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Together , Virtually
Many ways for alumni to engage , all while staying apart .
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Visionary Retirement
Looking back on Larry Smarr ’ s leadership of the Qualcomm Institute .
Have Lab , Will Travel
A whole laboratory in your arms , plus other Tritons fighting COVID-19 .
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Strange Days
A philosophical look at time during the pandemic .
The Power of Public Health
Dean Cheryl Anderson on the newest professional school on campus , The Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science .
Dispatches from a Pandemic
Personal essays from Tritons
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throughout COVID-19 . Read more at tritonmag . com / dispatches
11 Alumni Center postponement 22 On virtual teaching and learning 52 Stay-at-home as racial respite 54 A chief ’ s take on police reform 60 Thoughts from lockdown in China 61 Impact on the Class of 2020
50 Obituaries 62 President ’ s Letter 64 Alumni Events
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