Andrea Goldsmith, a global leader in the development of wireless systems, has been awarded the Marconi Prize, the highest honor in telecommunications research. She is the first woman ever to win the prize, now in its 45th year. Goldsmith was recently appointed dean of Princeton’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, effective Sept. 1, and named the Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical Engineering.
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2020/05/01/marconi-prize-honors-andrea-goldsmith-pioneer-wireless-communications

The amount of farmland around the world that will need to be irrigated in order to feed an estimated global population of 9 billion people by 2050 could be up to several billion acres, far higher than scientists currently project, according to new research. The result would be a far greater strain on aquifers, as well as the likely expansion of agriculture into natural ecosystems as farmers search for water.
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2020/05/05/expansion-environmental-impacts-irrigation-2050-greatly-underestimated

Despite the traditional view that species do not exchange genes by hybridization, a new study led by Princeton ecologists Peter and Rosemary Grant show that gene flow between closely related species is more common than previously thought.
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2020/05/07/gene-flow-between-species-influences-evolution-darwins-finches

More on research related to COVID-19:

• The Wall Street Journal: The Fed Can’t Do It All, Says Alan Blinder
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-fed-cant-do-it-all-says-alan-blinder-11588357053?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=2

• KPBS: Rent Is Due Today, But Millions Of Americans Won’t Be Paying
https://www.kpbs.org/news/2020/may/01/rent-is-due-today-but-millions-of-americans-wont/

• Nj.com: Two-fold fail on N.J. virus policy at nursing homes | Letters
https://www.nj.com/opinion/2020/05/two-fold-fail-on-nj-virus-policy-at-nursing-homes-letters.html

• Symmetry: Physicists crowdsource pandemic problem-solving
https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/physicists-crowdsource-pandemic-problem-solving

From The Daily Princetonian: Cecilia Rouse, Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and member of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisors discusses the role of government in the COVID-19 response, anti-stay at home order protests, and the relationship between the private and public sectors when it comes to healthcare. She also touches on how the pandemic will impact graduating students’ job prospects and the uncertainty of the what will happen with the fall semester.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFPoWsHy0wc&feature=emb_title

Responding to a challenge that tragic necessity has thrown to countless research labs around the world, a team from the Princeton Department of Chemistry will deploy its new cell mapping technology to shed light on the molecular interplay between COVID-19 and its host. The team is collaborating with Princeton molecular biologists who study viruses.
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2020/04/30/macmillan-ploss-labs-map-viral-host-interactions-covid-19

In just six weeks, from March 19 to May 1, an international team of physicists and engineers led by Princeton’s Cristian Galbiati brought a ventilator from concept to FDA approval.
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2020/05/05/fda-approves-ventilator-designed-particle-physics-community
Related from Forbes: FDA Authorizes A Simple And Cost Effective Ventilator Designed By Particle Physics Community To Address Coronavirus Related Shortages https://www.forbes.com/sites/allisongasparini/2020/05/06/fda-approves-simple-and-cost-effective-ventilator-designed-by-particle-physics-community-to-address-coronavirus-related-shortages/#3aa100fd6e7f

From The Daily Princetonian: Professor Carolyn Ureña ’08 always knew that the interdisciplinary study of infectious disease was important. Now, the rest of the world is catching on. Ureña began her first-year writing seminar, WRI 163/164: Contagion, in fall 2017. The goal of the course has always been to explore the “cultural and biological meanings of infectious diseases.” Yet this semester, the course material became relevant in a way no one could have expected.
https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2020/05/wri-163-contagion-when-class-readings-become-reality

Figuring out how to translate the Department of Music’s robust performance curriculum into an online platform has certainly been a challenge, especially for the 358 students and 45 performance faculty members who are participating in private vocal and instrumental lessons this semester. Scheduled weekly throughout most of the semester, these lessons are at the heart of the Department’s performance program both for concentrators and certificate students, and also provide opportunities for others to pursue their instrument co-curricularly.
https://music.princeton.edu/news/continuing-studio-instruction-during-covid-19-0

From Princeton Alumni Weekly: Princeton students and staff are finding new, innovative ways of keeping in touch with the Princeton experience. The Office of Wintersession and Campus Engagement has taken a leading role in creating events for students to plug back into their on-campus communities.https://paw.princeton.edu/article/student-dispatch-zooming-campus-life-distance 

From Princeton Alumni Weekly: Despite the eerie quiet that now envelops Princeton’s campus, about 750 staff, faculty, and graduate students continue to report for work. Many who fall into this category are unionized hourly workers — including employees working in dining, building, and mail services — and navigating the new normal during the coronavirus pandemic has required new ways of doing business.
https://paw.princeton.edu/article/essential-workers-keep-princeton-running-during-covid-19

More stories of Princetonians in service:

• Princeton Alumni Weekly: With One Project, Alum Aids Both Restaurant and Hospital Workers
https://paw.princeton.edu/article/one-project-alum-aids-both-restaurant-and-hospital-workers

• Town Topics: SHVS Supports States With Tools To Combat the Effects of COVID-19
http://www.towntopics.com/wordpress/2020/05/06/shvs-supports-states-with-tools-to-combat-the-effects-of-covid-19/

• New York Post: Hero of the Day: Psychologist connects families to ailing loved ones
https://nypost.com/2020/05/03/brooklyn-psychologist-connects-families-to-ailing-loved-ones/

From The Philadelphia Inquirer: Features Princeton student Manraj Singh, national lead for Connect for COVID, which helps provide information and support in the battle against the COVID-19 outbreak.https://www.inquirer.com/life/pohps-connect-for-covid-stephanie-javier-fagbemi-20200507.html

From The Daily Princetonian: In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Princeton community has striven to embody the school’s motto of service. University researchers have worked to stem the virus, a group of alumni have supplied personal protective equipment (PPE) to medical workers in need, and now, students are volunteering their time, doing what they can to help those most impacted by the coronavirus.https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2020/05/volunteer-medical-workers-princeton

From Princeton Alumni Weekly: At Massachusetts General Hospital and Partners HealthCare, Edward Ryan ’84, David Brown ’85, Erica Shenoy ’98, Jeffrey Ecker ’84, and Paul Biddinger ’90 plan, stock up on supplies, and brace for the worst. Related from Princeton Alumni Weekly: New York Nurse Lauren Edmonds ’10 Battles COVID-19 and Fear https://paw.princeton.edu/article/boston-alumni-doctors-face-covid-19-together https://paw.princeton.edu/article/new-york-nurse-lauren-edmonds-10-battles-covid-19-and-fear

Princeton University has offered admission to 13 transfer students for entry in fall 2020. Since being reinstated in 2018, the undergraduate transfer admission program has been aimed at encouraging applicants from low-income, military or community college backgrounds.https://www.princeton.edu/news/2020/05/06/princeton-offers-admission-13-transfer-students-third-year-reinstated-program

Sociologist Elizabeth (Betsy) Mitchell Armstrong has been named head of Butler College, one of Princeton’s six residential colleges. She will begin her four-year term on July 1.https://www.princeton.edu/news/2020/05/04/armstrong-named-head-butler-college-princeton

Princeton University is committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming educational and working environment for everyone — an environment in which sex or gender discrimination, including sexual misconduct such as sexual harassment and sexual assault, stalking, and intimate partner violence, is not tolerated.https://www.princeton.edu/news/2020/05/06/university-statement-regarding-new-title-ix-regulations

From Princeton Alumni Weekly: In his column for the current issue of Princeton Alumni Weekly, President Eisgruber describes how he is taking new inspiration from the address that Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor ’76 delivered when she accepted the Woodrow Wilson Award on Alumni Day in 2014. Particularly, her recommendation to expand Princeton’s informal motto—“in the nation’s service”— to include the phrase “in the service of humanity.” He writes, “Justice Sotomayor’s full version of the phrase was “in the service of humanity, one person and one act at a time.” Her point was that some noble forms of service are personal and humble rather than grand or glorious.”https://paw.princeton.edu/article/sonia-sotomayors-wisdom-and-pandemic

Princeton will decide in early July whether the undergraduate teaching program will be onlin or residential in the fall term. The University is exploring ways to safely and responsibly reopen Princeton’s laboratories, libraries, and other facilities when state law permits. Related from ROI-NJ: Princeton president, calling pandemic a global struggle, says school will wait until July to determine if it can fully reopen in fall.https://www.princeton.edu/news/2020/05/04/president-eisgruber-writes-princeton-community-about-state-university-and-planning

Princeton president, calling pandemic a global struggle, says school will wait until July to determine if it can fully reopen in fall