Today’s Briefing:
NOBEL PRIZES: The week of October 4, 2021 saw two Princeton University professors awarded Nobel prizes in Physics and Chemistry, and one alumna the Nobel Peace Prize. Syukuro Manabe, David MacMillan, and Maria Ressa ’86 became household names within a week — but to some, they were known and revered long before the international accolades. The Daily Princetonian spoke to people close to the award winners — colleagues, students, and former classmates — to learn more about the people behind the achievements.
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CENTER ON INEQUALITY: The Daily Princetonian sat down with Professor Ellora Derenoncourt, of the Economics Department and Industrial Relations Section, to discuss her efforts in founding the new Center on Inequality within the department, the racial wealth gap in America, and her research in labor economics. Derenoncourt stated that the Center on Inequality has two main goals: firstly, to establish inequality as an important topic of economic research and, secondly, to expose undergraduates to this area of economics.
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SCIENCE NEWS: University Professors Coleen Murphy, Mohamed Abou Donia, and Zemer Gitai were recently named recipients of National Institutes of Health’s ‘High Risk, High Reward’ grants, funding which they plan to use to further explore antibiotic resistance and bacterial communication. In an email to ‘Prince,’ Professor Donia stated, “We are very grateful and excited to have received this grant, which will allow us to embark on a new research direction that we have never worked on before in collaboration with [these] two amazing research groups at Princeton.”
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