From the Princeton University Humanities Council: A public transcriptions project, a podcast about linguistic identity and a “historical micro-docs” series are just some of the 27 projects that have earned Rapid Response Magic Mini-Grants from the Princeton University Humanities Council.https://bit.ly/2YVXSPt
Princeton University has named seven members to its Board of Trustees, effective July 1. https://bit.ly/3gpCtUY
From The Daily Princetonian: On June 25, the Undergraduate Student Government (USG) announced its Anti-Racism Book Initiative, aimed at providing members of the student body a free digital copy of texts by professors in the African American Studies (AAS) department “in a collective effort to educate ourselves as a student body.”https://bit.ly/3ivxDXR Related from Princeton Alumni Weekly: Princeton Students Circulate ‘Anti-Racist’ Books and Reading List
From Food Management: When the coronavirus pandemic hit in March, many operators stepped up to the plate in new and innovative ways. Princeton University’s dining services team is the latest example with the creation of its Summer Food and Nutrition Program, which launches July 7 and runs through Aug. 16. The program is shining example of a college dining program using its expertise to serve an entire community—not just those on the campus.https://bit.ly/2C4MDeu
From Centraljersey.com: Through the Princeton Small Businesses Resiliency Relief Fund (PSBRF), a local grant program was established to provide Princeton businesses with emergency relief. The program is designed to provide financial aid to those small businesses to address expenses due to reopening and new guidelines to conducting business during the pandemic. “There is an initial commitment of $250,000 to the fund from Princeton University and they have also offered up to a $100,000 dollar for dollar match for additional donations,” Councilwoman Michelle Lambros said. https://bit.ly/2Ass4Z7Related from Town Topics: Financial Help is On the Way For Local Small Businesses
From Nj.com: In its opinion piece, the Star-Ledger Editorial Board writes, “When we look at a reckoning with history, this is what it looks like: Protests, followed by reflection, followed by change. Bravo, Princeton.”https://bit.ly/3iqBPZ5
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