In response to the current crises, and underlying societal challenges, facing our country and the world, Princeton University has announced an initial series of new funding initiatives. These opportunities represent the first, immediate steps in an ongoing effort to bring to bear the research, teaching, and service-focused mission of the University on the critical issues raised by the global pandemic and racial injustice. Additional steps will be announced in the coming weeks and months. https://bit.ly/30Yjw7b

From Princeton Alumni Weekly: Princeton professors across disciplines are researching several aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic—including examining viral load, asymptomatic carriers, and more. Here’s a sampling of the work being done. https://bit.ly/37KHsMF

From Princeton Alumni Weekly: PAW spoke with Dean Richardson in May about the current admission landscape and what she looks for when assembling a class.https://bit.ly/3dcHazb

Endnotes: World leaders have been tested in their ability to protect their citizens against Covid-19, which has upended nearly every facet of society. Stable leadership is needed now more than ever. In this episode of Endnotes, Dr. Laura Kahn shares her take on the skills necessary to lead during such uncertain times, the subject of her book, “Who’s In Charge? Leadership during Epidemics, Bioterror Attacks, and Other Public Health Crises.” https://bit.ly/2YjiYqW

We Roar: Natalie Guo ’12 took two problems — hungry healthcare professionals and unemployed restaurant employees — and created one solution: Off Their Plate, a donation-funded program paying chefs and shift workers to provide meals to health care staff.http://weroar.princeton.edu/23-fortifying-the-frontlines-a-pop-up-nonprofit-pays-vulnerable-workers-to-feed-hospital-staff?utm_source=pwb&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=communications

We Roar: Social distancing has devastated the performing arts and changed how we move through public spaces. Rebecca Lazier, a Princeton senior lecturer in dance, considers the impact on artists, theaters and venues, and how we’re all navigating a new concept of togetherness. ******GETTING TARGETED LINK from Denise V.********

Faculty Voices

Peter Singer: Peter Singer: How Can Effective Altruism Help Us Do The Most Good During A Pandemic? (NPR)

Marc Fleurbaey: Essay: Should We Save Lives — or Save the Economy? (Princeton Alumni Weekly)

Peter Hepburn: As U.S. lockdowns lift, evictions loom for poorest city dwellers (Reuters)

Anne Case and Angus Deaton: United States of Despair (Project Syndicate)

Julian Zelizer: Don’t be fooled into thinking Republicans are split over Trump (CNN)

Eddie Glaude and Julian Zelizer: Lafayette Square could decide Trump’s legacy — and election (Associated Press)

Brian Bird: Government walking a constitutional tightrope as restrictions on peaceful assembly stretch on (CBC)

Janet Currie: How to Think About Pregnancy Risks (The New York Times)

Alan Blinder: Robinhood Market Made Bursting Bubbles Wall Street’s Obsession (Bloomberg)

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)

Eddie Glaude:

• Racial Crisis in America: Do You Hear Me Now? Time to Begin Again! (Capital City Area Black Caucus)

• Lafayette Square clash, still reverberating, becomes an iconic episode in Donald Trump’s presidency (The Washignton Post)

• What James Baldwin’s Work Tells Us About Today’s Fight For Racial Justice (NPR)

• The History That James Baldwin Wanted America To See (The New Yorker)

Omar Wasow:

• Do Protests Affect Elections? (University of Chicago’s Not Another Politics Podcast)

• How Social Media Has Changed Civil Rights Protests (The New York Times)

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:

• TIME: Philippines Journalist Maria Ressa Convicted of Cyber Libel
• BBC: Maria Ressa: The celebrated Philippine news boss enraging Duterte

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:

• BBC World News: Maria Perales Sanchez ’18 on BBC World News America
• The Daily Princetonian: Supreme Court rules in favor of U., temporarily protects status of DACA recipients
• ROI-NJ: Princeton University applauds decision on DACA
• Inside Higher Ed: In Support of DACA
• Nj.com: ‘Tears fell out of our eyes.‘ Here’s how 5 N.J. Dreamers reacted to the Supreme Court DACA decision.