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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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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...
Princeton Anthropologist Agustín Fuentes Helps with Potentially Game-Changing Find
A team of researchers including Princeton anthropologist Agustín Fuentes has found, deep in a cave system in South Africa, that an extinct, small-brained species of ancient human relatives buried their dead and used symbols, a discovery that could alter our understanding of human...
Poet and French Resistance leader René Char is the focus of a course that builds on his archives here
This spring, students in the course “Poetry and War: Translating the Untranslatable” explored Char’s poetry in its historical context and its ongoing “afterlife” in translations around the globe. They explored the Char Papers, held in Princeton University Library’s (PUL) Special...
‘I Shot her a Follow on Twitter,’ and Soon This Princeton Senior was Researching Alongside his Econ Idol
Before Professor Seema Jayachandran became Amichai Feit’s senior thesis advisor, Feit knew her as a famous development economist he followed on Twitter. “I remember seeing a news story that she was hired at Princeton, and thought it was a really big deal,” he said. “So, I shot her a follow on...
Princeton, University of Tokyo students explore ‘Environment and Sustainability’ in spring break mini exchange
Over spring break, students from Princeton University and the University of Tokyo participated in a mini cultural exchange program — with events in New York City, at Rutgers University and on the Princeton campus — and looked ahead to longer, more meaningful student travel and immersion in the...
SPIA Researchers Named to Pioneering U.N. Nuclear Treaty Scientific Advisory Group
Three members of the Program on Science and Global Security (SGS) in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs have been appointed to the newly launched Scientific Advisory Group of the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW).
Princeton, University of Tokyo collaborate on transnational project analyzing policing and democracy
This March, faculty members from the University of Tokyo conducted three workshops on data visualization at Princeton for students enrolled in the “Policing and Militarization Today” course.
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...