Far beyond the orbits of the planets are the hazy outlines of the heliosphere, the magnetic bubble in space that we call home. This flexible cosmic bubble stretches and shrinks in response to the sun’s gasps and sighs. Now, for the first time, a team of scientists led by Princeton’s David McComas have gathered an entire solar cycle of data from NASA’s IBEX spacecraft, which they used to study how the heliosphere changes over time. https://bit.ly/2BiErHj
From Science Magazine: “The idea of regularly monitoring entire populations for antibodies arose in the lab of evolutionary biologist Bryan Grenfell at Princeton University, where [Michael] Mina worked as a postdoctoral fellow. Now, Mina has joined Grenfell and Jessica Metcalf, also an evolutionary biologist at Princeton, in expanding the concept.https://bit.ly/311RKqm
From New Jersey Business: To help scientists and innovators in their quest to combat COVID-19, the Research with New Jersey portal now offers direct access to Coronavirus-related research being conducted at NJ Universities, including Princeton.https://bit.ly/312RtDB
Princeton Voices
Imani Perry: Racism Is Terrible. Blackness Is Not. (The Atlantic)
Joshua Guild: HIS, AAS Prof. Joshua Guild discusses protests, policing, and a hope for structural change (The Daily Princetonian)
Cornel West: Q&A with Dr. Cornel West on racism, Black Lives Matter, and the 2020 Election (The Daily Princetonian)
V. Mitch McEwen: V. Mitch McEwen: COVID-19 and White Supremacy are Dual Pandemics (Surface)
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Omar Wasow:
From Archinect: Olga Zakharova, a recent M.Arch graduate of Princeton University School of Architecture, is featured in Archinect’s summer series of features highlighting the work of thesis students during this unique time of remote learning amid COVID-19.https://bit.ly/37M4zq1
From Town Topics: “Solidarity not charity” is the slogan for Princeton Mutual Aid (PMA), the three-month-old local branch of a nationwide organization seeking to “build community and work together towards a more just and equitable world.” PMA was created in large part by students collaborating with other activists and locals, and it developed as an intergenerational, multiracial, cross-class collective. Two Princeton University graduate students are featured in the story.https://bit.ly/2Ne6hHm
From The Daily Princetonian: Within the confines dictated by social distancing and shelter-in-place, these student volunteers have stayed true to their goals, working relentlessly to craft meaningful alternatives. https://bit.ly/2NfMyap
This year, 29 high school students from around the United States received the Princeton Prize in Race Relations. The program recognizes students who, through their volunteer activities, have undertaken significant efforts to advance racial equity and understanding in their schools or communities. https://bit.ly/3hJoMBB
Author and theater critic Hilton Als has been named an inaugural Presidential Visiting Scholar at Princeton University for the 2020-21 academic year. The visiting scholars program, which comes into effect in the fall, is intended to support visitors from academic or professional fields who can contribute to the University’s diversity, broadly defined. https://bit.ly/2Nc8JOF
From Town Topics: The Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University has announced the award of additional support to artists for the 2020-21 academic year through the Mary MacKall Gwinn Hodder Fund. These grants recognize the particular challenges the COVID-19 pandemic have had on artists.https://bit.ly/3hLMP2I
From The Daily Princetonian: Maria Ressa ’86, a journalist and CEO of Rappler, an online news network, has been found guilty of cyber libel charges in the Philippines, in what many critics have called a blow to freedom of the press in the Southeast Asian country.https://bit.ly/2NfM1VX Related editorial from The Daily Princetonian: As Maria Ressa ’86 holds the line, we must act now
Additional coverage:
Due to the unprecedented challenges presented by COVID-19, including the disruption to coursework this spring and the lack of access to the ACT and SAT, Princeton will pause on its standardized testing requirement as part of its holistic review process for the 2020-21 application cycle.https://bit.ly/2YhQ5vi
Princeton University, together with co-plaintiffs Microsoft and Princeton graduate Maria Perales Sanchez, welcomes the Supreme Court ruling today, which restores DACA and protects Dreamers across this country.https://bit.ly/2zRr3tu
President Christopher L. Eisgruber: “Princeton University filed this suit because our success as a world-class teaching and research university depends on our ability to attract and support talented students from all backgrounds. Today’s carefully reasoned Supreme Court decision rightly protects DACA beneficiaries against arbitrary agency action. We welcome that decision, but we also know that the Dreamers’ future, and our own future, will depend on legislation that gives them a clear path to citizenship. Princeton will continue to advocate on behalf of DACA beneficiaries and the many other immigrants whose talent, hard work, and creativity contribute so vitally to this University and to our country.”
Maria Perales Sanchez ’18: “Today, we celebrate a positive decision being well aware that we still need a permanent legislative solution that includes all 11 million of us — our families, our siblings, our parents, and folks who don’t fit the ‘Dreamer’ criteria. I’m in awe of the power of youth to bring about change, and while I celebrate SCOTUS for the decision, I remind myself that this couldn’t come about without the millions of folks putting racial and social justice first. We will keep fighting for a world that includes, celebrates, and uplifts us and sees us as human beings.”
In the media:
From Newswise: Elizabeth Paul, developer of a groundbreaking method for optimizing magnetic confinement stellarator fusion facilities, has won a Princeton University Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellowship to advance the method at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL). https://bit.ly/3dVObpi
The Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI) has selected seven Princeton University graduate students as 2020 recipients of the Mary and Randall Hack ’69 Graduate Awards for Water and the Environment. https://bit.ly/2C2s8PP
Several projects that push the boundaries of knowledge and have high potential for impact have been awarded support through Princeton’s Dean for Research Innovation Fund. Among the projects is a study on the antimicrobial agents found in the pouches of marsupials such as the sugar glider. https://bit.ly/3hlUuVp
In this episode of We Roar, Historian Keith Wailoo discusses how race, class, urban congestion and a failed public health system have contributed to the extraordinary gulf in coronavirus fatality rates.https://bit.ly/2B7o684
Céline Gounder, M.D., Class of 1997, an infectious diseases specialist and host and producer of the “EPIDEMIC” podcast, joined Princeton University’s “We Roar” podcast today, June 12, for a Facebook Live event.https://bit.ly/3e0QAiK
From The New Yorker: Princeton’s Gary Bass writes, “For anyone hopeful that democracy is the best system for coping with the current coronavirus pandemic, the Athenian disaster stands as a chilling admonition. As Plato knew, political regimes are as fragile as any other human structure, and all fall in time.”https://bit.ly/3huc9uf