From Reason: The Georgetown Center for the Constitution will award its 2021 Thomas M. Cooley Book Prize of $50,000 to Professor Wilentz for his book, No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation’s Founding. https://bit.ly/31ggRFC

From SPIA: Anne Case and Sir Angus Deaton have been featured on the longlist of the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2020.https://bit.ly/31g01a0

From Humanities Council: This summer, Florian Lionnet, Assistant Professor of Linguistics, was awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for “Dynamic Language Infrastructure-Documenting Endangered Languages.” The three-year grant supports the documentation of the Kulaale language of southern Chad.https://bit.ly/3hpEhhG

From Community News: Highlights the new role of Princeton’s Thompson-Siegel with the New Jersey Youth Hockey League. She will serve as Administrative Vice President responsible for games/playoffs and scheduling with the NJYHL.https://bit.ly/31iwnRx

From Town Topics: Features Craig Robinson, Princeton University trustee and former two-time Ivy League Player of the Year for the Princeton University men’s hoops program. https://bit.ly/2YnCNgg

From The Trentonian: Features Hope Perry ’24 and her project, College Voters United. https://bit.ly/2CO63Fr

From News 12: Features Poll Hero, a project founded in part by a group of Princeton University students. Two students, Ryan Schweiger and Ella Gantman. Mentions the late Laura Wooten as part of the inspiration for the project. Wooten, a Princeton staff member for more than 27 years, was the nation’s longest-serving poll worker, having worked 79 years in a row. https://bit.ly/3j3rYb7

From York Daily Record: Features undergraduate student Jared Young. https://bit.ly/3j1vEdf

Julian Zelizer: Explainer: How the coronavirus changed U.S. political conventions, perhaps forever (Reuters)and A Historian Looks At The Democratic National Convention (WBUR)
Sadaf Jaffer:Kamala Harris gives hope to South Asians in NJ who feel like ‘outsiders’ (Burlington County Times)
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Cornel West, professor emeritus:A Black Marxist Scholar Wanted to Talk About Race. It Ignited a Fury. (The New York Times) 
Keith Wailoo: Pediatrics Group Offers ‘Long Overdue’ Apology for Racist Past (The New York Times) 
Rory Truex:How To Teach China This Fall (China File)
Elizabeth Margulis:Time’s Arrow Flies through 500 Years of Classical Music, Physicists Say (Scientific American)
Pablo Debenedetti:Second critical point appears in two models of water (Physics World)
Corey Cusimano, postdoctoral research associate:People judge others to be more able to change their beliefs than they themselves are (PsyPost)
Jingyu Luo, graduate student:Long-lived particles get their moment (Symmetry)
Siyang Liu, undergraduate student:College towns face uncertain future (Cleveland.com)
Christiana Parreira, incoming postdoctoral associate:Another unity government won’t solve Lebanon’s crisis (The Washington Post)

From New Jersey Business: Community Energy and Princeton University’s Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment announced a joint academic-industry research partnership to study the U.S. energy transition and identify an optimal buildout plan for scaling carbon-free power over the next decade to meet climate challenges.https://bit.ly/2QkRCvr

From SPIA:

The poor are perceived to be “hardened” by negative events and therefore less harmed by them than those with more means, even when this is patently false, according to a series of studies published by Princeton University researchers. https://bit.ly/32hsc7N Additional coverage from Fast Company: Princeton researchers just exposed the most pervasive and harmful myth about poverty

From SPIA: Researchers at Princeton University will receive a $9-million grant from the National Institute of Health to conduct an innovative study on heart health, genetics, and social determinants among vulnerable children in 12 cities across the United States.https://bit.ly/3geH63r

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced funding for a new Physics Frontier Center, hosted at the University of Rochester, with Princeton co-principal investigators Adam Burrows, professor of astrophysical sciences, and Tom Duffy, professor of geosciences, to study the physics and astrophysical implications of matter under extreme pressures and temperatures.https://bit.ly/3l9T2qO

Princeton professor Leonard Wantchekon is bringing his experience building academic pipelines in Africa to universities in the United States. This month, he announced a new partnership between ASE and Hunter College in New York City that, through a collaboration with Princeton University, will take direct aim at the underrepresentation of Black and minority students in the field of economics.https://bit.ly/3gkKLNp

From ROI-NJ: The article notes that Princeton did not accept an appropriation and is requesting that any money it was intended to receive go to institutions in greater financial need.https://bit.ly/2Yoh33J

From TrentonDaily: Mercer County Community College and Upward Bound, MCCC’s educational program for Trenton high school students, partnered with Princeton University’s Materials Academy to teach students about developing their own apps, which they used to showcase their work.https://bit.ly/2EpnnRD

From Town Topics: Storefronts throughout Princeton will display a rotation of artworks from the Princeton University Art Museum thanks to the new “Art for the Streets” program. Stephen Kim, the museum’s associate director for communications and information, said the idea is to fill the empty windows by making use of the museum’s diverse collection. The first round is being funded by the museum.https://bit.ly/34kpnVZ