From The Washington Post: President Eisgruber writes, “Princeton honored Wilson without regard to, and perhaps even in ignorance of, his racism. And that, I now believe, is precisely the problem. Princeton is part of an America that has too often disregarded, ignored and turned a blind eye to racism, allowing the persistence of systems that discriminate against black people. When Derek Chauvin knelt for nearly nine minutes on George Floyd’s neck while bystanders recorded his cruelty, he might have assumed that the system would disregard, ignore or excuse his conduct, as it had done in response to past complaints against him.” https://bit.ly/31ro1Y5

Coverage in the media:

The New York Times: Princeton Will Remove Woodrow Wilson’s Name From School

The Wall Street Journal: Princeton to Remove Woodrow Wilson’s Name From Public-Policy School

NPR: Princeton To Remove Woodrow Wilson’s Name From Public Policy School

Axios: Princeton drops Woodrow Wilson’s name from school due to “racist thinking”

President Eisgruber writes to the community of the Board of Trustees’ conclusion that Wilson’s racist views and policies make him an inappropriate namesake for the School of Public and International Affairs and residential college.https://bit.ly/2YLkySF

We Roar: The loss of visitors and revenue has presented museums with an existential crisis, says James Steward, the director of the Princeton University Art Museum. At the same time, the pivot to digital alternatives provides an opportunity to rethink many assumptions – including new ways to diversify content while improving access and inclusion.http://weroar.princeton.edu/26-reinventing-museums-the-pandemics-pervading-challenges-and-opportunities?utm_source=pwb&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=communications  

We Roar: 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 gripping journey from Venezuela to Princeton to the June 2020 high court ruling that protects DACA — for now.http://weroar.princeton.edu/25-celebrating-and-serving-the-supreme-court-provides-relief-to-a-daca-doctor-fighting-coronavirus?utm_source=pwb&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=communications

From Centraljersey.com: Poet Franny Choi has been selected as the latest recipient of the Theodore H. Holmes ’51 and Bernice Holmes National Poetry Prize awarded by the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Creative Writing at Princeton University.https://bit.ly/3dDTTeq

Matthew Kunz, an assistant professor of astrophysical sciences at Princeton University and a physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) five-year grant to research magnetic fields throughout the early universe and to establish a summer school on plasma physics aimed at attracting women and underrepresented minorities to the field.https://bit.ly/2AaMlCs

Jo Dunkley, a professor of physics and astrophysical sciences, is the 2020 recipient of the Caterina Tomassoni and Felice Pietro Chisesi Prize for her innovative work exploring the earliest moments of our universe.https://bit.ly/2BfaA2H

Princeton Voices:

Marian Croak: Google’s Marian Croak Aimed for the Top. She Couldn’t Escape Racism. (The Wall Street Journal)

Ruha Benjamin: Do Cops Need Guns?; Algorithmic Bias In Policing, Surveillance Technology (WBUR) and Nationwide Calls For Police Reform Must Examine Policing Technologies (WBUR)

Dean Knox: Why Statistics Don’t Capture The Full Extent Of The Systemic Bias In Policing (FiveThirtyEight)

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: INSIGHT: Universities Should Stay Closed to Protect Workers of Color (Bloomberg)

Andrew Golden: Racism in the Valley: Why tech investing has not changed (Financial Times)

Beth English: The Gendered Pandemic (Project Syndicate)

Julian Zelizer: Trump’s chilling distortion of ‘law and order’ (CNN)

Eddie Glaude: Eddie Glaude: Polls suggest Trump is taking a hit with handling of coronavirus, economy, and racial discord (MSNBC) and Three Essential Novels That Movingly Explore Racism in the U.S. (The Wall Street Journal)

Allen C. Guelzo: A Wolf in Emergency Clothing (The Wall Street Journal)

Chika Okeke-Agulu: Nigerian scholar calls for halt to auction of sacred Igbo artworks (The Guardian)

Gianluca Violante: Americans Will Soon Need Extra Money They Saved in Lockdown (Bloomberg)

Markus Brunnermeier: Corporate debt overhang and credit policy (The Brookings Institution)

From Bloomberg: Cites a recent paper by Princeton University economists led by Markus Brunnermeier. https://bloom.bg/3i9acn1

From SamMobile: Featuring Princeton’s Sebastian Seung. https://bit.ly/3eG0RBg

From Next City: To help monitor the fallout in the rental housing market, the Eviction Lab at Princeton University has released a new “Eviction Tracking System,” which compiles data about eviction filings in cities across the U.S., updated weekly. https://bit.ly/3i6gHHh

Using radar commonly deployed to track speeders and fastballs, researchers have developed an automated system that will allow cars to peer around corners and spot oncoming traffic and pedestrians.https://bit.ly/2BKdqN2

Additional coverage from Interesting Engineering: New Doppler Radar System Can Detect Moving Vehicles Around Corners

From The Wall Street Journal: Cites research by Giovanni Violante.https://on.wsj.com/3fX1dmY

From NPR: Recaps economist Raj Chetty’s webinar hosted by the Princeton Bendheim Center for Finance . Chetty discussed new research with John Friedman, Nathaniel Hendren, Michael Stepner, and the Opportunity Insights Team. The new paper uses private sector data to document the real-time impacts of COVID-19 on people, businesses, and communities.https://n.pr/3dJuP69

Princeton researchers have created a device that can herd groups of cells like sheep, precisely directing the cells’ movements by manipulating electric fields to mimic those found in the body during healing. The technique opens new possibilities for tissue engineering, including approaches to promote wound healing, repair blood vessels or sculpt tissues.https://bit.ly/388ZJ6v

When threatened, bacteria produce a veritable army of molecular defenses. Drilling down into these defenses and the elicitors that trigger them has enabled scientists to discover antibiotics and antivirals, knowledge that might yet prove useful in the fight against the coronavirus. Armed with recent funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Princeton University, Associate Professor of Chemistry Mohammad Seyedsayamdost is engaging that fight with an approach called the High-Throughput Elicitor Screening (HiTES). First introduced by the Seyedsayamdost lab in 2014, the technology enables researchers to screen, identify and characterize the natural products that are biosynthesized only when bacteria are under threat.https://bit.ly/3i8EM00

From The Daily Princetonian: Several University-affiliated economists — including Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School Cecilia Rouse — have signed a letter urging Congressional leaders to pass an economic relief bill in the wake of the “parallel health and economic crises” caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.https://bit.ly/2YBeMTl

Additional Coverage:

• NJTV News: Economists call on federal government to provide additional COVID-19 relief

• Nj.com: N.J. faces ‘draconian cuts’ to services without new federal aid, nation’s top economists warn

From The Daily Princetonian: The Phased Resumption of on-campus research is underway, and University researchers are starting to unfreeze cell lines, restart incubators, and remake buffers and media as they try to pick up the experiments where they left off.https://bit.ly/2BEUf7A

The Princeton University Board of Trustees has approved the appointment of 24 faculty members, including six full professors and 18 assistant professors.https://bit.ly/31m6ReE