From The Daily Princetonian: Hope Perry ’24 envisioned a resource in which college-aged people — who comprise 10 percent of voters in the coming election — could stay civically engaged and access all of the necessary resources to register to vote, without the hassle of navigating confusing state websites. Based in this vision, College Voters United was born.https://bit.ly/2XZO5XM

From NBC News: Features Poll Hero, a project founded in part by a group of Princeton University students. Two students, Kai Tsurumaki and Kennedy Mattes, are quoted. https://nbcnews.to/3gZJzQr

Related from The Trentonian: Princeton U. student-athletes get involved with Poll Hero Project 

Princeton Alumni Weekly: Burnes, in collaboration with Kevin F. Adler, founder of the nonprofit Miracle Messages, is working on a new book about homelessness. The organization fights homelessness by reuniting families and strengthening social support. Burnes figured maybe an intern or two could help with research. He was surprised to receive nearly 20 applications from current students.https://bit.ly/2FqOdJx

From Variety: Journalist Maria Ressa ’86 speaks with Variety about her experiences in fighting for press freedom and against the spread of misinformation.https://bit.ly/3aoIO0Q

Omar Wasow:Kamala Harris will help Biden ‘grow the Democratic coalition’: Princeton Prof (Yahoo Finance)
Tsung-Mei Cheng:US health chief to visit Taiwan, a COVID-19 success story (Associated Press)
Matthew Desmond:Could federal investment prevent an eviction crisis? (PBS)

Douglas Massey: Congress fails to reach stimulus deal, leaving tens of millions of Americans desperate for relief (CNBC) 
LaFleur Stephens-Dougan:Democrats celebrate Kamala Harris as historic VP pick (WHYY)
Angelika Morris, undergraduate student:Alumna Answers Teachers’ Call For Donations At Boca Ciega (Patch) 
Julian Zelizer:Be careful what you wish for, Mr. President (CNN) and Explainer: How the coronavirus changed U.S. political conventions, perhaps forever (Reuters)
Cornel West, professor emeritus:Cornel West: Is America ‘even capable of treating the masses of Black people with decency and dignity’? (The Washington Post)
Eddie Glaude: Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and its Urgent Lessons for Our Own (The Bay Area Reporter) and More Americans trust Biden than Trump to handle the pandemic (PBS NewsHour) 

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: We Should Still Defund the Police (The New Yorker)
Patrick Sharkey:How cities can tackle violent crime without relying on police (Vox)

Arvind Narayanan: The Quiet Growth of Race-Detection Software Sparks Concerns Over Bias (The Wall Street Journal)
Sean Wilentz:What Tom Cotton Gets So Wrong About Slavery and the Constitution (NYR Daily)
Allen Guelzo:The complexities of the past (World Magazine)and Accuracy vs. overreach in teaching history (World) 
Joshua L. Freeman, postdoctoral fellow:Uighur Poets on Repression and Exile (NYR Daily)
Jesse Farmer:Arctic summer sea ice could disappear as early as 2035 (National Geographic) 
Adam Burrows:A Star Went Supernova in 1987. Where Is It Now? (The New York Times)
Gudmundur Stefansson:A Strange Planet has been Found that’s Smaller than Neptune But 50% More Massive (Universe Today)
Sarah Kapnick: Next-gen rescue vehicles leave ambulances in their dust (CNET) 

Centraljersey.com: Princeton YMCA’s next “Paths to Success” presentation for students will feature Princeton post-doctoral researcher Lionel Arteaga, an oceanographer from Venezuela, from 6-7 p.m. Aug. 19. https://bit.ly/2Y1RxkE

From The Wall Street Journal: Cites new research by Princeton economist Owen Zidar. https://on.wsj.com/3iBRSSU  

From MCCC: MCCC and Upward Bound partnered with Princeton University’s Materials Academy (PUMA) to teach students about developing their own apps, which they used to showcase their work. https://bit.ly/3fY917F

From The Daily Princetonian: Although the Princeton Gerrymandering Project and Representable use different methods, both teams aim to stop gerrymandering — the practice that allows a political party in control to redraw maps and manipulate election outcomes. https://bit.ly/2CqhnXY

From SPIA: Drawing from more than 920 media reports and 380 research reports, a team including Princeton SPIA researchers examined online political manipulation tactics and identified 23 new foreign influence efforts from Russia, China and the Middle East. https://bit.ly/2Y1PJYU

From SPIA: In a historic decision, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has selected Sen. Kamala Harris as his pick for vice president, making her the first woman of color to be nominated for national office on a major party ticket. We discussed the decision with faculty experts LaFleur Stephens-Dougan, Brandice Canes-Wrone, and Lauren Wright.https://bit.ly/3ao64vY

From The Daily Princetonian: Professor Burrows sat down with The Daily Princetonian for a virtual interview, touching on his work on brown dwarfs, his career path, and the importance of teaching to excel in research. https://bit.ly/2E35EPK

From The Daily Princetonian: The University continues to urge Congress to enact a legislative solution that provides permanent legal protections, including a path to citizenship, for the full population of Dreamers.https://bit.ly/2E5l9q6

For two decades, PUPP has provided comprehensive college preparation to low-income, high-achieving students from five Mercer County high schools. This year is no exception, despite the challenges presented by COVID-19. https://bit.ly/3kKv710

In a message to the University community Friday, Aug.7, President Eisgruber writes that the pandemic’s impact prevents a genuinely meaningful on-campus experience for undergraduates:

In light of the diminished benefits and increased risks currently associated with residential education amid New Jersey’s battle against the pandemic, we have decided that our undergraduate program should be fully remote in the fall semester of 2020. We will continue to accommodate on campus those students whose situations make it extremely difficult or impossible for them to return to or study from home. We will also accommodate a very limited number of students with previously approved exceptions recognizing their need to be on campus for specific aspects of their senior thesis research or other work essential to their degree programs.

President Eisgruber’s message can be read in full here. https://bit.ly/33M9VSc