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“September is an ebullient time on college campuses. … It is, by its Eisgruber welcomes Class of 2020: very nature, a season of fresh starts and high expectations. It is a season of optimism,” Eisgruber said. “This ‘We’re all in it together’ afternoon, however, we gather not in a season of carefree high spirits, but in E m i ly A ro n s o n for generations through their intellect, religious and philosophical traditions. the closing weeks of a summer stained creativity and passion,” Eisgruber Undergraduate students also were by violence, sorrow and loss. We tressing a theme of community, said. He called the 1,306 first-year stu- recognized for their academic achieve- gather, moreover, on a date — Septem- Princeton President Christopher dents an “extraordinarily accomplished ments during the previous year. ber 11th — forever marked as a tragic SL. Eisgruber welcomed the Class and diverse” group, hailing from 48 While the event featured festive cel- day in American history.” of 2020 to the University on Sunday, states and 53 countries besides the ebration, such as the processional into Eisgruber then noted cities in the Sept. 11, during Opening Exercises United States. the chapel followed by students waving United States and abroad that were marking the start of the academic year. In addition to Eisgruber’s address, colorful kites and African drum music, the sites of mass shootings and acts “Those of you who begin your Opening Exercises included music, this year’s ceremony also included of terrorism this summer, asking the undergraduate or graduate careers prayers and readings from various somber reflection. audience to join him in a moment of today, or who enter the ranks of the silence. staff and the faculty, have joined a As students start a new school year, community,” Eisgruber said. “Our Eisgruber said he understands if they destinies are linked to one another in also might be grappling with the myriad ways — not just for the years question, “What does it mean to be that you spend on this campus, but a college student when the course of long beyond them. Being a Princeton- human events seems so frenzied and ian is now — was from the day that tumultuous?” you accepted your offer of admission, For possible answers, Eisgruber really — a part of your identity.” turned to the Pre-read book he asked After a week of Orientation activi- the incoming class to read, “Our ties, first-year students wearing shirts Declaration: A Reading of the Declara- representing their residential colleges tion of Independence in the Defense gathered for the event in the Univer- of Equality,” by Danielle Allen. A sity Chapel. The interfaith ceremony, member of Princeton’s Class of 1993, a tradition dating to at least 1802, Allen is director of the Edmond J. includes the first-year class as well as Safra Center for Ethics and professor other undergraduates, graduate stu- in the Department of Government and dents, faculty and staff. Classes began in the Graduate School of Education at on Wednesday, Sept. 14. Applewhite Denise by Photo Harvard University. “Today you join the ranks of stu- Students holding the Class of 2020 banner lead the Pre-rade through the walkway in front dents who have left their marks on the of Nassau Hall, followed by students carrying the gonfalons of the University’s residential Princeton campus — and the world — colleges. Continued on page 12

radio waves can travel through clouds and be detected at any hour. Cold War-era satellite dish, restored by The idea to take on the refurbishing of the InfoAge dish — which spans Princeton scientists, becomes teaching tool 60 feet across and sits on a base that is 40 feet tall — came out of a chance conversation between Marlow and Jarosik. Cat h e r i n e Z a n d o n e l l a ushering in the era of modern weather “Luckily we had a lot of coopera- forecasting. tion from Princeton’s Department of Continued on page 12 n its heyday, the towering metal sat- After a decade of scanning the skies, Physics and the University, along with ellite dish located about three miles however, the dish fell into disuse and terrific partners in the community.” Ifrom the Jersey Shore’s boardwalks became immobilized by rust while hosted its share of historical moments: weeds grew up around the base and Bringing a forsaken dish back to life It tracked the flights of some of Amer- wasps nested in its crevices. There Built in 1958, the dish is 40 miles ica’s first space launches, and in 1960 it sat until four years ago, when two east of the Princeton campus and it collected the first images beamed Princeton University scientists set out occupies the grounds of a former U.S. to Earth from an orbiting weather to restore the dish as a way to bring Army base known as Camp Evans in satellite. The feat was considered so students — both from the University Wall Township, New Jersey. By the amazing that the photos were rushed and local communities — closer to mid-1970s, the dish was considered to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, outer space. obsolete and its use was discontinued. This spring, the now-functional It might have been torn down if not satellite receiver hosted about 20 for the efforts of radio enthusiasts and Princeton students from an undergrad- other volunteers from a grassroots uate physics class who learned how museum in Wall called the Informa- to receive radio signals not just from tion Age Science History Museum and orbiting satellites but also from astro- Learning Center, or InfoAge. physical objects such as dying stars. The quest to restore the dish origi- The dish has also hosted scores of nated from Marlow’s desire to build a amateur radio enthusiasts and is open radio telescope that Princeton stu- to the public each Wednesday and on dents could use to study objects in the weekends, when visitors can watch as universe. A typical home-use telescope the massive dish sweeps the sky. works by collecting visible light into “We didn’t realize what we were its lens, whereas the refurbished dish

getting into when we first decided collects radio waves. Both visible light Marlow Daniel by Photo and radio signals are electromagnetic to take on this project,” said Daniel Princeton Senior Research Physicist waves, but visible-light telescopes need Marlow, Princeton’s Evans Crawford Norman Jarosik (left) and engineer Geoffrey good weather and dark conditions, 1911 Professor of Physics, who led Gettelfinger view the satellite dish in Wall, whereas the longer wavelengths of the refurbishment effort with Senior New Jersey, shortly after its first change in Research Physicist Norman Jarosik. elevation in more than 30 years.

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the same time. Other books include “Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas Historian of religion Pagels awarded and the Shaping of Christianity,” co- authored with Karen King, a professor of divinity at Harvard University; National Humanities Medal “The Origin of Satan”; and “Adam, Eve and the Serpent.” Last year, she taught the fresh- Ja m i e Sa xo n In addition to Pagels, two other win- Pagels, the Har- man seminar “Who Is — Or Was ners of this year’s National Humanities rington Spear Paine — Jesus?” and a graduate course rinceton University faculty mem- Medal have Princeton ties. Isabel Foundation Professor “Studies in Greco-Roman Religions: ber Elaine Pagels, an authority Wilkerson, an author and Pulitzer of Religion, joined Authority, Ritual and Politics in Early Pon the religions of late antiquity Prize-winning former national cor- the Princeton faculty Christianity.” She has also taught and the author of “The Gnostic Gos- respondent and Chicago bureau chief in 1982, shortly after “Christianity: From Illegal Move- pels” and “Beyond Belief: The Secret for The New York Times, was a Ferris receiving a MacAr- ment to World Religion,” “Jesus of Gospel of Thomas,” has been named a Professor of Journalism in 1997-98. thur Fellowship. Pagels Nazareth: Ancient Controversies” and recipient of the 2015 National Humani- Louis Menand, a critic, cultural his- Her books bring a “From Jesus to Constantine,” among ties Medal. The announcement was torian and staff writer for The New fresh perspective to many other courses. made Sept. 14 by the White House. Yorker, was a Whitney J. Oates Fellow the history of Christianity. “Gnostic Prior to coming to Princeton, Pagels The medal was conferred by President of the Council of the Humanities at Gospels,” an examination of the early was a professor and chair of the Barack Obama at a ceremony at the Princeton and guest of the Department Christian religious movement called Department of Religion at Barnard White House on Sept. 22. of English in 2008-09. Gnosticism, won the National Book College, and an associate professor at The medal honors an individual or “Through path-breaking research Award and the National Book Critics Columbia University. organization whose work has deep- and dedicated teaching, Elaine Pagels Circle Award and was selected by the Pagels earned her bachelor’s in ened the nation’s understanding of has enlivened the study of religion and Modern Library as one of the best 100 history and master’s in classics from the human experience, broadened helped to shed light on the develop- English-language nonfiction books of Stanford University and her Ph.D. in citizens’ engagement with history ment of Christianity and Gnosticism the 20th century. “Beyond Belief: The religion from Harvard. She received and literature, or helped preserve and over many centuries,” said Princeton Secret Gospel of Thomas” was a New Princeton’s Howard T. Behrman expand Americans’ access to cultural President Christopher L. Eisgruber. York Times bestseller and examines Award for Distinguished Achieve- resources. Pagels was among 12 recipi- “A gifted writer, scholar and teacher, the Gospel of Thomas, written around ment in the Humanities in 2012. Her ents of the award. she has mentored students at all levels 100 C.E., which was discovered buried other fellowships and awards include The official citation for the award — from brand-new undergraduates in a jar in Egypt in 1945 with other a Rockefeller Fellowship, Guggenheim honored Pagels “for her exploration of in her freshman seminar to the most early Christian writings. Fellowship and the Centennial Medal faith and its traditions. Through her advanced graduate scholars. Elaine Her newest book, “Revelations: for Outstanding Contributions to Soci- study of ancient manuscripts and other embodies many of the core values Visions, Prophecy and Politics in the ety from Harvard. scholarly work, she has generated new that define this University, and I am Book of Revelation,” explores the New The National Humanities Medal, interest and dialogue about our con- thrilled that she has been recognized Testament Book of Revelation and inaugurated in 1997, is sponsored temporary search for knowledge and with this well-deserved honor,” other Jewish, Christian and pagan by the National Endowment for the meaning.” Eisgruber said. books of Revelation written around Humanities.

Cox named director of Princeton’s theater program

St e v e Ru n k “Amelie,” directed by Pam MacKin- Light in Creative Expression,” and language, art, writing and dance; and non, being presented at the Ahmanson a “Transformations in Engineering reaching out further to the STEM rinceton University’s Lewis Theater in Los Angeles this season; and the Arts” course. This fall she is fields, to historians, social activists Center for the Arts named “Noises Off” on Broadway, directed by co-teaching a Princeton Atelier course, and architects. I hope we’ll continue Paward-winning lighting designer Jeremy Herrin; and a new play about “Reinventing the Guided Tour,” with to expand our offerings of studios and Jane Cox as the new director of the Roe v. Wade, directed by Bill Rauch, collaborator Monica Bill Barnes, seminars with world-renowned artists University’s Program in Theater. Cox which will be presented at Arena in which students will design and and academics, in order to enrich the has been a member of the Program in Stage and Berkeley Rep this season. choreograph a live experience, giving lives of all students on our campus Theater faculty since 2007 and was “Jane Cox is a brilliant lighting audiences a fresh glimpse into a local with ideas and creative practices from recently promoted to senior lecturer. designer, a gifted teacher and mentor, Princeton location. all over the country and the world.” Her appointment began July 1. and a visionary, collaborative adminis- Cox succeeds Tim Vasen, who led More than 200 students enroll each Cox has received numerous awards trator,” said Stacy Wolf, acting chair of the Program in Theater from 2012 year in the 30-plus courses offered for her work as a lighting designer the Lewis Center. “We’re thrilled that until he passed away in December. by the Program in Theater in act- and recently received the Ruth Mor- she will lead the Program in Theater Playwright and professor in the Pro- ing, directing, playwriting, design, ley Design Award to our next stage, both figuratively and gram in Theater Robert N. Sandberg dramaturgy, performance history, from the League of literally, when we relocate to the arts has served as acting director of the and criticism, which are taught by a Professional The- and transit neighborhood in fall 2017.” program over the past five months. distinguished faculty of working art- atre Women. She Originally from Dublin, Ireland, Cox “I’m honored to be taking over the ists, critics and scholars. Among the also was nominated has taught courses in theater design at Program in Theater from the brilliant graduates of the program are Broad- for a Drama Desk New York University’s Tisch School and generous Tim Vasen, and excited way producer Jordan Roth (“The Award for Outstand- of the Arts graduate program, Vassar to continue to work with the gifted Book of Mormon,” “A Gentleman’s ing Lighting Design College, Sarah Lawrence College and students, faculty, staff, artists and Guide to Love and Murder,” “Kinky Cox for a Musical for the University of Massachusetts Amherst, artisans at the Lewis Center for the Boots,” “Jersey Boys”); actors Mark current Broadway and she has led workshops at the Ken- Arts,” said Cox. “I hope we’ll expand Feuerstein (“Royal Pains”), Karron revival of “The Color nedy Center and universities nationwide. on Tim’s legacy, making inventive and Graves (“Coram Boy on Broadway,” Purple,” directed by fellow Princeton Since joining the Princeton faculty, student-driven theater and music the- 1996 film version “The Crucible”), and faculty member John Doyle. Cox has designed lighting for numer- ater with students of all backgrounds, Ellie Kemper (“Unbreakable Kimmy Other recent projects include the ous University productions and has academic interests, and levels of Schmidt,” “The Office”); acclaimed National Theatre’s production of taught courses in lighting design and artistic skill. I hope we’ll become even theater directors Lileana Blain-Cruz, “Hamlet” with Benedict Cumber- advanced theatrical design, as well more interdisciplinary in approach, Michelle Hensley and Davis McCal- batch in London, directed by Lyndsey as a freshman seminar, “The Role of continuing to create work with music, lum; and award-winning playwrights Turner, for which she was awarded the Noah Haidle and Branden Jacobs- 2016 Onstage Award; the new musical Jenkins.

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hree of the 13 Princeton students Johnson, the starting goalie, led the • Kathleen Sharkey, Class of 2013, and alumni competing won med- American women’s water polo team field hockey; and T als at the 2016 Olympic Games through an unbeaten run to the finals, • Lauren Wilkinson of the Class of that concluded Sunday, Aug. 21, in Rio in which they defeated Italy 12-5 on 2011, women’s eight rowing. de Janeiro. Friday, Aug. 19. All competed for the United States, Senior Ashleigh Johnson won a On Aug. 13, Stone placed second in except Wilkinson, who was on Team gold medal with the U.S. women’s the women’s single sculls behind Kim- Canada. water polo team, Gevvie Stone of the berley Brennan of Australia. Men’s assistant cross-country coach Class of 2007 won a silver medal in Matheson started and played most Robby Andrews competed for the women’s individual rowing for Team of the bronze medal soccer game as United States in the 1,500-meter race USA, and Diana Matheson of the the Canadians defeated Brazil 2-1, on and women’s track assistant coach Class of 2008 won a bronze medal on Aug. 19. Priscilla Frederick competed for Anti- the Canadian women’s soccer team. The other Princetonians who com- gua and Barbuda in the high jump. “As the 2016 Olympic Games come peted were: The Department of Athletics web- to an end, we are extremely proud of • Kate Bertko, Class of 2006, light- site has more detailed information on all of the Princetonians who repre- weight double sculls; Princetonians who competed at the Photo by Jeff Cable, USA Water Polo games, including an Olympics Central Ashleigh Johnson, a senior at Princeton, page (www.goprincetontigers.com/ poses with the gold medal she won with news/2016/7/20/olympics.aspx) with the U.S. women’s water polo team at the results and biographical information Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. on each participant.

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• Bonnie Bassler, Princeton University’s Squibb Professor of Molecular Biology and department chair, is one of two recipients of the 2016 Max Planck Research Award. Bassler was recognized for her “major role in the discovery that Earth’s most ancient unicellular organisms communicate with one another via chemical signalling molecules,” a process known as quorum sensing. The award honors scientists for their pioneering research into the sensory perception of organisms, and provides winners with 750,000 euros to fund future projects with colleagues Photo by Ed Hewitt, Ed Row2K.com by Photo in Germany and abroad. Gevvie Stone of the Class of 2007 shows off her silver medal and holds an American flag after the women’s single-scull finals at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. • Frederick (Rick) Barton and Kathryn R. (Kit) Lunney have been named co- directors of the Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative (SINSI) at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. SINSI sented their countries so admirably on • Donn Cabral, Class of 2012, steeple- prepares the nation’s top students to pursue careers in the U.S. government, and off the field of play,” said Mollie chase; both in international and domestic agencies, through integrating academic train- Marcoux, the Ford Family Director • Tyler Nase, Class of 2013, men’s ing and work experience in federal agencies. of Athletics. “It was such a pleasure lightweight four rowing; to watch them compete on the world’s • Katharine Holmes, Class of 2017, • Louis A. Simpson, a 1960 alumnus of Princeton’s Graduate School, and his largest stage and pursue their athletic fencing; wife, Kimberly K. Querrey, have given $20 million to fund the Louis A. Simpson dreams at the highest level. • Glen Ochal, Class of 2008, men’s International Building. Located at 20 Washington Road, the building was made “We are proud to welcome current eight rowing; possible through a major renovation of the former Frick Chemistry Laboratory Princeton water polo player Ashleigh • Robin Prendes, Class of 2011, men’s and will house the University’s many international initiatives. Johnson back to campus this fall after lightweight four; helping her team to a remarkable gold • Sisters Julia and Katie Reinprecht, • Eric Gregory, professor of religion, has been appointed chair of Princeton Uni- medal. She and the other Princeton Classes of 2014 and 2013, respectively, versity’s Council of the Humanities. As chair, Gregory will promote teaching and Olympians have inspired all of us.” field hockey; research in the humanities, overseeing a wide array of interdisciplinary programs that bring together faculty, students and distinguished visitors from many fields.

• Princeton University researchers developed a machine-learning program that scoured the human genome to identify 2,500 genes that may contribute to autism spectrum disorder. The results vastly expand on the 65 autism-risk genes currently known. Working with Simons Foundation researchers, the team published their findings in the journal Nature Neuroscience in August.

• Angus Deaton has been named a Knight Bachelor “for his services to research in economics and international affairs.” The honor entitles him to be known as Sir Angus, or Sir Angus Deaton, and was announced as part of the Queen of England’s official birthday honors list in June.

• Princeton University’s 2015-16 Annual Giving campaign raised $59.3 mil- lion — the second highest total in Annual Giving history — with 58.4 percent of undergraduate alumni participating. The results are notable for their strength and breadth across all of Princeton’s constituencies: undergraduate alumni, graduate alumni, parents and friends.

• Mónica Ponce de León, dean of the School of Architecture and professor of architecture, has been selected as a member of the National Academy Museum and School. Members are elected by their peers in recognition of their excep- tional contributions to American art and architecture and ability to push creative boundaries. Photo by David Kelly Crow

The Princeton Writes program, established in 2013, offers a • Paul Chirik, the Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Chemistry, was among five welcoming space for members of the University community to recipients nationwide of the 2016 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge cultivate their inner writer. Under John Weeren's direction, it offers Awards presented by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Chirik was recognized for discovering a new class of catalysts that are used to produce writing seminars, tutorials and other support for students and staff silicones without using hard-to-obtain platinum, which could dramatically reduce members looking to improve or enhance their writing skills. Four the mining of ore and reduce costs, greenhouse-gas emissions and waste. Princeton staff members were honored for their essays on diversity in the second annual Princeton Writes essay contest. Bryant Blount • The following individuals were named to represent staff members on the Council of the Princeton University Community (CPUC) for 2016-17: Khristina Gonza- (second from right), winner of the second annual Princeton Writes lez, Ellen DiPippo, Diane Cook, Kristy Seymour, Grzegorz (Greg) Nowak and writing competition, poses for a photo with (from left) John Weeren Cynthia Keith. CPUC serves as “a permanent conference of the representatives and contest honorable mention recipients Brian Mondschein, Violette of all major groups of the University” where “they could each raise problems that Chamoun and April Armstrong. concern them and … be exposed to each other’s views.” PRINCETON 4 UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Sept. 29, 2016

world, understand the phenomena they see in their everyday lives and be able to Teachers take on summer QUEST ask questions about what they're seeing: ‘Why does that happen? When did it start?’” Catena said. “In QUEST, teach- to improve science education ers generate questions themselves but also think about how you get students M i c h a e l Ho t c h k i s s with the Next Generation Science Stan- ing and our content knowledge at the to start asking questions.” dards being implemented in New Jersey same time.” Other experiments conducted by the wenty years after she graduated schools this fall. The standards, devel- Throughout the week, Heavers and teachers studying weather and climate from Princeton with a degree in oped by states, set new expectations for other teachers examining extreme life focused on air pressure, temperature, T ecology and evolutionary biology, what students should know and be able further explored evolution, as well as how the seasons, the greenhouse effect, Kate Heavers found herself back in class to do, and are designed to improve sci- organisms survive in extreme environ- humidity, clouds, wind and storms. in a Guyot Hall laboratory. ence education for all students. ments such as thermal vents on the ocean QUEST is made possible by Heavers, who teaches biology, On July 13, Heavers and other floor, acid hot springs in Yellowstone funding from the National Science anatomy and physiology a few miles teachers learning about life in extreme Park, ice-covered lakes in Antarctica, and Foundation, Princeton Universi- from campus at West Windsor- conditions examined the skeletons of a on the International Space Station. ty’s Cooperative Institute for Climate Plainsboro High School South, joined wide range of animals — from a lobster Anne Catena, program associate and Science Research and the Program more than 20 other New Jersey sec- to a sloth — to look for clues to their director of professional development in Teacher Preparation, as well as ondary school teachers for QUEST, a evolution. Later in the week, teachers initiatives in Princeton’s Program in support from participating schools. weeklong, hands-on summer program tried their hand with current computer Teacher Preparation, which coordi- The program drew teachers from that helps teachers enhance their knowl- models that match the DNA sequencing nates QUEST, said the program has an eight school districts: Hillsborough, edge of science, math and technology. of Onstott’s samples with known organ- important impact on teachers and their Lawrence Township, Montgomery, The program, whose formal name is isms to more fully understand how life students. North Hanover, Northern Burlington, Questioning Underlies Effective Sci- exists and evolves. Using that informa- “It’s very exciting for kids to know the Somerset Hills, Trenton and West ence Teaching, had two tracks — one tion, they revised the “Tree of Life” they applications of what they’re learning in Windsor-Plainsboro, as well as from focusing on life in extreme environ- had constructed earlier in the week, the classroom, and it’s motivating for private, parochial and charter schools. ments, led by Tullis Onstott, a professor illustrating their thoughts about which their teachers, too,” Catena said. “We Carson, who has been helping to lead of geosciences, and another focusing animals share an evolutionary past. want to keep them motivated, keep them QUEST for nearly 20 years, said the pro- on weather and climate, led by Steven “We’re being enriched intellectually learning. That’s the focus of QUEST.” gram is one of the highlights of his year. Carson, a middle school teacher and for- and challenged,” Heavers said. “Then, Catena said the Next Gen science “I love the material. I love working mer researcher at the Geophysical Fluid we step back and talk about the prac- standards put an emphasis on similar with the teachers,” he said. “This is Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton. tice, what we would do with students experiences for students, with a focus a group that’s coming in the summer Teachers in both tracks learned about under the new science standards. So, on self-discovery. to learn, and they’re all focused and the work of researchers and how to it’s a really nice combo of addressing “These new standards are very intent engaged and excited to be learning translate it for their classrooms in line our own pedagogical practices in teach- on helping students make sense of their things. It’s a very satisfying thing.”

Quick, early test for Ebola could prevent epidemics

A da m H a dh a z y nanometers across — about a thou- respond effectively to future out- has had severe economic consequences sandth of the width of a human hair. breaks of Ebola or similar epidemics throughout Western Africa. esearchers from Princeton Uni- Gold particles measuring about 10 to 15 from infectious diseases,” said Arthur Numerous treatments, such as vac- versity are joining with colleagues nanometers dot the pillars, which also Reingold, professor and head of epide- cines, and better lab and field tests like Rfrom U.S. government laboratories sport large gold caps, making them look miology at the University of California the M-plate Ebola Virus Assay, are in in an effort to dramatically improve the somewhat like mushrooms. Berkeley School of Public Health, who the works. The hope is that when the test for the Ebola virus. The goal is to This tiny, complex architecture is not part of Chou’s research effort. next outbreak happens, the world will offer a quick, accurate and inexpensive captures and boosts light signals. In the While work on the M-plate sensor be far better prepared, said Chou. He method to help contain future epidemics. M-plate Ebola Virus Assay, light is gen- continues at Princeton, the FDA will envisions that his testing apparatus “We have had some very exciting erated when viral proteins in a sample contribute its expertise in the study of will also be further expanded to detect initial results with this fast, low-cost are captured by a specialized protein Ebola virus detection antibodies and Ebola’s deadly cousins such as Sudan platform for detecting infection with the preloaded into the assay. The captured USAMRIID will advance the testing virus, as well as the closely related Mar- Ebola virus,” said Stephen Chou, the viral proteins are then tagged with an through its program of Ebola virus burg virus and other deadly viruses. Joseph C. Elgin Professor of Engineer- “optical label,” which are molecules prevention and treatment research on “We want to do point-of-care as ing in the Department of Electrical that glow, or fluoresce, when a beam of nonhuman primates in its biosafety soon as possible,” said Chou. “Early Engineering at Princeton. “We believe ultraviolet light shines on them. Thanks level 4 laboratories, the highest level of detection of the Ebola virus will give it is now worthwhile to start up a much to the light-amplifying properties of the biosafety precaution. us tremendous advantages in halting larger program to explore this emerging M-plate, the researchers anticipate that Although sporadic outbreaks of viruses would-be epidemics in their tracks.” technology.” only a very small amount of viral pro- such as Ebola that cause hemorrhagic Previous funding for the Chou Lab, The test relies on technology devel- tein need be in the bodily fluid sample fevers in humans have been documented the M-plate platform and the M-plate oped at Princeton that uses nanoscale to generate sufficient fluorescent light since the late 1960s, the largest epidemic Ebola virus assay has come partly structures to significantly increase the for positive identification. in history struck just three years ago. from the Defense Advanced Research detection of the Ebola virus in a sample A low threshold for detection is Largely contained now, the Ebola out- Project Agency, Intelligence Advanced of body fluid. Called the M-plate, the important because when a person first break has killed more than 11,300 people, Research Projects Activity, Bill & technology works in part by amplify- becomes infected with the Ebola virus, mainly in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Melinda Gates Foundation, Old School ing the light emitted in testing for the amount of viral protein in their Guinea. Due to drops in trade, foreign Fund, Helen Shipley Hunt Fund, and the virus. The researchers believe blood, urine and saliva starts off small. investment and tourism, the epidemic the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Transfor- the M-plate technology could provide As the pathogen invades its human mative Technology Fund. hundreds of thousands, and possibly up host’s cells and replicates, viral levels to 10 million, times greater sensitivity rapidly escalate. Yet the virus’ pres- compared to a standard test, called an ence often remains undetectable by immunoassay. traditional immunoassays until after This improvement would allow health the initial symptoms of a fever, sore care workers to identify, quarantine and throat, headaches and muscle pain have treat Ebola-infected people earlier than already set in, anywhere from two to 21 previously practical — possibly several days post-infection, by which time the days before they become contagious disease can be spread to others and spur and begin to exhibit symptoms. The an epidemic. researchers expect the test results to be Another test, known as real-time readable on a smartphone. polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), Chou and colleagues at the Food and can also provide early detection — Drug Administration (FDA) and the sometimes a day before symptom onset U.S. Army Medical Research Institute — but has drawbacks, including cost for Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) and complexity. recently received a $5.6 million grant The researchers believe it should be to further develop the M-plate Ebola possible to use the M-plate technology Virus Assay. The collaborators hope to to develop a test that is simpler and less develop a deployable version in about expensive than the PCR version but also three years. provides more lead time. Princeton scientists including Chou “Our grand goal is to have the and his key collaborator, Associate M-plate Ebola Virus Assay make diag- Research Scholar Liangcheng Zhou, noses before symptoms show up,” said have worked on the M-plate for six Chou. Wojciechowski Frank by Photo years. The M-plate’s surface con- “Better, rapid tests that can quickly From left, Princeton researchers Liangcheng Zhou, an associate research scholar, and Stephen sists of a thin layer of gold studded tell us who is and who is not infected Chou, the Joseph C. Elgin Professor of Engineering, are collaborating with U.S. government by hundreds of glass pillars just 60 will greatly improve our ability to labs to develop a more rapid, accurate and inexpensive test for the Ebola virus, with the aim of identifying infections before carriers become symptomatic and contagious. PRINCETON Sept. 29, 2016 UNIVERSITY BULLETIN 5 Community ties

This issue of the Princeton University Bulletin is being mailed to residents of Education, the Surplus Equipment Donations Program, and the community the local community on behalf of the Office of Community and Regional Affairs. use of University facilities. The office also assists in the coordination of the program in which Princeton University employees serve as volunteer Led by Kristin Appelget, director of community and regional affairs, and firefighters with the Princeton Fire Department. In addition, the office Erin Metro, associate director for community relations, the office serves as participates in the organization of numerous arts and entertainment a bridge between the University and the community. Staff members work initiatives for the campus and the community, such as Community and Staff with county and municipal government officials, and with a wide variety Day and the Communiversity spring festival. of community organizations, to enhance the quality of life throughout the Princeton region. For more information about the Office of Community and Regional Affairs, call 609-258-3204 or go online at www.princeton.edu/community. The office manages University/community relationships in areas involving financial contributions, land use, affordable housing, transportation, This special section of the Bulletin showcases the many ways in which environmental impact and local economic development. the University and organizations throughout Princeton and neighboring communities work together to make this region such a vibrant place in which Staff members also oversee a wide array of community relations initiatives, to live, learn, work and play. such as the Community Auditing Program and the Program in Continuing

Tiger Challenge team tackles affordable housing in Princeton

M i c h a e l Ho t c h k i s s anthropology major. “After analyzing every community in the United States. affected at the heart of innovation. all this raw data, we brainstormed So while the students are focused on Members of each team received a sti- mproving access to affordable hous- where and how we could make an delivering things that will help our pend for their work over their summer, ing is a critical challenge around the impact on this town and developed Princeton community, they are learn- along with on-campus housing, and Icountry and across the globe. It’s nine potential designs, which we ing about this ecosystem of affordable will continue to receive financial sup- also an urgent concern just across Nas- intend to refine, narrow down and test housing that could be their life’s work port over the coming school year. sau Street from the University campus, in the real world.” if they choose.” Other teams worked on topics includ- in the municipality of Princeton. Ideas include an improved online The University has for decades been ing how to make long-distance research That made it a perfect fit for the application, greater support for those a part of efforts to expand affordable- collaboration easier and how to develop inaugural Tiger Challenge, a program on the waiting list and a schools-based housing opportunities in Princeton, a safer alternative to the long spine designed to help Princeton students community network — all designed said Kristin Appelget, director of board that emergency medical techni- tackle complex, real-world problems by to improve the lives of those seeking community and regional affairs at the cians, the military and sports trainers affordable housing. University. It has provided more than use to transport injured patients. “In the near $4 million to support a range of afford- OneRoof team members say the future, we’re look- able housing initiatives in Princeton Tiger Challenge has combined a learn- ing to determine the over the last 10 years. ing experience with the opportunity to desirability, feasi- “I am proud of the work that the give back to the community they call bility and viability OneRoof team is completing, as their home, at least for their four years at the of these potential suggestions for streamlining and University. solutions and nar- humanizing the affordable housing “For Princeton students like myself, row them down application process are yet another way it’s only too easy to get caught up to one approach that the University, this time through in all the opportunities we have on or a combination student research, can have a positive campus and our various curricular and of approaches,” impact on access to affordable housing extracurricular pursuits,” Jiang said. said team member in Princeton,” Appelget said. “Involvement in this project is a way to Suzhen Jiang, a OneRoof is one of five teams par- give back — because we should want sophomore planning ticipating in the first Tiger Challenge, Princeton to be the healthiest and to major in computer Steinhauer said. All have utilized an happiest place it can be, the same way science. innovation process known as “design we’d want the best for our communi- Christy Peacock, thinking,” which puts the people most ties at home.”

Photo by Sameer Khan/Fotobuddy Sameer by Photo one of the team’s From left: OneRoof team members Edric Huang, Suzhen Jiang, mentors and the Douglas Bastidas and Juliansito Perez tackled the challenge of municipality’s affordable housing in Princeton affordable hous- ing coordinator, said team members providing support and nurturing their immersed themselves in the issues that curiosity, creativity, compassion and people seeking affordable housing face. courage. “The team was engagingly enthusi- A team of four undergraduates astic, eager, sensitive to socioeconomic spent part of the summer learning and political undercurrents, and about affordable housing in Princeton compellingly interested in the pro- through research and conversations cesses that could benefit and impact with residents, municipal officials, the Princeton Affordable Programs,” affordable-housing experts and Tiger Peacock said. Challenge mentors. Their work can also benefit many In short, Princeton’s supply of 1,024 vulnerable Princeton residents, said affordable-housing units — subsidized another OneRoof mentor, David or price-controlled housing available Kinsey, a University alumnus and Photo by Denise Applewhite Denise by Photo through an application process based planning consultant who specializes in on applicants’ income and other factors affordable-housing planning. Princeton University has donated $500,000 to help fund construction — is dwarfed by demand. The wait- “The team’s effort to simplify and of a new headquarters building for the Princeton First Aid and Rescue ing list to secure affordable housing humanize the often bewildering and Squad (PFARS). The nonprofit, volunteer-led organization provides through one of the five entities that frustrating process of accessing afford- emergency medical and rescue services to the Princeton community. administer the units is long. able housing will hopefully help many With those facts in mind, the who are less privileged,” Kinsey said. PFARS has been operating out of the same building on North Harrison OneRoof team developed concepts for Rafe Steinhauer, entrepreneurial Street since 1963 and is working toward building a new headquarters at how they might make the application program manager at the Keller Center the corner of Route 206 and Valley Road. In addition to the University’s process more streamlined and user- who oversees the Tiger Challenge, said support for PFARS, Princeton students, faculty, staff and alumni serve friendly. They will continue their work the OneRoof team’s focus on an issue throughout this academic year. that is “locally accessible but globally as fully trained volunteer emergency medical technicians each year with “Through around 40 interviews applicable” has helped shape the Tiger the squad. From left: Princeton University’s Director of Community and and other empathy-oriented research Challenge itself in the program’s first Regional Affairs Kristin Appelget and Associate Director for Community methods, we’ve gained the trust of year. Relations Erin Metro present a donation check to PFARS President government officials, the town’s hous- “Affordable housing is a hugely ing organizations, affordable-housing important part of our community here Mark Freda, PFARS Treasurer Peter Simon and Princeton municipal residents and hopefuls,” said OneRoof in Princeton,” Steinhauer said. “It is administrator Marc Dashield. team member Edric Huang, a junior also a hugely important part of almost PRINCETON 6 UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Sept. 29, 2016 Community ties

and Mathematics complement regular programs around the University. Princ- University offers family and children eton holds a monthly open house at the Peyton Observatory for viewing the night sky; bimonthly public tours of the programs throughout the year Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL); and Science on Saturdays lec- M i n P u l l a n tours and activities; Family Days, which Literacy tures throughout the winter at PPPL. are full-day programs held each Octo- Community House and the Cotsen Material Science NanoDay and the rinceton University is pleased ber and May; and Homeschool Week, Children’s Library are the two primary Stars of Material Science lecture will to again offer this year a wide which offers tours and projects during groups offering literacy programming take place in the spring. Pvariety of programs for families the second week of January. Through- for youth. Community House’s pro- and children in local communities, out the year, families and school groups grams are aimed at strengthening the Sustainability many of which are free and open to the can visit the museum; admission is free. academic skills of students who are To learn more about Princeton’s public. Ranging from science lectures underrepresented minorities or the first efforts to make the University more to exploring green spaces on campus, Athletics in their families to pursue postsecond- environmentally sustainable, school there is plenty to choose from. Princeton offers a number of youth ary education. Community House also groups can take campus Green Tours, Information about the year-round sports clinics and camps. The Campus offers an SAT preparation program for highlighting features such as green programs is provided through the Recreation department offers a summer underrepresented high school students. roofs, garden projects and a stream res- “YouthCampus” initiative established day camp for children in first through Cotsen Children’s Library hosts a toration project. The Princeton Garden by the University’s Office of Community eighth grades, and the Department reading gallery for children and activi- Project is a student-run organic garden and Regional Affairs. The site of Athletics offers around 70 summer ties include story times, writing contests, where visitors can learn about organic (community.princeton.edu/programs- camps and clinics directed by varsity book discussion groups, guest speakers gardening practices. youth) lists all the programs online coaches. In addition, the University’s and craft activities. The gallery is open and sends email alerts about upcoming Community and Staff Day in the fall to the public and free of charge. Theater programs to subscribers. includes a youth sports clinic, while the This year, Princeton Summer “We designed the site so that all the National Girls and Women in Sports Music Theater continued to offer a children’s information is easy to access,” said Erin Day features an interactive sports fair Princeton University Concerts often production. Next year, it hopes to offer a Metro, associate director of commu-nity for girls ages 7 to 14. includes family concerts in its program- six-week series of young artists’ work- relations. “From art to athletics, fami- ming each season. This year, the concert shops for children ages 6 to 12, focusing Internships lies can find a program that suits them.” series includes “Baby Got Bach: Princi- on fundamentals of theater. Every summer, Princeton hosts a A sampling of the programs follows. pally Percussion,” an interactive concert diverse group of high school students to on Nov. 5, and “Meet The Music: Albert Enjoying the campus Art Museum conduct research under the mentorship & Wolfgang,” on March 11. Princeton’s campus is always open The Princeton University Art of Princeton faculty, staff and students. to families who want to stroll through Museum hosts a number of family- Students receive firsthand education Science the gardens, view the outdoor sculpture oriented programs, such as Art for in independent research in the fields of Annual events such as the Holiday collection, visit a Gothic courtyard, or Families, which involves a gallery engineering and natural sciences. The Science Lecture, New Jersey Science greet the tigers guarding Nassau Hall. activity and related art project; Art- typical number of opportunities varies Bowl and Young Women’s Conference In addition to an interactive map, self- ful Adventures, a series of self-guided from 20 to 40 each year. in Science, Technology, Engineering guided tours are available online.

Community Action 2016: Service shows its many stripes

G w e n Mc Na m a r a and share their skills, it’s boosting their New Jersey, to feeding families in on all things Princeton from the more confidence, it’s empowering. They are Philadelphia, students learned about than 115 sophomore, junior and senior hat is service? Is it helping oth- giving to us, and being open to receiv- the challenges and opportunities facing student leaders, CA participants also ers, making a difference, giving ing, that is service too.” the many communities in and around had the opportunity to interact with W back? Yes, but it can also be At the Pocono Environmental Educa- Princeton. staff and faculty. About 35 staff and so much more. On Community Action tion Center (PEEC), students explored “We want students taking part in faculty members took part in service (CA), more than 525 first-year students how engaging in the process of sustain- CA to end their week with a greater with CA students during the day on at Princeton University learned how ability is service with the help of the understanding of the many forms Wednesday, Sept. 7, and participated service is about listening, learning and Office of Sustainability. and facets of service at Princeton and in evening dinner discussions about the understanding as much as it is about “For PEEC, I think it’s a lot differ- beyond,” said Kimberly de los Santos, University’s Pre-read, “Our Declara- doing. ent because our work is less directly the John C. Bogle ’51 and Burton G. tion,” by Danielle Allen. As part of Orientation to the Uni- impacted toward people and differ- Malkiel *64 Executive Director of “CA is a wonderful opportunity to versity, CA helps connect first-year ent communities,” said Tony Chen, a the Pace Center. “We hope everyone learn more about our communities students with their new Princeton fam- first-year student serving with PEEC. on CA returns to campus inspired to and connect with the incoming class ily, discover new places and act through “The service that we’re doing is toward engage in service in their own way of first-year students through mean- meaningful service projects. From the environment and to the Earth in and ready to take the next step to learn ingful work,” said Michael Caddell, environmental sustainability and youth general. It’s a different perspective on how to live a life of service and real- senior associate director of strategic empowerment, to nourishing families community service because it’s differ- ize the University’s motto, to be ‘In communications and marketing with and urban arts, CA groups team up ent from what people normally associate the nation’s service and the service of Career Services, who served at Cradles with community organizations tackling with volunteering work.” humanity.’” to Crayons in West Conshohocken, a wide array of social issues and causes From rebuilding along the Jersey In addition to meeting their new Pennsylvania with the Community throughout New Jersey and Pennsylva- Shore, to picking produce in central classmates and getting the inside scoop Development Philly: Empowering nia. From Sept. 5 through Sept. 9, the Youth CA group. “It’s great to meet students lived and served together out members of the Class of 2020 at the in the community. very beginning of their year and to help “It’s been really eye-opening to welcome them to the Princeton Univer- understand the different dynamics sity community.” of service,” said Catherine Powell, a CA groups returned to campus on first-year student from Chicago. “I’ve Friday, Sept. 9, and ended their experi- learned that service doesn’t always ence together with a closing program in have to be about you, or even where the evening. you play a dominant role.” As part “This experience has set an amazing of the Arts Trenton: Empowering foundation for life at Princeton,” added Youth through Circus Arts CA group, Jane Blaugrund, a first-year student she worked with the Trenton Circus serving with the Arts Philly: Urban Squad, which uses circus skills as a Arts group. “I never thought that in vehicle to bring youth together to coop- just three days I would be laughing, erate, challenge themselves and serve working and sharing parts of my life their community through performing with people who were complete strang- and teaching. ers before. I am so excited to start “We’re all beginners here and it’s school knowing that I have 13 other the kids who are teaching us,” Powell amazing and intelligent people in my added. “At first I thought, well I’m not Donnoli Nick by Photo environment who I have already bonded really doing anything except maybe First-year student Mona Clappier (left) and group leader Jessica Li, a junior (right), join Alison with and created beautiful and impact- getting in the way, but by giving [the Peebles and Charles Madden in a drum circle at the Princeton Senior Resource Center in the ful changes with.” local youth] the opportunity to teach us town of Princeton. PRINCETON Sept. 29, 2016 UNIVERSITY BULLETIN 7 Community ties

Community and Staff Day, held Sept. 17, featured a Princeton football game, fireworks, a youth sports clinic led by student-athletes, and an Community and Staff Day activities fair featuring University and community organizations.

1 2 Photos by Denise Applewhite Denise by Photos

1 Charlotte Reedy places a hand on a static electricity demonstration ball at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory’s table, sending her hair high up the air. 2 Vanessa Smith, a senior on Princeton’s women’s basketball team (left), helps out at the face painting table with two participants in HomeFront’s Joy, Hopes and Dreams Program. 3 William Sun, 4, gets some lacrosse tips at the youth sports clinic from Phillip Robertson, a first-year student on the lacrosse team. 4 Puneet Maken (left), her husband, Daljeet Maken, and son, Nirbaan Maken, enjoy the Princeton-Lafayette football game, which was followed by a fireworks display. 3 4

Merwick Stanworth expands affordable housing in Princeton

E m i ly A ro n s o n in fall 2014. The second and final phase of 198 units, including 40 affordable rinceton University will complete housing residences, should be completed the redevelopment of the Merwick by the end of October. An additional PStanworth property this October nine units of affordable housing adjacent that added a total of 65 units of afford- to the site on Leigh Avenue were built able housing available to local residents. and occupied prior to the start of the The site north of campus along Route Merwick Stanworth construction. 206/Bayard Lane has been redeveloped The University partnered with the into a residential community for Uni- nonprofit Princeton Community Hous- versity faculty, staff and their families, ing (PCH) to manage the rental process as well as residents of low-to-moderate for the 65 affordable community units incomes who do not have to be affiliated through PCH’s application and lottery with the University. system. (The application process is now The development is part of the Univer- complete.) Princeton University was sity’s ongoing efforts to augment housing a founding member of PCH nearly 50 programs for faculty, staff and graduate years ago. students, as well as expand access to “The 56 affordable rental apartments affordable housing in Princeton. on the Merwick Stanworth site and the “The project represents the Universi- nine units on Leigh Avenue are a mean- ty’s longtime commitment to affordable ingful contribution toward meeting housing in the community,” said Kristin the town’s need for affordable housing Photo by MIchael Yoon MIchael by Photo Appelget, the University’s director of and to expanding the range of housing community and regional affairs. “We opportunities in Princeton,” PCH Exec- The Merwick Stanworth residential community adds additional units to the town of Princeton’s are proud to include affordable hous- utive Director Edward Truscelli said. affordable housing inventory. ing for local residents at Merwick “The project provides residents with a Stanworth. We think the residential safe home in a neighborhood setting, community is an excellent addition to access to transportation, walkability to faculty and staff. The development adds the University campus and downtown the historic neighborhood in which this town and, perhaps most importantly, a significant number of housing units, Princeton,” said Jennifer Ealy, direc- development is situated.” the opportunity for residents to posi- modernizes amenities, incorporates sus- tor for housing real estate services in Merwick Stanworth features a mix tively affect the course of their lives.” tainable design features, preserves the the University’s Department of Hous- of one-, two- and three-bedroom apart- The new residential community sits on landscape and reflects the surrounding ing and Real Estate Services. “This ments and townhouses. The first phase the former site of the Merwick Care Cen- historic neighborhood. community is a very attractive place for of 128 units, including 16 affordable ter rehabilitation facility and the former “Merwick Stanworth is a premium, University faculty and staff and local housing units for local residents, opened Stanworth Apartments for University in-town site that is near public schools, residents to live.” PRINCETON 8 UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Sept. 29, 2016 Community ties University expands on alternative transportation modes to boost local sustainability

Morg a n K e l ly who must be at least 18 years old The Free B service operated by the the region. “It’s great to see Prince- — rent a bike by creating a Zagster municipality of Princeton also contin- ton University working to provide rinceton University continues account online or via the Zagster ues to serve as a free commuter bus options to get around that are less to expand on its commitment mobile app. Riders pay a one-time fee between various stops in Princeton polluting and that are available to P to providing convenient and of $20 that allows bike rentals for up and Princeton Station on weekdays the broader Princeton community,” sustainable transportation options, to two hours for free, with additional from 5:30-9 a.m., and 5-8:30 p.m. It Symington said. “Reducing our helping to reduce the University’s and hours costing $2 per hour. The mem- serves as a community shopping bus dependence on vehicles powered by regional community members’ collec- bership is good at any Zagster station, from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Jackson said. fossil fuels is one of the most important tive carbon footprint. not just on Princeton’s campus. Riders In 2014, the University committed things we can do to reduce greenhouse The University’s bike-share program simply log in to their account and enter $90,000 for the purchase of a new Free gas emissions in Princeton.” stands as the most recent and fastest- the unique ID number of the bike they B vehicle, which began serving the The University’s aim is to help con- growing success, said Kim Jackson, wish to use. municipality this summer. serve the environment and the historic, director of Princeton’s Transportation The University also has added new TPS also has stepped up its promo- small-town character of the town and and Parking Services (TPS). The routes to the Tiger Transit bus system, tion of ride-share programs such as campus, Jackson said. University launched a pilot program in which is free to the public. Following carpools and vanpools, as well as for “The driving force is that by pro- November 2014 with 10 bikes available the cancelation of New Jersey Tran- the incentives the University provides moting these programs, we’re reducing at Princeton Station then expanded it sit’s 655 bus, the Tiger Transit route to participants, Jackson said. For the need to build more parking, so to eight more locations in March. serving the Princeton Plasma Phys- employees who carpool, the Univer- we’re being better stewards of our Currently, 70 white, 8-speed Breezer ics Laboratory and Forrestal Campus sity provides a $50 gas card every land,” Jackson said. city bikes are available at nine campus picked up stops that connect the three months for each person regis- “As an institution, the Princeton locations: Princeton Station; Firestone University Medical Center of Prince- tered as being in a carpool or vanpool. community has really embraced Library; the Friend Center; Forbes ton at Plainsboro with Palmer Square In addition, designated van drivers alternative transportation and done College; the Frist Campus Center; the in downtown Princeton. The intent don’t pay for gas. it for the overall good,” she said. Lakeside and Lawrence Apartments; was to provide people in the Princeton Sustainable Princeton’s Energy “People who have participated should Alexander Hall; and the Forrestal community with access to the hospi- Director Christine Symington attests be proud of the contributions they’ve Campus in Plainsboro. tal, either for work or medical care, to the importance of these efforts for made.” As of Sept. 14, nearly 800 faculty, Jackson said. staff, students, visitors and community On Sept. 18, Tiger Transit began a members had taken 11,382 bike rides, Sunday shopper route modeled after with an average of 120 rides per week. the popular Saturday shopper line. Ride times average 14 minutes. The From noon to 5 p.m., the bus runs vast majority of those rides — 10,581 from the graduate-student residences — had occurred since the March 14 to Princeton Station, the Lakeside and launch of the expanded bike-share Lawrence Apartments, Whole Foods program, Jackson said. Market on U.S. Rte. 1 South, Weg- This fall, TPS plans to add bike- mans on Nassau Park Boulevard and share stations at the Graduate College, Trader Joe’s on Meadow Road before Jadwin Gym and other undergraduate returning to campus. residences, with more locations being In another expansion of service, considered for the spring, Jackson the line that served the Princeton said. In addition, the Institute for Theological Seminary (PTS) and the Advanced Study has added a rack of Engineering Quadrangle, or EQuad, rental bikes. The Princeton Shopping was split into two routes. The PTS/ Center on Harrison Road is consider- West line will travel between the ing providing bikes, which would be seminary in Princeton and seminary the first location in the municipality of housing in West Windsor with stops Princeton. at Princeton Station and Market “It’s a hugely successful program,” Fair on Canal Point Boulevard. The

Jackson said. “Slowly but surely we’re EQuad line will run from Forbes and Applewhite Denise by Photo expanding on the existing bike culture.” the Graduate College to the School of Princeton town officials cut the ribbon to unveil the new Free B community shuttle bus during The bikes are available through the Engineering and Applied Science and a ceremony at Hinds Plaza on Thursday, June 16. Princeton University provided funds for the bike-share service Zagster. Riders — Robertson Hall. town to purchase the new 21-passenger bus.

Tigers read at Princeton, Trenton elementary schools

P r i n c e t o n Va r s i t y C lu b with the Tigers expanded its program- “Our athletic program aims to serve and to lead,” noted Ford Family ming through a partnership with the complement and enhance the educa- Director of Athletics Mollie Marcoux, or a trip to Littlebrook Elemen- University’s Office of Community and tional mission of the University and a member of the Class of 1991. “The tary School in Princeton last Regional Affairs, and Tiger student- aims to provide our student-athletes Reading with the Tigers program is F spring, Princeton University’s athletes visited five schools. with the opportunity to achieve, to an extension of our belief in the value student-athletes swapped their text- of education through athletics and a books for storybooks on potatoes, wonderful opportunity to connect with sharks and trains. the surrounding community.” For more than a decade, the Prince- The University’s student-athletes ton Varsity Club has helped to bring not only read to the children, but also Princeton varsity student-athletes, rep- answer questions about what it means resenting a variety of sports, to local to play a varsity sport at Princeton, elementary schools as part of Reading touching on topics such as good with the Tigers. With multiple school sportsmanship, proper nutrition and visits a year, Tiger student-athletes how to be a great teammate. read to school children ranging in Mallory Remick, a swimmer who grade level from kindergarten through graduated in June 2016, said, “It was fifth grade. a really cool experience to see how As part of the program, the excited the kids were to read the sto- Princeton Varsity Club has formed ries.” She added, “Princeton has given partnerships with elementary schools athletes so much, and it’s a great in Princeton and in Trenton, includ- opportunity for us to serve the com- ing, most recently, the Christopher Video still from Cody Chrusciel munity and give back, and take a little Columbus Elementary School. During For over a decade, Princeton student-athletes have gone to local elementary schools as part time out of our day just to be here.” the 2015-16 academic year, Reading of Reading with the Tigers, a Princeton Varsity Club initiative. PRINCETON Sept. 29, 2016 UNIVERSITY BULLETIN 9

People

Terry Brog joined the Princeton Plasma “I’m excited to be joining Princeton’s her Ph.D. from Princeton in 2002. tenure at Princeton. I am also look- Physics Laboratory (PPPL) June 20 as wonderful communications team,” Cra- Graves-Bayazitoglu taught literature, ing forward to collaborating closely its new deputy director for operations mer said. “I look forward to working language and film at the University of with employers, faculty and staff on and chief operating with the entire campus and to sharing Michigan-Ann Arbor and at Haverford programming efforts that will support officer, overseeing with a global audience the innovative College. She returned to Princeton students’ career development.” eight departments. teaching, research and scholarship in 2003 to join the residential college Hampton earned a Bachelor of He brings with him that’s happening across the Princeton staff of Rockefeller College. Arts in psychology and Spanish and decades of experience community.” Graves-Bayazitoglu succeeds Lisa a Master of Education in counselor in senior leadership, Prior to working at Dartmouth, Herschbach, who is now head of the education, both from the University most recently as man- Cramer served as director of media upper school division for a new inde- of Virginia. She is actively involved in ager of the Strategic relations at Vermont Law School and pendent school opening in Bentonville, professional associations including the Brog Projects Division as senior media relations representa- Arkansas. Virginia Association of Colleges and within the Facili- tive at the Johns Hopkins University Employers, where she served on the ties and Operations School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins Barbara Hampton, a seasoned career board of directors for five years and as division at Pacific Northwest National Hospital in Baltimore. services professional, joined Princeton the organization’s president from 2011 Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, As a journalist, Cramer was an University’s Woodrow Wilson School to 2012. Washington. editor and senior writer at several of Public and International Affairs as Rudresh Mahanthappa, saxophonist and Brog comes to PPPL seeking a new newspapers, including The Roanoke director of graduate career services composer, has been appointed direc- challenge and is passionate about its (Virginia) Times and The Fresno and alumni relations on Aug. 15. tor of jazz and Anthony H.P. Lee ’79 mission. “The ultimate vision of this (California) Bee. He also was a foreign “We are thrilled that Barbara Senior Lecturer in Jazz Studies, start- laboratory is someday developing correspondent whose coverage of will be joining the Woodrow Wil- ing this fall. He succeeds Program in fusion energy,” Brog said. “Imagine if military and civilian conflicts and son School,” Dean Jazz Studies founder Dr. Anthony D.J. we had that capability right now. We’d other issues in Asia, the former Soviet Cecilia Rouse said. Branker. be out of business but the world would Union, Latin America and Europe “I am confident that, Mahanthappa comes to Princeton be so much better off.” appeared in The Washington Post, given her impressive bearing not only his extensive and He joins Michael Zarnstorff, deputy Los Angeles Times and other news background — hav- celebrated background in jazz perfor- director for research, as deputy to outlets. ing advised hundreds mance, but also a unique voice intent PPPL Director Stewart Prager. A native of Michigan, Cramer has a of students at the on transcending Princeton University manages the Master of Science in journalism from University of Vir- cultural divides by Laboratory for the U.S. Department of Ohio University and a Bachelor of Arts Hampton ginia — we will have melding progressive Energy (DOE). in English from Denison University. a relatively seamless jazz and non-Western “It’s fantastic that Terry has joined Cramer succeeds Martin Mbugua, transition for the musical traditions. us,” Prager said. “The experience and who became assistant vice president School’s Graduate Career Services Program in Musical perspective that he brings from his for communications at Carnegie Mel- office. We are eager for Barbara to Performance Director work at PNNL will be of tremendous lon University in February. transition from a ’Hoo to a Woo.” Michael Pratt said he Hampton, who has a longstanding benefit to us.” Mahanthappa is “nothing less than Prager said the laboratory was Rebecca Graves-Bayazitoglu has been passion for helping students attain an already interna- “extraordinarily fortunate” to have appointed director of Princeton Uni- internships and jobs, began her career tionally acclaimed John DeLooper, head of Best Prac- versity’s McGraw Center for Teaching at the University of Virginia (UVA) artist. His grounding in traditional tices and Outreach, serve as interim and Learning and associate dean of the in 2003 as an extern coordinator. jazz language and style is deep, and deputy director for operations for seven college. She began her new position Between 2003 and 2013, she served he also has proven himself to be an months. DeLooper filled the vacancy July 18. in a number of roles including career important explorer. He has taken new created by the resignation of Adam Graves-Bayazitoglu has worked counselor for experiential learning, looks at past masters, and his work in Cohen, who left PPPL in November at Princeton since assistant and associate director of incorporating world musics (such as to become deputy undersecretary for 2003, most recently employer services, and director of that of the South Indian Carnatic clas- science and energy of the DOE. “We as dean of Whitman employer services. sical tradition) into contemporary jazz all owe John DeLooper a big debt of College for nearly a In 2013, Hampton was named direc- has created a real ‘buzz’ in world jazz gratitude for his tour de force effort decade. As director of tor of career services at UVA’s Frank circles.” during this time,” Prager said. the McGraw Cen- Batten School of Leadership and “Joining the Princeton University Brog has held positions in opera- ter, she will support Public Policy. There, she directed the music department as director of jazz is tions, project development, research faculty members who School’s Career Services office, provid- an honor and a tremendous opportu- and development management, and fis- seek to enrich their ing career guidance to policy students nity to influence and shape the future cal management in several companies. courses with new Graves- and leading workshops on careers in of jazz as a contemporary American He became the chief operations officer materials, methods Bayazitoglu government, policy research and social art form,” said Mahanthappa. “Music for PNNL’s Energy and Environment or technologies. She innovation. at Princeton continues to put forth a Directorate in 2008 and was respon- also will oversee the center’s many Hampton succeeds Ann Corwin, forward-thinking energy with regard sible for operational oversight of this programs and services in support of who joined the Wilson School in 1974. to performance, composition and musi- directorate with a staff of 900 people student learning and academic success During her four-decade tenure, cology. I am truly excited to join this and a budget of $235 million before — including tutoring, study halls and Corwin helped thousands of Wilson amazing group of faculty.” becoming manager of the Strategic academic skills workshops. School graduate students secure Most recently, both Downbeat and Projects division. In addition to his “We are thrilled that Rebecca has internships and jobs, and also provided NPR Music’s Jazz Critics Poll hailed PNNL duties, Brog was also chair accepted this position,” said Dean of the school with a keen personal and Mahanthappa’s project “Bird Calls” as of the Operations Committee for the College Jill Dolan. “Her excit- institutional memory of both place- the Best Album of 2015. He has been Brookhaven National Laboratory and a ing vision for the future, her talent ment and alumni contacts. named a United States Artists Fellow Battelle/Stony Brook board member. to inspire colleagues, and her his- “I am delighted to be joining the in addition to receiving a Guggenheim Brog graduated from Kenyon tory of accomplishments as a campus Woodrow Wilson School this summer Fellowship, two New York Founda- College with a bachelor’s degree in leader and residential college dean and am eager to begin working with tion for the Arts Fellowships and the physics. He pursued graduate stud- make her the perfect choice to lead the students and alumni to ensure that Doris Duke Performing Artist Award. ies at the University of Michigan, McGraw Center. Rebecca will enhance they achieve their employment goals,” He is a longstanding recipient of the receiving dual master’s degrees in McGraw’s engagement with faculty Hampton said. “I feel very fortunate “Alto Saxophonist of the Year” title by metallurgical engineering and nuclear and with students; she’ll innovate our to have the opportunity to build upon Downbeat Magazine’s International engineering in 1982 and a doctorate in inclusive classrooms program; and the extensive career resources that Critics Polls and Jazz Journalists’ metallurgical engineering in 1986. she’ll ensure that McGraw continues to Ann Corwin established during her Association. be a vital resource across campus.” John Cramer, a veteran journalist and Graves-Bayazitoglu said she is hon- university spokesperson who has been ored to lead the McGraw Center. associate director of media relations at An experienced academic adviser Employee obituaries Dartmouth College since 2012, joined who has worked closely with under- Princeton University in July as direc- graduates at all stages of their tor of media relations. Princeton career, Graves-Bayazitoglu The following is an updated list of College); Gillett Griffin, 87 (1967-2004, “John Cramer brings a dynamic said she is “especially excited to cre- University employee obituaries. Art Museum); Caroline Moseley, 80 combination of news and public rela- ate a forum in the McGraw Center (1986-2000, Communications); Zelda tions experience to Princeton, and for cross-departmental and cross- Current employees Spero, 95 (1960-1988, Economics). we’re pleased to constituency conversations about June 2016: Thomas McNeil, 64 (2000- July 2016: Samuel Davis Sr., 88 (1968- have him join our inclusive teaching practices, and to 2016, Building Services); Joan Ockay, 1990, Building Services); Arlester team,” said Daniel work with a broad range of campus 62 (2008-2016, University Library). Fleming, 63 (1983-2016, Mason Shop); Day, assistant vice partners to reflect on how service August 2016: Robert Woolley, 69 Juke Macoon, 71 (1985-2013, Build- president for com- learning, international experiences and (1976-2016, Princeton Plasma Physics ing Services); Harry Maselli Jr., 79 munications. “John entrepreneurship are broadening and Laboratory). (1987-1999, Building Services); Angelo will aim to strengthen deepening the Princeton experience.” Mendola, 93 (1980-1991, Building Ser- our relations with the A graduate of Middlebury College, Retired employees vices); Julia Miller, 91 (1984-1992, Art May 2016: Eleanor Edinger, 84 (1963- Cramer media as well as serve Graves-Bayazitoglu was selected for Museum); Naomi Ricks, 85 (1961-1996, as a trusted adviser on a Fulbright Teaching Assistantship 1993, Athletics). Dining Services). communication and in France prior to joining Princeton’s June 2016: James Barbour Sr., 95 August 2016: Thaddeus Golian, 85 media strategy, working closely with Department of French and Italian as (1957-1985, Princeton Plasma Phys- (1980-1995, Princeton Plasma Phys- our campus partners.” a doctoral candidate. She received ics Laboratory); Martha Cella, 94 ics Laboratory); Krystyna Podraza, 75 (1963-1987, Office of the Dean of the (1979-2009, University Library). PRINCETON 10 UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Sept. 29, 2016

Faculty obituaries

Elaine Fantham, the Giger Professor news or news of their families — she vacationing with his family in Greece. cal engineering students. Known to of Latin, Emeritus, and professor of loved the relationships she formed and He was 56. be rigorous, the class required teams classics, emeritus, who was known and found in them one of the sources of her Floudas, the Stephen C. Macaleer of students to apply their knowledge admired for her outstanding scholar- remarkable energy,” Kaster said. ’63 Professor in Engineering and to the design of a realistic chemical ship and warm friendship, died July 11 Fantham was born in Liverpool, Applied Science, Emeritus, and process. of natural causes in Toronto. She was England, in 1933, and lived through professor of chemical and biologi- Register, who was chair of chemi- 83. the bombing raids of 1939-42 dur- cal engineering, emeritus, joined the cal and biological engineering Fantham joined the Princeton fac- ing World War II. She earned her Princeton faculty in 1986 and served during Floudas’ most recent years at ulty in 1986 and retired in 1999. Her bachelor’s and master’s degrees at as a professor for 29 years before Princeton, said that Floudas always main interests were Roman comedy Oxford University and her Ph.D. at the moving to Texas A&M University in developed a new and innovative project and rhetoric, Latin University of Liverpool in 1962. Before February 2015. He was director of the for the students rather than relying on epic from Virgil coming to Princeton, she taught for Texas A&M Energy Institute and the older examples. His last class at to Statius, Roman two years at the University of Indiana, Erle Nye ’59 Chair Professor for Engi- Princeton developed plans for a refin- religion and the social then moved to Canada, where she was neering Excellence. ery to transform a mixture of coal, history of Roman a member of the faculty at the Univer- “Princeton Engineering mourns the natural gas and biomass into a liquid women. She served as sity of Toronto from 1968 to 1986. far-too-early passing of Chris Flou- transport fuel. “Chris wanted the stu- chair of the Depart- Her publications include “Roman das — an immense loss for the global dents to feel that what they were doing ment of Classics from Literary Culture: From Cicero to chemical engineer- was relevant to the future,” Register Fantham 1989-93, and from Apuleius” (1996), “Women in the Clas- ing community,” said said. 1996-98 she directed sical World: Image and Text” (1994, Dean of Engineering Pablo Debenedetti, Princeton’s graduate studies as well as the Pro- with H. Foley et al.) and “Studies in Emily Carter, the dean for research, said Floudas was gram in the Ancient World. Republican Latin Imagery (1972),” Gerhard R. Andlinger an indisputable leader in the theory “She was one of the most remark- as well as commentaries on Seneca’s Professor in Energy and numerical methods of global able Latinists of her generation, with “Troades,” Lucan’s “Civil War” and and the Environ- optimization, and their applica- an unmatched range of expertise, and Ovid’s “Fasti.” She was co-editor and ment, and professor tion to chemical-process systems had an enormous impact through her translator of “Erasmus: The Educa- Floudas of mechanical and engineering, computational biology scholarship, teaching and friendship,” tional and Literary Works” (1989) and aerospace engineer- and energy-systems optimization. said Andrew Feldherr, professor of served as associate editor-in-chief of ing and applied and He described Floudas’ exceptional classics and chair of the Department of the seven-volume Oxford Encyclopedia computational mathematics. scholarly work and ability to train Classics. of Ancient Greece and Rome (2010). “His exceptional intellectual contri- numerous superb students as “a “Elaine seemed to have had at her At Princeton, she taught a wide butions to chemical engineering will unique intellectual gift.” instant command everything that range of courses, including graduate live on through the many students he “He was an extraordinary person could be known about any aspect of courses on Roman epic, undergraduate educated and trained and his writ- and his untimely death is a tragedy Latin literature or Roman life, and an courses on the Aeneid and seminars ten words,” Carter said. “What I will that leaves an enormous void in the inexhaustible energy for translating on a range of topics including Roman remember most is his extraordinary chemical engineering profession at that knowledge into scholarship that religion. Many of her advisees have enthusiasm for his research and his large, and in the lives of all of us who was as engaging and original as it was gone on to become leaders in the field, always-ready smile.” were privileged to know him well,” authoritative. From her early work on Feldherr said. As a researcher, Floudas employed said Debenedetti, the Class of 1950 Plautus, she re-drew the map of Latin Stephen Wheeler, an associate the discipline of optimization, in which Professor in Engineering and Applied studies,” Feldherr said. professor of classics at Penn State mathematicians find the best solutions Science and professor of chemical and “She was a pioneer both as a scholar University, earned his Ph.D. in classics among an often-complex array of alter- biological engineering. of Roman women and as a woman at Princeton in 1992 and often visited natives to grapple with a wide range of At Texas A&M, Floudas was instru- scholar at times and places where Fantham in Toronto after she retired. problems. He wrote key papers on the mental in the growth of the Energy women were scarcely represented in “What I have always valued in structure of proteins and the behavior Institute. During his tenure, Texas our field,” he said, noting that many Elaine was her brilliant command of protein fragments called peptides. A&M reported, the university assumed students had their first introduction to of Latin texts and her sound opinion In 2012, his research played a key a prominent position in U.S. Depart- the lived experience of Roman women about them,” Wheeler said. “The role in a white paper from the Ameri- ment of Energy initiatives in refining through the chapters she wrote for range of her knowledge on all things can Institute of Chemical Engineers and manufacturing. “Women in the Classical World: Image classical was immense and could be that proposed a method to form a “He was an amazing scholar who and Text” (Oxford University Press, intimidating to students, but she was national system to create synthetic demonstrated leadership in discovery, 1994). able to put us at ease and win our love fuels. He was the author of two gradu- in innovative teaching and practice, Calling Fantham “forthright and with her earthy wit and unfailing ate textbooks and co-editor of the and in serving his discipline and all wonderfully entertaining,” Feldherr generosity.” 4,600-page Encyclopedia of Optimiza- of society,” Texas A&M University said that she became a popular com- A former trustee of the American tion. During his career, Floudas was President Michael Young said in a mentator for National Public Radio’s Academy in Rome, Fantham served as an author of more than 300 scholarly statement. “Weekend Edition,” drawing parallels vice president of the Classical Associa- articles. The scientific publisher Floudas was born in Ioannina, between the ancient and contemporary tion of Canada (CAC) from 1982-84 Thomson Reuters said in multiple Greece, in 1959. He earned an worlds. and, after her retirement, as honorary years that Floudas’ papers ranked in undergraduate degree in chemical Robert Kaster, the Kennedy Founda- president from 2001-06. She received the top 1 percent of those cited in their engineering from the University of tion Professor of Latin Language and the CAC Award of Merit in 2015. research fields. Thessaloniki in 1982, and a Ph.D. Literature and professor of classics, Fantham was president of the Ameri- “Chris really was a pioneer of global in chemical engineering from Carn- said: “Perhaps the most striking thing can Philological Association in 2004, optimization, which he applied not egie Mellon University in 1986. His about Elaine is that she seemed to which awarded her a Distinguished only to chemical-process systems — research accomplishments earned know everything about classical Latin Service Medal in 2009. such as the optimal design of chemical him numerous awards and honors, literature: I couldn’t count the number She was married to Peter Fantham, plants — but also a wide variety of top- including election to the U.S. National of times that she produced the most a mathematician, now deceased, and is ics such as protein folding and peptide Academy of Engineering in 2011, the arcane fact or unexpected comparison survived by their daughter, Julia, and docking,” said Richard Register, the Academy of Athens in 2015, and the in a casual conversation, not remotely son, Roy, and their families. Eugene Higgins Professor of Chemical U.S. National Academy of Inventors in by way of showing off, but naturally, Christodoulos “Chris” Floudas, a Prince- and Biological Engineering. “In doing 2015. He was a fellow of the American as though, of course, this was the sort ton University emeritus professor who so, he substantially advanced every one Institute of Chemical Engineers and of thing anyone could be expected to applied the disciplines of mathematics of them.” the Society for Industrial and Applied know or understand. and chemical engineering to complex For decades, Floudas taught the Mathematics. “She was also unfailingly kind to systems that include protein folding University’s chemical-process design Floudas is survived by his wife, friends and always interested in their and fuel refining, died Aug. 14 while class, a capstone course for chemi- Fotini, and their daughter, Ismini.

Employee retirements

Effective June 1: in the carpenter University Library, special collections relations Ann Corwin, after 42 years; in Construction, senior project manager shop, carpenter Daniel Reffner, after 33 assistant V Hsing-feng Liu, after 46 the Office of the President, assistant William Zahn, after 11 years. years. years; in Building Services, data man- to the president Mary DeLorenzo, after Effective Sept. 1: in the University Effective July 1: in the Office of agement specialist Susan Lyszczak, after 16 years; in the University Library, Library, librarian William Robert Black, Information Technology, senior 22 years; in the Office of Finance and special collections assistant V Phuland- after 30 years; in the Princeton Plasma accountant and budget analyst Mar- Treasury, director of mortgage ser- aye Doobrajh, after 39 years; in Career Physics Laboratory, janitor Antonio cia Adelman, after 20 years; in the vices Lorrie McGough, after 24 years; in Services, communication and market- Morgado, after 37 years; in the Council Department of Music, Anthony H.P. the Princeton Plasma Physics Labora- ing assistant Dorothy Farina, after 17 of Ivy Group Presidents, administra- Lee Senior Lecturer in Jazz Studies tory, principal research physicist Sidney years; in the Princeton Plasma Physics tive assistant Robin Patsey, after 21 Anthony Branker, after 19 years; in the Medley, after 38 years. Laboratory, experimental technician II years. Department of Slavic Languages and Effective Aug. 1: in the School of Eugene Kearns IV, after 36 years; in the Effective Oct. 1: in the Office of Literatures, undergraduate coordina- Engineering and Applied Science, Program in Latin American Studies, Information Technology, electronics tor Frances Carrol, after 20 years; on the mailroom coordinator/receiving program manager Rosalia Rivera, after specialist II Robert Mills, after 24 years; staff of Princeton Alumni Weekly, Thomas Cervone, after 17 years; in the 44 years; in development, department in Public Safety, dispatcher Michael class notes and reunions guide editor Woodrow Wilson School, director of office support III Carol Wall, after 31 Riley, after 6 years. Frances Hulette, after 12 years; in the graduate career services and alumni years; in the Office of Design and PRINCETON Sept. 29, 2016 UNIVERSITY BULLETIN 11 Wang looks for order in chaos — in neuroscience, political polling and redistricting

M i c h a e l Ho t c h k i s s insights about political races has gained redistricting, rely on well-established If our hypothesis is true, it will show him a loyal group of readers at his statistical principles and can be car- how the cerebellum contributes to am Wang — explorer of the brain Princeton Election Consortium website ried out on a calculator. Those tests emotional and cognitive maturation, and wrangler of political polls — (election.princeton.edu) since 2004. identify whether the redistricting has and it will show one way by which Smade a prediction in 2012 that But that was also the source of his been designed to pack one party’s brains can become autistic. It could turned out to be wrong. incorrect 2012 prediction. He rightly voters into as few districts as possible, also make some contribution to under- A professor of molecular biology and predicted that Democratic candidates giving them big wins but minimizing standing where autism comes from the Princeton Neuroscience Insti- would get more votes than Republican their impact overall, while geographi- generally.” tute, Wang wanted candidates in House races across the cally spreading the other party’s voters to know why. His country. He also foretold that Demo- so the gerrymandering party is able Poll wrangler pursuit of the answer crats would regain control of the House. to win a larger number of districts, As for his polling website, it’s largely led him to dive into That’s where he was wrong. though by a smaller margin. on autopilot these days. He posts a new area of inquiry “The incorrect prediction bothered And to make the task even easier, updates on the presidential campaign — political redistrict- me,” Wang said. “I wanted to figure Wang has created tools to carry out and polling issues, but the aggrega- ing. Four years later, out why I was wrong. My readers — the tests on a new website (gerryman- tion of state-level polls into what he he has published whom I rely on a lot — pointed out der.princeton.edu). calls the “meta-margin” now happens automatically. Updated four times Wang an article in July in that partisan redistricting had been Wang’s hope is that not only will The Stanford Law pretty intense in 2010 and I discovered the standard be used in court, but that daily and placed prominently at the Review detailing a relatively simple it had been asymmetric, benefiting he won’t even need to be there as an top of the site, the meta-margin gives way for judges to identify when a set Republican candidates.” expert witness. a sense of how far ahead one candidate of districts has been unfairly drawn to “I don’t need to be go to court is in the presidential race. Put another benefit a given political party. The search for a standard because it’s clear enough that I don’t way, it measures the amount of opinion Not bad for a self-described political While the Supreme Court has held need to be there,” Wang said. “I can swing needed to result in an Electoral hobbyist. that partisan gerrymandering — con- stay here and do my neuroscience College tie. But whether he is working in his lab structing a set of districts to benefit one research.” Wang is also sharing his insights on campus to better understand the party over another — is subject to court in a new forum, the “Politics & Polls” brain region known as the cerebellum, action, Wang said no standard has been In the lab podcast, which he co-hosts weekly crunching numbers on dozens of polls adopted to identify whether it has taken Right now, that research entails through the Nov. 8 general election to present a clear picture of the presi- place. Because of that, Wang said, working to understand how the with Julian Zelizer, the Malcolm Ste- dential race or hunting for evidence of court cases about redistricting often cerebellum, which is important to venson Forbes, Class of 1941 Professor partisan intent in redistricting, Wang feature parades of expert witnesses and movement, affects cognitive function. of History and Public Affairs. says he is always looking to find order countless electoral maps. He wanted to The cerebellum is the most commonly “Sam is a very original voice in the in the chaos of large amounts of data. suggest an alternative approach. aberrant brain region in people with world of political analysis,” Zelizer “When faced with complex data, the “My goal was to come up with some- autism, Wang said, though the reason said. “He manages to take substantial difficulty is to extract an understand- thing simple enough that a judge could remains unclear. His lab is exploring amounts of quantitative data and con- able simple meaning from a large data jot it down on a piece of paper or do it the theory that the cerebellum plays a nect that information to the debates set,” Wang said. “My general approach in an Excel spreadsheet,” he said. “I teaching role during sensitive periods that are shaping politics. We are to data analysis, to the extent pos- think it would be nice to come up with of development and plays an important excited about our new podcast, which sible in neuroscience, is to take all the something the judge could use, and role in organizing the rest of the brain. aims to bring our two intellectual observations we make in the lab and there wouldn’t be a need for experts.” In experiments using mice, Wang and worlds together.” try to come up with some relatively One part of Wang’s three-part test his colleagues deactivate parts of the So is Wang paying close attention to simple fact that can be stated about the relies on a computer simulation to cerebellum during parts of development this year’s presidential race? data. The thing that’s in common in estimate appropriate levels of repre- and measure the impact on the brain. “Well, kind of, as much as anyone these other areas is that I’m just using sentation for a given level of popular “We want to know what patterns is,” he said. “But if I want to know tools that I use in the course of my vote and provides a way to measure the of inactivation of the cerebellum are what’s happening in the race, I do research.” effects of gerrymandering. linked with social deficits,” Wang said. what my readers do, which is I log Wang’s ability to turn a jumble The other two parts, which can “That requires analytical techniques on to my website and look at the top of individual polls into meaningful be used to help evaluate the intent of for dealing with large amounts of data. number.”

that the golf club’s lease runs for about University updates town residents, officials 10 more years, but said the long-term use of the land will be to support the University’s educational mission. Plan- on 2026 Campus Plan ners have not talked specifically about future uses of that property, but any use of the land would include restoring

Da n i e l Day • Provide an integrated environ- on the central University campus Springdale Creek that runs through ment for teaching, living, learning and between Nassau Street and Lake Carn- the property and would take into epresentatives of Princeton research; egie, the 2026 plan will also study account the interests of its neighbors University gave a status report • Enhance the campus’s distinctive University-owned land beyond Prince- and the property’s history. RMonday, Sept. 19, to town of sense of place; ton in West Windsor and its campus Several questions focused on housing Princeton residents, council members • Foster a setting that is welcoming lands in Plainsboro. as the University looks to expand its and planning committee members on and supportive and encourages posi- Noting the planners’ “early think- undergraduate population by 10 percent the 2026 Campus Plan that is being tive interaction and exchange; ing,” Rottenberg-Walker showed a in the coming years. The University developed. • Create a climate that encourages map with a potential grid of pathways will build a new residential college, The new plan, which will succeed thoughtful and creative approaches to laid out across the West Windsor and also expects to construct additional the University’s 2016 Campus Plan sustainability; and lands connecting to the central cam- housing for graduate students, post- coming to a close, will establish a • Serve communities that extend pus across Lake Carnegie. The map docs, faculty and staff. Durkee stressed framework to guide the evolution of beyond the campus. showed two potential bridges crossing that even with the expansion of the the campus through 2026 and beyond. Joining Rottenberg-Walker in the lake for pedestrians and cyclists, student body, the University will con- The plan will encompass most of the explaining the campus plan were Uni- providing greater access to the tinue to keep its focus as a residential land the University owns and will con- versity Architect Ron McCoy and Bob parklands along the lake and future learning community. sider two planning horizons: a 10-year Durkee, University vice president and development in West Windsor. Asked about plans for the Butler horizon to provide detailed guidance secretary. The speakers noted the ties Durkee, McCoy and Rottenberg- Tract, where old graduate student on near-term growth and change, between the 2026 Campus Plan and Walker mentioned the University’s residences were recently torn down, and a 30-year horizon to establish a the University’s Strategic Planning efforts in recent years to enable the Durkee said it would be used for broader strategy for development of Framework that was adopted last year. community to reach and navigate housing, but not for undergraduates. campus over the next generation. Key projects for the campus plan campus on foot, on bicycles and public “What housing will be there and when “The University and the town share identified in the strategic plan include transit, and to reduce the number of is undetermined,” he said. McCoy a unique relationship,” said Cyndi new facilities for the School of Engi- single-occupancy vehicles coming to added that development there would fit Rottenberg-Walker, a partner in the neering and Applied Science and for campus. That effort will continue and with the neighborhood. Toronto-based firm Urban Strategies environmental studies, as well as facili- expand in the 2026 plan, and McCoy The University representatives said Inc., the University’s lead consultant ties to complement the University’s noted national demographic trends the 2026 Campus Plan should be on the 2026 plan. In the town council existing innovation ecosystem; housing showing automobile use on the decline. completed near the end of summer in chambers, Rottenberg-Walker gave for undergraduate students, graduate “The future is changing for the good,” 2017. Anyone interested in learning on an on-screen presentation outlin- students and postdoctoral staff; and he said. more about it and wishing to comment ing major objectives of the plan for the initiatives to promote sustainability. A planning committee member is encouraged to visit the Princeton Princeton campus. The University speakers noted that asked about the future of Springdale Campus Plan Blog online at She enumerated the plan’s prin- while the 2016 Campus Plan focused golf course. Rottenberg-Walker noted (princetoncampusplanblog.com). ciples, which are to: PRINCETON 12 UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Sept. 29, 2016

we listen. We will do better if we look “To discern the shape of a river, … We need you to fortify your mind Opening Exercises out for one another — if we remember, it helps to know something about and your character now so that you Continued from page 1 in other words, that even if things seem where it comes from — which means can help us to confront what the world to be going fine for us personally, they knowing something about the course will throw at us in the future, for we may be going badly for someone else of human history,” Eisgruber said. are all, and we will all remain, in this “[Allen] offers you wisdom relevant near to us — and, if so, we owe that “Giving you this knowledge and together.” to the question that I just posed, about person our help and support.” capacity, this sense of the human, Following the ceremony, first-year what it means to be a college student He added: “We can also make a this perspective and vision, is the students exited the chapel and par- — or, for that matter, a decent and greater difference beyond our campus, most fundamental purpose of liberal ticipated in the “Pre-rade,” a parade conscientious person of any kind — in and do more to help communities less arts education in general, and of your through FitzRandolph Gate at the moments that are difficult and unset- fortunate than our own, if we work Princeton education in particular.” front of campus, where they were tled,” Eisgruber said. together. That is what I mean when I At the same time, students should cheered on by other students, alumni, Focusing on the phrase “the course say that we are a community, and that have the freedom during their time at faculty and staff. In the evening, stu- of human events” in the first line of the we navigate this river, this course of Princeton to grow and develop and to dents attended the freshman assembly Declaration of Independence, Eis- human events, collectively.” encounter different perspectives and to further discuss the Pre-read book gruber noted Allen’s observation that To help them along as they navi- enjoy new experiences, he added. with the author. Eisgruber also will course is another word for river. gate, Eisgruber advised students to Eisgruber concluded: “You owe that lead small group conversations about “Right now the course of human learn about the past and to explore freedom to yourself, because you need the book with students throughout events pulls hard upon us, sweeping us new terrain. to prepare for the journey to come. the academic year. along on treacherous tides. It some- times feels like we’re working hard just to come up for air and grab a breath,” he said. To navigate the turbulent stream of life, Eisgruber encouraged students to consider that “we’re all in it together.” “Professor Allen reminds us that the people who wrote the Declaration of Independence shared an identity, too. They claimed to be one people,” he said. “They did not all agree with or like one another. … But being a people meant that they were in it together, they were in a deep sense stuck with one another, or, to put it in loftier terms, they shared a common destiny.” And in a very different time and place, students in the Class of 2020 similarly share a common bond. “Those of us who gather in this chapel today will, for the next few years at least, move through the course Applewhite Denise by Photos of human events together,” Eisgruber LEFT: President Christopher L. Eisgruber welcomed the Class of 2020 to the University during Opening Exercises. RIGHT: First-year students said. “We can learn from one another, if seated in the balcony look out on the University Chapel during Opening Exercises.

lower the one-ton motor. The crane to the U.S. Army in 1941. The military Jadwin Hall. Still, most students take Satellite had to be lifted piece by piece and decommissioned the facility in 1993 advantage of field trips to the dish Continued from page 1 assembled in place at the top of the and in 2012 the National Park Service where they can experience the scale of dish pedestal. After locating a com- made it a National Historic Landmark. the device. pany that could fix the motor package, The dish site is now owned by Wall “It is amazing to think that as a “Dan told me he wanted to build a the team eventually was able to restore Township and leased to InfoAge. junior in college you can do experi- radio telescope on campus,” Jarosik full movement of the dish. ments with equipment that has been said. “I told him that there was already A very large learning tool at the forefront of science,” said Daniel a large radio dish sitting idle down The dish works! The restored dish will now be used Gift, a Class of 2017 physics major who by the Shore. We decided to go take a Finally, in the winter of 2015, the regularly to teach a new generation made the trip to the dish. “The ability look at it.” researchers were ready to try out the of students to use radio telescopes to to control a huge radio telescope to From the outside, the dish didn’t dish to see if it could intercept radio learn about space. During the spring obtain data for a class assignment is look too bad. Thanks to funding signals from space. They turned the semester, Princeton students visited something that is really unique.” secured by InfoAge, the structure knobs that control the dish and steered the dish as a learning exercise for the Marlow hopes to be able to bring had been painted in 2005. But the it so that it looked up at a region of the course “Experimental Physics” that more students from local high schools museum, which survives on donations Milky Way. There they detected radio- Marlow teaches for physics majors. to the dish to inspire them to study sci- and volunteer work, didn’t have the wave signals at a frequency of 1420.4 Marlow also is designing a course ence and engineering. resources to do much more. MHz and a wavelength of 21 centime- for use with non-majors that will be “Part of my motivation for want- Upon inspection, Jarosik and Mar- ters, a well-known signal of hydrogen offered in 2017. ing to study physics and astronomy low found that rust had jammed the gas in the Milky Way and a sure sign “Princeton is now one of the few is that, when I was a kid, seeing the motor and drivetrain that tilt the dish that the dish was operating properly. universities in the world where under- Milky Way inspired me,” Marlow vertically. The motor would have to be Soon they were able to intercept graduates can operate a 60-foot radio said. “The refurbishing of this satellite taken down from the top of the tower information streaming from weather telescope,” Marlow said. dish provides students with a similar and repaired. satellites operated by the National There is no actual need to go to the opportunity. This is the sort of thing To fund the repairs, Jarosik and Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminis- satellite dish — it can be operated that a great university can do.” Marlow received grants from Prince- tration. The researchers could also remotely from a room in Princeton’s ton’s 250th Anniversary Fund for detect pulsars, dying stars that give off Innovation in Undergraduate Educa- regular repeating bursts of radio waves tion and from the University’s Council as they rotate. The team beamed radio on Science and Technology, both signals to the moon and intercepted of which provide resources for the them as they came back to Earth. development of new courses. “Our idea On January 10, 2016, radio enthusi- was that non-science majors as well as asts — along with InfoAge supporters, physics majors would be able to use a Jarosik and Marlow, who himself is working radio telescope,” Marlow said. an amateur radio operator — gathered Additional support came from Wall at the dish to commemorate the first Township and the Ocean-Monmouth such “moon bounce,” which took place Amateur Radio Club. in 1946 on the site of the current dish Marlow and Jarosik engaged the and at the time was important proof help of engineer Geoffrey Gettelfinger, of principle that radio waves could be the department manager in physics, as harnessed for satellite communications. well as department technicians Stanley The dish site has had many brushes Chidzik, James Kukon and Richard with history. In 1914, the Marconi Soden to help with the task. Prince- Company — founded by Italian ton undergraduates Nathan Agmon, inventor and pioneer of wireless com- Class of 2017, and Joshua Wang, Class munication Guglielmo Marconi — set of 2018, spent a summer developing up a station for sending transatlan- Photo courtesy of Robert Raia Photography software to read and display data from tic wireless telegraph messages to a The refurbished dish was activated in the winter of 2015 and steered so that it looked up at the dish. receiving station in Wales. a region of the Milky Way. It detected a well-known signal of hydrogen gas in the Milky Way, Just to get the motor down off the The U.S. Navy took over the site and soon it was able to intercept information streaming from weather satellites. It also has tower was a challenge. The Princeton in 1917 and used it for wartime radio detected radio waves from dying stars, and the researchers have beamed radio signals to the engineers designed a special crane to transmissions, and it was transferred moon and intercepted them as they came back to Earth.