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Princeton University professor John Hopfield has been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in physics(Link is external) “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”
He shares the prize with Geoffrey E. Hinton of the University of Toronto.
Before returning to campus for the fall semester, 12 students had the unique opportunity to travel to Liechtenstein, Austria, and Germany to present original research on democracy and security.
On September 13, Brazil LAB kicked off its fall programming with “United States-Brazil: 200 Years of Diplomatic Relations,” a two-day symposium. Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti, the ambassador of Brazil to the U.S. delivered the keynote address.
On Tuesday, September 3, the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS) celebrated the start of a new academic year with a welcome reception for returning and new visiting scholars.
These days, it’s all too common to see a front-page story about a foreign government’s influence operation — secret attempts to sway the opinions of another country’s citizens through social media campaigns, paid advertising, hacking, direct emails, or SMS text messaging.
In August, the FBI confirmed that the Iranian government was behind a hacking scheme to breach and subsequently leak confidential information about both the Trump and Harris presidential campaigns. Last week, the FBI reported that the operation is likely ongoing.
The generations of Americans who remember fallout shelters and “duck and cover” air raid drills is rapidly aging, and the threat of nuclear warfare — while as urgent as ever, if not more so — is a distant concern for most young adults today.
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Princeton SPIA First Stop on International Tour of a Provocative Exhibit on Nuclear Weapons: the bomb
The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) is proud to announce it will be the first university stop for the groundbreaking installation the bomb, which will be showcased at SPIA’s
Simple shift could make low Earth orbit satellites high capacity
Low-orbit satellites could soon offer millions of people worldwide access to high-speed communications, but the satellites’ potential has been stymied by a technological limitation — their antenna arrays can only manage one user at a time.
Carnegie Corporation Awards Science and Global Security Program a $750,000 Grant to Confront Rising Nuclear Weapon Threats
The Program on Science and Global Security(external link) (SGS) has been awarded a two-year, $750,000 core support grant by Carnegie
MPAs Across the Decades Build Community of Mutual Support and a ‘Sense of Drive and Commitment’
For 75 years, the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs’ Master in Public Affairs program has produced an uncommonly close-knit community of alumni who provide mutual support and mentorship.
SPIA Undergrads Successfully Advocate for Extension of UN Program on Racial Justice in Law Enforcement
Princeton SPIA undergraduate students helped to successfully advocate for the United Nations Human Rights Council to extend the mandate of a program that seeks to advance racial justice in law enforcement around the world.
Why Precise Language is Paramount in Countering Populist Challenges to Liberal Democracy
In the July 2024 issue (Volume 76, Issue 3) of World Politics, Kurt Weyland — Mike Hogg Professor in Liberal Arts in the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin — argues that contemporary academia has seen a new bout of conceptual stretching.
Immersive Ancient Greek language classes at the Princeton Athens Center
Princeton University graduate student Sherry (Chiayi) Lee(Link is external), Classics(Link is external), began teaching spoken Ancient Greek at the Princeton Athens Center in 2022. The latest session of this innovative, immersive class was held from July 3-31. The class met for in-depth study at...
Mugge co-edits new book on 'racialized frontiers' in Brazil
Miqueias Mugge's new book, “Africanos Minas-Nagôs no Rio Grande do Sul (Mina-Nagô Africans in Rio Grande do Sul,” examines the historical presence of West Africans in the southern Brazil and their enduring legacy.
New Commentary Urges Policy to Combat Rising Food Weaponization
Because of the interconnected food systems of today’s globalized world, the use of food as a weapon of war is more dangerous than ever, and few tools exist for governments to deter the deadly practice, according to a recent commentary in Foreign Affairs, one of the country’s most celebrated and...
Princeton's Center for Global India hosts inaugural pan-USA ‘Global India Frontiers Conference’
Princeton University's M.S. Chadha Center for Global India (CGI) hosted the inaugural “Global India Frontiers Conference,” a multidisciplinary, pan-USA academic conference on April 12 and 13, 2024. The event, a unique collaboration among CGI, Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asian Institute at...