We Roar
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
27. Switching Gears to Save Lives: Physicists Pause Their Research to Design an Affordable COVID-19 Ventilator
30 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dark matter physicist Cristian Galbiati describes how he conceived of a "very simple, cheap and effective ventilator" for COVID-19 patients that uses ...
26. Reinventing Museums: The Pandemic's Challenges and Opportunities
26 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The loss of visitors and revenue has presented museums with an existential crisis, says James Steward, the director of the Princeton University Art Mu...
25. Celebrating and Serving: The Supreme Court Provides Relief to a DACA Doctor Fighting Coronavirus
23 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Marina Di Bartolo, M.D., '10, is one of the 27,000 DACA recipients "on the front lines of the front lines" in the COVID crisis. She shares her grippin...
24. Dancing with Ourselves: Performing Arts and Movement in the COVID Era
18 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Social distancing has devastated the performing arts and changed how we move through public spaces. Rebecca Lazier, a Princeton senior lecturer in dan...
23. Fortifying the Frontlines: A Pop-Up Nonprofit Pays Vulnerable Workers to Feed Hospital Staff
16 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Natalie Guo '12 took two problems — hungry healthcare professionals and unemployed restaurant employees — and created one solution: Off Their Plat...
22. Cutting Through the Noise: A Doctor Takes the Mic for Medicine
12 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Céline Gounder, M.D., '97, an infectious diseases specialist and host of the "EPIDEMIC" podcast, knew COVID-19 was poised to cause a pandemic like th...
21. Intersecting Vulnerabilities: What Lies Behind the Inequities of COVID-19
08 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Historian Keith Wailoo discusses how race, class, urban congestion and a failed public health system have contributed to the extraordinary gulf in cor...
20. Empowering Ideas: A Philosopher Talks About Bad Hope, Good Hope and Despair
05 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Andrew Chignell of the University Center for Human Values teases out a pathway to hopeful engagement in pessimistic times. Transcript: https...
19. Innovating an Institution: TIME Editor-in-Chief Considers COVID-19's Impact on Journalism
02 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
From legacy media to community newspapers, journalism faces pressure on several fronts as it reports on one of the most important stories of our lifet...
18. Imagining the Future of Higher Education: What Comes Next?
29 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Not all colleges and universities will survive this pandemic, says Kate Foster *93, president of The College of New Jersey. But the forest fire ragi...
17. Cherishing Continuity: Rabbi Ira Dounn on Grief, Closure and Remaining Princetonians
26 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Even as the "Princeton diaspora" is scattered across the world, Rabbi Ira Dounn of the Center for Jewish Life finds that students are maintaining rela...
16. Responding in Real Time: Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson *03 Negotiates COVID-19's Many Unknowns
22 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How do you make sound policy decisions for one of the U.S.'s largest cities when faced with limited information about a fast-spreading disease? Eric J...
15. Developing a Vaccine: Why 18 Months Is 'Miraculously Fast' — But 24 Is Possible
19 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
No vaccine has ever come to market in less than four years, says Gordon Douglas '55, the former president of Merck's vaccine division and a doctor wit...
14. Defining the Moment: Princeton's First Black Valedictorian Marks Multiple Milestones
12 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Princeton senior Nicholas Johnson reflects on becoming the first black student to achieve this honor in school history. He also explains the impact he...
13. Warning the Public: Coronaviruses are Deadlier in Larger Amounts
12 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Catching COVID-19 isn't all-or-nothing, says immunologist Caroline Bartman: like poison, a high dose of virus can kill while a low 'viral load' may ca...
12. Battling the Racial Inequities of COVID-19: A View from the Front Lines
08 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Surgical resident Glenn Wakam '11 urges broad-based action to remedy health disparities exposed and amplified by the pandemic. Transcript: https://www...
11. Rebounding from Recession: Can the Economy Roar Back from the Pandemic?
05 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Economist and Princeton Professor Alan Blinder considers the parallels between the Spanish flu of 1918 and the COVID-19 pandemic, calling the current ...
10. Safekeeping the Animals: Princeton's Lead Veterinarian on 'Continuity of Care' Through the Pandemic
01 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Laura Conour, the University's attending veterinarian, describes her team's unflagging care for campus laboratory animals under pandemic conditions an...
9. Speaking Science to Power: Communicating Facts Amid a 'Fog of War'
27 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
President of the American Federation of Scientists Ali Nouri *06 discusses the scientific misinformation and disinformation that has hampered our pand...
8. Facing the Economic Fallout: A Time for Government
23 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This economic crisis is unlike any the nation has ever faced. Cecilia Rouse, economics professor and dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and I...
7. Rethinking Earth Day Amid COVID-19: A Different Silent Spring
20 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
For the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, Princeton's Director of Sustainability Shana Weber notes an unexpected side effect to our pandemic response: th...
6. Preparing for the Next One: Former Surgeon and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist Lays Out a Plan
17 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
With over 45 years of healthcare experience, Bill Frist has thought long and deeply about pandemic readiness. He says we can expect these facts of nat...
5. Supporting Students: Undergraduate Student Government Focuses on Community
16 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
COVID-19 has delivered unprecedented disruptions to student life. USG President Chitra Parikh reflects on her changed role as a campus leader, challen...
4. Challenging Conventional Wisdom: President Eisgruber Confronts Coronavirus
13 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Friday, March 13, 2020 stands as a singular day in Princeton's history — it was the last day of normality in an academic year disrupted by the COVID...
3. Bringing Students Home: Navigating an Unprecedented Crisis
07 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As coronavirus spread beyond China, and Princeton recalled its overseas students, another kind of crisis emerged when several countries interrupted co...
2. Taking the Long-View of History: COVID-19 Through the Lens of Ancient Pompeii
07 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Like college seniors across the nation, Princeton classics concentrator Kirsten Traudt '20 is finishing her coursework online under the 'new normal' r...
1. Invading the Screen: The New Urgency of Distance Learning
07 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
When coronavirus forced Princeton to close its campus classrooms in favor of remote teaching, Professor Jeremy Adelman drew upon a decade of pioneerin...