINCETON ALUMNI WEEKLY A POSE FOR POWER Amy Cuddy *05 says that our body language shapes not just how others see us, but how we see ourselves APRIL 2, 2014 PAW.PRINCETON.EDU 00paw0402_Cov.indd 1 3/20/14 1:52 PM ANNUAL GIVING Making a difference “The education, mentorship, socialization, and wide latitude I received to find my own way as a graduate student provided me with everything I needed for a successful career in academia, which took me to professorships at two universities before returning to Princeton, where I first studied as a graduate student.” — DOUG MASSEY *78 Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, and Director of the Office of Population Research Photo: Prestige Portraits by Lifetouch This year’s Annual Giving campaign ends on June 30, 2014. To contribute by credit card, please call our 24-hour gift line at 800-258-5421 (outside the U.S., 609-258-3373), or use our secure website at www.princeton.edu/ag. Checks made payable to Princeton University can be mailed to Annual Giving, Box 5357, Princeton, NJ 08543-5357. April 2, 2014 Volume 114, Number 10 An editorially independent magazine by alumni for alumni since 1900 PRESIDENT’S PAGE 2 INBOX 3 FROM THE EDITOR 5 ON THE CAMPUS 11 New direction in career advising Where new grads found jobs Outgoing Dean William Russel on graduate education Fathers of the Internet STUDENT DISPATCH: Family life SPORTS: One mile, under four minutes Women’s basketball Sports shorts LIFE OF THE MIND 19 Battling the superbugs Faculty books PRINCETONIANS 33 W. Lewis Johnson ’78 creates video games to train soldiers Todd Purdum ’82, on the Civil Rights Act Alumni lead Wellbody Alliance STARTING OUT: Robert Joyce ’13 Staphylococcus aureus CLASS NOTES 38 bacteria, page 19 MEMORIALS 56 Power to the People 22 Universities on the Defensive 28 How you act depends on how you feel. And In an excerpt from his Alumni Day talk, CLASSIFIEDS 61 to feel more powerful, says Amy Cuddy *05, a national education leader lays out start by standing up and spreading out. the challenges facing higher education. THAT WAS THEN 64 By Jennifer Altmann By Hunter R. 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Top: Science Photo Library; From left: Science Photo Library; From Top: On the cover: Photograph by Brian Smith. 01paw0402_TOCrev1.indd 1 3/18/14 12:24 PM THE PRESIDENT’S PAGE Alumni Day: Reaffirming Wilson’s Vision lumni Day 2014 took place on a warm and the enlightenment that have come to the world through sunny February day, resplendent with orange, [its] extraordinary advances.” But he also warned that a welcome break from an arduous winter. It technological change had made society “credulous of quick was a day to celebrate the best of Princeton. improvement, hopeful of discovering panaceas, confident AHunter Rawlings *70 accepted the Madison Medal of discovering success in every new thing.” Stressing with a speech—excerpted in this issue—that compared the importance of history, literature, and the classics to insights from neuroscience and Emily Dickinson. Sonia leadership in a modern society, Wilson declared, “He is Sotomayor ’76 received the Wilson Award and emphasized not a true man who knows only the present fashion.” that an ethic of service depends on humble acts of human Wilson expected the University to supply that kind kindness. The undergraduate Pyne Prize winners inspired of leadership, and to do so, “the air of affairs had to be us with their contributions to international service and admitted to all its classrooms.” He meant not “the air of the arts, and the graduate Jacobus Fellows dazzled us party politics” but “the sense of the duty of man towards with their achievements in neuroscience, Eurasian history, man, of the presence of men in every problem, of the materials science, and English literature. significance of truth for guidance as well as for knowledge, The University’s newest programs were vividly on of the potency of ideas, of the promise and the hope that display. Pyne Prize winner Izzy Kasdin is a campus leader shine in the face of all knowledge.” (Wilson’s language, like in the arts, taking full advantage of the initiatives launched the Princeton of his time, was gendered, but his references by President Shirley Tilghman. Izzy’s fellow Pyne Prize to “men” apply equally well to women). recipient, Joe Barrett, was among the first cohort of Bridge Wilson regarded Princeton’s scholarly mission as the Year students, tutoring impoverished children in Varanasi, heart of its service to the nation. By enabling students and India, before beginning his studies. One of the Jacobus faculty to pursue truths that matter—truths significant Fellows, Cristina Domnisoru, will receive her doctorate “for guidance as well as for knowledge”—Princeton in a discipline—neuroscience—in which the University generates ideas that move society and inform public conferred its first Ph.D. earlier this year. affairs, and it prepares its graduates for leadership in their communities and professions. This lofty vision of the University might at first seem different from, or even at odds with, the notion of humble service put forward by Sotomayor in her Wilson Award speech. She celebrated modest but meaningful acts—such as caring for a sick friend—that improve the lives of others. DENISE APPLEWHITE Yet, Wilson’s vision and Sotomayor’s share a common core. Wilson said that to bring the “air of affairs” into the University’s classroom, students and faculty must maintain a “sense of the duty of man towards man.” Like Sotomayor, Wilson insisted that Princetonians must remain actively conscious of their broader responsibilities to humanity. This year’s Pyne Prize winners exemplified the mixture of service and learning that Wilson evoked so vividly. Izzy Kasdin directed theatrical productions and organized an AIDS benefit while producing original, prize-winning Madison Medalist Hunter Rawlings *70 (left) and Wilson Award scholarship on America’s cultural heritage. Joe Barrett winner Sonia Sotomayor ’76 at Alumni Day. studied history, aided the poor in India, and participated in prisoner assistance programs in New Jersey to prepare for As is true so often at Princeton, new mixed with a career in which he hopes to address issues of poverty and old. The University’s grand traditions shone brightly social inequality. throughout the day. Indeed, as I listened to Rawlings Wilson urged Princetonians to create a university that and Sotomayor, I was struck by how each of them echoed was at once a place where scholars pursued scientific Princeton’s greatest speech, Woodrow Wilson’s “Princeton truth and honored literary beauty, and where the “school in the Nation’s Service,” delivered at the University’s [was] of the nation.” I venture to hope that, had Wilson sesquicentennial celebration in 1896. In Sotomayor’s case, been with us in February to hear Hunter Rawlings, Sonia the connection was obvious—the title for her own speech Sotomayor, and the student prize-winners, and to see was the University’s informal motto, “In the Nation’s how many of his fellow alumni returned to celebrate their Service and in the Service of All Nations,” which is, of University, he would have allowed himself a quiet smile course, drawn from Wilson’s address. of satisfaction—and, perhaps, despite his formal reserve, Though Rawlings neither mentioned Wilson nor joined in a locomotive for Old Nassau. uttered “in the nation’s service,” he, too, echoed Wilson. Rawlings focused on the need to protect the liberal arts in an era obsessed with short-term, practical training. So did Wilson. He praised science for “the gain and PAW PROVIDES THESE PAGES TO PRESIDENT CHRISTOPHER L. 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