Today’s Briefing:
NOBEL PRIZE: David W. C. MacMillan, the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry, was jointly awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry alongside German chemist Benjamin List, a director at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany, “for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis.” This marks the second consecutive day that a Princeton scientist has been honored with the world’s most prestigious distinction in research.
MacMillan is the sixth individual affiliated with the University as well as the first faculty member at the University to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. On Wednesday afternoon, the University convened a press conference to celebrate MacMillan and his achievements, at which MacMillan remarked on the importance of scientific research and discovery.
“Without science, we wouldn’t have anything. Society, ways of being, interacting — we’d have nothing. So, we need science. Once you get to that basic level of understanding, you have to get back to trusting the facts, trusting the truth,” MacMillan said.
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OPINION: What does it take to get to office hours? Last year, many students would click a button and wait in a “virtual line” for their preceptor or professor to attend to their questions. This semester, as columnist Kelsey Ji writes, “something as simple as going to office hours [is made] much harder just by the fact that classes returned to hosting in-person office hours and stopped hosting them online.” While there are students who prefer in-person office hours, others may find balancing courses, extracurricular activities, health, and other responsibilities quite challenging. Ji makes note of how certain classes, such as COS 126 and JPN 305, have already made hybrid office hours available.
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