Roger S. Berlind, a member of Princeton’s Class of 1952, former University trustee, Tony Award-winning producer, and a supporter of the arts and humanities at Princeton, died of cardiopulmonary arrest Dec. 18 at his home in Manhattan. He was 90.

On Monday, Jan. 18, the University will join community organizations to support the Arts Council of Princeton’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day community event. The University will also commemorate Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy through several virtual events. 

Princeton researchers have projected that, due to the pandemic deaths last year, life expectancy at birth for Americans will shorten by more than one year.  That is the largest single-year decline in life expectancy in at least 40 years and is the lowest life expectancy estimated since 2003. 

Lionel Gossman, the M. Taylor Pyne Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Emeritus, died at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania on Jan. 11. He was 91.

Princeton University researchers will partner on a major initiative with the U.S. government to help shape the next generation of computer networks.

Sanjeev Kulkarni, who has served as dean of the faculty at Princeton University since 2017, will step down from his position at the end of the spring 2021 term and return to the faculty.