get as nervous as we do in doubles as we do in singles because we just want to make the other one proud.”

McNally had struggled with a hip injury during a loss in her singles semifinal earlier Saturday, but she rallied alongside Gauff, who lost in the first round of singles on Tuesday, to close out their second title together. Their first title came in their lone previous partnership, at last year’s United States Open junior tournament, in which they did not lose a set.Robert Hughes, professor emeritus of chemistry, dies at 92

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Robert E. Hughes, Ph.D. ’52, who taught chemistry at Cornell for 16 years and was co-founder of the University of Pennsylvania’s Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter (LRSM), died at his home in Round Hill, Virginia, April 2. He was 92.

A native of New York City, Hughes enlisted in the U.S. Army during World War II, serving from 1942 until 1946. He completed his bachelor’s degree at Lehigh University in 1949 before earning his doctorate in chemistry from Cornell.

Following graduation from Cornell, Hughes went to Penn, where he served as chemistry professor from 1953 to 1964. Following the Soviet Union’s successful launch of Sputnik in 1959, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency submitted a request for