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Highlights
President Eisgruber’s annual State of the University letter, 2021
Princeton University President Christopher L. Eisgruber sent his annual State of the University letter to faculty, students and staff on Thursday, Feb. 4, reflecting on the role of the University in a time of crisis.
Two engineering alumni take science and tech leadership roles in Biden administration
Two Princeton Engineering alumni recently were appointed to leadership positions in science and technology in the Biden administration. Frances Arnold, a 1979 graduate in mechanical and aerospace engineering, was appointed to co-chair the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. Robert Hampshire, who earned his Ph.D. in the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering (ORFE) in 2007, was sworn in Jan. 20 as principal deputy assistant secretary for research and technology at the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Princeton’s pioneering financial aid program has benefitted 10,000+ students over last 20 years
Twenty years ago, Princeton made history by becoming the first university in the country to remove loans from its financial aid packages. The decision enabled students to graduate debt-free and opened Princeton’s gates to talented young people who would previously have found the University unaffordable. Today, 83% of seniors graduate with zero debt thanks to Princeton’s pioneering “no loan” financial aid program for undergraduates.
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NEWS ITEMS
Celebrating African American Chemists: Rodney D. Priestley
ACS Axial recently highlighted and interviewed Princeton’s own Rodney Priestley, Vice Dean for Innovation and Pomeroy and Betty Perry Smith Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering.
Teaching with Collections: ‘Reading Toni Morrison’ in a virtual world
In fall 2020, students in the course "Topics in African American Literature Reading Toni Morrison" taught by Autumn Womack, received unprecedented digitized access to Princeton University Library's copyrighted Toni Morrison Papers, which document the Nobel laureate's creative practice, as well as first-hand insights from Morrison's long-time assistant, Rene Boatman, who now serves as a consultant to the collection.
Sachs Scholarship awarded to Princeton seniors Kang, Tahir; Oxford student Duffus
Princeton seniors Jimin Kang and Aisha Tahir, and University of Oxford student Hannah Duffus have been named recipients of the Daniel M. Sachs Class of 1960 Graduating Scholarship, one of Princeton University’s highest awards. The Sachs Scholarship is intended to broaden the global experience of its recipients by providing them with the opportunity to study, work or travel abroad after graduation.
The double pandemic: Health policy course pivots to address COVID-19 and systemic racism
With a grant from Princeton’s 250th Anniversary Fund for Innovation in Undergraduate Education, Heather Howard redesigned course curriculum to examine the intertwining dynamics of COVID-19 and systemic racism — shifting the focus from state health policy generally to policy addressing health disparities exacerbated by the pandemic.
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EVENTS
PRINCETON VIRTUAL EVENTS
The Insurgent Archive: A Conversation on Art and Institutional Practice with Mari Carmen Ramírez and Yasmin Ramirez
Tuesday, February 9th
5:00 PM ET
Details Here
Join a conversation featuring Mari Carmen Ramírez, Wortham Curator of Latin American Art and founding Director, International Center for the Arts of the Americas (ICAA) at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) and Yasmin Ramirez, independent curator and scholar.
The guest speakers will discuss alternative archives and diversity in curatorial practices in museums, galleries and universities. This event is part of the series "Cura Continua: Art, Curating, and Practices of Radical Care", a series of dialogues co-sponsored by the program in Latin American Studies and the Department of Art & Archaeology.
Religion, Race, and Slavery in the Americas Lecture Series
Tuesday, February 9th - February 23rd
4:30 PM ET
Details Here
As part of the Department of religion’s 2020-2021 series of events on race and the study of religion, these three virtual lectures will explore the connections among religion, race, and slavery in the early Americas.
Lecture 1: What to the Slave is Religion?: Women, Race, and Reproduction in the Definition of a Category
Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh
Tuesday, February 9, 2021 - 4:30 pm ET
Lecture 2: Bearing the Burden of Ownership: Slavery, Religion, and the University
Alphonso F. Saville, IV
Wednesday, February 10, 2021 - 4:30 pm ET
Lecture 3: Spiritual Racialization: Theologies of Race and Slavery in the Colonial Atlantic World
Kelsey Christina Moss
Tuesday, February 23, 2021 - 4:30 pm ET
The Campus Color Line
Thursday, February 25
4:00 PM ET
Register Here
Join us for a conversation with UCLA professor Eddie R. Cole as he discusses his newest book The Campus Color Line with Princeton's Vice Provost for Institutional Equity & Diversity Michele Minter. The Campus Color Line illuminates the important role of college presidents, including Princeton’s Robert F. Goheen, in the unfinished struggle for racial equity in education and beyond.
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Data Highlight
"People of color are most prevalent among assistant professors. It's clear that colleges are trying to hire scholars of color into early-career faculty positions", says Jacqueline Bichsel, director of research at CUPA-HR. But there’s a drop-off at the associate- and full-professor ranks, roles that offer higher pay and often better job security. That trend has held for years, Bichsel says, so the problem won’t be solved simply by waiting for older, white professors to retire. Scholars of color aren’t getting promoted often enough to shift the disparity. “People have been saying it’s just a matter of time for decades,” she says.
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National Research & News Highlights
Covid-19 Has Robbed Faculty Parents of Time for Research. Especially Mothers.
Women with children have lost, on average, about an hour of research time per day on top of what childless scholars have lost.
Race on Campus
What national conversations about racial equity and inclusion mean for you and your institution. This installment of the newsletter tackles some of the challenges that minority faculty members face.
Women in Economics, Interrupted
Women in economics get asked significantly more questions than men when presenting -- mostly by men. Researchers say this is part of deeper gender issues within the field.
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