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Ismail White, Frances Lee
News June 30, 2021
Lee, White Win National Book Prizes
Two faculty members from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs received awards from the American Political Science Association (APSA) for their recent books. Ismail White and Frances Lee win national book prizes. (Photo credit: Egan Jimenez, Princeton University) Frances Lee, professor of politics and public affairs and the associate chair of the Department of Politics, and her co-author, James Curry, professor of political science at the University of Utah, were awarded the Gladys M. Kammerer Award for their book, “The Limits of the Party: Congress and Lawmaking in a Polarized Era.” The book focuses on the polarization of…
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News June 25, 2021
Princeton & Mozilla Launch Technology Policy Research Initiative
Data-driven public policy depends on data. And, in the area of technology policy, access to data has been a significant barrier to research. Concerned about how online services might intrude on privacy, push hyper-partisan misinformation, or disadvantage their competitors? Those services aren’t sharing the relevant data with researchers. A team at Princeton University, led by professor Jonathan Mayer, is working to solve this problem. Together with Mozilla — creator of the Firefox web browser — Mayer’s team has developed a novel research initiative for studying technology policy issues. Mozilla Rally, which launched today, is a new platform that…
Remy Reya
Graduating Seniors Empowered to “Fight for What You Believe In” June 11, 2021
Graduating Seniors Empowered to “Fight for What You Believe In”
Chosen by his classmates to deliver the first student address at a Class Day ceremony hosted by the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA), senior Remy Reya spoke about how the world’s current crises impacted him and his classmates, and how they rose to meet the occasion. “Our classes are often limited by space and time; in a normal year, we might have remained more distant from the humanitarian issues that concern us. This year, faced with crisis after crisis, our class embraced the University’s motto in new ways,” Reya said. “We pushed forward in the nation’s service from the ground up; we placed ourselves in the service of…
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News June 10, 2021
A Better Understanding of “Wet Markets” is Key to Safeguarding Human Health, Biodiversity
Great uncertainty surrounds the origins of SARS-CoV-2. Early on, some suggested a link between COVID-19 and a seafood market in Wuhan, China. Other theories are now circulating, though the origins of the virus are still unknown. In response, governments have pushed for the closing of so-called “wet markets” around the world, but this is not an effective policy solution, Princeton University researchers report. A widespread shuttering of all wet markets could have the unintended consequences of disrupting critical food supply chains, stimulating an unregulated black market for animal products, and stoking xenophobia and anti-Asian sentiment…
Anne Case
News April 27, 2021
Case Awarded Distinctions from the American Economic Association, National Institutes of Health
Anne Case, the Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Emeritus, was named a 2021 Distinguished Fellow by the American Economic Association (AEA). The AEA Nominating Committee and voting members of the Executive Committee select up to four distinguished fellows each year, and the award recognizes the lifetime research contributions of distinguished economists. In addition, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded Case the 14th Matilda White Riley Behavioral and Social Sciences Honors, which she will receive on May 5. The award is given annually to an individual whose research has contributed to behavioral and…
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News April 26, 2021
Bénabou Awarded Jean-Jacques Laffont Prize
Roland Bénabou, the Theodore A. Wells ’29 Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, was awarded the 2021 Jean-Jacques Laffont Prize by the Toulouse School of Economics. He is the first current Princeton University faculty member to receive the prize since its inception in 2005. The award is given to “a renowned international economist whose research, in the spirit of the work undertaken by Professor Jean-Jacques Laffont, combines both the theoretical and the empirical,” according to the Toulouse School’s website. Bénabou will present his work at a public lecture in fall 2021 at City Hall in Toulouse, France. Roland Bénabou was awarded the 2021…
Deborah Yashar and Keith Wailoo
News April 22, 2021
Wailoo, Yashar Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Two faculty members from Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS). Keith Wailoo and Deborah J. Yashar are among the 252 artists, scholars, scientists, and leaders in the public, nonprofit, and private sectors elected this year in recognition of their respective fields. Deborah Yashar and Keith Wailoo were elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. (Photo credit: Egan Jimenez) Wailoo is the Henry Putnam University Professor of History and Public Affairs. His research straddles history and health policy, touching on drugs and drug policy, on the politics…
Marta Tienda
News April 13, 2021
Tienda to Serve as President of American Academy of Political and Social Science
Marta Tienda, a leading sociologist and immigration expert, will be the next president of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS). She begins her tenure on July 1, 2021. Tienda is the Maurice P. During ’22 Professor of Demographic Studies and professor of sociology and public affairs at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. Her research focuses on race and ethnic differences in various metrics of social inequality, ranging from poverty and welfare to education and employment. This is not Tienda’s first appointment at the Academy. In 2004, she was named its Ernest W. Burgess Fellow. In her new role as…
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News April 13, 2021
Eduardo Bhatia ’86, Former Senate President of Puerto Rico, to Join Princeton as Visiting Professor
Eduardo Bhatia ’86, former Senate president of Puerto Rico, will join the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) in academic year 2021-22 as the John L. Weinberg/Goldman Sachs & Co. Visiting Professor and visiting lecturer in public and international affairs. An attorney, policymaker, and leader, Bhatia is an expert on fiscal and public policy. With more than 25 years experience, Bhatia is a champion of government reform, helping public and private coalitions achieve fiscally responsible policy targets. Bhatia will teach a SPIA graduate policy workshop in fall 2021 focused on Puerto Rico’s financial insolvency — the…
Trevor Noah
News April 13, 2021
Author, Comedian and ‘The Daily Show’ Host Trevor Noah Selected as Princeton’s 2021 Class Day Speaker
The Class of 2021 has announced that internationally acclaimed comedian and author Trevor Noah will give remarks at the virtual Class Day ceremony on Saturday, May 15, and will be inducted as an honorary member of the class. Class Day, which takes place the day before Princeton’s Commencement, is organized by members of the senior class. The ceremony also includes speeches by graduating seniors, the recognition of class members for their contributions and the induction of honorary class members. This year’s ceremony will be held virtually at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 15. A recording will be available for wider viewing. Trevor Noah is the host of the…
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News March 29, 2021
Consuming Online Partisan News Leads to Distrust in the Media
Slanted media outlets are often blamed for growing polarization, but new research points to another consequence of consuming partisan news: an erosion of trust in the media. A team of researchers combined computational social science techniques and experimentation to study the long-term effects of online partisan media on political opinions and trust. Internet users were asked to change their default browser homepages to either the Huffington Post, a left-leaning news site, or Fox News, a more conservative outlet, during the 2018 U.S. midterm elections. As participants went about their daily activities, they allowed the researchers to survey them…
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News March 16, 2021
Princeton Researchers Awarded Funding for Cross-Disciplinary Education Research Projects
Researchers based at Princeton University will receive funding from the Overdeck Innovation Fund to work on innovative, cross-disciplinary education research projects over the next two years. A total of $240,000 was awarded to Adele Goldberg, Chelsey Clark, Nathan Cheek, Elizabeth Levy Paluck, Claire Willeck, and Tali Mendelberg by the Overdeck Innovation Fund. The Overdeck Innovation Fund was created by the Overdeck Family Foundation, which donated more than $1 million to the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs to support creative research projects and programs addressing important issues in education. The funds will be used for: …
Chris Neilson
News March 12, 2021
Neilson Named 2021 Sloan Research Fellow
Christopher Neilson is one of 128 early-career scholars to be awarded a fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which honors “the most promising scientific researchers working today.” Neilson joins four other Princeton faculty members who were named 2021 Sloan Research Fellows: Biao Lian, Yakov Shlapentokh-Rothman, Leslie Schoop, and Mark Zhandry. Christopher Neilson is one of 128 early-career scholars to be awarded a fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. (Photo courtesy of Neilson) The fellowship comes with a $75,000 award over a two-year period that can be used on any expense supportive of the fellow’s research. Neilson is…
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News March 03, 2021
“Nerdy Girl” Princeton Alumni Battle Covid-19 “Infodemic”
As new variants of the novel coronavirus emerge and people consider whether to get vaccinated, it can be confusing to know where to turn and which information to trust. Who can answer questions such as the need for double-masking, whether the vaccine affects fertility, and how to navigate pandemic fatigue? Enter “Those Nerdy Girls,” an all-female, interdisciplinary team of researchers and clinicians who help people navigate what the World Health Organization calls the “infodemic” — the overwhelming amount of pandemic information and misinformation. They have expertise in epidemiology, nursing, mental health, demography, health policy, behavioral…
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News March 03, 2021
Dean Rouse Confirmed by U.S. Senate as Chair of Economic Advisers
Cecilia Elena Rouse​, former dean of the ​Princeton School of Public and International Affairs​ (SPIA)​, was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as chair of President Joe Biden’s ​Council of Economic Advisers​ (CEA) on March 2. She is the first African American and just the fourth woman to lead the CEA in the 75 years of its existence. As chair, Rouse will play a key role in rebuilding the U.S. economy, which has seen increasing income inequality for decades and has been most recently left crippled by the Covid-19 pandemic. Since the public health crisis began, Rouse has been a strong advocate for providing economic relief to those most affected by the…