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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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Progress Made on Sophisticated Sensors for the International ITER Fusion Facility
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has recently made significant progress on two crucial sensors, or diagnostics, for ITER the multinational facility under assembly in France to study plasma that can heat itself and sustain its own fusion reactions. ...
Princeton and the University of Humboldt in Berlin Renew Partnership
Humboldt University President Julia von Blumenthal and a delegation of professors and staff traveled to Princeton for two days in October to formalize another five years of collaboration between the two universities and to reflect on the impact of the partnership, which began in 2012.
‘Making the Viking Age’ in a New Princeton Humanities Course
“For this next part, everyone is going to need an axe.” One at a time, 12 undergraduate students chose a blade from the toolbox in a studio at the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, Denmark, a city about 20 minutes west of Copenhagen by train. The task at hand was to make a snelle, a small...
Bonnie Bassler Receives Princess of Asturias Award From the Spanish Crown
Bonnie Bassler, the Squibb Professor in Molecular Biology, has been awarded the 2023 Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research. The Princess of Asturias Awards are the highest form of recognition bestowed by the Spanish Crown and among the most important prizes...
PAW Fellow Explores New Research on Roman Power and Indigenous Communities During Visit to Campus
Each year, the Humanities Council’s Program in the Ancient World invites a distinguished scholar from one of its fields to spend a week in Princeton to deliver a lecture, host a seminar, and meet PAW graduate students in an informal setting. This year’s 2022-23 PAW Fellow, Manuel Fernández-Götz...
Princetonians provide support to Turkish and Syrian earthquake victims
In the hours, days and weeks since two major earthquakes devastated Turkey and Syria, with the death toll approaching 50,000, Princeton faculty, staff and students have been offering their assistance to the millions impacted in the aftermath. Through fundraisers, donation drives, awareness...
Was It Only a Fairy Tale? Musical Theater Storytelling Immerses Students in Italian Language, Culture and Folk Literature
A 2022 Global Seminar takes students to Gesualdo, Italy, to learn musical theater writing and performance processes As the dark and cold days of January settle in, 13 Princeton students can warm at the recollection of six engaging weeks they spent this past summer immersed in...
Europe’s Proposed Climate Plan will Outsource Deforestation and Harm Biodiversity
Europe’s “Fit for 55” climate plan, through its bioenergy rules, outsources deforestation and sacrifices Europe’s opportunity for a beneficial land future.
The global classroom: Princeton journalism class reports from Berlin on refugees and forced migration
“Forced migration has now topped 100 million people across the globe,” says NPR correspondent Deborah Amos, a Ferris Professor of Journalism in Residence at Princeton. “It is one thing to read that number, it is quite another to interview one victim and understand the...
Faculty Author Q&A: Effie Rentzou on “Concepts of the World”
Effie Rentzou is Professor of French and Italian and Director of the Program in European Cultural Studies. Her book “Concepts of the World: The French Avant-Garde and the Idea of the International, 1910-1940” was published in September 2022 by Northwestern University Press. How did you get the...