Today’s Briefing:
In accordance with new state regulations, police officers working under the University's Department of Public Safety (PSAFE) will begin wearing body cameras this spring. This change comes after legislation signed by N.J. Gov. Phil Murphy last November, which mandates the use of body cameras for all uniformed law enforcement officers, including at colleges and universities.
However, officers will not record all interactions, only those that involve police response to emergency calls. In addition, only the department's 39 sworn officers will wear body cameras, while "security officers" who focus on University building safety but lack the powers of a sworn officer, will not.
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Mathematician and theoretical computer scientist Avi Wigderson GS ’83 has been awarded the 2021 Abel Prize, often regarded as the equivalent of a Nobel Prize in the field of mathematics.
Wigderson shares the prize with Hungarian mathematician László Lovász “for their foundational contributions to theoretical computer science and discrete mathematics and their leading role in shaping them into central fields of modern mathematics.” The two will split the prize of 7.5 million Norwegian kroner, or approximately $880,000.
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A lab led by Yibin Kang, Professor of Molecular Biology, reported the discovery of a new organelle involved in cancer metastasis — the spread of cancer tumors throughout the body.
The research team studied liquid-liquid phase separation within cells to identify the organelle that contributes to cancer metastasis. According to Yang, the discovery is significant for cancer research as “this is the first time that biomolecular condensation is shown to be involved in cancer metastasis.”
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