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Highlights
Wailoo named 2021 Dan David Prize winner
Wailoo, the Henry Putnam University Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton, is being honored for his work in the history of health and medicine. He will share a $1 million prize with Alison Bashford of the University of South Wales and Katharine Park of Harvard University. From pain management to health equity, Wailoo’s work sheds light on the medical field’s hidden past. He is working to advance a broader understanding of health by taking a historical lens to today’s pressing issues, including the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccinations and the opioid crisis.
Not JUST Data
Through the Ida B. Wells JUST Data Lab, Ruha Benjamin and her team of young researchers expose injustices hidden in statistics. Benjamin, professor of African American studies, envisions a path to structural changes and a more equitable future by recognizing the failures of the past. Those failures, she believes, are written in data. Evidence of prejudice and racial inequality are baked into the numbers coming from institutions such as banks, hospitals, schools and prisons. But data can be misinterpreted or intentionally twisted through stories and narratives. In this era of misinformation, if data are to be used for justice, Benjamin argues, the data alone are not enough. Researchers need to be “as rigorous about the stories as they are the statistics,” she said.
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NEWS ITEMS
Diversity in policing can improve police-civilian interactions, say Princeton researchers
Diversity in policing can improve police-civilian interactions, say Princeton researchers. A study first debuted Feb. 7 at the American Association for the Advancement of Science 2021 Annual Meeting harnesses newly collected data from the Chicago Police Department to show that deploying officers of different backgrounds does, in fact, produce large differences in how police treat civilians.
Yoshiaki Shimizu, distinguished scholar who ‘transformed the study of Japanese art’ and Princeton graduate alumnus, dies at 84
Yoshiaki Shimizu, the Marquand Professor of Art and Archaeology, Emeritus, and a renowned scholar of Japanese art history, curator and Princeton graduate alumnus, died on Jan. 20, 2021, of lung cancer at home in Portland, Oregon. He was 84.
Cell mapping expert receives HHMI diversity fellowship with eight years of support
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has named Princeton postdoctoral researcher Sofia Quinodoz a 2020 Hanna Gray Fellow, bolstering her study into how the structures within cells contribute to disease.
Four seniors awarded Labouisse Prize for international civic engagement projects
Princeton University seniors Chisom Ilogu, Sarah Kamanzi, Leopoldo Solis and Lydia Spencer have been awarded the Henry Richardson Labouisse ’26 Prize to pursue international civic engagement projects for one year following graduation.
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EVENTS
PRINCETON VIRTUAL EVENTS
CITP Seminar: Charlton McIlwain – Dreams of (Black) Tech Futures Past
Tuesday, March 9, 2021
12:30 p.m. ET
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This talk will walk the attendees through the alternative black technological futures that some had already begun to imagine and design more than fifty years ago. Who, what and why were those futures foreclosed upon, and how did they impact the tech present? Can Black people still salvage our former technological dreams to imagine – and realize – a different kind of Black future?
Race in the COVID Era: Ensuring Educational Equity During the COVID-19 Crisis
Thursday, March 25, 2021
4:00 PM ET
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Join a conversation that will situate the educational inequities exacerbated by COVID-19 within systemic racism and inequality. Panelists will discuss strategies and solutions to ensure educational access and equity for Black, Latinx, Native American/Indigenous and other marginalized communities.
Mithila Art in 2020: Life, Labor, and COVID-19 in South Asia
March 26, 2021
10:00 AM ET
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Throughout 2020, artists in India have been engaging with pandemic-related themes that reflect the vast inequity with which the pandemic has manifested in the lives of South Asians. While some have managed to maintain safety and stability, many more have experienced food insecurity, displacement, disease, and loss of income. The Mithila art in the collection expresses both moments of serenity and sorrow in the midst of the recent crisis. Panelists will discuss and reflect on the particular expressions of COVID-19 in this art, as well the impact of the pandemic on artisan labor and art markets.
Book Talk: This Is the Fire: What I Say to My Friends About Racism
March 29, 2021
3:00 PM ET
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As America’s only Black prime-time anchor, Don Lemon, Anchor of CNN Tonight, speaks to his fans through his daily monologues on racism and antiracism, on the failures of the Trump administration and of so many of our leaders, and on America’s systemic flaws. Now, in his new book, Lemon shows us how deep our problems lie, and what we can do to begin to fix them. Lemon will be joined in conversation with Julian Zelizer, the Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Class of 1941 Professor of History and Public Affairs, Princeton.
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Data Highlight
Women make up just 24 percent of research universities' top earners, according to a new report urging action on pay parity in academe. Women of color are just 2 percent.
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National Research & News Highlights
Race on Campus: Why Faculty Diversity Remains Largely a Zero-Sum Game
Between 2010 and 2019, the share of Black recipients of doctorates increased less than one percentage point, according to the annual Survey of Earned Doctorates. That's bad news for colleges that want to diversify their faculty. Until the number of minority doctoral recipients increases, those efforts will mostly fall flat. Vimal Patel explains why.
Faculty Members are suffering burnout: These strategies could help
Faculty members are anxious and burned out. Juggling work and disrupted personal lives in the midst of a pandemic, they need help if they are going to remain — and flourish — in academe. The Chronicle recently released a special report, Burned Out and Overburdened, that explores how colleges can provide support.
Tackling Racism in Textbook Publishing
New guidelines from textbook publisher Pearson aim to dismantle systemic racism in higher ed. Pearson published editorial guidelines addressing race, ethnicity, equity and inclusion, becoming one of the first major textbook publishers to make such guidelines publicly available.
A Racial Trust Deficit in Higher Ed
A new report from the Center for Postsecondary Research at Indiana University found that Black undergraduates trust college leaders significantly less than their white peers, and that the pandemic caused a slight drop in trust in administrators among all students.
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