With an international interdisciplinary team, Schoop, assistant professor of chemistry, and Postdoctoral Research Associate Shiming Lei, published a paper last week in Science Advances reporting that the van der Waals material gadolinium tritelluride (GdTe3) displays the highest electronic mobility among all known layered magnetic materials. In addition, it has magnetic order, and can easily be exfoliated. https://chemistry.princeton.edu/news/schoop-lab-uncovers-high-mobility-compound

Athletes have persistence, dedication, and grit according to Lynn Loo, director of the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment and the Theodora D. ’78 and William H. Walton III ’74 Professor in Engineering. Matthew Marqardt, a junior on Princeton’s swimming and diving team and a chemistry major, applied those attributes in helping to launch solar-powered smart windows on campus. The project is a pilot installation of a technology that developed in Loo’s lab, which is being commercialized by her and co-founder Nick Davies’ startup, Andluca Technologies. https://acee.princeton.edu/acee-news/video-spotlights-matthew-marquardts-work-on-solar-powered-windows/

Three Princeton professors shared their views on how race is shaping the upcoming presidential election as part of a panel discussion titled “Race and Politics in 2020,” held Feb. 11 at the Carl A. Fields Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding. The event was organized in honor of Black History Month and was sponsored by three of Princeton’s employee resource groups — Princetonians of Color Network, Network of African American Males at Princeton, and Latino Princetonians. https://www.princeton.edu/news/2020/02/13/princeton-scholars-discuss-race-politics-and-2020-presidential-election

Princeton students in the fall course “Audio Journalism” traveled to Mound Bayou, Mississippi, to produce an audio documentary series.  https://www.princeton.edu/news/2020/02/17/art-radio-reporting-finding-stories-whisper-listeners-ear

In this four minute video, “The Many Paths to Princeton Chemistry,” thirteen current graduate students and one who earned his Ph.D. while the video was being produced share their personal paths to graduate study in chemistry. The young scientists also share their impressions of Princeton, who they are, and what they are becoming. See more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tghgGTxC7QU&feature=youtu.be

https://chemistry.princeton.edu/news/video-feature-many-paths-princeton-chemistry

Optimeos Life Sciences, a startup founded by two Princeton University faculty members, has reached agreements with six pharmaceutical companies to develop therapeutics using a Princeton-developed drug delivery technology. The partnerships have the potential to improve the effectiveness of medications for the treatment of diseases, ranging from cancer to diabetes. https://engineering.princeton.edu/news/2020/02/11/it-s-all-delivery-nanoparticle-platform-could-transform-medical-treatments

Princeton University Politics Librarian Jeremy Darrington reflects on the power of civic engagement. https://pace.princeton.edu/news/why-i-serve-politics-librarian-jeremy-darrington

In this Q&A, Princeton’s Mark Zondlo comments on the Australian wildfires and their impacts on air quality in the country and globally, and on climate change. https://acee.princeton.edu/acee-news/andlinger-center-speaks-global-impacts-of-the-australian-wildfires/

Princeton’s Aleksandr Logunov, S. Matthew Weinberg and Owen Zidar were among the 126 researchers from more than 60 research institutions in the United States and Canada named as 2020 Sloan Research Fellows. Sloan Research Fellowships are one of the most competitive and prestigious awards available to early career researchers, often seen as a marker of the quality of an institution’s science faculty and proof of an institution’s success in attracting the most promising junior researchers to its ranks.  https://www.princeton.edu/news/2020/02/12/three-princeton-faculty-members-named-2020-sloan-research-fellows

Imagine what the stuff of everyday life — personal letters, the deed of a house, a shop owner’s inventory records — might look like in medieval times. Since the late 1990s, historian Marina Rustow has immersed herself in a unique cache of such documents hidden away for centuries in an Egyptian synagogue. https://www.princeton.edu/news/2020/02/11/fragile-fragments-marina-rustow-unpacks-daily-life-medieval-egypt

The first University-wide Wintersession is less than a year away, and students, faculty and staff can help develop workshops, events and trips for the new program scheduled Jan. 11-24, 2021. https://www.princeton.edu/news/2020/02/10/students-faculty-and-staff-can-help-plan-university-wintersession-2021-program

Rodney Priestley is Princeton’s first vice dean for innovation, a newly created role within the Office of the Dean for Research to provide academic leadership for innovation and entrepreneurship activities across campus. https://www.princeton.edu/news/2020/02/05/rodney-priestley-princetons-inaugural-vice-dean-innovation-discusses-transformation

Princeton computer scientists analyzed the role of noncoding DNA mutations in cancer as part of the Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes project of the International Cancer Genome Consortium, a collaboration involving more than 1,300 researchers. https://www.princeton.edu/news/2020/02/05/researchers-discover-new-cancer-causing-mutations-genes-control-switches

Coley, a senior concentrating in religion with certificates in urban studies, ethnographic studies and humanistic studies, was honored for her dedication to various service programs as well as for her creative and innovative approach to projects, such as the Princeton Asylum Project. https://pace.princeton.edu/news/service-entrepreneurial-spirit-senior-emma-coley-honored-fisher-award

Princeton geneticist Bonnie Bassler will receive the 2020 Gruber Genetics Prize for her pioneering work on how bacteria communicate with each other. In learning about the process of intercellular bacterial communication, known as quorum sensing, Bassler has expanded our understanding of microbes and illuminated innovative approaches to promoting health and preventing disease. https://www.princeton.edu/news/2020/02/07/bassler-receives-gruber-genetics-prize-discoveries-how-bacteria-communicate

In a letter to the editor fo the Daily Princetonian, Aly Kassam-Remtulla , Irini Daskalaki and Robin Izzo update the community on the University’s response to coronavirus and our efforts to support those affected by this global health emergency:

Since the emergence of the new coronavirus in China and declaration of a global health emergency, we have taken the situation seriously and have redoubled our efforts to fulfill a core responsibility we have as an administration: to ensure the health and safety of every member of the University community.

It has now been a week since the University first reached out to all students, faculty, and staff with information on coronavirus and the steps being taken on behalf of our community. 

Our actions so far and plans going forward have been shaped by federal and state government guidance — including from the New Jersey Department of Health (NJDOH), with whom we are in constant contact — as well as public health best practices and the recommendations of the University’s health and emergency response experts.