Today’s Briefing:
Letter from the Editor: Editor-in-Chief Emma Treadway announces that The Daily Princetonian will publish only four days a week for the remainder of the semester and urges other Princetonians to take similar actions in an effort to ease student burdens amidst a difficult semester and year. She states “Our trite 'mental health matters' rhetoric does little if it is not fortified by action. Even as we near the end of the academic year, it is not too late to change pace.”
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In research news, a team led by Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering Robert Prud’homme and Keller Center Entrepreneurship Specialist and Lecturer Shahram Hejazi have developed a novel encapsulation technology that aims to help administer more effective and robust vaccines. Their technology, known as inverse flash nanoprecipitation, will allow for the creation of vaccines with “limited induced immune responses,” which could be important in treating medical conditions such as inflammatory diseases and genetic disorders.
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Due to the COVID-19 crisis, many students, both incoming and matriculated, chose to take gap years for the current academic year. The Daily Princetonian spoke with six students, including five admits and a current student, about their decisions to take gap years, where that’s taken them, and what they’ve learned from their experiences.
“I had never, before April, thought about taking a gap year. I thought it was a dumb idea,” Dominic Dominguez ’25 said. “I always imagined, if you took a gap year, you would just be sitting around for a while.”
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Sports writer Wilson Conn traces the history of one of Princeton’s most beloved sports teams: the men’s basketball team — specifically, the 1988-89 team. Conn dives into how the team, led by Hall of Fame coach Pete Carril and captain Bob Scrabis ’89, began the season by looking for a way to rebound from a third-place finish in the previous year’s Ivy League Conference. Now, the 1988-89 team is known for having “kicked off a transformation that would return the Tigers to their powerhouse status in the Ivy League.”
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