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January 11, 2012

Tigers of the Week: Chris Chaney '07, Caroline McCarthy '06, Christopher Rogan '06, Phillip Solomond '06, and Josh Tauberer '04



Top row: Chris Chaney '07, Caroline McCarthy '06. Second row: Christopher Rogan '06, Phillip Solomond '06. Third row: Josh Tauberer '04. (Photos courtesy Chris Chaney '07, Caroline McCarthy '06, Christopher Rogan '06, Blackstone Group, Josh Tauberer '04)
Forbes magazine’s 30 Under 30 lists, released in December, featured a handful of young alumni who are helping to shape their chosen fields:
 
Chris Chaney ’07, a sports and entertainment marketing pro who launched the Princeton Sports Symposium (now Ivy Sports Symposium), appeared on the entertainment list.
 
Caroline McCarthy ’06, included among the young leaders in media, has gone from social media blogger at CNET to product marketing manager at Google.
 
Christopher Rogan ’06, a Caltech graduate student, was spotlighted in the science section for his research in fundamental physics at the Large Hadron Collider.
 
Phillip Solomond ’06, an associate at Blackstone Group, made the finance list, in part because of his work launching the company’s distressed debt fund.
 
Josh Tauberer ’04, the chief technology officer of Popvox and government “data crusader” featured in PAW’s July 16, 2008, issue, was listed with law and policy leaders.
 
Other Forbes honorees with Princeton ties included MIT professor Jeremy England, a former fellow at Princeton’s Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, and three alumni who left the University without degrees: former graduate student Danielle Fong, co-founder of LightSail Energy; Seth Priebatsch ’11, whose company, SCVNGR, earned top prize in an undergraduate business-plan competition; and Eden Full ’13, an energy entrepreneur who received a $100,000 Thiel Fellowship last May.
 

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January 4, 2012

Tigers of the Week: Jerome 'Jay' Powell '75 and Jeremy Stein '83

Jerome "Jay" Powell '75 (MarketWiki)
Jerome "Jay" Powell '75 (MarketWiki)
When President Barack Obama selected two Federal Reserve nominees last week, he purposely chose economists with different perspectives and backgrounds: one a former financial executive who served in the U.S. Treasury Department during Republican George H.W. Bush’s presidency, the other an academic who has worked in the White House and Treasury during Obama’s time in office. But the nominees, Jerome “Jay” Powell ’75 and Jeremy Stein ’83, have at least two things in common: Both are Princeton graduates, and today, they share our Tiger of the Week honor.
 
Powell, a politics major at Princeton, received his law degree from Georgetown in 1979 and worked as a lawyer and investment banker before becoming undersecretary of the treasury for finance. He also was a partner at The Carlyle Group, a private equity and asset management firm, from 1997 to 2005. More recently, he has served as a visiting scholar at the D.C.-based Bipartisan Policy Center.
 
Jeremy Stein '83 (Harvard University)
Jeremy Stein '83 (Harvard University)
Stein, who studied economics and co-captained the gymnastics team as an undergraduate, received his Ph.D. in economics from MIT in 1986. Since then, he has taught finance at Harvard and MIT. He took leave from Harvard in 2009 to advise Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and serve on the National Economic Council. He also served one year as president of the American Finance Association, in 2008.
 
According to Washington Post reporter (and occasional PAW contributor) Zachary Goldfarb ’04, the decision to nominate a Republican and a Democrat might “break a political logjam” that has hampered recent nominees to the Fed’s governing board. Two current members also have Princeton ties: Chairman Ben Bernanke was the Class of 1926 Professor of Economics and Public Affairs and a chairman of the economics department, while board member Daniel K. Tarullo was a visiting professor at the University in 2004.
 

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December 21, 2011

Year in review: Top campus headlines

The conceptual design by Steven Holl Architects for the proposed arts and transit neighborhood. At the top is McCarter Theatre; in front of the theater are three connected buildings for the Lewis Center for the Arts. At right is New South; in the foreground is the planned transit plaza and new Dinky station.
The conceptual design by Steven Holl Architects for the proposed arts and transit neighborhood. At the top is McCarter Theatre; in front of the theater are three connected buildings for the Lewis Center for the Arts. At right is New South; in the foreground is the planned transit plaza and new Dinky station.
For the final piece in our review of the year at Princeton, we flipped through the magazine to select 2011’s top news stories on campus. Add your picks in the comments section below.
 
1. Early admission returns
 
Princeton returned to an early-admission process in the fall, ending a four-year experiment with a single application deadline that drew ­little support from the University’s peer ­institutions. Related stories: Reversing course, Princeton to offer early-action option; Early admission, take two; More than 3,500 apply for early action
 
2. Arts center plan stalls, then moves forward
 
The University’s proposal for a $300 million arts and transit center south of McCarter Theatre faced resistance from municipal officials and local residents, partly because of a plan to move the Dinky station 460 feet to the south. In December, the proposal moved ahead, thanks to key zoning approvals (details will appear in the Jan. 18, 2012, issue of PAW). Related stories: After a 'go/no-go moment,' arts center plan in jeopardy; Slow progress on arts center plans; Area residents file lawsuit to block Dinky move
 
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December 21, 2011

Year in review: Top Tigers

Each week, PAW highlights an impressive alum (or two) as our Tiger of the Week. The slide show at left features all 55 alumni who earned the honor in 2011. Click the photos to link to the matching Tiger of the Week blog post, or click here for the full Tiger of the Week archive.
 
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December 20, 2011

Year in review: Top Princeton sports headlines

Douglas Davis '12 was the man of the hour after his game-winning shot in the Ivy League playoff game against Harvard.
Douglas Davis '12 was the man of the hour after his game-winning shot in the Ivy League playoff game against Harvard.
Our review of the year at Princeton continues with a look at some of the most memorable sports moments of the last 12 months. Add your picks in the comments section below.
 
1. The shot - Men’s basketball
 
Douglas Davis ’12 drained a leaning jump shot at the buzzer to beat Harvard March 12 and send Princeton back to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2004. Related stories: Davis ’12 hits winning shot; Davis ’12, Tigers aim to be ‘unforgettable’
 
2. Gold rush in California - Women’s open crew
 
The women’s open varsity eight completed an undefeated season with an NCAA title May 29, pulling away from the field in Sacramento, Calif. Related story: Great eight: Open women win NCAA gold
 
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December 19, 2011

Year in review: Top hits at PAW Online



Our annual look at the year at Princeton begins with highlights from PAW Online, including stories that sparked the most conversation, features that drew the most readers, and videos that attracted the most viewers.
 
Top five most-commented stories of 2011
 
Every story, letter, and blog post offers the chance to comment. These five stories were the most popular discussion points for our readers in 2011.
 
Gregg Lange ’70’s countdown of campus pranks inspired alumni to reminisce about their own shenanigans.
 
Graduate alumni shared their experiences and tips in letters and comments about the University’s goal of better engagement.
 
3. West *80’s views on Obama stir black-community debate
Valid points or personal gripes? Readers took both sides when examining Cornel West *80’s take on the Obama presidency.
 
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December 14, 2011

Tiger of the Week: Lewis Flinn '89

(Curtis Holbrook)
Lewis Flinn '89 (Curtis Holbrook)
In the new musical Lysistrata Jones, making its Broadway debut tonight, composer and lyricist Lewis Flinn ’89 and playwright Douglas Carter Beane have transported a classic Aristophanes comedy to a modern college campus. The original play featured Greek women withholding sex from their warrior husbands as an effort to end the Peloponnesian War. The modern adaptation has more modest ambitions: A cadre of newly chaste cheerleaders aims to end the losing streak of the fictional Athens University basketball team.
 
After a brief, well-received run at a gymnasium in Greenwich Village, Lysistrata Jones took the leap to Broadway, beginning previews last month. And according to Ben Brantley’s review in The New York Times, published last June, Flinn’s score played a key role in the musical’s appeal. In Brantley’s words, the score “channels middle-of-the-road club music and chart toppers of the past few decades and inflects them with primal percussion and Broadway pizazz.”
 

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December 7, 2011

Tiger of the Week: Erez Lieberman Aiden '02

(Eliza Grinnell, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences)
(Eliza Grinnell, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences)
(This is a corrected version of an earlier post. Aiden majored in mathematics, not philosophy, at Princeton, but completed two theses: "After Truth: Philosophical and Mathematical Explorations on Language, Induction, and Meaning"; and "Sphere Packing, Generalization Graphs, and Finite Languages.")
 
In the Dec. 2 issue of Science, Erez Lieberman Aiden ’02 recalls seeing the film Powers of Ten as a child, in which the camera zooms out to view the universe as a whole and then zooms back in to view life at a molecular level, coming to rest inside a single proton. Aiden writes in an essay titled “Zoom” that the views were “breathtaking” and the idea inspiring: “I realized that if, one day, I could hold that magical camera — examining a phenomenon at a new scale, however briefly — I would see things that had not been seen before.”
 
Aiden’s essay, and his related research “creating maps that enable researchers to zoom in on the human genome and reveal features of DNA structure inside the nucleus,” has earned him the 2011 GE & Science Prize for Young Life Scientists, the American Association for the Advancement of Science announced Dec. 1. The international honor comes with a $25,000 prize and a trip to Stockholm, Sweden, where the award will be presented Dec. 9.
 
Scientific honors are nothing new for Aiden, a mathematics major at Princeton who earned his Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Harvard in 2010. That year, he received the Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for a range of innovations in mathematics, engineering, molecular biology, and linguistics. Earlier this fall, he received $2.5 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health’s New Innovator program. 
 
While Aiden’s specific projects are impressive, his wide range of interests is even more notable. According to a June 2011 profile in Discover magazine, Aiden seeks out research in areas beyond his expertise. “The reason is that most projects fail,” he explained. “If the project you know a lot about fails, you haven’t gained anything. If a project you know relatively little about fails, you potentially have a bunch of new and better ideas.”
 

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November 30, 2011

Tiger of the Week: Ge Wang *08

(Courtesy Ge Wang *08)
(Courtesy Ge Wang *08)
From learning electric guitar riffs as a teenager to creating a new computer language for audio applications as a graduate student at Princeton, Ge Wang *08 has explored music with creative vision and child-like curiosity, according to a recent feature in The New York Times Magazine by Rob Walker. Wang’s pioneering approach is manifested in the musical apps that his company, Smule, has developed for the iPhone and iPad, Walker writes:
 
“The common aim of Smule’s products is to prod nonmusicians into making music and to interact with others doing the same. There are singing apps like I Am T-Pain and Glee Karaoke, and digital versions of instruments like Magic Piano and Magic Fiddle. What connects these easy-to-use diversions to Wang’s more abstruse gear-tinkering is the exploration of expressive sound via technology: everyone can make music, he believes, and everyone should.”
 
Wang, an assistant professor at Stanford and the co-founder, chief technology officer, and chief creative officer of Smule, promotes the simple pleasure of making music. He was a driving force behind the Princeton Laptop Orchestra, or PLOrk, and founded two computer music ensembles at Stanford.
 
Wang also uses his music apps to enable unique social collaboration. For example, more than 3,800 users of Glee Karaoke have contributed their voices to a version of “Lean on Me,” created to support victims of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami. In less than four years, users have shared a staggering 126 million songs using Smule apps, according to the company’s website.
 

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November 23, 2011

Tiger of the Week: Arthur Levinson *77

(Office of Communications)
(Office of Communications)
Conventional wisdom suggested it would take more than one person to fill the shoes of the late Apple chairman and CEO Steve Jobs. Last week, the technology giant confirmed that view, naming former Genentech CEO Arthur Levinson *77 as its non-executive chairman. Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook, will continue the role he took over in August, less than two months before Jobs’ death.
 
Levinson, who stepped down as the Genentech CEO in 2009, has been an Apple board member since 2000 and previously served as co-lead director with another Princetonian, Avon CEO Andrea Jung ’79. Reuters columnist Robert Cyran said that Levinson was a “solid choice” to lead the Apple board because he “developed a good reputation for dealing with headstrong researchers” in his previous job.  
 
After earning a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Princeton in 1977, Levinson joined Genentech as a research scientist in 1980. He became the CEO in 1995, and in his 14 years at the helm, he led the biotech company through a remarkable period of growth, eventually overseeing its merger with pharmaceutical giant Roche in 2008-09. The website Glassdoor.com once named him the country’s “nicest” CEO (based on ratings by employees), and Genentech has consistently ranked at or near the top of Fortune’s “100 Best Companies to Work For.” In 2006, Levinson received the James Madison Medal, Princeton’s top honor for graduate alumni.
 

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November 22, 2011

Defense, 3-pointers spark women's basketball win over Marist

Women’s basketball coach Courtney Banghart expected her team’s play to be “messy” this season, compared with last year – a faster tempo, full-court pressure, and more steals, but also more turnovers.
 
Princeton’s first three games followed that pattern, as the Tigers forced nearly 25 turnovers per game, kept their own miscues in check, and won all three contests by double figures, including a 56-41 win over Villanova Nov. 19.
 
Marist, a mid-major powerhouse that had the fewest turnovers in Division I last season, tested the Tigers’ new style Monday night – and Princeton responded, outlasting the Red Foxes for a 68-51 win, the team’s 25th consecutive victory at Jadwin Gym.
 
“This was a quick turnaround with two very good teams, so I think it does prepare us for [the Ivy League schedule],” Banghart said afterward. “But I hope we’re a different team in February. I still want more from our group.”
 
Laura Johnson '12 (Office of Athletic Communications)
Laura Johnson '12 (Office of Athletic Communications)
In the first half, Princeton forced 10 Marist turnovers, including a handful that came from the Tigers’ trapping press defense. But the Tigers’ own turnovers – 11 in the half – kept them from pulling away. They led for most of the period and held a two-point edge at halftime.
 
After the break, as the Red Foxes improved against the press, Princeton tightened its half-court defense, forcing a pair of shot clock violations and holding Marist to 8-for-27 shooting from the floor (29.6 percent).
 
On offense, Princeton broke through with its best 3-point shooting performance of the young season. Backup point guard Laura Johnson ’12 hit three 3-pointers, including two on consecutive possessions to give the Tigers their first double-digit lead, 54-43, with 7:38 remaining.
 

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November 17, 2011

Triangle returns, ready for kicks ... and Armageddon

Princeton Triangle Club’s new show, Doomsdays of Our Lives, is set to debut at McCarter Theatre Nov. 18. The musical comedy, directed by Glen Pannell ’87, looks ahead to 2012 and the end of the world – which in this scenario is capped by an all-male kickline of “lovely Mayan maidens.” (Frank Wojciechowski).

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