Running Toward Fear

RUNNING doctors Shahid Aziz ’88 and Edward Lee ’92 explain how the COVID-19 pandemic changed life in their Newark, New Jersey, public hospital. FEAR TOWARD BY JEN A. MILLER PHOTOGRAPY BY DONNELLY MARKS

When the COVID-19 crisis started to mount in New Jersey in March 2020, University Hospital was on the front line. The Level I trauma center, based in Newark, is the only public hospital in New Jersey and it became a hub of COVID treatment and response for the region. That response included Shahid Aziz ’88, D.M.D., M.D., professor and assistant dean of oral/maxillofacial surgery and Edward S. Lee ’92, M.D., M.S., chief of plastic surgery at University Hospital, the principal teaching hospital for Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences. While it might seem that they would be sidelined during the crisis, especially when elective surgeries were halted, both used their skills to make sure patients continued to be treated, whether their medical needs were COVID-related or not.

“When you’re faced with fear, you run toward that fear and try to help,” Lee says.

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The Summer Scholars is a fun way Wave! for children By SEAN RAMSDEN • Photography by MICHAEL BRANSCOM to immerse Any Lawrenceville alum knows that “House” inclusion of performing arts and sports in themselves and “Harkness” are the two cornerstones the afternoons. There is a Lower School of the Lawrenceville experience. They are composed of rising fifth-, sixth-, and in an ocean two of the first four words in the School’s seventh-graders, while eighth- and ninthof learning mission statement, after all. But House and Harkness don’t get packed grade students comprise the Upper School. Students can expect thirty minutes of that looks away after Commencement, mothballed homework per night, and there is an alluntil students return in the fall. This school read – a practice that mimics the a lot like potent pair comes to life for three weeks regular Lawrenceville experience.

Lawrenceville. in July when hundreds of eager young learners animate the campus as part of the “Students are learning with peers who are of a similar age,” Williams says. “It’s great Lawrenceville Summer Scholars program, to have a curriculum specifically tailored to which shares a surprising number of similarities to the School you already know. “I think the neat thing about Lawrenceville Summer Scholars is that we are not your average summer program,” says Ryan Ball Williams ’07, director of auxiliary programs and executive director of Lawrenceville Summer Scholars. “Our mission and our vision are tied closely to that of The Lawrenceville School, and that’s why it really can serve as kind of a microcosm for the academic year at the School.” The comparison exists down to the