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In a year when the value of global engagement has been questioned, the University’s international community of faculty, researchers and students at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS), the Office of International...
Brian Kloeppel, hired in June as the inaugural director of the Mpala Secretariat, knows field research centers. As a professor of natural resource conservation and management at Western Carolina University, a role he held for 17 years, his time spent...
The Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS) supports bold, collaborative projects that connect faculty research with the wider world. Through competitive grants of up to $75,000 over three years, PIIRS advances innovative...
Shamus Khan, the Willard Thorp Professor of Sociology and American Studies, studies America’s elite class through the lens of their schools and institutions. He, along with Humboldt University sociologist Daniel Bultmann, is now working on a PIIRS...
Fellowship Advising, a division within the Office of International Programs, assists undergraduates and recent alumni as they navigate the complex landscape of identifying and applying for fellowships, scholarships and grants, many of which support...
Around campus, they are affectionately known as "frequent flyers:" students who take a determined approach to finding creative ways to see as much of the world as they can through Princeton's offerings. Experiencing other cultures and perspectives...
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Global Classrooms, Lasting Lessons: PIIRS Global Seminars Prepare Students for an Interconnected World
Each summer, PIIRS sponsors multidisciplinary Global Seminars that meaningfully unite pedagogy and place. In these six-week credit-bearing courses, students engage with the world beyond Princeton through experiential learning in places at the heart of the seminar’s lessons.
Program in Latin American Studies now housed in PIIRS, strengthening their shared mission
Living on the Edge in the Immersive Princeton in Argentina Course
When I signed up for Princeton in Argentina, I never imagined the summer course would involve hanging off the side of a cliff in the Andes Mountains, looking over a creek of r
Donation of Puerto Rican Graphic Artworks to Princeton University Library
Thanks to the generosity of SPO emeritus Professor Arcadio Díaz-Quiñones and his wife Alma Concepción, the Princeton University Library has received a trove of graphic artworks by renowned
Trading Extinction?: Princeton Researchers reveal the Biodiversity Trade-Offs of Global Trade
As countries increasingly outsource their environmental impacts to other nations, Princeton researchers show that global trade is reshaping extinction patterns - potentially setting the stage for a second wave of biodiversity loss.
Hi-Chews to High Peaks: SPA 204 through a new lens
It started with Hi-Chews and an unexpected invitation to “sit at the table.”
Fica à vontade, seven days in Salvador da Bahia
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Undergraduate Students Conduct Death Penalty Research for U.N. in Landmark Geneva Course
A longstanding and distinctive feature of the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs’ undergraduate program is the Policy Task Force, an experiential junior-year requirement that lets students work directly on a timely public policy issue and propose their recommendations to...
Ancient Black Pea Holds Promise for a Warming Himalaya
Ecologist Harman Jaggi first visited India’s cold desert Trans-Himalaya mountains to study snow leopards. But while climbing the steep, rocky slopes above the tree line, something else caught her attention: the black pea and barley powder that local hosts offered her to mix into tea. “It would...
Global Seminar Students Help Bring African Languages to the Digital Age
Thirteen Princeton students traveled to Kenya this summer as part of the Global Seminar “Technology for African Languages in the Digital Age,” spending six weeks studying Swahili, collecting and analyzing data in the country, and collaborating with six students from Maseno University to build...