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Susan Bindig, executive director of Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS), will step down from her position on April 30, 2024, after nearly three decades at Princeton. During her tenure, PIIRS has grown into the University’s primary center for international and regional studies, a home for cutting-edge research,…
Cognitive psychologist Elke Weber has been awarded a Frontiers of Knowledge Award in humanities and social sciences from the BBVA Foundation.
Dylan Epstein-Gross ’25 has been awarded a Goldwater Scholarship, an annual award which recognizes outstanding undergraduates interested in careers in the sciences, engineering, and mathematics.
The scholarship program was created as part of the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation established by Congress in 1986 in honor of Senator Barry Goldwater. This year, 438 scholarship recipients were selected across the United States.
Yuno Iwasaki ’23 and Ananya Agustin Malhotra ’20 were named recipients of the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, a merit-based graduate school program for immigrants and children of immigrants. Soros fellows receive funding to support their graduate studies at institutions across the country and are “recognized for their achievements and their potential to make meaningful contributions to the United States across fields of study,” according to the fellowship.
Genrietta Churbanova, an anthropology major from Little Rock, Arkansas, has been named the Princeton Class of 2024 valedictorian. John Freeman, a classics major from Chicago, has been selected as the salutatorian.
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Senior Shane Patrick receives Barry Scholarship for study at Oxford
Senior Shane Patrick has been awarded the John and Daria Barry Scholarship
"The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen" Is a Finalist for Italy's 2024 Cherasco Award in History
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Effie Rentzou awarded the title Chevalier in l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques
Effie Rentzou, professor of French and Italian, has been awarded the title of Chevalier in l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques. A prestigious decoration awarded by the French Government, the Order of the French Academic Palms honors Rentzou’s contributions to culture and the arts.According to the...
Aleksandra Korolova awarded 2024 Sloan Fellowship
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has announced that Aleksandra Korolova, an expert in privacy, algorithmic fairness and technology policy, has been selected as a 2024 Sloan Research Fellow in computer science.
Susan Naquin Awarded 2024 Joseph Levenson Prize for "Gods of Mount Tai"
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Two Princeton seniors, one Oxford student awarded Sachs Scholarship
Princeton seniors Alice McGuinness and Nathalie Verlinde and University of Oxford student Jack Nunn have been named recipients of the Daniel M. Sachs Class of 1960 Graduating Scholarship, one of Princeton University’s highest awards.
Hannah Grunow wins the Naomi Schor Memorial Award
Hannah Grunow wins the Naomi Schor Memorial award for best graduate student paper at the Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Johns Hopkins University (Nov. 2023), for her paper “Art in Passage Toward the Internal: Flaubert, the Artist, & Philosophical Aesthetics” Information...
Leonard Wantchekon Awarded Kiel Institute’s 2023 Global Economy Prize
Leonard Wantchekon, the James Madison Professor of Political Economy and Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University, has been awarded the Kiel Institute for the World Economy’s 2023 Global Economy Prize in the science category.
Mathematician Elliott Lieb Wins Kyoto Prize for Pioneering Quantum Discoveries
Princeton University’s Elliott Lieb is one of the three recipients of the 2023 Kyoto Prize. He won the mathematical sciences category, for “pioneering mathematical research in physics, chemistry and quantum information science based on many-body physics.”