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Princeton University senior Isam Mina has been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship for graduate study at the University of Oxford. He is among two recipients chosen by The Rhodes Scholarships for Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Palestine (SJLP) as 2026 Rhodes...
A new study in Science aims to understand the evolution and genomic diversity of human-biting mosquitoes, the insects responsible for transmitting many of the world’s deadliest diseases.
Curated by Professor Florent Masse, the festival brought leading French and Francophone artists, a partnership with Festival d’Avignon, and community participation. Princeton once again became a stage for international theater this fall as the Seuls...
The Department of French and Italian is proud to have supported the documentary Enrosadira, created by students Al Potter ‘27 (minoring in Italian) and Jansen Look ‘27 in the Italian Dolomites. As the students put it, “Our film is an artsy...
“Combined and Uneven Emancipation: Exploring Benefits and Pitfalls of Soviet Modernity,” an October 17-18 conference convened experts across social science and humanities disciplines to examine Soviet emancipation projects against the backdrop of the...
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Saving Paradise: Why We Must Protect Global Lands Now
Protecting land and water is essential to preserving habitats for wildlife and mitigating harmful climate change effects. This is why many countries — as well as the U.S. federal government and state of California, have pledged to protect 30% of all land and water by 2030, also known as the...
Regrow, Not Reuse: How Restoring Abandoned Farms Can Mitigate Climate Change
Around the world, hundreds of millions of acres of land are being abandoned due to what’s known as “rural outmigration,” or people leaving for urban centers. Some people leave in search of economic prosperity. Others are forced out due to conflict or the effects of climate change. Together with...
Unchecked global emissions on track to initiate mass extinction of marine life
As greenhouse gas emissions continue to warm the world’s oceans, marine biodiversity could be on track to plummet within the next few centuries to levels not seen since the extinction of the dinosaurs, according to a recent study in the journal Science by Princeton University researchers.
Faculty Author Q&A: Thomas Conlan on “Samurai and the Warrior Culture of Japan”
Thomas Conlan is Professor of East Asian Studies and History, and Director of the Program in East Asian Studies. His book, “Samurai and the Warrior Culture of Japan, 471–1877: A Sourcebook” was published as an eBook in March 2022, and in print in April 2022 by Hackett Publishing...
Princeton research is pursuing a sustainable future for New Jersey and the world
When it comes to understanding and protecting the environment, New Jersey provides fertile ground for Princeton University researchers. The state’s four geological regions and its mix of urban, rural and suburban communities allow Princeton faculty, staff and students to develop environmental...
A Princeton-Microsoft project is tracing the digital fingerprints of disinformation
As the 2018 U.S. mid-term elections approached, a group of Princeton alumni military veterans pitched an idea to the School of Public and International Affairs to host a conference on national security. With reports of foreign interference during the 2016 presidential election campaign still...
Study Reveals How Inland and Coastal Waterways Influence Global Climate
“Streams to the river, river to the sea.” If only it were that simple.
Urgent climate dispatches from the Arctic
Arctic Indigenous worlds, experiences, and challenges past and present — along with their implications for our climate crisis — are the focus of a course at Princeton this spring titled “Pluriversal Arctic.” That is also the life’s work of the course’s instructor, Olga Ulturgasheva, an Eveny...
How the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab contributed to the new world record in clean fusion energy
Research by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has played a supporting role in the recent major advance in the production of fusion power at the Joint European Torus (JET) in the United Kingdom. In the recently disclosed breakthrough by...
World’s thinnest roots are ‘underground weapons’ in ecological competition
Most of us only think about the easily visible parts of plants — stems, flowers, leaves — but in a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Princeton ecologists Lars Hedin and Mingzhen Lu show that the hidden root systems beneath a South...