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Robertson Hall
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July 06, 2020
Fall 2020: FAQs
Princeton University is implementing a series of policies as we prepare for the fall semester. Most answers to your questions can be found on Princeton’s fall 2020 website; please use that website as your official source of information. Other websites, media outlets, and social media pages may not have the most accurate or up…
Robertson Hall
Politics and Polls
Podcasts
July 02, 2020
Politics & Polls #191: The Reopening of College Campuses Featuring Laurence Steinberg
With a dramatic uptick of coronavirus cases in many states, studies show young people comprise a disproportionate fraction of new cases. Historically, university students are more likely to take risks, so what will happen when they get back to campus? What do social distancing guidelines look like on a residential campus? …
Politics and Polls
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Research Briefs
July 02, 2020
Global Threats: How Lessons from Covid-19 Can Prevent Environmental Meltdown
Epidemiologists highlighted the dangers of Covid-19 in its early stages, but their warnings went largely ignored until rising infection rates forced policymakers to take action. Likewise, climate and environmental scientists have warned, for decades, that human activity is triggering global heating and another mass extinction…
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Sir Angus Deaton
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June 30, 2020
Covid-19 is Exposing Inequalities in Health and Wealth, Deaton Testifies
The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic is exposing and exacerbating health disparities in America, with Black and brown communities hit especially hard. This was the theme of a Congressional hearing held June 23 by the House Budget Committee. Among the witnesses was Sir Angus Deaton, Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of International…
Sir Angus Deaton
Dean Rouse
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June 27, 2020
Dean's Message: Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
Dear Community, I hope you have had to a chance to read President Eisgruber’s message, sharing with the Princeton community that the University Trustees have voted to remove the name “Woodrow Wilson” from our School and rename it the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. I am writing to let you know I…
Dean Rouse
Research Briefs
June 23, 2020
Why the U.S. Doesn’t Need More Nuclear Pits Right Now
The U.S. Congress is currently debating whether to build and operate a plutonium pit-production factory in South Carolina. It would be the country’s second; the first is in Los Alamos, New Mexico.Since the end of the Cold War, the Los Alamos National Laboratory has been the sole U.S. center of expertise and producer of “pits,”…
Research Briefs
June 22, 2020
Simple Interventions Can Help People Spot False Headlines
The avalanche of online content available to people around the world has outpaced humans’ ability to separate fact from what can be highly toxic and even dangerous fiction.But helping people identify nefarious information online might be possible through inexpensive digital-media literacy outreach, according to a Princeton…
Freedom Fountain
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June 22, 2020
Dean's Message: Combatting Systemic Racism and Injustice
Dear WWS Community,Racism in the justice system and discrimination in the labor market and health care system are not new, but the death of George Floyd and others at the hands of police, and the disparate impacts of Covid-19 and the economic crisis on black and brown communities have laid bare how racism permeates every facet…
Freedom Fountain
(From left) Princeton President Christopher L. Eisgruber; Princeton Vice President and General Counsel Ramona Romero; Princeton Associate University Counsel Wes Markham; Microsoft Assistant General Counsel Cindy Randall; Princeton Class of 2018 graduate Maria Perales Sanchez; Lindsay Harrison, litigator and partner at Jenner & Block; and Microsoft President and Princeton University Trustee Brad Smith stand in front of the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court in November 2019.
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June 18, 2020
Princeton, Microsoft, Maria Perales Sanchez ’18 Welcome Supreme Court Ruling to Restore DACA
(From left) Princeton President Christopher L. Eisgruber; Princeton Vice President and General Counsel Ramona Romero; Princeton Associate University Counsel Wes Markham; Microsoft Assistant General Counsel Cindy Randall; Princeton Class of 2018 graduate Maria Perales Sanchez; Lindsay Harrison, litigator and partner at Jenner & Block; and Microsoft President and Princeton University Trustee Brad Smith stand in front of the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court in November 2019.
Podcasts
June 17, 2020
Politics & Polls #190: The State and Health of Our Democracy Featuring David Litt
A vexing part of our democracy is that even overwhelmingly popular policies are sometimes not enacted into law because of political stalemates. This not only threatens the stability of our democracy, but also creates disillusionment among voters.This week, Julian Zelizer and Sam Wang discuss important questions about the health…