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On Chika Okeke-Agulu’s credenza, leaning against the wall of his office in Princeton’s Green Hall, are two powerful images: the cover of a vintage magazine and a photo that graces the cover of one of his recent books.

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Creative writing professor Aleksandar Hemon’s life was upended by war. In 1992, he was a 27-year-old journalist on an international visitors’ program in the United States when war broke out in his homeland of Bosnia.

Princeton Int’l spoke with Wantchekon about peaceful conflict resolution and the African School of Economics, a project helping to erase some of Africa’s colonial legacies.

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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.
Al Asali, Adriaenssens explore potential of combining traditional building crafts, engineering technology
In 2022, Fung Global Fellow, Wesam Al Asali, now assistant professor at IE School of Architecture and Design, and Sigrid Adriaenssens, professor of civil and environmental engineering and director of the Program in Mechanics, Materials and Structures at Princeton University, received a...
SPIA Researchers Co-Edit Book With Contributions From Global Scholars
Anew book co-edited by SPIA researchers and alumni examines the rise and fall of prior societies and their relation to our own seemingly precarious times. How Worlds Collapse: What History, Systems, and Complexity Can Teach Us about Our Modern World and Fragile Future (Routledge) presents...
Kaelani Burja receives Dale Fellowship to pursue original project after graduation
Class of 2023 member Kaelani Burja has received the Martin A. Dale ’53 Fellowship to spend a year pursuing an independent project of special interest. Burja will travel to Guam, California and New York to research, write and perform an original play about her mother’s life.
Nicaraguan Social Justice Activist Dora María Téllez Joins Princeton as a Visiting Scholar
Dora María Téllez joined the Program in Latin American Studies (PLAS) as a Visiting Research Scholar June through August 2023. Her visiting fellowship was made possible with the support from PLAS, the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, and the Princeton School of Public...
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.”
Fung Global Fellows to focus on ‘Sustainable Futures’
Five exceptional scholars from around the world will come to Princeton University this fall to begin a year of research, writing and collaboration as the eleventh cohort of Fung Global Fellows. For the 2023-24 academic year, the scholars will once again work on “sustainable futures”...
ESOC Convenes First Latin American Conference
Last month, for the first time, SPIA’s Empirical Studies of Conflict (ESOC) project convened a conference in Latin America, gathering in Bogotá, Colombia, for more than a dozen presentations of working papers on conflict, crime, state legitimacy, political participation, and migration...
Baffour Osei Brings Technical Excellence and Community Mindset to Princeton’s New Robotics Lab
In Princeton Engineering’s new robotics lab a segmented robot snakes slowly across a table, a small-scale version of a machine that could someday automate dangerous construction tasks.
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...